Epigraphy Archive
-
Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIt did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial's original poems might have real value. -
TWO LANDS, ONE RULER? The Tang-i Var Inscription and the issue of joint rule in the 25th Dynasty
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsWas Kushite kingship ideology based on a notion of joint rule? To what extent did the 25th Dynasty adopt kingship ideology from Egypt? Further, how did the Kushites govern Egypt and Kush and did one king rule over both lands? -
Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe following thesis developed out of a desire to understand the process behind identity formation in the ancient world. -
Power and status. Administration, appointment policies, and social hierarchies in the Roman Empire (193-284 AD)
Posted on January 27, 2013 | No CommentsIn this study, I explore administration, appointment policies and social hierarchies in the period between AD 193 to 284, in order to define changing status and power relations between the highest ranking representatives of imperial power at the central level. -
Hadrian
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsHadrian -
The production of shows in the cities of the Roman Empire: A study of the Latin epigraphic evidence
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsThere are several hundreds of Latin inscriptions which record the production of games (in the sense of "Shows" or "Spectacles") outside Rome by local magistrates, priests and private benefactors. This material is the subject of this dissertation -
Posted on June 4, 2012 | No CommentsSince 1963, readings, reconstructions, and translations of Ajantas major inscriptions from V.V. Mirashi -
Freedmen and Decurions: Epitaphs and Social History in Imperial Italy
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsFreedmen and Decurions: Epitaphs and Social History in Imperial Italy Mouritsen, Henrik Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 95, -
Golden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets
Posted on February 9, 2010 | No CommentsGolden Verses: Voice and Authority in the Tablets Martin, Richard P. Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, April 2007 Abstract This paper attempts to read the gold -
Greco-Roman sex ratios and femicide in comparative perspective
Posted on February 2, 2010 | No CommentsGreco-Roman sex ratios and femicide in comparative perspective Scheidel, Walter Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, January 2010 Abstract Is it possible to demonstrate that ancient Greeks or Romans disposed of...
