At age 65, Nerva assumed the role of emperor of Rome; just sixteen months later, his reign
ended with his death. Nerva's short reign robbed his regime of the opportunity for the …

In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents
the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic …

In this book, Maggie Popkin offers an in-depth investigation of souvenirs, a type of ancient
Roman object that has been understudied and that is unfamiliar to many people. Souvenirs …

This article examines the political metaphor of the body in ancient Roman words and
images. The verbal metaphor of the 'body of state'(corpus rei publicae) gained particular …

The Porticus Vipsania and its public world map commissioned by Agrippa (Plin. hn 3.17),
both deplorably documented, have occasioned much debate. No one, however, has yet …

This chapter focuses on the persistent “liminality” of Ostia from the Roman period to the
present day. The term derives from the Latin word limen, meaning threshold, boundary …

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in
classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography …

In Destinations in Mind, Kimberly Cassibry asks how objects depicting different sites helped
Romans understand their vast empire. At a time when many cities were written about but …

James M. Scott examines a denarius minted in Rome in 55 bce which is visually fascinating
but conceptually enigmatic. On its obverse, around the head of a female figure with turreted …

Zusammenfassung Die Gebietsnamen der Personifikationen auf den sog.
Reiseerinnerungsmünzen des Kaisers Hadrian lassen sich alle als Bezeichnungen von …