Classics and Ancient History
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of Classics and Ancient History, part of the College of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Destory History: first response
(Digital Press at the University of North Dakota., 2017-09-27)This piece is a response to Coyne’s Destory History. -
Counterfactualism and Anticipation
(Springer International, 2017-09-30)Most attempts at forecasting the future depend, explicitly or implicitly, on knowledge about the past, whether this is then used to offer possible analogies or to support normative theories with data about past events and ... -
A New Edited Volume on Polybius (on V. Grieb and C. Koehn, edd., Polybios und seine Historien)
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The poetics and politics of exchange in Roman agronomy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)1. Introduction: Roman Economic Thought One of the central themes in Graeber’s Debt – established with his opening anecdote on how the claim “one has to pay one’s debts” becomes established as a self-evident truth – is ... -
Thucydides: origins of realism?
(Edinburgh University Press, 2018)It is a well-established idea in mainstream International Relations theory that the ancient Greek historian Thucydides was a Realist, and the originator of some key Realist ideas. The crude version of this claim, relying ... -
Living among Wolves, Acting like a Wolf: Lucilius’ Attacks on Lupus
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Genus as Matter in Aristotle’s Metaphysics. A Reconsideration
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Oscan ϝουρουστ and the Roccagloriosa law tablet
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New readings of the multilingual Petelia curse tablet
(Habelt, 2015)Petelia 2 is a curse text written on a leaf-shaped lead tablet, 0.028m high and 0.184m wide.1 It was found on the surface at loc. Cassana, north of modern Strongoli, by Luigi Mazza. The inscription was fi rst published by ... -
Fragmentary ancient languages as “bad data”: towards a methodology for investigating multilingualism in epigraphic sources
(De Gruyter, 2017)The study of language contact in the ancient world has been an area of huge growth over the past ten years. However, in areas of the ancient world where sources are more limited, scholars have been more hesitant to make ... -
Finding commerce: the taberna and the identification of Roman commercial space
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) for British School at Rome, 2017-06-01)No abstract -
Frugality and Roman economic thought in Varro's Rerum Rusticarum
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)Paper presented at (Re)approaching Roman Frugality An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Cambridge, Faculty of Classics, 9-10 January 2014 -
Thucydides and the historiography of trauma
(University Press of Strasbourg, 2017)L’historiographie du traumatisme, un thème de recherche important dans les dernières années, suggère une approche de l’interprétation du récit de Thucydide de la défaite d'Athènes. Cet article explore comment Pierre ... -
Seleucus, his signet ring and his diadem
(L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016)A significant link obtains between the myth of Seleucus’ birth, as told by Appian Syriakē 56.284-5 and Justin 15.4.2-9, and the myth of his retrieval of Alexander’s diadem, as told by Appian Syriakē 56.287-57.292 and Arrian ...