325 – 417 In the first decades after the crucifixion of Jesus, the number of those who worshiped him as a resurrected savior was at most a few thousand, and probably many fewer. In 313, when …| Logarithmic History
1929-1713 BCE The time of the Biblical Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is sometimes called the Patriarchal Age. If there is a kernel of truth to the Biblical stories, the Patriarchal Age pro…| Logarithmic History
I’m an anthropologist, and I like inflicting kinship on people. Last post was Australian language history; here’s Australian kinship. Claude Lévi-Strauss thought that the complexities of kinship sy…| Logarithmic History
Like the traditional poetry of other peoples, the traditional poetry of the Greeks celebrated the Heroic Age. This was the time when men were bigger and stronger, and they performed marvelous feats…| Logarithmic History
In 390 BCE an army of Gauls, 30 thousand strong, marched out of northern Italy into Latium, an area that included Rome. They defeated a Roman army, sacked and burned Rome, and left only after being…| Logarithmic History
