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Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. In A. Mullen, & G. Woudhuysen (Eds.), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus (2023)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpr... Read More about Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus.

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.

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.

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.

Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts (2021)
Book
Mullen, A., & Bowman, A. (2021). Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts. Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs

Volume 1 describes the kinds of documents that are written in Latin cursive script and tabulates the main published collections and individual items of texts in cursive script from across the Roman world, ranging in provenance from northern England t... Read More about Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts.

Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question (2021)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2021). Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question. In Contatti culturali e scambi commerciali della Sardegna nuragica: la rotta meridionale (Sardegna, Sicilia, Creta, Cipro): Atti del IV festival della Civiltà Nuragica (Orroli, Cagliari) / Cultural contacts and trade in Nuragic Sardinia: the southern route (Sardinia, Sicily, Crete, Cyprus): Proceedings of the Fourth Festival of the Nuragic Civilization (Orroli, Cagliari). Cagliari, Italy: Arkadia Editore

This, the closing chapter in the volume, reviews our evidence for direct contacts between Cyprus and Sardinia in the Nuragic Bronze Age in the light of the new evidence presented at the Fourth Festival of the Nuragic Civilization (Orroli, Cagliari).... Read More about Sardinians in Cyprus, Cypriots in Sardinia? The state of the question.

Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus (2021)
Journal Article
Woudhuysen, G., & Stover, J. (2021). Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus. Histos, 15, 150-188

The Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth centuries. In this article, we demonstrate that the Epitome was in fact compiled at some point after the middle of the sixth century, by showing on textua... Read More about Jordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus.

Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
Book
Kneebone, E. (2020). Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728

Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.

The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary (2020)
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Emperor of Rome, 10 B.C.-54 A.D., C. (2020). The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108682091

Unearthed in 1528 at Lyon, the Tabula Lugdunensis preserves the longest speech of a Roman emperor to survive in epigraphic form. In AD 48 Claudius addressed the senate to press a petition by elites of north-western Gaul to hold senatorial rank and of... Read More about The Tabula Lugdunensis: A Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary.