ANCIENT HISTORY MAGAZINE # 10: Athens in the Age of Plato

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Theme: Royalty in the Ancient World

* Royalty in the ancient world - Historical introduction.
* Greek writers on the ideal of kingship - Basileus
* Mycenaean kings and kingdoms - A great kingdom?
* Royal tombs in the Iron-Age Mediterranean - A grave fit for a king?
* A Greek tale mocking all tyrants - Archias and his two boyfriends.
* The kings of ancient Rome - Between myth and reality.
* The court of Hellenistic kings, 359-31 BC - Friends and parasites.
* A golden house worthy of a king - Domus Aurea.
* Role of the empress in second-century Rome - Whore to goddess.
* Recommended books on ancient royalty - Beyond the magazine.

Other Features:

* Of J.R.R. Tolkien and the ancient world - History as inspiration.
* The Chinese goddess of life - Nu Wa.
* The first modern anchor - The two-armed anchor.
* The Roman army on screen, part 7 - King of Kings.
* Periander of Corinth, tyrant or sage?