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Rome and Parthia: Power Politics and Diplomacy Across Cultural Frontiers
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsPersia and Parthia were two of the great 'others' that shaped the limits of the Graeco-Roman world, and were also imagined worlds where European values were explored, excluded, and projected. -
Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsThe Hattusili-Ramesses treaty is known from two main sources. These are texts in Egyptian hieroglyphs preserved on the walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak and of the Ramesseum, and of some fragmentary cuneiform tablets in Akkadian, discovered at the Hittite capital of Hattusa, the modern site of Boghazk -
The failed reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsThough Aten as a form of the Sun-god Re was venerated long before the ascent of Akhenaten, his ele- vation to a prominent status is clearly associated with the heretic king. There have been many attempts to detect the underlying causes for his avatar, but, as concluded by Barry Kemp, -
The Roman Empire: the Defender of Early First Century Christianity
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsContrary to expectations, the Roman Empire emerges from this examination as the protector (not persecutor) of early Christianity. Scripture from this time period reveals a peaceful relationship between the new faith and Roman authorities. -
High society and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and abroad
Posted on April 2, 2013 | No CommentsThis brief study simply explores mainly nooks and crevices, even curiosities, in the richly varied canvas of life in Egypt and its Near Eastern links in the 13th century BC, besides historical sidelights of wider significance. -
Rome, international power relations, and 146 BCE
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsWithin a single year -- 146 BCE -- Roman generals had entered the cities of Carthage and Corinth and forever changed the course of Mediterranean history. -
Science of the Scrolls
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsHow far-reaching technologies help researchers unshroud the mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls -
The Question of the Inevitability of the Fall of the Roman Republic
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper questions whether the decline of the Roman Republic was inevitable by examining the factors that contributed to this decline. -
Was the Peloponnesian War inevitable after 435 BC?
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsBased heavily on the account of the Greek historian Thucydides, the paper outlines the events leading up to the outbreak of the 2nd Peloponnesian War in 435, and analyzes whether the outbreak of the war was inevitable -
Roman Thoughts, Ideas, and Practices of Pregnancy
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsGiven the pressure placed on Roman men and women to continue their blood lines, their cultural beliefs and practices surrounding the production of offspring are particularly interesting for classical historians.
