C. M. Weimer
C. M. Weimer is a scholar, founding editor, and primary author of Ephorus. His research centers on religion, mythology, ethnography, and chronology in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. He…
Cuchulain of Muirthemne I: Birth of Cuchulain (Lady Augusta Gregory)
Cuchulain of Muirthemne I. Birth of Cuchulain In the time long ago, Conchubar, son of Ness, was King of Ulster, and he held his court in the palace of Emain…
Essential Resources for Learning Ancient Hebrew
PRINT MATERIALS Ancient Hebrew is chiefly known today as the language of the Hebrew Bible, i.e. the Tanakh (in Christian circles also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or Old…
Resources for Learning Akkadian
Akkadian was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for well over a thousand years. It exploded in popularity after the c. 2300 BCE conquest of Sumer by Sargon…
Resources for Learning Sumerian
While Sumerian is the oldest recorded language, our knowledge of it is relatively recent. In deciphering Akkadian, scholars had suspected that cuneiform, the system used to write Akkadian, originated elsewhere,…
Timeline of Greek Literature
c. 1050–950 BCE Ionians begin colonizing Asia Minor. c. 1000 Monumental buildings are erected at Lefkandi. 850–750 Attic Middle Geometric pottery period. c. 800 Al-Mina is founded by Greek traders.…
Herodotus
Herodotus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hērodotos) is one of Greece's first historians. His major work was the Histories, which chronicled the rise of the Persian Empire and its subsequent clash with Greece…
Fabula Palliata
A fabula palliata (pl. fabulae palliatae) was a Roman play, written in Latin, that adopted an earlier Greek play. Livius Andronicus is credited as the first to bring them to…
Timeline of Latin Literature
1000s BCE Italic tribe called the Latini settled Latium, the region surrounding Rome and toward its south. 753 Traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus and his twin,…