This post by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones discusses the Ptolemaic practice of royal incest and why such socially taboo behaviour occurred. In the popular imagination, Cleopatra will always be romantically entwined with […]
This post by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones reflects on the creation of a British Museum exhibition on Achaemenid court dress. Early in 2022 I was invited by Dr James Fraser to meet […]
This week saw the release of an interview given by Cardiff's Dylan Johnson to Tristan Hughes of The Ancients Podcast. The discussion focuses on the Biblical cities of Sodom and […]
In the wake of the now infamous Trump-Zelenskyy spat, this post looks at how a diplomatic encounter from Late Antiquity similarly turned ugly. Last Friday evening (28th February 2025) I […]
