• Sayings of Spartan women https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/moralia/sayings_of_spartan_women*.html 212 comments 9/9/2021
• Lead Poisoning and Rome http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html 14 comments 5/8/2021
• Was Cleopatra Beautiful? (1997) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/cleopatra/bust.html 53 comments 21/5/2018

• How Greek was Macedonia? http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/7G*.html#note450 30 comments 23/12/2018 history
• The relative sizes of historical nations by contemporary travel times. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/TAPA/82/Speed_under_Sail_of_Ancient_Ships*.html 257 comments 13/7/2016 history
• I am much better informed now that I've read Jane Austen's history of England, completed when she was 15 years old. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/austen/austen.html 9 comments 7/1/2014 history
• Dio Chrysostomos (of Ancient Rome) once proved that the Greek Achaeans had suffered a resounding defeat at the hands of the Trojans and went home empty-handed, and that the rest was all "pure PR" (as we would call it) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/dio_chrysostom/discourses/11*.html 4 comments 15/9/2011 history
• In 1637, the Dutch created a speculative market for the buying and selling of Tulips. At the peak of the 'tulip bubble' the price of a single tulip bulb was equal to "more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman." http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/tulipomania.html 4 comments 28/3/2011 reddit.com
• Semper Augustus - most expensive flower of all time http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/aconite/semperaugustus.html 2 comments 28/6/2007 reddit.com