Ancient Romans Archive
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Astrology in Ancient Rome: Poetry, Prophecy and Power
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsMy main focus will be on an ancient Roman long poem and a set of questions surrounding it. The poem is a didactic (instructional) work on astrology. -
Caesar: Slain with Daggers but Stabbed with Words or Cicero as a Failure and Fraud
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsFrom around 50 until his death in 43 Cicero wrote much of the dictator Julius Caesar, during Caesar's rise to power as well as after his death. -
Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis study looks at ancient Greek and Roman sexual practices from the point of view of their (implied) differences from modern western practices. There are eight major themes: sex and status, the ubiquity of sex, the body, body modification, violence and pain, having sex, viewing sex, and transgressions. -
The Silk Road in Late Antiquity: Politics, Trade, and Culture Contact between Rome and China, 300-700 CE
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No CommentsThis is a study of the modes of political and cultural communication which led to a rare level of 'intervisibility' between the various societies and states along the Silk Road in the Late Antique period (roughly 300-700 CE). -
The Historical Evidence of Greek and Roman Coins
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsIn contrast to works of art and inscriptions, Greek and Roman coins are wholly official in the information which they impart, for the simple reason (not sufficiently often realized) that they were almost always produced under state prerogative. -
Posted on March 10, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper explores the writings of English, Scottish and Irish authors to address how these draw upon the geographical and conceptual spaces created through the medium of the two Roman Walls of Britain. -
Re-Envisioning Classics As a Liberal Art
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No CommentsCollegiate classics, under the sway of too severe a concept of professional philology, has drastically underplayed its educational hand in such a way that it has diminished its vitality, impact, and usefulness; yet this damage can be reversed -
What Did the Romans Know?
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsThis book is an inquiry into how and why the Romans saw things differently than we do, or to put it more pointedly, how and why they saw different things when they looked at the world. -
The Ownership and Disposal of Military Equipment in the Late Roman Army
Posted on March 3, 2013 | No CommentsUnfortunately, relatively little evidence survives concerning the ownership and disposal of military equipment in the late Roman army. However, a particularly valuable document in this respect is a letter dated AD 401 which authorizes the discharge of eleven members from an ala stationed at Psofthis in Egypt. -
Women doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire
Posted on March 3, 2013 | No CommentsOur sources for knowledge about women doctors in antiquity are fragmentary: a few passing mentions in classical authors, some scattered references in the medical writers, nearly forty inscriptions.
