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Mistaken Identities: How to Identify a Roman Emperor
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsWhat did the Roman emperor look like? Among the thousands of surviving Roman imperial marble heads, how do we put a name to a face, or a face to a name? -
Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsI argue that the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. -
When the Old World Was the New World: Roman Acculturation of Indigenous Customs in Western Europe
Posted on April 24, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper explores the acculturation of customs native to the people of Western Europe by Roman soldiers and citizens living on the frontier. -
Ancient History Encyclopedia to create ‘Google Maps of the Ancient World’
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsIt’s a very exciting and massive project. We need help with research on ancient cities and their placement on the map, with date ranges of their existence. -
Artemis in Attica
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsAncient writers tell us about the basis of the Western-European culture, but that is not enough to know for sure what it was like. By studying the ancient goddess Artemis and her cults, and the architecture and art that belongs to these cults it is possible to take a closer look at the ancient history. -
Aztec medicine
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe Aztecs were the most powerful among Mexican nations at the time of Cortes's arrival, and after a long migration from the north, they had settled in Chapultepecon the shores of the Lake of Texcoco - around A.D. 1267. -
King Hammurabi of Babylon
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsAccording to his own testimony, Hammurabi was destined for kingship since time immemorial, when two powerful gods, Anu and Enlil, entrusted to a third god, Marduk, control over destiny, on Earth as in heaven. -
A comparison of ancient and modern conceptions of happiness and leisure
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsWhat do people need to know to pursue the good life, and what roles do leisure service providers have in maximizing people’s enjoyment? -
Antonia and Sejanus
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe fall of Sejanus in A.D. 31 aroused considerable controversy in the ancient sources and has also continued to do so in modern research. -
Early hellenistic Sparta: changing modes of interaction with the wider world?
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsHow absolute was Sparta's loss of hegemonic power in the mid-fourth century? How weak was Sparta as a military force at the end of the Classical period and in early Hellenistic times?