This exciting newly excavated complex illustrates how elite Romans fused utilitarian function with luxurious decoration and theatre to fashion their social and political status.
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Collecting choice Latin lines is easy – the difficulty is trying to work out what they add up to. And women, in particular, come off badly in this collection of Latin’s greatest hits.
The Colchester vase contains the remains a male of about 40 years of age and not of local origin. Could he have been a gladiator?
Even if Ovid leaves it out, the female sex organ is well-attested in Greek and Latin medical literature.
There would have been plenty of time during the long, dark, Northern nights for ancient Roman shoemakers to indulge in side hustles.
The recently discovered 2,000 year old Roman dildo barely makes a dint in the long-standing history of sex-toys and aids.
Sexuality in Ancient Rome was more preoccupied with power dynamics than it was with gender – as an expert in visual cultures of sexuality explains.
The idea of virgin birth has been part of Christianity since the start, but its significance has shifted over time.
Rutland’s Roman villa caused a media storm when it was first discovered in 2020 – now researchers have returned to uncover even more surprises.
Disregarded as ‘fakes’ for decades, new analysis of coins bearing the face of a mysterious emperor is providing answers about a heady gap in Roman history.
The British crown is the only surviving European monarchy that retains a coronation.
Just in time for this year’s Nobel Prize announcements, here’s how the symbolism of a plant associated with the god Apollo lives on in modern-day laureates.
Displays of captured Russian weaponry aim to show the strength of the foe Ukrainians face, but also that victory is possible.
Jacques-Louis David’s picture of death and despair has a strange and compelling beauty.
Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech ways – today.
Mulled wine has been around for at least 2,000 years.
Pompeii is remembered as a place of surprising liberality – but the ‘masturbating man’ is probably a far less lurid tale than assumed.
A patchwork of Roman laws (including Rome’s complex murder laws) sought to address coercive and violent behaviour
We tend to romanticise the Christmas season, that time of year when we gather with friends and family, feast and be merry. But for most of its history Christmas has been a time of sordid behaviour.
Scent and magic have been entwined in our imaginations for centuries – right up to today’s witch-inspired perfumes.
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Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
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Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Classical Studies, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London; Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Classics, College of the Holy Cross
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Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine
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Lecturer, Classics, University of Glasgow
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Roman Archaeology and Art, Royal Holloway University of London
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Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
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Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
