Classics News and Events

On Friday 7th February 2014, the Department of Classics at Warwick will welcome 125 students and staff from a wide range of schools across the country to its annual Ancient Theatre Schools' day, centred around the Warwick Classics Society's performance of Plautus' Pseudolus.

The day will encompass lectures and seminars from staff and students on the contexts and performance of ancient theatre. It is supported by an Impact Grant from the Humanities Research Fund and an IATL Student as Performer award.

January's coin of the month is a medal of Cosimo de'Medici as pater patriae, chosen by Rocco di Dio. Read more about it and the rediscovery of ancient coins in the Renaissance here.

The second entry in our series of coin blogs celebrating the bimillenium of Augustus has now been posted: Roman Numismatic Memory Part 2: Gaius and Lucius as principes iuventutis. (Lactor J58). Each month we will post a new entry celebrating the rule of the first emperor Augustus, aimed at teachers and students. Stay tuned for the next instalment!

C. Rowan, (2013) 'Coinage as commodity and bullion in the Western Mediterranean, ca. 550-100 BCE', Mediterranean Historical Review 28.2, 105-27

Congratulations to our undergraduates Matthew Ellams, Emily Morgan and Bradley Waters, who have had an article accepted to the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. Arising from research performed as part of the Warwick URSS scheme and the Beginnings of Empire project, their article details the differing reactions to expanding Roman control in the eastern Mediterranean, and will appear in vol 25 of the journal in 2014.