Augustus and the Governors' Wives
Until the last century of the Roman Republic it was an established principle that officials assigned provinces outside of Italy would not be accompanied there by their wives, whose duty was to remain behind to look after their husbands’ interests.
Ptolemy, Tacitus and the tribes of north Britain
Ptolemy’s list of places in north Britain, arranged by tribe, may include both native sites and Roman forts. Unallocated fort names may have been added by Ptolemy to the list of what he thought was the appropriate tribe, possibly not always correctly…
Weapons and Warfare in Early Iron Age Thessaly
The aim of this paper is to examine all the archaeological evidence regarding weapons in Early Iron Age Thessaly.
Sustainability in the Archaeological Record: What Can We Learn From Past Cultures' Choices?
Sustainability in the Archaeological Record: What Can We Learn From Past Cultures’ Choices? Lecture by Jennifer R. Smith, associate professor, Earth and Planetary…
A life of luxury in the desert? The food and fodder supply to Mons Claudianus
Mons Claudinas, a quarry settlement known for its granodiorite which, as an imperial monopoly, was used for imperial building projects in Rome, lies in a remote part of the Eastern Desert of Egypt, some 500 km south of Cairo and 120 km east of the Nile, at an altitude of c.700 m in the heart of the Red Sea mountains.
Kapeleion: casual and commercial wine consumption in classical Greece
The symposion is consistently referred to as the framework around which all studies of Classical Greek drinking are built, regardless of a body of archaeological and literary evidence to suggest that this type of drinking was enjoyed primarily by a small minority of the elite male, and perhaps predominantly Athenian, population (although various forms of ritualised drinking were widespread throughout the Greek world).
Fides in Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile: A Study in Roman Political Ideology at the Close of the Republican Era
In this dissertation, we show not only that Julius Caesar depicted his struggle with Pompey and the government of the Roman Republic as politically legitimate, but that he grounded this legitimacy primarily in notions of fides.
The Enculturative Function of Toys and Games in Ancient Greece and Rome
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the enculturative function of children’s toys and games in ancient Greece and Rome.
Understanding Gilgamesh: his world and his story
Understanding Gilgamesh – brokenly – is to understand life brokenly. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the narrative of life.
The Closure of Herodotus' Histories
On the other hand, during the past five or six decades a number of observations have accumulated to suggest that the ending of the Histories presents a paradox: While the book is open-ended as a strictly historical narrative, as a work of archaic art it is perfectly and unambiguously closed.