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Jessica Hoar
Jul 20, 20238 min read
How helpful is Foucault's history of sexuality for understanding homoeroticism in Classical Greece?
Foucault’s volumes on the history of sexuality have been immensely influential in modern understandings of sexuality in the ancient...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Apr 28, 202316 min read
Enemy of my Enemy: King Mithradates VI of Pontos and his alternative model of Hellenistic kingship
Introduction In 168 BC, the Seleukid king, Antiokhos IV, stood victorious at the head of an army which had breached Ptolemaic defences,...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Nov 10, 202220 min read
A heap of masks buried in Syrian sands: The faces of Queen Zenobia and the woman behind them
In the turbulent days of the late third century CE, in the year 268, a frontier region of the Roman empire, Palmyra, crucial in the...
William Minter
Sep 29, 202225 min read
The 'Globalisation' of the Hellenistic Age
As with most cultural processes in the ancient world, whether they be ethnic identities or cultural exchange and interconnectivity, the...
Hannah Newman
May 30, 20229 min read
The influence of ideas and practices on elite roman houses in the late republic and early empire
Ideas and practices of the Roman elite undeniably altered and informed the design and decoration of their houses and villas. Whilst the...
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