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Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries (2015)
Book Chapter
King, C. (2015). Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries. In Norwich: medieval and early modern art, architecture and archaeology. Maney Publishing

This chapter discusses the surviving examples of large merchants’ houses in the city of Norwich dating between the 14th and 16th centuries. These were the residences of families who dominated the economic and political life of the medieval and early... Read More about Private lives and public power: Norwich merchants' houses between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015)
Book
Eidinow, E. (2015). Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199562602.001.0001

At the heart of this book are some trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE. In each case, the charges involved a combination of supernatural activities, including potion-brewing and cult activity; the defendants were all women. Because o... Read More about Envy, Poison, and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens.

Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Greek hymnic spaces. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199664139.001.0001

This chapter surveys how space is presented in a range of ancient Greek hymns, both literary and cultic. It proposes as a framework for analysis a distinction between the space of the god addressed, that of the human performers and audience, and that... Read More about Greek hymnic spaces.

Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya (2015)
Journal Article
Lahr, M., Rivera, F., Power, R., Foley, R., Mounier, A., Copsey, B., …Wilshaw, A. (2016). Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. Nature, 529, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16477

The nature of inter-group relations among prehistoric hunter-gatherers remains disputed, with arguments in favour and against the existence of warfare before the development of sedentary societies. Here we report on a case of inter-group violence tow... Read More about Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya.

The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states (2015)
Book
Lewis, D. (2015). D. Lewis, E. Harris, & M. Woolmer (Eds.), The ancient Greek economy: markets, households, and city-states. Cambridge University Press

This volume draws together contributions by historians, economists, and archaeologists on the question of the role of markets in the economy of the Greek city-states during the classical and hellenistic periods.

Acidalius on Tacitus (2015)
Book Chapter
Malloch, S. (2015). Acidalius on Tacitus. In R. Hunter, & S. Oakley (Eds.), Latin literature and its transmission. Cambridge University Press

Art History and Intellectual History (2015)
Book Chapter
Lorenz, K. (2015). Art History and Intellectual History. In R. Whatmore, & B. Young (Eds.), A companion to intellectual history (184-200). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118508091.ch14

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter provides an overview of the history of the study of art from the eighteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the perception of art history as an academic discipline... Read More about Art History and Intellectual History.

Wall Painting (2015)
Book Chapter
Lorenz, K. (2015). Wall Painting. In B. E. Borg (Ed.), A companion to Roman art (252-267). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118886205.ch13

© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter concentrates on Roman painting in the early imperial period, and in particular as it can be traced on the walls of domestic dwellings in Pompeii. The chapter presents a sketch of the... Read More about Wall Painting.

The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper (2015)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (in press). The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper. Cambridge Classical Journal, 61, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1750270515000068

Hugh Trevor-Roper was educated as a classicist until he transferred to history, in which he made his reputation, after two years at Oxford. His schooling engendered in him a classicism that was characterised by a love of classical literature and styl... Read More about The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Slavery and manumission (2015)
Book Chapter
Lewis, D. Slavery and manumission. In E. Harris, & M. Canevaro (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199599257.013.21

This chapter provides an overview of the legal contours of slavery in the ancient Greek world, looking at Homer and Hesiod, Gortyn, Sparta, Athens, and Ptolemaic Egypt. It concludes with an overview of manumission law.

‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature (2015)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (2015). ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature. Language and Literature, 24(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947015585244

After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the pra... Read More about ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature.

Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world (2015)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (2015). Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0197

Roman authors referred to Latin and Greek as utraque lingua (both our languages), and the study of Classics has traditionally entailed an appreciation of the entanglement and complex relations between Latin and Greek language and literature. However,... Read More about Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world.