Monthly Archives: April 2013

A conference of interest to network members (call for papers deadline 1 July): Imagining the Ancients. Republics and the Classical Past, 1500-1800 Interdisciplinary Conference, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, 14-15 November 2013 Over the past decades, ‘classical republicanism’ has become an … Continue reading →

Since I organised this panel, it would ill become me to evaluate it, but may I just thank Evangelos Sakkas and Helen Roche for their contributions, Rachel Foxley for her chairing, and the audience members for their very pertinent questions … Continue reading →

Helen Roche has recently published ‘Sparta’s German Children: The ideal of ancient Sparta in the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps, 1818-1920, and in National Socialist elite schools (the Napolas), 1933-1945’, (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2013). Vasilieios Syros has recently published ‘Marsilus … Continue reading →