The 6th International conference of the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE) was held on 24th-25th September 2015 in Bari. The overarching title of the conference was ‘Off the Beaten Track. Epigraphy at the Borders’, and delegates…
The building bricks of an empire – Podcast 6
Professor Alison Cooley and Dr Jane Masséglia, from the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, take a closer look at some of the brickstamps in the museum’s collection, including the snazzy personal logo of a man named Lupus:
Following Flora: AshLI on the trail of a little inscription that won’t stay put
Of the four hundred inscriptions studied by the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions team, none has proved more slippery than a little thanks-offering set up to Flora, the Roman goddess of fruit and flowers. AshLI has been following the trail of the…
Epigraphy, Funerary reliefs/tombstones, Latin Inscriptions, Roman Families, Roman Slavery, Roman Women
Freedmen and Friends – Podcast 5
Hear Prof. Alison Cooley and Dr Hannah Cornwell from the AshLI Project, talking about a tombstone which marked the plot of an entire Roman familia: spouses, freedmen and good friends, all together in the same burial:
She Built Rome: A Different Kind of Imperial Woman
‘When Agrippina reviled him [the emperor Tiberius], he had her flogged by a centurion, causing her to lose an eye. When she resolved to starve herself to death, he had her forcibly fed, and when through pure determination she succeeded…
A Bullet with Your Name On – podcast 4
In 41/40 BC, the Romans were at war – with one another. At the town of Perusia, forces loyal to Mark Antony found themselves besieged by the troops of Octavian, the young man who went on to become the Emperor…