For the first time in its history, the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies has produced a podcast episode. On Tuesday July 21, 2020, Dr. Dimitris Krallis from the Department of Humanities and the SNF ...

Ten years ago, in a piece for The Wall Street Journal, I noted that during the age of Caesar and Livy the Roman Empire still had more than a millennium of life ahead of it. This observation generated ...

Sensing opportunity, Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan, arrived at the walls of Constantinople on April 5. He brought with him perhaps 60,000 soldiers, along with numerous cannons, some of enormous size, ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

For most people, the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD after the Barbarian statesman Odoacer declared himself ruler of Italy. The fact that the Eastern Roman Empire continued with its centre in ...