Single Combat in the Ancient World
Honor and Violence, Past and Present
singbar Honor is a very old idea that, at its most basic level, means doing things as society ideally expects them to be done, especially when alternatives are easily available and more likely to be beneficial. However, there is far more to honor than just the basic definition would suggest. Think, for example, of the 18th … Read more
Roman legions, even in their earliest incarnations, were superior to phalanges; this was not because they were an improved version of a phalanx but because of several fundamental differences at the very core of their conception. The legions fought in a way that drew upon lessons learned in the archaic phalanx and adopted the fluid … Read more