The Parthenon Frieze: Viewed as the Panathenaic Festival Preceding the Battle of Marathon
The Parthenon frieze has been the subject of many debates and the interpretation of it leads to a number of problems: what was the subject of the frieze? What would the frieze have meant to the Athenian audience?
Reconstructing Pompeian Households
The study of Pompeian households has until recently been dominated by analyses of architectural patterns and wall paintings, as these are easily available for study.
Amphitheatres of Roman Britain: a study of their classes, architecture and uses
This thesis is a study of the classes, architecture and uses of Romano-British amphitheatres.
Glass in the Roman Empire: History, Technology, and Typology
The Hellenistic society seems to have given less emphasis to glass than metal ware and pottery, but it still provided enough support to allow continuation of the trade on a smaller scale.
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
This article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development.
How Roman engineers could have flooded the Colosseum
It is known that the Romans staged mock sea battles as well as gladiator contests in some of its numerous amphitheatres. However, there is much speculation as to whether it would have been technically possible to flood the Empire
How did the ancient Roman Theatres sound?
With the advantage of modern computers and room acoustic simulation software, today we can get further information about theatres by modelling them in a virtual environment.
The Legacy of the Parthenon
Oddly enough, the Parthenon was not considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. To our modern sensibilities and academic curiosity, this seems like a gross oversight.
The development of the cult of Mithras in the western Roman Empire: a socio-archaeological perspective
The origins and early development of the cult of Mithras in the Roman Empire, however, have remained a perpetual subject of dispute.
Writing on the wall: late-third century urban defenses in south Languedoc
This thesis takes the three largest cities in Roman south Languedoc-Narbonne, Carcassonne and Toulouse -and reexamines the evidence, both archaeological and literary, about the city walls.