By Diana Pickworth Abstract: In this article, Pickworth summarises the findings of the 1989-1990 University of California excavations around the defensive Halzi Gate at Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire and once…
by Alison Cooley Abstract: This podcast provides an account of Octavian’s rise to power and his adoption of the title Augustus. It examines the res gestae in terms of its context, content and surviving evidence.…
by Annalisa Marzano Abstract: Marzano provides an introduction to the uses of gardens in the Roman world. These were seen by elites as places of leisure and luxuriation, whilst others used them for exercise or planted…
by Katherine Reinberger Abstract: Reinberger details recent archaeological findings found using dental analysis indicating that the first Battle of Himera (5th century BCE) involved combatants from a far wider area…
By Vanessa B. Gorman Situated on the southwest coast of modern Turkey, Miletos stood for centuries as one of the paramount cities in the Hellenic world, a gateway between the East and West. It became especially famous…
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…