Tyrants and Robots
Autocrats have deployed automatons as weapons since antiquity, not just in myth but in reality.
Adrienne Mayor
When Alexander met Thalestris
The romantic liaison between the great Amazon warrior queen and the conqueror of the known world has been much mythologised. But did such a pairing really happen?
Mithradates: Scourge of Rome
The legendary ruler of Pontus and creator of a formidable Black Sea empire was, until recently, one of the most celebrated figures of the Classical world, a hero of opera, drama and poetry.