Classics

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• To what extent can we witness a crisis of Roman identity in civil war in Lucan’s Bellum Civile and Tacitus’ Histories?
• Ancient DNA as Historical Evidence
  Source: Wikimedia Commons
• Water Usage and the Disrupted Water Distribution System in Pompeii in the Aftermath of the 62 CE Earthquake
  Image by Anemone123 from Pixabay
• Were Women Disadvantaged in Roman Society?
  By Anna Robinson
• Fluidity and Verifiability of Identities in Achilles Tatius’ and Heliodorus’ novels
  By Toni Andres
• Horace’s Liquid Voice
  By Megan Sharp
• Decolonising Native American Archaeology
  By Lucien Newton
• Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Space in the Greco-Roman World
  By Gabrielle Hill-Smith
• Have contemporary preoccupations enhanced or obscured our understanding of race and slavery in the ancient world?
  By Adam Hope
• The Role of the Divine in Herodotus’ Narrative
  By Kate O’Neal
• The experience of women in ancient Greece
  By Eva Shrimpton
• Navigating the Labyrinth: Communist Engagement with Theseus and the Minotaur in 1940s Literature
  By Anna Coopey
• How do Greek accounts of divine epiphanies balance the presence and action of the gods with their elusiveness, otherness and unknowability?
  By Frederick Skerrett
• The Usage of Pazuzu and Lamashtu Amulets in Mesopotamian Birthing Practices
  By Thomas Bender, School of Classics President