The following has very minor spoilers about classical reception from Killing Eve season 2, episode 7 entitled “Wide Awake,” that aired on May 19, 2019. The show stars Sandra Oh as the titular...
https://scottmanning.com/content/classical-reception-killing-eves-villanelle-as-the-dying-gaul/
Frank Miller’s second issue of Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander hit shelves this week and here is the historical hottake (see review of Xerxes #1). The story pi...
https://scottmanning.com/content/a-historical-look-at-frank-millers-xerxes-2/
Frank Miller’s first issue of Xerxes: The Fall of the House of Darius and the Rise of Alexander finally hit shelves this week and here is the historical hottake (see review of Xerxes #2). W...
https://scottmanning.com/content/dissecting-frank-millers-xerxes-1/
Cynthia Damon has produced a fresh English edition of Caesar’s Civil War that was decades (or centuries!) in the making, depending on how you look at it. Like most ancient texts, we do not hav...
https://scottmanning.com/content/a-fresh-translation-of-caesars-civil-war/
Scott Snyder expertly taps Ancient Greek myth and history to create a whole new set of villains and challenges for the Dark Knight. In the New 52 run of Batman, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo intr...
https://scottmanning.com/content/ancient-roots-batman-and-the-court-of-owls/
Herodotus knew where Leonidas made his final stand against the Persian invasion of Greece because of a lion monument erected on a hill at Thermopylae. He bragged about memorizing the names of the...
https://scottmanning.com/content/rethinking-monuments-ancient-modern/
During the Justice League’s most trying times, Wonder Woman often serves as a conduit for parallels in Greek history and myth, at least when Geoff Johns writes her. The year-long Darkseid War(2...
https://scottmanning.com/content/wonder-woman-odysseus-and-the-strait-of-messina/
The notion that victors write history finds credence in the Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC). Julius Caesar not only wrote the sole surviving eyewitness account of the battle in his Civil War, but he ...
https://scottmanning.com/content/caesars-genius-at-the-battle-of-pharsalus/
In Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme 33 (1991), the mystic tangles with Thanos who sends the sorcerer back in time via a time warp. As he floats back in history, Strange manages to latch onto a plac...
https://scottmanning.com/content/dr-strange-caesar-and-the-library-of-alexandria/
Inspired by the "Battle of the Bastards" episode from Game of Thrones, we are looking at ancient accounts of bodies piling up during battle. In the first year of the Civil War, Caesar’s army me...
https://scottmanning.com/content/bodies-piling-up-at-the-battle-of-the-bagradas-49-bc/