Hannibal the cannibal? Polybius on Barcid atrocities
Polybius includes the story of the cannibalistic plan in his excursus (aristeia) on Hannibal to illustrate the cruel nature of one of the Carthaginian general’s companions, a certain Hannibal Monomachos.
Metals, salt, and slaves: Economic links between Gaul and Italy from the eight to the late sixth centuries BC
This paper discusses the role of metals, salt, textiles, and slaves in the development of networks of reciprocal exchange that interlinked the élites of Etruscan Italy and Early Iron Age Gaul between the eighth and sixth centuries BC.
Roman healing spas in Italy : a study in design and function
A spa is defined as a bathing establishment which used thermal-mineral spring water for therapeutic purposes. Although the topics of bathing and medicine in the Roman world have received considerable attention, thermal-mineral spas have remained inadequately studied.
Religion in the Ancient Novel
Religion plays a central role in the plot of virtually every fictional narrative, influencing the lives, actions, mentality, practices, beliefs, and eventual fates of the characters (and narrators); the types, interventions, and motives of divinity or other uncanny forces; the use of mythological exemplars.
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Richard P.Martin (Stanford) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: April (2007) Abstract This paper attempts to…
Classical culture for a classical country: scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco
What is the place of the classical past and its study in Italy, a classical country whose roots reach back to antiquity, but has existed as an independent nation only since 1860?
The demography of Roman state formation in Italy
This paper seeks to provide a basic demographic framework for the study of integrative processes in Italy during the Republican period.
Tiberiana 1: Tiberian Neologisms
Capri, which will explore the interrelationship between culture and empire, between Tiberius’ intellectual passions (including astrology, gastronomy, medicine, mythology, and literature) and his role as princeps.
Tiberiana 2: Tales of Brave Ulysses
The prime evidence for this was discovered fifty years ago in the numerous fragments of four massive sculptural groups in marble, found by chance in 1957 in a seaside cavern which was part of a large villa complex on the coast at Sperlonga, 65 miles south of Rome.
A model of real income growth in Roman Italy
The economic impact of Roman imperialism on the mass of Italy’s population is still only poorly understood: who benefited, and how?