Anthony Tye Rodrigues

The author grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of a Portuguese father and a South African mother. He never graduated high school, and, after serving in the army and holding a number of not-very-interesting jobs, decided to immigrate to Australia, where he finally calmed his mother’s anxiety by matriculating and being accepted into the University of Melbourne. There he did his BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic, before he received a fellowship to do an AM at the University of Chicago, where he studied Semitic Languages. He took his PhD in linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and became a linguistics professor, under the name Anthony Aristar. His wife was, like him, a professor. They are both now retired, and live in Texas.

His greatest love his history and archeology, and especially the history and archaelogy of Roman Britain. But hrhas also published on current affairs and American politics in journals such as the Blaze and American Spectator.