Category: Rex Juba
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TalkSport Extra Time Interview
If you were up in the middle of the night last night/this morning, you might have heard me talking to Paul Ross on TalkSport’s Extra Time show about Rex Juba (“a brilliant and gripping read!”), which is also their book of the week (must be the football homecoming parade analogy I use in the prologue).…
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Why ‘glimpses’?
The subtitle of my new book, Rex Juba, is ’15 Glimpses of an African King’ – but why glimpses at all? It’s a great question, but one that needs to pick away at the concept of writing biography. It’s almost impossible to write a complete biography of an ancient figure – even the most famous…
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Reddit AskHistorians AMA
I’m doing an Ask Me Anything over on the AskHistorians Reddit forum this afternoon!
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Rex Juba Glimpse #3
Rex Juba is not just about Juba II – it’s also about his wife, Cleopatra Selene, and she’s undoubtedly the more famous of the two. Selene was the daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra (yes, that Cleopatra), so was both an Egyptian princess and a scion of a prominent Roman dynasty. After the death of…
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Rex Juba Glimpse #2
This is one of my favourite objects from the book, Julius Caesar’s ‘elephant’ coin, depicting an elephant (somewhat of a motif throughout the book…) stomping on a snake. The message of the coin – the elephant representing Caesar for reasons I explain in the book – is ‘I will crush you.’ The ‘you/snake’ in question…
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Rex Juba Glimpse #1
It’s publication week for Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King, so over the next few days I thought I’d post a few of those ‘glimpses’ (including why I took that approach). This bust is probably the most famous depiction we have of Juba II of Mauretania, the first-century North African client-king known as…
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Southwark Cathedral History Festival
I’ll be talking about Rex Juba at Southwark Cathedral History Festival on 22nd August, as part of an astonishingly good line up! Tickets cost £5 just to see me talk, or £18 for the whole day. Buy a ticket here.
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First Copies of Rex Juba have Arrived!
Surreal moment today when that thing you’ve spent years typing and writing on a screen and in notebooks turns out to be an actual printed book! Amazing. And if you want one too, there’s a link to preorder Rex Juba in both print, ebook and now audio versions here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/…/rex-juba-by…/9781911709787
Andrew Kenrick 