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Classical History

Tales of tragedy, ambition and heroism from the Battle of Marathon and Hannibal’s passage of the Alps to Caesar’s fateful crossing of the Rubicon.

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A Pyrrhic Victory

The ancient Greek King knew victory had cost his army more than it could afford to lose.

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The Rewards of Treachery

Cicero warns those who seek power through civic unrest that they will never be the beneficiaries of it.

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St Helen Finds the True Cross

The mother of the Roman Emperor goes to Jerusalem on a quest close to her heart.

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Xerxes Scourges the Hellespont

The Persian King felt that a lord of his majesty should not have to take any nonsense from an overgrown river.

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Boudica

British sympathy for Roman imperial progress evaporated when officials began asset-stripping the country.

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St George the Triumphant Martyr

One of the Emperor Galerius’s most trusted generals openly defied him.