Incest Laws and Absent Taboos in Roman Egypt
For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full sisters and raised families with them…
Bad Boys: Circumcellions and Fictive Violence
The circumcellions were roving bands of violent men and women found in late Roman Africa. The problem is that far more of them have been produced by literary fictions, ancient and modern, than once existed.
Map Resources for Roman North Africa
Map Resources for Brent D. Shaw Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: December (2005) Abstract This is the early draft of a collation of…
Cult and Belief in Punic and Roman Africa
This is a second attempt at a synthesis of the main problems for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Ancient Religions. The problems are complex and still threaten to overwhelm. This version remains a cri de coeur: any helpful comments and criticisms are encouraged.
POMPEY’S POLITICS AND THE PRESENTATION OF HIS THEATRE-TEMPLE COMPLEX, 61–52 BCE
In spite of all this triumph Pompey also returned to Rome under unfavourable conditions. The majority of the senate did not respect the great general. He came from a recent noble family of late distinction, he did not rise through the ranks of the cursus honorum in the venerable Roman tradition, and he was not familiar with the protocol of the Roman senate…