Politics Archive
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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 -
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. -
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. -
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers' speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them. -
Some aspects of the non-royal afterlife in the Old Kingdom
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsThough textual evidence is meager, the difference between royal and non-royal funerary architecture clearly reflects two different visions of the afterlife. The tombs of the elite -
The reign of the emperors Valerian and Gallienus, A.D. 243-268
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsThis study of the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus, two Roman Emperors of the mid-third century after Christ, was undertaken to re-assess their achievements in the light of modern discoveries about the Roman world. -
Posted on February 18, 2013 | No CommentsRome's ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him. -
Hector and Iliad VI
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsHomer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people. -
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?
