Since 2002 the Kenchreai Cemetery Project has explored subterranean chamber tombs of Roman date in the main cemetery of the ancient port of Kenchreai, on the eastern coast of the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece. Analysis of the human remains recovered from three tombs has furnished evidence for cremation as well as inhumation. The cremated remains represent both adults and immature individuals. Fore...

Article Tonio Hölscher, Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome. Between Art Social Reality, Oakland (University of California Press) 2018, 426 S., ISBN 978-0-520-96788-5 (geb.), $ 49,95 was published on June 1, 2021 the journal Klio (volume 103, issue 1).

Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge, UK Were the atheoi atheists? Religious scepticism and Greek polytheism It is a truism that there are few exact ancient equivalents to the modern atheist, who denies all and any possible supernatural power. To reach that position, one has to have both a rigid, identifiable line of differentiation between the natural and the supernatural, and a more or less coherent conc...