Gods and Places in Etruscan Religion By Ingrid Edlund-Berry, The University of Texas at Austin Etruscan Studies, Vol. 1 (1994) Introduction: Whether thou are a god or a goddess…(Cato, De Agricultura 139) As this epigraph and other quotes… [continue reading]
On Kings and Nomads: New Documents in Ancient Bactrian Reveal Afghanistan’s Past By Nicholas Sims-Williams IIAS Newsletter, No.27 (2002) Introduction: Until very recently, Bactrian… [continue reading]
A ritual bath exposed beneath the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem shows that the construction of that wall was not completed during King Herod’s lifetime. Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa… [continue reading]
Eleven books that came out in 2011 that caught our eye! Alexander the Great By Philip Freeman In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classical scholar and historian Philip Freeman describes Alexander’s… [continue reading]
Aristotle and the Murder of Alexander By Gilbert M. Cuthbertson Political Mythology, by Dr. Gilbert M. Cuthbertson (1995) Introduction:Â Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. recently revived the charge that Aristotle was the poisoner of… [continue reading]
Childhood in the Roman Empire By Ray Laurence History Today, Vol. 55:10 (2005) Introduction: Today, in the West at least, we find it hard to accept the unexplained death of a child. The terminology associated with these deaths, such as Sudden Infant… [continue reading]
Using only a tooth, researchers at Idaho State University can help solve ancient archeological mysteries – for example, determining what someone ate hundreds of years ago on Easter Island or tracing the genetics of 2,000-year-old Roman slaves –… [continue reading]
Using only a tooth, researchers at Idaho State University can help solve ancient archeological mysteries – for example, determining what someone ate hundreds of years ago on Easter Island or tracing the genetics of 2,000-year-old Roman commoners… [continue reading]
State Counter-Terrorism in Ancient Rome: Toward a New Basis for the Diachronic Study of Terror By Ricardo Apostol Paper given at Re-Visioning Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference… [continue reading]
Other-Centred Love: Diotima’s lesson to Socrates By Colin A. Redmond Master’s Thesis, University of Notre Dame Australia, 2010 Abstract: In this thesis I set out to determine the possible motivations in response to which Diotima… [continue reading]
