Tag: Antiquity

First off, who was he? In simplest terms, Khalid ibn-al Walid was the most important and successful general in the Muslim Conquests. Largely through his victories and skill, the early Islamic Caliphate militarily expanded from the area around Medina, Saudi Arabia to control much of what is today con...

Assome readers of this blog ( https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/) know, I am currently working on a book that has been about 10 years in the making — a discussion of race and ethnicity in Greco-Roman antiquity and some of its modern implications and complications (I talked about it wi...

In antiquity, the term “barbarians” originated in ancient Greece. The Greeks called all foreigners who did not know their language barbarians (the word “bar-bar” originally was something like the modern “blah-blah-blah”), meaning “muttering”. The ancie...