In the Age of Exploration, the world-changing confrontation between Europe and Mesoamerica was mediated by ancient Rome. Spain's conquest of Mexico in the 1500s coincided with the Renaissance … Read More
Whether Virgil was to be considered an orator or a poet was one of the key issues in the reception of his work, as is attested by discussions in Florus, Macrobius, Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus. … Read More
This talk analyses the politics of display in the sanctuary at Hellenistic Delos, particularly the ‘vase festivals’ endowed by Ptolemaic and Antigonid kings and others in the third century bc. It embeds these… Read More
Scholars are divided as to the origin of the most famous canon list in the history of the Church, dubbed the “Muratorian Fragment” by the Ambrosian librarian Ludovico Antonio Muratori its purported discoverer. … Read More
During the 13th century BC, masons at Mycenae utilized several different cutting techniques to fashion architectural blocks and sculpture. This talk highlights the importance of saw and drill use on key… Read More
Is it possible to write a “biography” of a fifth-century Athenian? What justifies (or dooms) such an attempt? In the case of Pericles, problems of Thucydides’ composition and the historian's method of… Read More
One of the most widely held views about burial in the Roman world is that the Romans buried their dead outside the city. This custom is attested at sites throughout Rome and Latium as early as the 9th century BCE,… Read More
Evidence for the activities of women in archaeological contexts is often hypothesized when classes of artifacts assumed to be the possessions of women—jewelry – or evidence of their work – weaving tools--… Read More
At Athens no direct epigraphical presentation of letters from Kings has survived from the early Hellenistic period but it is clear from the decrees of the Athenians that such correspondence was received. The… Read More
There is a great gulf between what the modern biographer expects to discover and what Greek and Roman texts like to tell us about individuals. It can be easy to ignore this chasm, since the area in… Read More
