Cardiff School of History and Archaeology

Wednesday 7th April - Saturday 10th April 2010.

The 2010 Classical Association Annual Conference is to be hosted by Cardiff University. This is one of the most important  events in the Classics calendar, and has around 50 panels of papers on a huge variety of classical subjects.

Shaun Tougher (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) 2008

Eunuchs were one of the defining features of the Byzantine empire. In this book Shaun Tougher surveys the history of the Byzantine eunuch from the fourth to the fifteenth century AD, and analyses both the roles eunuchs played and the attitudes expressed towards them in Byzantine society. In addition he places the history of the Byzantine eunuch in the context of the history of the eunuch in general, and makes extensive use of comparative material.

Louis Rawlings (Manchester University Press) 2007

The ancient Greeks experienced war in many forms: they conducted raids, ambushes, battles and sieges, and embarked on campaigns of intimidation, conquest and annihilation against fellow Greeks and 'barbarian' foreigners. Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological material, this wide-ranging synthesis looks at the practicalities of Greek warfare and its wider social ramifications from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600 BC) to Alexander the Great (323 BC).

Guy Bradley, Elena Isayev, Corinna Riva (eds) (Exeter University Press) 2007

The last few decades have seen major advances in our knowledge of the ancient communities of Italy besides Rome. The interaction of these communities with each other and with Rome played a critical part in the formation of Roman Italy and ultimately the Roman empire. Alongside the Etruscans a whole range of less well known ancient peoples are increasingly coming into focus, and it is now more feasible to write a history of these communities in their own right. This book consists of a series of studies, covering the Ligurians and Celts in north-west Italy, the Veneti, Picenes, the Etruscans, the Faliscans, the Latins, the Samnites, the peoples of Campania and the peoples of south-east Italy.

Proceedings of a Conference held at Cardiff University, 17–21 April 2001. British School at Athens Studies 15.

Ruth Westgate, Nick Fisher and James Whitley (eds) (British School at Athens) 2007

This volume explores a range of approaches to the built environment of the ancient Mediterranean world, with two main aims: first, to relate archaeological evidence to the wider cultural and historical context, and second, to bridge the conventional divide between prehistoric and Classical archaeology. It contains 40 papers by an international array of scholars, ranging from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity, and geographically from the Aegean to Italy, North Africa, Egypt and the Black Sea.

Richard Evans (University of South Africa Press) 2007

Syracuse was the largest and most powerful of all the cities established by the Greeks in Sicily. Its history, often violent but always colourful, is recounted by both Greek and Roman historians, its coinage is justly famous, and its extensive remains continue to fascinate visitors to the city. The object of this work is to retell aspects of the history of Syracuse, with particular reference to the topography of the city and its surrounding countryside.