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:
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The Roman Intelligence Officer who was stationed in Britain – Podcast 3
The Roman Army wasn’t just legionaries and building roads… In our third podcast, we look at an unusual funerary inscription on display in the Ashmolean’s Randolph Gallery. It was set up for a speculator, an intelligence officer who was stationed…
Love Letters – How did the Romans write about the people they loved?
As the feast of Saint Valentinus (a Roman, no less) is upon us, we’ve been thinking about love letters, or rather the different kinds of texts written by Romans about the people they loved. We know about the fiery passions…