Cambridge historian Simon Goldhill explores the crucial period in nineteenth-century Britain when modern notions of sexuality and sexual identity took shape. He takes the unusual approach of focusing on a single… Read More
In 1986 excavations in the portico of the so-called “Marble Forum” of the Roman colonia of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) uncovered a fragment of an inscribed elogium of Aeneas, along with… Read More
In the Age of Exploration, the world-changing confrontation between Europe and Mesoamerica was mediated by ancient Rome. Spain's conquest of Mexico in the 1500s coincided with the Renaissance … Read More
Whether Virgil was to be considered an orator or a poet was one of the key issues in the reception of his work, as is attested by discussions in Florus, Macrobius, Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus. This… Read More
This talk analyses the politics of display in the sanctuary at Hellenistic Delos, particularly the ‘vase festivals’ endowed by Ptolemaic and Antigonid kings and others in the third century bc. It embeds these royal… Read More
Scholars are divided as to the origin of the most famous canon list in the history of the Church, dubbed the “Muratorian Fragment” by the Ambrosian librarian Ludovico Antonio Muratori its purported discoverer. … Read More
During the 13th century BC, masons at Mycenae utilized several different cutting techniques to fashion architectural blocks and sculpture. This talk highlights the importance of saw and drill use on key… Read More
Is it possible to write a “biography” of a fifth-century Athenian? What justifies (or dooms) such an attempt? In the case of Pericles, problems of Thucydides’ composition and the historian's method of presenting… Read More
One of the most widely held views about burial in the Roman world is that the Romans buried their dead outside the city. This custom is attested at sites throughout Rome and Latium as early as the 9th century BCE,… Read More
