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Ancient Romans
Disease and death in the ancient city of Rome
Roman healing spas in Italy : a study in design and function
Family matters: Economy, culture and biology: fertility and its constraints in Roman Italy
The Jug and Lituus on Roman Republican Coin Types: Ritual Symbols and Political Power
The Beginnings of a Literature in Latin
Illyrian policy of Rome in the late republic and early principate
Mark Antony’s Judiciary Reform and its Revival under the Triumvirs
Roman Fort Environs in North-West Wales
The Roman Captive: an Iconographical and Cultural study
Easter and the Battle of Pollentia
Aspects of the Roman villa as a form of British settlement
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Ancient Greeks
The presentation of gladiatorial spectacles in the Greek East
Athens, Samos, and Alexander the Great
Exchanging Gladiators for an Aqueduct at Aphrodisias
Ideology and “The Status of Women” in Ancient Greece
Social Norms in the Courts of Ancient Athens
The Supply of Hoplite Equipment by the Athenian State down to the Lamian War
Tactical interaction and integration : a study in warfare in the Hellenistic period from Philip II to the Battle of Pydna
Socrates and democratic Athens: The story of the trial in its historical and legal contexts
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Ancient Egypt
Land tenure, rural space, and the political economy of Ptolemaic Egypt (332 BC-30 BC)
Texts, contexts, subtexts and interpretative frameworks. Beyond the parochial and toward (dynamic) modeling of the Ptolemaic state and the Ptolemaic economy
Coinage as ‘Code’ in Ptolemaic Egypt
Pharaonic Egypt and the Ara Pacis in Augustan Rome
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Ancient China
From the ‘Great Convergence’ to the ‘First Great Divergence’: Roman and Qin-Han state formation and its aftermath
War Elephants in Ancient and Medieval China
Silk Weaving in Ancient China: From Geometric Figures to Patterns of Pictorial Likeness
Coin quality, coin quantity, and coin value in early China and the Roman world
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The Tower of Babel: archaeology, history and cuneiform texts
Towards Open Access in Ancient Studies
Innkeeping in Jewish Society in Roman Palestine
Song and the Solitary Self: Euripidean Women Who Resist Comfort
The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept from Homer to Herodotus
Farming in the ancient Greek world: how should the small free producers be defined?
Suetonius and his treatment of the Emperor Domitian’s favourable accomplishments
Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours
Vergil’s Aeneid VIII and the Shield of Aeneas: recurrent topics and cyclic structures
Grain Distribution in Late Republican Rome
Monetary Unification in the Ancient World
Modern States and Ancient Greek History
The maritime city in the Graeco-Roman perception. Carthage and Alexandria: two emblematic examples
Citizenship in Ancient Greece – Athens and Sparta: Terms and Sources
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