People Illustrated: In antiquity, tattoos could beautify, shock, or humiliate
I will tattoo you with pictures of the terrible punishments suffered by the most notorious sinners in Hades! I will tattoo you with the white-tusked boar!
Reactionary Paganism: Renewal and Invention of Traditions in Late Fourth Century Rome
This paper will attempt to explore this new pagan identity that emerged only a few years before the (public) extinction of polytheism and will attempt to trace the potentials of this last Pagan Revolution.
Ancient Catapults: Some Hypotheses Reexamined
Recent summaries and overviews of the development of ancient catapults have mistaken working hypotheses for established fact.
Caesar in Gaul: New perspectives on the archaeology of mass violence
In the years 58–51 B.C. Gaul was conquered and added to the Roman state. For the first time in history tribal groups in North-western Europe were confronted with the violent expansion of an empire.
Putting the Bride to Bed
The procreation of children was acknowledged as the purpose of a Roman legal marriage. So it is not surprising that the climax of the wedding was the moment when the bride and bridegroom went to bed together.
Bestiary of Battle: Animals and Warfare in the Roman World
The purpose of this paper is to examine the literary, artistic and (where available) archaeological evidence to construct an overview of Rome’s understanding and use of three animals in war: dogs, camels, and elephants.
The Stages of Womanhood in Ancient Greece and Their Effect on Healing
I selected the treatises The Nature of Women, Diseases of Young Girls, and Diseases of Women, to examine how physicians would theoretically treat women with a wide variety of diseases. I
Transformation of a City: The Christianization of Jerusalem in the Fourth Century
Jerusalem was a backwater in the Roman Empire by the beginning of the fourth century CE, with nothing left of its former first-century splendour.
Helen of Troy Reloaded
Helen of Troy Reloaded By Lisa George and Anne Duncan Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World…
From “Thou Shalt Not Kill” through “God Wills It!” and Beyond: The Inevitable Arc of Changing Christian Attitudes Towards War
The following is a unique interpretation of the development of Christian Just War theory, and other Christian attitudes towards war and killing