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Fallen Pines: Deforestation in Nonnus' 'Dionysiaca' (2025)
Journal Article
Kneebone, E. (2025). Fallen Pines: Deforestation in Nonnus' 'Dionysiaca'. Green Letters / Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2025.2545810

This article examines the depiction of deforestation in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, a Greek epic on the god Dionysus dating from the fifth century CE. Exploring the ancient association of Dionysus with mountainous rural spaces, it brings together three key s... Read More about Fallen Pines: Deforestation in Nonnus' 'Dionysiaca'.

Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks (2025)
Journal Article
Assael, Y., Sommerschield, T., Cooley, A., Shillingford, B., Pavlopoulos, J., Suresh, P., Herms, B., Grayston, J., Maynard, B., Dietrich, N., Wulgaert, R., Prag, J., Mullen, A., & Mohamed, S. (2025). Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09292-5

Human history is born in writing. Inscriptions are among the earliest written forms, and offer direct insights into the thought, language and history of ancient civilizations. Historians capture these insights by identifying parallels—inscriptions wi... Read More about Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks.

The Swan of Sparta: a new reading of the epitaph for Alcman by Leonidas of Tarentum (A.P. 7.19 = 57 GP) (2025)
Journal Article
Massimo, D. (in press). The Swan of Sparta: a new reading of the epitaph for Alcman by Leonidas of Tarentum (A.P. 7.19 = 57 GP). Philologus,

This article suggests a new interpretation of a troubled passage of the epitaph for the poet Alcman by the Hellenistic poet Leonidas of Tarentum (A.P. 7.19 = 57 GP). It argues that with minimal changes to the text of l.3 one can make better sense of... Read More about The Swan of Sparta: a new reading of the epitaph for Alcman by Leonidas of Tarentum (A.P. 7.19 = 57 GP).

The relief of El Cerrón: insights into central Iberian elite identity in the Late Iron Age (2025)
Journal Article
Sánchez de Oro, P., Saccoccio, F., Berrocal-Rangel, L., & Torres Ortiz, M. (2025). The relief of El Cerrón: insights into central Iberian elite identity in the Late Iron Age. Antiquity, 99(405), 797-814. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.48

The Late Iron Age (fourth-first centuries BC) district of Carpetania-Central Iberian Peninsula-, has traditionally been defined as a petty territory where cultural development was primarily attributed to acculturation, diffusionism, and imitation. By... Read More about The relief of El Cerrón: insights into central Iberian elite identity in the Late Iron Age.

Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant (2025)
Journal Article
Kropp, A. (2025). Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant. Levant, https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2025.2498858

This article looks at the work of die engravers who worked for multiple mints of Roman tetradrachms, a phenomenon known as engraver-sharing. Building on art-historical methods developed in other areas of ancient art and adapting them to suit this par... Read More about Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant.

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.

Broken Hospitality and Traumatic Memory in the Funerals of Vergil’s Pallas and Valerius Flaccus’ Cyzicus (2025)
Book Chapter
Lovatt, H. (in press). Broken Hospitality and Traumatic Memory in the Funerals of Vergil’s Pallas and Valerius Flaccus’ Cyzicus. In V. Panoussi, & W. Hutton (Eds.), Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome. De Gruyter

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), 203-222. 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, 99(404), 536-552. 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.

Multilingualism, Language Management, and First Encounters in the Roman and American Colonial Experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2024). Multilingualism, Language Management, and First Encounters in the Roman and American Colonial Experience. In M. Mass, & F. A. Yarnborough (Eds.), Empires and Indigenous Peoples: Comparing Ancient Roman and North American Experiences. University of Oklahoma Press

The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1 (2024)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2024). The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 167(3/4), Article 403

Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism (2024)
Book Chapter
Jim, T. (2024). Divine Naming in Greek and Chinese Polytheism. In A. Palamidis, & C. Bonnet (Eds.), What’s in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean (59-78). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111326511-004

The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories (2024)
Journal Article
Lennon, J. J., & Wilshere, N. (2024). The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 78, 7-28

Throughout Agathias’s Histories, he makes frequent use of religious pollution. This has often gone unnoticed in discussions of his work, as scholars have typically approached the debate in terms of his attitudes to sin. This article aims to correct t... Read More about The Role of Pollution in Agathias's Histories.

The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2025). The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen. In M. Cariou, & N. Zito (Eds.), Μάρτυρι μύθῳ Poésie, histoire et société aux époques impériale et tardive: Actes du colloque international Paris, Sorbonne Université, 8-10 septembre 2022 (103-132). Edizioni dell’Orso

Colluthus’ 'Abduction of Helen' depicts Paris as a shepherd who leaves his native Trojan mountains on an audacious sea-journey, touring the monuments of Sparta and bearing back to his homeland a Helen who fantasises about seeing the spectacular walls... Read More about The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen.

Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West (2024)
Book
Mullen, A., & Willi, A. (Eds.). (2024). Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West. Oxford University Press (OUP)

This volume explores Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, the Germanies, and Britain in the later Iron Age and Roman period. We use a combination of various sets of evidence and an... Read More about Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West.

Huns and Romans in the fourth century (2024)
Book Chapter
WOUDHUYSEN, G. (2024). Huns and Romans in the fourth century. In Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia (161-173). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003348702

The fourth century CE was a crucial but murky period in the history of Inner Asia. Recent scholarly reconceptualisation of the origins of the Huns has important implications for study of the later Roman Empire. I examine what the Romans of the fourth... Read More about Huns and Romans in the fourth century.

Roman Palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce. Material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence (2024)
Book Chapter
Kropp, A. (2025). Roman Palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce. Material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence. In Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia (65-78). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003348702

Under Roman hegemony over the Near East, the oasis city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert rose quickly from obscurity to opulence and established itself a ‘caravan’ city, a vital hub for long-distance trade between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranea... Read More about Roman Palmyra as a hub of trade and commerce. Material, epigraphic and numismatic evidence.