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Unity and Power: Valerius Flaccus, Apollonius and the Election of Jason (2025)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (2025). Unity and Power: Valerius Flaccus, Apollonius and the Election of Jason. In A. Ferenczi, D. Kozák, & A. Zissos (Eds.), Inconsistency in Flavian Epic (63-84). Cambridge Scholars Press

This chapter examines one of the most obvious inconsistencies in Valerius Flaccus, a poet well-known for the complexity of his engagement with the mythical and literary traditions. Inconsistency is a phenomenon that puts particular pressure on the re... Read More about Unity and Power: Valerius Flaccus, Apollonius and the Election of Jason.

Bear journeys in early modern England (2025)
Journal Article
Davies, C., Bloxam, A., O’Regan, H., Charlton, S., Lewis, L., & Wright, E. (2025). Bear journeys in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2461368

This article offers unprecedented insight into the domestic movements of early modern commercial entertainment producers based on fresh archival and archaeological details about bears and bearwards, centring on a surviving two-month journey record.... Read More about Bear journeys in early modern England.

Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama (2025)
Book
Lamari, A., & Stewart, E. (Eds.). Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama. De Gruyter

This is the first study of travel, or mobility, and the ancient Greek theatre. The essays collected here, by leading figures in the field of ancient drama, examine both historical travel (the actual mobility of audiences and performers who attended t... Read More about Departing the Polis: Travel and Travellers in the Extant Plays and Fragments of Greek Drama.

Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community (2025)
Book
Davies, P. (2025). Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community. Bloomsbury Publishing

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality – each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.

This volume seeks to interrogate how rightly we may apply... Read More about Standing Among the Spartans: Institutions and Status within the Spartiate Community.

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ (2025)
Journal Article
Wright, E., Davies, C., Lamb, A., Miller, H., Rielly, K., Charlton, S., Kesson, A., Larson, G., Lewis, L., & O'Regan, H. (2025). What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’. Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.228

Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope... Read More about What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’.

Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda (2025)
Journal Article
Mullen, A., Meyer, A., & Roger, T. (2025). Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda. Britannia, 55, 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X24000230

A Roman stylus tablet discovered at Vindolanda in 2014 preserves the partial text of a deed-of-sale for an enslaved person, only the second such document from Britain. This article presents the results of multiple techniques used to reveal the almost... Read More about Slavery on the Northern Frontier: A Stylus Tablet from Vindolanda.