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New on the Material Musings blog

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:39:29 GMT

In November's Material Musings blog article, Sue Walker discusses an unusual enamelled statuette from the western Roman cemetery at Cirencester in an article titled: 'The Cirencester Cockerel'.

You can read it here.

New publication - An ash-chest in an English country-garden

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:18:29 GMT

New study of a Roman ash chest at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

New publication - Inscribing Flavian Rome: Epigraphic Strategies in Martial’s Epigrams by Alessandra Tafaro

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:44:01 GMT

Former PhD student at Warwick, Alessandra Tafaro is pleased to announce the publication of her monograph, derived from her PhD.

AI meets antiquity: Warwick ancient historian tests DeepMind’s transformative new model

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:07:50 GMT

Co-authoring a paper published in the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal Nature today, Alison Cooley, Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, has played a key verification role in developing the first artificial intelligence (AI) model for contextualising ancient inscriptions.

The Art of Veiled Speech, from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1st May 2025, 4pm

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:59:00 GMT

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication. Words don't just say what they say, and often we can understand (as listeners) and convey (as speakers) more, or something else entirely, than what is expressly said. Every day, we send out double-meaning messages and decipher those sent to us by others, without even taking notice. Greco-Roman rhetoric provides invaluable theoretical tools for thinking about this phenomenon, notably with the rhetorical notion of “figured speech”. History offers striking examples of the use of innuendo in ancient and modern political contexts. In personal and public life, veiled speech has many functions, including diplomatic, poetic, humorous and polemical. It also raises difficulties, as it carries the risk of misunderstanding. Criteria can therefore be proposed to remedy uncertainty and guarantee interpretation.

New Omnibus article

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 09:02:45 GMT

'Augustus’ endless empire' by Alison Cooley just published in Omnibus 87, the magazine for schools

Classical Association Annual Conference 2024: Delegate Information

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:04:38 GMT

Full details for delegates, speakers, and chairs.

Material Musings article for June

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:56:51 GMT

This month's article is entitled "Provincia Transduriana?" where Shekinah Vera-Cruz discusses the edicts on a bronze tablet from El Bierzo in north-western Spain and explores the Roman provincial organisation of the Iberian peninsula.

You can read it here.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:49:36 GMT

April's Material Musings blog post

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:02:00 GMT

This month on the Material Musings blog, Chris Parr discusses animal footprints on clay tiles and whether these can be considered epigraphic, in an article entitled "(Ro)Man's best friend: pawprints on a clay tile from Leicester".

You can read it here.