Classics News and Events

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.

Tired of conventional medicine? Dr. Caroline Petit tells you everything about nigella seeds, the Vicks inhaler of ancient Greece and modern day Marrakech. Warwick Knowledge, Dec. 4, 2013.

Dr. Caroline Petit is speaking in Berlin at a workshop on early Byzantine and Talmudic pharmacology organised by Matteo Martelli and Markham Geller (4-6 Dec. 2013).