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Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Paga, Jessica Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, February 2009 Abstract…
Access, Fairness, and Transaction Costs: Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Athens: 375/4 BC)
Access, Fairness, and Transaction Costs: Nikophon’s law on silver coinage (Athens: 375/4 BC) Ober, Josiah Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, July 2009 Abstract…
Comparing democracies. A spatial method with application to ancient Athens
Comparing democracies. A spatial method with application to ancient Athens Ober, Josiah Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, July 2009 Abstract A graphic method…
Epistemic democracy in classical Athens: Sophistication, diversity, and innovation
Epistemic democracy in classical Athens: Sophistication, diversity, and innovation Ober, Josiah Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, August 2009 Abstract Analysis of democracy in…
Thucydides on Athens
Thucydides on Athens
An Aristotelian middle way between deliberation and independent-guess aggregation
An Aristotelian middle way between deliberation and independent-guess aggregation Ober, Josiah Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, September 2009 Abstract A well-known passage of…
Real wages in early economies: Evidence for living standards from 1800 BCE to 1300 CE
Real wages in early economies: Evidence for living standards from 1800 BCE to 1300 CE Scheidel, Walter Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, September…
How lead-based Egyptian eye makeup was used to treat eye ailments ?
Some 4000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians used lead to make eyeliners with medical properties.
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World Edited by Anne Wittke, Eckhart Olshausen and Richard Szydlak Brill, 2010 ISBN:
The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World By Yun Lee Too Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-19-957780-4 In The Idea of…
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EXHIBITS – Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
My review of the British Museum’s – Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art which explores daily life, gender, sexuality, athleticism, heroism, and the social and political ideologies the Greeks espoused through their views on the human form.
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Basel papyrus is an ancient medical text, researchers find
Since the 16th century, Basel has been home to a mysterious papyrus. With mirror writing on both sides, it has puzzled generations of researchers.
Research network sheds new light on drinking and eating habits in the Roman world
The landmark 50th issue of the journal Internet Archaeology is featuring pioneering research that is investigating new ways of analysing millions of Roman artefacts associated with the consumption of food and drink.
Ancient human remains and a medieval mystery unearthed in southern England
Excavation of a Bronze Age burial mound in south west England leads to the discovery of an intact 4,000 year old human cremation as well as evidence of unaccountable activity from the medieval period on the same site.
2,100-year-old ‘hawk’ mummy actually a stillborn baby, scan reveals
A tiny Egyptian mummy long believed to be that of a hawk is actually a rare example of a near-to-term, severely malformed fetus
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BOOKS: Hot New Ancient History Releases!: January
If improving your reading is your goal for 2016, you’ve come to the right place! Here are our hot new ancient history releases for January!
New Releases: Ancient Books for the Holiday Season!
A few new releases for the historian on your shopping list!
The Death of Caesar: New Light on History’s Most Famous Assassination
Barry Strauss talks about his new book The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination.
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
In these four videos, Gene Kritsky, author of The Tears of Re, talks about beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
New Open Access Book on Vergil’s Political Commentary
Leendert Weeda examines Vergil’s political views by analyzing the whole of the poet’s work and introduces the notion of the functional model, which suggests that the poet does not primarily have a literary objective, but a functional one.
Fall of Roman Empire can be explained by biology, researcher says
Forget the Vandals – the fall of the Roman Empire can be explained by biology, according to a new book.