From the Tiber to the Euphrates: Roman Studies in 2021
The Journal of Roman Studies has now lasted sixteen years longer than the Julio-Claudian dynasty, and is showing no particular signs of incipient senectitude.…
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Writing images, reading syllables: script creation in Bronze Age Crete
What’s a sign? What’s in a sign? In the paper ‘Imagining Cretan scripts: the influence of visual motifs on the creation of script-signs in Bronze Age Crete’, Dr Ester Salgarella explores the processes of sign creation and their transmission among the scripts of Bronze Age Crete (ca.…
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An Ancient Wine Press at Knossos
The basic process of winemaking has involved three steps: harvesting grapes; pressing the grapes in order to release their juice; fermenting that juice into wine.…
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The Persian Invasion of 480 BC: 2500 years on
2500 years ago this year a massive Persian force descended into Greece. How massive we cannot say. Ancient figures for Persian numbers are wildly exaggerated from the very start.…
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Londinium’s Landward Wall: Material acquisition, supply and construction
Not far from the Tower of London, to the east of the Tower Hill, stands one of the best surviving sections of London’s city walls, still preserved up to a height of about 10 metres. The lowest courses of this part of the wall, up to about 4 m, is the original Roman Landward Wall with later medieval additions above.
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Reviewing the evidence for slavery in Roman Britain
It may seem obvious to state that slavery existed within the Roman Empire. Afterall, there is a large corpus of epigraphic and literary evidence outlining the role of enslaved people during this period.…
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The Forgotten Heritage in the Nuba Mountains – Sudan
War always has a high price, paid by people and their land. The land has no value without its secure human being.…
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Socrates and the Beautiful Girl
What is the Beautiful? In Plato’s Hippias Major, Socrates and the sophist Hippias set out to answer this question. Along the way, they evaluate such answers as ‘the appropriate’, ‘the beneficial’, ‘gold’, and even ‘burying your parents’.…
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Extreme Justice: decapitation burials in late Roman Britain
In popular imagination, the Roman Empire was an agent of law and peace in the ancient world. However, Rome had a brutal side, with the death penalty used for a wide range of crimes.
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Sculpted stone from Stanwick Roman villa
It was an amazing moment in 1990 in the course of the Historic England (HE) excavations at Stanwick Roman villa, when David Neal uncovered the first piece of sculpted stone, reused as a quoin in the north-eastern corner of the fourth-century villa building.…
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Not so bad, actually: Nero in the Journal of Roman Studies
A fair-haired, bull-necked, poetry-loving ruler, with an eye for interior design, pathetically desperate for his subjects’ affection, sexually incontinent, lazy and slapdash in his handling of public affairs, prone to showing off his knowledge of Greek in public, and later to be remembered as the most disastrous political leader his country had ever produced – why have the Roman Society and the British Museum chosen this year of all years to commemorate the emperor Nero?…
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Pots and cultural diversity in the Roman north – the case of Severan York
Questions on the extent of multiculturalism in Britain’s (Roman) past have never been more relevant. Thanks to the evidence of inscriptions and the recent scientific analysis of human skeletal remains we know that Romano-British cities were home to significant minorities of people with foreign origins from across the Roman empire and beyond, but what can the more everyday evidence of pottery tell us?…
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Disentangling Domesticity
A new blog from Professor Lin Foxhall looking at domestic interactions in the ancient world.
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Introducing Lin Foxhall – new Editor of the ‘Journal of Hellenic Studies’
Lin Foxhall chats to Cambridge about her new editorship and hopes for the Journal's future.
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‘Classical Review’ welcomes new Reviews Editor Greta Hawes
Classical Review welcomes new Reviews Editor Greta Hawes
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Philo of Alexandria: My Ancient World dinner guest
I would love to have a dinner with Philo of Alexandria even though we would be more likely to disagree on most issues.…
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Favorinus: My Ancient Roman dinner guest
I probably should be naming some mighty and mysterious genius, one of the great philosophers I study or a mostly-lost tragic poet, but it would feel wrong somehow.…
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