The Seneca Effect Blog is returning! You can find it on Substack at this address: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/ After that the origin...

  The new face of the "Seneca Effect" blog on Substack . It is an attempt to circumvent the shadow ban imposed on the blog by the ...

You, Reginald, three times traitor you: Traitor to me as my temporal vassal, Traitor to me as your spiritual lord, Traitor to God in desecra...

  Napoleon won all the battles he engaged in, up to Borodino (1812), which was a non-victory, equivalent to a loss. From then, on it was all...

   I have no objections to the idea that God (or the Goddess) can speak to people. And maybe the Lord really spoke to the apostles the day o...

This is the third and final part of Rutilius Namatianus' (RN) reassessment of some scenarios for the future originally proposed by David...

This image by the Tuscan painter Piero della Francesca exudes such power that it may truly blow your mind. Apart from the mastery of the com...

The Garamantes were a North-African civilization that grew at the time of the Roman Empire. They were powerful enough that the Romans had to...

    Professor Bernard Lown died this February at 99. A great man by all means: Physician, cardiologist, professor at Harvard University, an...

  Seneca, the Roman philosopher, knew the term "virus," that for him had the meaning of our term "poison." But of course...