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 […]
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 […]