This blog archive is a memorial to content originally curated on the main Ryan Setliff Online page under the Medievalist section from 2020 through December 18th, 2021:
Category Archives: Greek/Hellenic
Byzantine Reconquista – Siege of Chandax 960-961
“Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of the Eastern Roman Empire continues with a video on the beginning of the Byzantine Reconquista against the Muslim conquered lands in the X century AD, as the emperor from the Macedonian dynasty Nikephoros II Phokas begins his reconquest with Crete, leading to the siege […]
Plato Describes Atlantis // First Mention of the Island
Plato presented Atlantis in Critias as an antagonistic rival to his idealistic interpretation of “Ancient Athens.” Therein his intriguing portrait of Atlantis was incredibly detailed. Plato went to great lengths of elucidation describing the history of the island, its geography, and the people who purportedly inhabited the doomed paradise before they met their end beneath […]
Did the Trojan War Really Happen?
Kings and Generals explains “the historicity of the conflict between Trojans and the Greeks depicted in the immortal Iliad of Homer.” Though taken as myth, and likely apt to entail creative license and contrivance, Homer’s Illiad most likely contains a modicum of truth, and the mythology emanated from real events four-hundred years prior to the […]
The Strategikon of Maurice
Kings and Generals explains “the evolution of the Roman Army” with an eye to “the Army of the Eastern Roman Empire – the Byzantine Empire.” This video focuses “on Strategikon of Maurice – the army manual that defined the structure, training and tactics of the Byzantine army.” Related Articles: “Take Me Back to Constantinople,” Foreign […]