Classics News and Events
An ancient parallel for 'Spocking Fives'?
Clare Rowan blogs about the recent trend to 'spock' Canadian $5 notes, and ancient parallels.
March Coin of the Month
March's Coin of the Month is a Tale of Two Identities as Alex Peck explores the DI PATRII coin of the emperor Septimius Severus. Read it here.
Posters in Parliament 2015
Congratulations to Joe Grimwade, whose research on The Forgotten Art of Memory was presented as part of Posters in Parliament 2015 yesterday. Joe's research, conducted through the URSS scheme, examined the methods of memorisation recommended by ancient Greek and Roman orators, comparing them with the mnemonic techniques of modern performers and public speakers.
Coin of the Month: Caligula
February's coin, written by Alfred Wrigley, of the month provides us with another perspective on Caligula's 'mad' reign.
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/numismatics/entry/a_coin_of_1_2/
New publication by Clare Rowan, 'Iconography in colonial contexts'
C. Rowan (2014). Iconography in colonial contexts: the provincial coinage of the late Republic in Corinth and Dyme. Art in the Round: New Approaches to Ancient Coin Iconography, ed. N.T. Elkins & S. Krmnicek, Tuebingen, 147-58.