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Jewels or Dreams? The Jewellery of the Fayum Portraits.
The Fayum Portraits are a collection of bust-style painted images from Roman Egypt
dated to the first centuries of the first millennium AD. This thesis first considered the history and necessity of encaustic portraiture. ...
Aqua, aqua, undique : aspects of Roman domestic water use
This thesis examines the nature of Roman domestic water usage, but unlike many previous studies in this field, does so from a social rather than technical viewpoint. Its aim is to provide a consolidated analysis both of ...
The transformation of Alexander's court : the kingship, royal insignia and eastern court personnel of Alexander the Great
This thesis examines Alexander's conception of kingship, his relationship with royal traditions in the three great kingdoms of the Near East, and the concomitant transformation of the king's court by which Alexander created ...
Martial Epigrammata, Book X : a commentary
This thesis represents the first full-scale commentary on Book 10 of Martial's Epigrams. Jenkins' commentary on Book 10, a thesis from Cambridge in 1982, is the other detailed commentary on Book 10, but examines only 23 ...