All the archers in the Roman army, be they on foot or mounted, used the “Mediterranean” shooting...
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The marvel of Herod’s harbor is that it was artificial. Introduction Herod’s Harbor was a giant port built between...
The Roman Empire is a model for understanding the changing functions of rituals in changing environments. Ritual...
There were a number of festivals and temples dedicated to Ceres in both Greece and Italy. Introduction...
The images were meant to communicate messages about their persona and the general outlines of their reign....
They both met the same horrible fate. Introduction Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (c. 163-133 BCE) and his younger brother...
They were dependent on external sources of income and resources, usually procured from sedentary communities. Introduction Since...
The Late Roman Republic’s more active military policies concerning the region began to jeopardize their hegemony. Introduction...
Ostia was a diverse, working class city with inhabitants from across the Mediterranean world. Origins Although the...
Monumental altars and the greatest urban temples conformed to Italian and Roman stylistic criteria. Republican Religion as...
The dividing line did not run between individual gods, but between human beings and gods. Since they...
The famed Roman army depended heavily on their allies or ‘alae’. Introduction The Social War (also called the Marsi War and...
Roman traffic ways connected to lines of communication into territories well beyond the empire. Transcontinental Connectivity Centuries...
Fringe was most often employed by the Romans as trim on religious garments. Introduction This article examines...
Examining evidence from epigraphy, iconography, and topography. Introduction The subject of Palmyrenes’1 integration as residents of Rome...
Schools were privately operated by teachers and therefore dependent on tuition fees. Introduction Roman education had its first...
The importance of religious cults in creating the “corporate image” of the Theodosian dynasty. Introduction “His faith...
Exploring the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers....
During the Principate “it “hospitium” became a vehicle for ‘them’ to become more like ‘us’. Introduction The...
It was the banquet that would mark Aulus’s arrival in his capital. Introduction The emperor Aulus Vitellius (r. 69...
The role ascribed to Rome in the foundation of Western civilization is frequently taken as a justification...
The soldiers’ morale, closely linked with training and organization, could make the difference on battlefield. The resounding...
Did what initiates once heard and saw in the Mysteries transform into the historical Jesus? Introduction After...
Lucian’s work provides insight into the ancient Roman world, which fostered multilingualism and multiculturalism. Introduction People who...
The Mediterranean environment was capricious, characterized by alternating glut and dearth. Introduction Whatever is grown and made...
Little did contemporaries know they were witnessing a sort of valediction: the last secular games of Rome....
Unity is a complex concept, rather an abstract idea than a factual circumstance. Introduction Since the seventeenth...
Eunuchs became an institutional feature of the imperial court in the late Roman period. Introduction In the...
Complications in early modern cultural understandings of the material aspects of militant nostalgia. Remembering Rome, Performing Rome...
Gambling was played by people long before the rise of Rome. The oldest known dice were found...