by K.F.B. Fletcher and Osman Umurhan (eds) Abstract: This book demonstrates the rich and varied ways in which heavy metal music draws on the ancient Greek and Roman world. Contributors examine bands from across the…
by Elisabetta Poddighe Abstract: During Alexander’s reign relations between the Greeks and the Macedonian kingdom were regulated by the charter of the “Corinthian League.” This modern expression refers to the political…
by Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Abstract: This volume explores the rich and varied afterlife of Greek and Roman tragedies and comedies in Latin America, offering nuanced examinations of notable…
by Angeline C. Chiu Abstract: Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa…
by Elizabeth A. Wueste Abstract: For the modern scholar, the most historically informative piece of a monument is often the inscription. When complete, it can often tell us not just the specific name and identity of…
by Arum Park Abstract: It can be argued that Longus’s pastoral landscapes, signaled by the « locus amoenus », have a primarily reproductive rather than erotic function. These landscapes introduce parenthood and child…
Abstract: Streaming the Past is a Science Communciation Project by Leiden University and the VALUE Foundation. Funded by a Science Communication grant from the Dutch Science Organisation (NWO), a team of three students…
by William White and Catherine Draycott Abstract: Archaeology remains a profession with an overwhelmingly white workforce. Two archaeologists ask why that matters and what can be done about it. Article in Sapiens, 7th…
by Barbara Goff and Katherine Harloe Abstract: This chapter examines the Anglophone receptions of Sappho’s poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining figures such as Harriette Andreadis, Margaret…
by Shushma Malik Abstract: Decadence was not a word used by the historians of ancient Rome during classical antiquity, but the concepts, anxieties, and fears encapsulated by it are without question present in their…