Bronze Age Sailors in the Libyan Sea: Reconsidering the Capacity for Northward Voyages between Crete and North Africa
This thesis re-examines the factors which would have allowed for the possibility of a direct northward trade route between the North African coastal ports and Crete during the Bronze Age.
Golden Fleece: An Ancient Sheep
Golden Fleece: An Ancient Sheep By Sean Gilmore Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, Vol.3 (2014) Abstract: Of the many infeasible creatures and relics…
The Transformation of Athenian Theatre Culture around 400 BC
The Transformation of Athenian Theatre Culture around 400 BC By Klaus Junker The Pronomos Vase and its Context, edited by Oliver Taplin and…
Clodius Pulcher: Caesar’s Willing Puppet The Bona Dea Affair and Its Effect on Cicero and the Fall of the Republic
ublius Clodous Pulcher, the patrician at the center of this scandal, became a means to control Caesar’s interests and enemies in the senate during his Gallic campaign.
Epics, Myth, and Modern Magic: Where Classics and Fantasy Collide
I have always had a sneaking suspicion that there was more of a connection between ancient Greece and Rome and the fantasy genre than most people think.
The Limits of Brilliance: The Role of Supply Problems in Hannibal’s Failed Italian Campaign
Hannibal’s undoing was the result of the deliberate Roman policy of harassment and deprivation, his inability to win a critical mass of political support from the Italian communities, and his failure to find a long-term solution to his considerable supply needs.
The Prince and the Pancratiast: Persian-Thessalian Relations in the Late Fifth Century B.C.
Darius II’s invitation to the Olympic victor Poulydamas and Cyrus’ friendship with Thessalian aristocrats were renewals of old ties between Persia and Thessaly and part of Persian intervention in the Peloponnesian War.
The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity
The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity By Kevin Twine Middle States Geographer, Vol.25 (1992) Abstract: This paper addresses the question of what happens…
A Roman Tradition of Alexander the Great Counterfactual History
This paper examines first the scholarly debates surrounding the placement of Livy’s digression in his larger narrative, the objectives of Livy’s digression, and the reasons for its existence.
Rethinking the Plague of Cyprian: Pandemics and Passages to Late Antiquity
Named after the bishop of Carthage whose writings supply some of the most vivid testimony about the event, the Plague of Cyprian is attested in circum-Mediterranean populations from AD 249 until 270.