An Ancient Bucket List
If ancient Greeks kicked anything in their death spasms, it probably wasn’t a bucket. An amphora, maybe, or a kylix, but certainly not a bucket. Hence, ancient Greeks were not…
My Transliteration Dilemma
Why is the founder of the Ptolemaic dynastic called Ptolemy in English-speaking countries and Ptolemaios in the rest of the world? The answer is that he himself spelled his name Πτολεμαῖος.