Evidence for the activities of women in archaeological contexts is often hypothesized when classes of artifacts assumed to be the possessions of women—jewelry – or evidence of their work – weaving tools--… Read More
At Athens no direct epigraphical presentation of letters from Kings has survived from the early Hellenistic period but it is clear from the decrees of the Athenians that such correspondence was received. The… Read More
There is a great gulf between what the modern biographer expects to discover and what Greek and Roman texts like to tell us about individuals. It can be easy to ignore… Read More
"Comment parler à un objet ? L'adresse aux objets inanimés de forme hymnique dans la poésie lyrique et la tragédie" ("How to speak to an object? Hymnic features in formal addresses to inanimate objects in lyric… Read More
The world of Homeric epic already contained, or pointed to, other possible stories, non-heroic alternatives that the ensuing literary tradition would develop in different ways. The Circe episode is an… Read More
‘Is everything entirely made up of atoms? … Or is everything made up of atomless “gunk”—as Lewis (1991: 20) calls it—that divides forever into smaller and smaller parts?’ (Varzi 2014)
I have had the good fortune to direct or co-direct excavations at two legendary sites in Turkey–-Troy and Gordion, and the fieldwork that I have conducted there over the course of the last 25 years has continually… Read More
