Gap Week, November 13, 2026

Hey folks! Another gap week this week as this week featured some other very substantial demands on my time (once again, Patrons will likely guess what those demands were). But so that I don’t leave you with nothing to go on, here a few links to cap out the week: Over at The Partial Historians (always worth catching for the Roman History fans), Alexandra Sills, author of Gladiators in the Greek World stopped by to talk about gladiators, particularly their place in the Greek East. Also in ancient history news, there’s been a new Pasts Imperfect newsletter, always worth a look. Over at the Ancient World Mapping Center, Tobin Smith, Gabriel Moss and Henry Gruber have unveiled a wonderful interactive map of all of the attendees of the Council of Chalcedon, a major church council in 451 called by the (East) Roman Emperor Marcian. The map is interesting on a number of levels – informative as to the Council itself (an important event in the formation of Christian religious doctrine), but…

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