New for September on the Material Musings blog, Jurriaan Gouw discusses changes to Greek warfare in the 5th-4th centuries BC and the development of the Macedonian phalanx, in an article entitled 'Less is More: The Transition from Hoplite to Phalangite'.

You can read it here.

July's article on the Material Musings blog is by Chris Parr, who discusses the origins of the Lacus Curtius in the Forum Romanum: 'Reinventing Rome's Forgotten Past - the lost significance of the Lacus Curtius'. You can read it here.

This month Tallulah George discusses the role of gladiatorial armour and its decoration, focusing on examples found in Pompeii. The article is entitled 'Practical and Stylish - Gladiatorial Armour as Costume' and you can read it here.

This month on the Material Musings blog, Carlo Lualdi discusses red-figure pottery from a fifth-century BC Southern Italian tomb. The article is entitled 'From puzzling images to a puzzle of images: a red-figure thread from Peucetia' and you can read it here.

'Augustus’ endless empire' by Alison Cooley just published in Omnibus 87, the magazine for schools