More about Xanthippas...

Many of you have e-mailed me to ask me why I choose the pseudonym Xanthippas. Well, here's a little more about him. In the annals of history's great face-offs, I've always favored Carthage over Rome and Sparta over Athens, which makes this little guy my hero.

 
Oh, and historian Donald Kagan spells his name with an "a", but then he's British...