Politics Archive
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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? -
Barcid ‘Proconsuls’ and Punic Politics, 237-218 B.C.
Posted on February 10, 2013 | No CommentsThe Carthaginian republic in the years after 237 B.C. was effectively dominated by a single political faction or group, centred on the so-called Barcids - the family of Hamilcar Barca, hero of the last years of the First Punic War and the republic's first generalissimo in Spain -
Information-gathering and the strategic use of culture in Herodotus
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsHerodotus -
The role of the chantress in ancient Egypt
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe goal of this study is to determine what it meant to be a Sm-r, or chantress, in ancient Egypt. Very little is known about the specifics of the title or the types of people who held it. Surprisingly, there is also a male version of the title, Smr, but the female version is by far the more prevalent. It is the women who held this title that will be the focus of this study. -
Chalcidian Politicians and Rome between 208 and 168 BC
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsRemarks on the creation of a Chalcidian faction orientated towards Rome during and after the Second Macedonian War, its policy and discourse and how the concept of pistis was used to define and defend the position of Chalcis in relation to Rome during the inter-war period and the Third Macedonian War. -
A socio-historical analysis of Jewish banditry in first century Palestine 6 to 70 CE
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsThese protests were mainly instigated by and initially led by Jewish peasants who experienced the worst aspects of becoming a part of the larger Roman world. -
Ostracism: selection and de-selection in ancient Greece
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis was mainly because ancient Greek states were face-to-face, direct forms of self-government. They did not recognise and would not have wanted to recognise our indirect, representative mode of democracy, which an ancient Greek democrat would have dismissed as elective oligarchy anyway. -
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe term 'cult acts' has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves
