Comparing comparisons: ancient East and West
What is comparative history good for? Does it pose special challenges? In our time of accelerating globalization, are we ready to embrace a new inter-discipline, Comparative Classics?
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict
Geospatial modeling enables us to relate the maritime freight charges imposed by the tetrarchic price controls of 301 CE to simulated sailing time. This exercise demonstrates that price variation is to a large extent a function of variation in sailing time and suggests that the published rates are more realistic than previously assumed.
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict
Geospatial modeling enables us to relate the maritime freight charges imposed by the tetrarchic price controls of 301 CE to simulated sailing time. This exercise demonstrates that price variation is to a large extent a function of variation in sailing time and suggests that the published rates are more realistic than previously assumed.
Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome coming to the BBC
The first episode will be aired on BBC 4 on Wednesday 29 May at 9pm.
Rome and Parthia: Power Politics and Diplomacy Across Cultural Frontiers
Persia 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
The 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
Within 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
This 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
In 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
Though 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