Professional Associations
by Jinyu Liu Abstract: Closely associated with the urban development under the Pax Romana, professional associations played a dynamic role in structuring the social and economic world of the sub-elite in the cities in…
by Jinyu Liu Abstract: Closely associated with the urban development under the Pax Romana, professional associations played a dynamic role in structuring the social and economic world of the sub-elite in the cities in…
by Grant Parker Abstract: Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial period contain a wealth of references to ‘India’. Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts, read against a wide range of other sources,…
by Tracey Rihll Abstract: Technology was an integral part of ancient life. The old view that there was little technological development in antiquity was based on a simple notion of technology and an inadequate…
by Tracey Rihll Abstract: On the relationship between slavery and technological innovation in the Greco-Roman world. Slaves in the manufacturing and service sectors performed high-skill or care-intensive work, and were…
by Kimberly Bowes Abstract: Prof. Kimberly D. Bowes discusses how models about the collapse of the Roman Empire have often been predicated on the idea of poverty: that the end of Roman domination meant the decline of a…
by Dan-el Padilla Peralta Abstract: This article proposes a new interpretation of slave religious experience in mid-republican Rome. Select passages from Plautine comedy and Cato the Elder’s De agri cultura are paired…
By Pramit Chaudhuri Abstract: This book is the first large-scale study of conflict between humans and gods (‘theomachy’) in Latin epic and tragic poetry. Theomachy informs some of the most influential works in the…
By Michèle Lowrie In this article, Lowrie examine Rome not just as a physical city but also as the seat and symbol of an empire, and the societal mentality that comes with that. Published in The Classical World, Vol.…
Edited by Alison Cooley This collection of essays investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms — political, cultural, social, and economic — upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification…
By Maria Liston Abstract: Few battle cemeteries have been excavated and those that have been were, for the most part, dug before skeletal biology was a part of Mediterranean archaeology. In the Athenian Agora…