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This paper takes a fresh look at the Asian mission of Q. Mucius Scaevola and P. Rutilius Rufus in light of new scholarship on efforts to improve provincial governance during the late Roman republic (Morrell 2017). I argue that Scaevola and Rutilius’ activity in Asia in the 90s BCE should be seen not simply as an exception to the norm of exploitative governance but as one in a series of efforts to improve the administration of Rome’s provinces and an important model for subsequent reformers.

During the fifteen years that separate the first New York Times article describing “a rare cancer” affecting gay men (1981) and the introduction of the antiretroviral therapy that has transformed HIV/AIDS from a fatal disease into a chronic illness (1996), many queer writers and artists examined and contested the politics of representation and of memory surrounding the epidemic.

When a statue on the Acropolis comes to life, befriends a Harvard professor, and wins the proverbial ‘big game,’ we are clearly in the realm of extended – and we might imagine, peculiarly Classical – fantasy. This plotline, perhaps surprisingly, comes from a short story found in one of the first physical fitness magazines published in the United States. Physical Culture was founded and edited by fitness impresario Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955).

During the 19^th century, restaurants began to supplant taverns as the primary venues for dining and social interaction in New York City. By the late 19^th century, socializing started to shift away from entertaining at home to restaurants, where both the established blue-bloods of New York Society and newly minted millionaires dined. The rapid turn-over in New York’s economic elite meant that the opportunity to display one’s wealth publicly was critical to affirm one’s status.

The purpose of this paper is to add to the body of studies on colonial and post-colonial black writers who incorporate or appropriate the classics in their works. When considering the subject of classical reception in the works of black writers in the Americas, in regards to issues of racial and national identity, one would do well to look towards Brazil. Most African slaves brought into the continent during the colonial period (1500- 1820’s) ended up there, and Brazil remains the country with the largest black population outside of Africa (50.7% of the overall population).

This paper analyses the hoard evidence from fourth century CE Egypt in order to asses the degree of economic integration between the province and other territories within and beyond the Roman Empire. This analysis also aims to highlight the role of the city of Alexandria in long-distance exchange. Alexandria not only housed the only official mint in Egypt, but it also acted as one of the major redistributive centers for goods being traded within Egypt and between the Roman Empire, India and the East, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

The publication of coin finds from Syria has provided an opportunity to investigate the economic world of the province in the late antique and early medieval periods. However, the field is divided into extremes with works such as Wickham’s Framing the Early Middle Ages providing a synthetic view of the economy, drawing from a large number of diverse sources, while numismatic works offer nuanced detail about minting and circulation at local and provincial levels, and often limiting themselves to the interpretation of single finds.

The production of Roman Imperial Coinage at a number of mints throughout the Empire provides an excellent opportunity to investigate the extent to which coinage might have moved across the Empire. Roman Provincial Coinage, local coinage that was primarily restricted to Eastern mints and users, also provides a useful lens to assess long-distance connections between remote areas of the Empire and beyond (Howgego 1994).

Could one ancient currency become an integral feature in other monetary systems through trade, or have roles in regions that do not recognize it as money? This paper investigates the functions—both monetary and otherwise—of Roman imperial coinage once traded in the Indian subcontinent in the early centuries CE. The use of Roman coins, specifically silver and gold denominations, in the trade with India is well-attested in various literary sources (e.g. the Periplus Maris Erythraei) and the thousands of Roman coins uncovered throughout the subcontinent.

One of the most important monetary systems of Classical Greece was so-called Aiginetan standard silver coinage, struck by numerous states, especially in central and southern Greece, on a unique weight system. By the early 2^nd c. BC, however, in the same regions in which Aiginetan coinage had predominated we find in use almost exclusively silver denominations that are similar in type but about 20% lighter.