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Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese (2022)
Book
Hodkinson, S., & Gallou, C. (Eds.). (2022). Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese. Classical Press of Wales

A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Spartan and... Read More about Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese.

'as we carry a robe to the dawn Goddess' : luxurious textiles in Spartan and Lakedaimonian sanctuaries (2022)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C. (2022). 'as we carry a robe to the dawn Goddess' : luxurious textiles in Spartan and Lakedaimonian sanctuaries. In S. Hodkinson, & C. Gallou (Eds.), Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese (31-56). Classical Press of Wales

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.), . 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.

Review of Le miniere delle Alpi Apuane (Toscana): Storia dello sfruttamento minerario dall'antichità al XX secolo. (BAR International Series 3034). By Marco Baldi, edited by Deborah Giannessi. 21 x 30 cm. xx + 277 pp, 167 colour and b&w pls and figs, 34 tavole/plate pages. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4073-5832-1; epub: 978-1-4073-5833-8. Price: £69.00 pb. (2022)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2022). Review of Le miniere delle Alpi Apuane (Toscana): Storia dello sfruttamento minerario dall'antichità al XX secolo. (BAR International Series 3034). By Marco Baldi, edited by Deborah Giannessi. 21 x 30 cm. xx + 277 pp, 167 colour and b&w pls and figs, 34 tavole/plate pages. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4073-5832-1; epub: 978-1-4073-5833-8. Price: £69.00 pb. Medieval Archaeology, 66(1), 204-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2022.2065071

A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper (2022)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2022). A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Notes and Queries, 69(3), 263-264. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjac057

In March 1959 Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, took his wife Xandra, the daughter of Field Marshal Haig, to convalesce in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. From there he wrote a long letter to the Yale historian Wall... Read More about A Probable Allusion to Edward Gibbon in a Letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Writing in the garden (2022)
Journal Article
Willi, A., & Hovell, G. (2022). Writing in the garden. Topiarius, 26, 23-26