By Monika Trümper (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) This book critically examines the existence and identification of purpose-built slave markets in the Graeco-Roman world from a cross-cultural perspective. It investigates whether certain ancient monuments were designed specifically for use as slave markets and whether they required special equipment and safety precautions, allowing them to be clearly distinguished … Continued
Edited by J. R. Green (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) and Eric Handley Greek theatre was one of the glories of the ancient world. It survives not only in cultural traditions, but in plays which can still be read and seen and in artistic images. This book examines the history of Greek theatre as seen through representations … Continued
By Lynn E. Roller (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread … Continued
By Alka Patel (NHC Fellow, 2018–19) This book charts the origins and rise of the Shansabānīs, a nomadic-pastoralist or transhumant group from modern central Afghanistan. As they adapted and mastered the mores of Perso-Islamic kingship, they created a transregional empire unseen in the region for almost a millennium, since the Kushanas of the early centuries … Continued
By Reinhard Bernbeck (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) Only a few contemporary witnesses can provide information about the conditions in the camps of the National Socialist tyranny. The archive material is often unproductive, especially in the case of smaller facilities such as sub-concentration camps and forced labor camps. But their traces can be found everywhere in Central … Continued
By Christopher Witmore (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) Old Lands takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. Following waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Christopher Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode … Continued
By Mary C. Sturgeon (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) This volume presents sculptural finds made by the University of Chicago at Isthmia during their excavations from 1952 to 1967. Sculpture found by the UCLA team in excavations from 1967 onwards are published elsewhere (Isthmia VI). The finds range in date from the 7th century B.C. to the 3rd … Continued
By Carolyn Higbie (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Carolyn Higbie uses an inscription of the first century BC from Lindos to study the ancient Greeks and their past. The inscription contains two inventories. The first catalogues some forty objects given to Athena Lindia by figures from the mythological past (including Heracles, Helen, and Menelaus) and the historical … Continued
By N. G. L. Hammond (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In 338 B.C. Philip II of Macedon established Macedonian rule over Greece. He was succeeded in 336 B.C. by his son Alexander the Great, whose conquests during the next twelve years reached as far as the Russian steppes, Afghanistan, and the Punjab, thus creating the Hellenistic world. … Continued
Edited by M. W. Haslam (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Known in the Dynastic period as Per-medjed, Oxyrhynchus (City of the Sharp-nosed Fish) rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. It was a prosperous regional capital, reckoned the third city of Egypt, lying roughly 300km south of Alexandria. In 1896-97 two British archaeologists began to dig around … Continued