Think of science fiction and the Classics, and the first thing you think of may be 2008’s Doctor Who episode set in Pompeii. That was a delight for anyone wondering why the Doctor hadn’t visited ...
Read more: Reinventing the past in the future
Think of science fiction and the Classics, and the first thing you think of may be 2008’s Doctor Who episode set in Pompeii. That was a delight for anyone wondering why the Doctor hadn’t visited ...
Read more: Reinventing the past in the future
Slavery has been a disturbingly normal part of human history. As an institution, slavery seems to be as old as civilization itself; images and documents going back to the third millennium BC ...
Read more: People with a Price: Slavery in the Roman World
For those who haven't yet been fortunate enough to hear of it, The Inscripta Project is an interactive website revolving around fifty Romano-British inscriptions. The aim is to “to teach students ...
Read more: Inscripta: the writing on the wall
You are Odysseus. You have just spent 20 years away from your family, first at war and then lost on your way home. When you arrive back you have to disguise yourself because everyone assumes that you ...
Read more: At home with Odysseus (and his servants)
By the fifth century BCE Athens and many other Greek city-states had large numbers of slaves. During the last years of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides (7.27) believed that more than 20,000 slaves ...
Read more: When Did Ancient Greece Become a Slave Society?
