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Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2022). Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality. In K. Carvounis, S. Papaioannou, & G. Scafoglio (Eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition (179-206). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791907-009

This chapter explores the methodological case for reading Greek Imperial epic alongside and in conjunction with Latin epic, by revisiting one of the best-known examples, the case of the story of Phaethon in Ovid and Nonnus. Since Knox’s article, the... Read More about Nonnus’ Phaethon, Ovid, and Flavian Intertextuality.

Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World (2022)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World. In Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology : Methods, Applications, and Advances. Florida University Press

Over the last three decades isotope studies have become a mainstay of archaeological investigations into human diet and mobility. A small comparative sample of faunal remains often underpins these studies, used to create baselines, proxies, and provi... Read More about Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World.

The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta (2022)
Journal Article
Stover, J., & Woudhuysen, G. (2022). The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta. Journal of Roman Studies, 112, 173-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/s007543582200034x

Lurking in the Historia Augusta’s life of the short-lived Emperor Carus is what appears to be a reference to the genuine contemporary poet Nemesianus and an extant work by him, the Cynegetica. Given the HA’s predilection for ‘bogus authors’, this is... Read More about The Poet Nemesianus and the Historia Augusta.

Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype (2022)
Journal Article
Bloxam, A., & Parker Pearson, M. (2022). Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 88, 261-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2022.2

The Beaker phenomenon in Britain is typically represented by a particular form of pottery and its inclusion in graves with flexed or crouched inhumations referred to as Beaker burials. Analysis of the full range of burial evidence, however, reveals a... Read More about Funerary Diversity and Cultural Continuity: The British Beaker Phenomenon Beyond the Stereotype.

Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2022). Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories. In K. Marciniak (Ed.), Our mythical hope: the ancient myths as medicine for the hardships of life in children's and young adults' culture (491-510). Warsaw University Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.491-510

A girl holds the key to the future of mankind: she has to choose between sacrificing herself and creating a new human race. In one version she is Iphigenia, in another Pandora. Mike Carey (or M. R. Carey) has now produced three versions of this story... Read More about Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories.

Inscriptions for inscribers: texts on Roman writing equipment (2022)
Journal Article
Willi, A. (2022). Inscriptions for inscribers: texts on Roman writing equipment. Journal of Epigraphic Studies, 5, 63–104

Inspired by the recent find of an inscribed stylus at London’s Bloomberg site, this article provides a survey of Roman styli, inkwells and wax-spatula handles with inscriptions. After a discussion of the geographical and chronological distribution of... Read More about Inscriptions for inscribers: texts on Roman writing equipment.