Below are all the items that were published in February 2018.

Together forever
Publius Aiedius Amphio and his wife
We take a closer look at a realistic portrait of a Roman Republican couple from ca. 30 BC, identified as Publius Aiedius Amphio and his wife.

Cimmerians and Scythians
Herodotus reconsidered
In the distant past, when Assyria still reigned supreme, two tribes of nomadic horsemen wreaked havoc across Asia. They were known as the Cimmerians and the Scythians.

Partying with death?
A cup in the British Museum
The inside from a cup currently in the British Museum depicts Hades and his wife Persephone enjoying a drink together.

Enyo
A game by Arnold Rauers
Available only for mobile devices, Enyo is a fun but challenging puzzle/strategy game inspired by Greek mythology.

The dead are many
A polyandrion from Paros
In the 1980s, excavations in Paroikia, the capital of the Cycladic island Paros, revealed the mass cremation burial of dozens of young men. It is believed to be the earliest Greek polyandrion, a grave for war dead.

Aristeia and philotimia
Two key concepts of the ancient Greek world
In this article, we explore two important concepts of the warrior ethos that was at the heart of ancient Greek culture.

Red Dwarf
A space Odyssey
Sitcom Red Dwarf turns thirty this year. While it hasn’t always been the most highbrow of entertainment, it contains a number of jokes and references to ancient history – particularly the Trojan War.

Romantic love in Homer
Some material in a doctoral thesis never makes the final cut, but can instead be turned into articles. An example is a peer-reviewed article that I wrote about romantic love in the Homeric epics.

The death of Seneca
Seneca, a proponent of Roman Stoicism, calmly committed suicide when ordered to do so by Emperor Nero.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
An artist inspired by Classical mythology
Artists of the (early) modern era have helped shape our ideas about what the ancient world looked like. One of them was the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.