Classics News and Events
New publication: C. Petit on 7th c. Alexandria
An article
exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.
Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307
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.
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)
Publication on Magna Mater Cult
New publication by Alison Cooley: ‘Multiple meanings in the sanctuary of the Magna Mater at Ostia’,
Religion in the Roman Empire 1.2 (2015) 242-262
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.