Mobility and the plebs in the early Republic: the example of the plebeian secessions
Dr. Guy Bradley, Cardiff University
Recent studies have demonstrated the extent of the evidence for mobility in central Italy, yet its implications for early Rome are...
Mary Shelley and the Gothic Vision of Classical Antiquity
Dr. James Uden, Boston University
‘Frankenstein’ offers a sinister vision of the familiar scholarly desire to revive the dead. This talk explores how Mary Shelley, in her...
Diana and the Nature of Deity at Rome
Dr. Fay Glinister, Cardiff University
Focusing on evidence for the goddess Diana during the Republican and early imperial periods, Dr. Glinister will consider how Roman...
Numa Numa: The Life and Afterlife of the Second King of Rome
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius – the foundational figure of Roman religion who also...
Numa Numa: The Life and Afterlife of the Second King of Rome
This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius – the foundational figure of Roman religion who also...
Death Around the Palace of Nestor
Dr. Joanne M. Murphy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The palace of Pylos constituted the largest regional economic center in southwestern Greece during the Bronze Age (16th- 12th centuries...
2017 Else Lecture: Office and anarchy as constitutional ideas in ancient Greece and today
Dr. Melissa Lane, Princeton University
In 'Politics' Book III, Aristotle defines a constitution as an ‘order’ (taxis) of ‘offices’ (haiarchai). A constitution is an...
West Meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia
Dr. Sethuraman Suresh
The Roman Republic (second-first century B.C.E.) and later, the Roman Empire under Augustus, Tiberius (first century C.E.) and their...
