Classics News and Events
Otho's Victory: Wishful thinking, or genuine historical record?
Kevin explores whether the celebration of a victory for the emperor Otho was genuine or something else entirely in November's Coin of the Month.
New publications on Aristotle and on Sicilian history
Just published: Carol Atack (2015), ‘Aristotle’s pambasileia and the metaphysics of monarchy’, Polis, 32: 297-320.
Carol Atack (2015), 'The Greeks in Sicily', in Sicily and the Sea, eds. D. Burgersdijk, et al., (Zwolle: W Books) 38-45.
The latter is a contribution to the illustrated catalogue for the exhibition Sicily and the Sea/Sicilie en de Zee, currently at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, and coming to the Ashmolean in Oxford later in 2016.
Classics presents to the Princess Royal
As part of celebrations for Warwick's 50th anniversary, Michael Scott and Ben Howarth presented some of the activities of the Classics department during the royal visit of the Princess Royal. Read about it here.
Caesar's elephant denarius
Second year undergraduate Alfred Wrigley looks at the enigma that is the elephant denarius of Julius Caesar in October's coin of the month.
New publication on the Res Gestae
Just published: Alison Cooley 'Paratextual readings of imperial discourse in the Res Gestae divi Augusti', Cahiers Centre Glotz (2014)