Classics (School of): Recent submissions
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The fifth-century crisis
(2017-10-26) - Journal articleThis essay seeks to establish the parameters of our uncertainty concerning one of the most difficult periods of Roman history, the period between the traditional end of the Roman monarchy and the passing of the Licinio-Sextian ... -
J.B. Ward-Perkins, the BSR and the landscape tradition in post-war Italian archaeology
(2017-10-26) - Journal articleNothing has so characterized the British School at Rome's approach, from its inception, as the commitment to landscape archaeology in one form or another. This paper discusses the origins of this commitment in the work of ... -
Imperii pretium : cultural development and conceptual transformations in the myth of Eteokles and Polyneices from Aeschylus to Alfieri
(2016-06) - ThesisThis thesis contextualises and explores the reconceptualization of the myth of Eteokles and Polyneices in Greek, Latin and Italian tragedy, the literary genre that more than any other offers the opportunity to trace its ... -
The influence of Achaemenid Persia on fourth-century and early Hellenistic Greek tyranny
(2015-02) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of how Greek tyranny in the fourth century and the early Hellenistic age was influenced by Achaemenid Persia and the Ancient Near East. The introduction lays out the problems of interpreting ... -
The self-presentation of the triumviral aristocracy
(2014) - ThesisThis thesis analyses the self-presentation of the Roman aristocracy during the triumviral period. Aristocratic self-fashioning has been of great interest to scholars studying both the republic and empire; this study ...