Adrian Goldsworthy & Harry Sidebottom - my 2 favorite British novelists-historians in conversation

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry - 

happy to call out that we can watch my two most favorite British historian-novelists in conversation on Adrian Goldsworthy's podcast on Yt. 

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Yesterday I started listening to the new non-fiction book by Harry Sidebottom on the iconic figures of the ancient Rome - the gladiators and their world in 24 h.

Scuola gladiatoria in Carnuntum

* the list of gladiator types but my favorite book is this one by Konstantin Nossov (from Osprey Military Pub.), numerous illustrations by Vladimir V. Golubev. Francois Gilbert also has two books on the gladiators from the IV c.BC to VI c.AD(Elite series from OspreyM.P.), with plates by Giuseppe Rava. Roger Dunkle, Gladiators, Violence and Spectacle in Ancient Rome. 
There is also a non-fiction book by Tony Sullivan, The Real Gladiator. The True Story of Maximus Decimus Meridius.  Or several books on Spartacus and the Roman Servile Wars. 

eques gladiators

and the present day European reenactors from Nimes, Trier, Carnuntum etc.

eques or a mounted gladiator reenactor

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Valete

Shapur I king of kings

 Salvete Omnes,

 

Lord Shapur, king of kings of Eran - well, let us gallop a bit across the III century AD ancient Iranian realm, with the famous king at the vanguard.. a collection of period images - triumphal and bellicose, but also very religious, and always equestrian astride his Nisaya/Nisean chargers

the most famous cameo from Louvre

there is plenty of research around Shapur I and his III century Persian realm - vide academia.edu articles eg THE SOURCES FOR ROME’S WARS WITH SHAPUR I: EUROCENTRIC AND EASTERN PERSPECTIVES,  Relief of Salmas, or on Shapur I coins, or on the rock relieves of his triumphs , and the entire corpus of works (including the finds of horse armor)  dealing with Dura Europos siege and capture etc...  so enjoy your research .By the way a different than military history  eg Prof. Katazyna Maksymiuk - The Position of Women in the Court of the First Sassanias.

you can find Shapur I in the novels of British historian and novelist Harry Sidebottom - Ballista aka Warrior of Rome series 

Valate

John Frederick Herring sr - his horse heads

Salvete Omnes,
just signaling John Frederick Herring sr. who was a fine painter of horses of the Victorian England.
I enjoy his brushwork and decided to just share with you some of the horse heads from his paintings available on Wikimedia Commons:

Valete!

ps
I am looking forward to a new book from Harry Sidebottom, to be published next year or so, it will be with Balista riding again..