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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. Swansea: 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.

Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World (2022)
Book Chapter
Miller, H. (in press). Reconstructing Human-Animal-Environment Relationships at the Edge of the Roman World. In Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology : Methods, Applications, and Advances. Florida, USA: 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.

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

Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites (2022)
Book Chapter
Gallou, C., Cavanagh, W., Spondylis, I., & Henderson, J. (2022). Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites. In C. Wiersma, & M. P. TSouli (Eds.), Middle and Late Helladic Laconia: competing principalities? (33-45). Leiden: Sidestone Press

The underwater site of Pavlopetri has most recently been investigated by the joint project of the Ephoreia for Underwater Archaeology and the British School at Athens which conducted field seasons in 2009, 2010 and 2011. In addition to a survey of th... Read More about Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age. Pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites.

The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus (2022)
Journal Article
Malloch, S. (2022). The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus. Hermes, 150(1), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0005

Tacitus opens the Annals with a succinct sketch of the constitutional history of Rome from the kings to Augustus (1.1.1). The common interpretation holds that Tacitus adopts a cyclical view of this history which identifies the supremacy of Augustus w... Read More about The Return of the King? Tacitus on the Principate of Augustus.

Voices of Roman Britain (2022)
Journal Article
MULLEN, A. (2022). Voices of Roman Britain. Omnibus (London), 83, 30-32

Roman Britain is often seen as a backwater. It offers us few standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont du Gard; few of its protagonists get big billing in Roman h... Read More about Voices of Roman Britain.

Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust (2022)
Journal Article
Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2022). Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust. Histos, 16, 1-27

This article examines the influence of Sallust on Hegesippus, the fourth-century historian and adaptor of Josephus (commonly referred to as pseudo-Hegesippus). Analysis of the structure of his work reveals that Hegesippus strove to write in five book... Read More about Historiarum libri quinque: Hegesippus between Josephus and Sallust.