Re-writing Women’s History
By Virginia L. Campbell Abstract: Campbell argues for different approaches to writing and presenting women in antiquity by comparing representations of brothels and prostitution, revealing in the process the Roman…
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Pompeii and Rome
By Virginia L. Campbell Abstract: Campbell analyses social connections and networks between Pompeii and Roman emperors through inscriptions, distinguishing official inscriptions at the Forum and unofficial inscriptions…
Managing Multiple Conversations: the multilevelled communication of Late Antique honorific monuments and epigraphy
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…
Appropriation and Adaptation: Republican Idiom in Res Gestae 1.1
By Louise Hodgson Abstract: Augustus opens the Res Gestae with his age: ‘nineteen years old’ (annos undeviginti natus). This places the reader firmly in the autumn of 44, rather than the aftermath of Caesar’s…
Language for the Dead in Ancient Rome and Nigeria
By Monica Omoye Aneni Abstract: Contemporary authors have attempted to demonstrate and explain funerary commemoration in antiquity, therefore bridging the gap between archaeological findings and interpretations as well…