Outputs (4)

Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
Book
Kneebone, E. (2020). Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728

Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.

The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
Book
Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., C. (2020). The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682091

Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.

Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha (2020)
Journal Article
WOUDHUYSEN, G., & Stover, J. (2020). Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha. Hermathena, 93-134

Abstract: In his De Caesaribus, the historian Aurelius Victor drew a comparison between the emperor Diocletian and the Republican general and consul Marius: two ambitious individuals from humble backgrounds who had dressed in an excessively extravaga... Read More about Aurelius Victor And The Ending Of Sallust's Jugurtha.

Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol (2020)
Journal Article
Pearce, M., Bellintani, P., & Nicolis, F. (2020). Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol. Padusa, Bollettino del Centro Polesano, 55, 67-86

We present 15 new 14C dates for copper smelting sites in the Trentino, together with 31 published dates for smelting sites in the region. Smelting may have already begun in the sixteenth century cal BC and continued until the ninth century cal BC. Th... Read More about Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol.