This page lists all of the articles that have been published on this website in reverse chronological order, so with the newest material listed first.
Building Mid-Republican Rome
A book by Seth Bernard
Jason Morris reviews Seth Bernard’s Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy, published in 2018.
Agia Triada
An administrative centre in southern Crete
Near Phaistos is the archaeological site of Agia Triada, once a flourishing Minoan town that featured a palace-like structure or “villa”.
Talos, the bronze guardian
An Attic red-figure vase of the early fourth century BC depicts the death of Talos, the bronze guardian of the island of Crete.
The Phaistos Disc
The earliest “printed” text
One of the most curious finds from the Minoan palace at Phaistos is a small, clay disc featuring a stamped text on both sides.
The palace at Phaistos
Controlling the Messara Plain
At Phaistos, near Crete’s southern coast, on a hill overlooking the Messara Plain, are the impressive remains of a large Minoan palace.
War’s effect on society
A fragment of Ennius
War drives society to the limits of civility. This is beautifully illustrated in a surviving fragment of the Annals of Ennius.
Jumping the bull
The bull-leaping fresco from Knossos
We take a closer look at the bull-leaping fresco from Knossos (now in Iraklion), one of many depictions of ancient Minoan bull-sports.
Egypt’s nightworld
An interview with Dr Kasia Szpakowska
Learn more about the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians in this interview with Kasia Szpakowska of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project.
Horns of Consecration
A closer look at a Minoan symbol
When he excavated Knossos, Arthur Evans happened across artefacts that he believed were stylized horns of a sacred bull. Was he correct?
Home of the Minotaur
The palace at Knossos
The second most popular archaeological site in Greece, Knossos features impressive remains of a Bronze-Age Minoan “palace”.