E-J Graham
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Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University | Roman archaeology | material religion | penguins 🐧
Just FYI - if you decide to use your slot at the department meeting next week simply to distribute pears, then that would be perfectly acceptable.
September 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just FYI - if you decide to use your slot at the department meeting next week simply to distribute pears, then that would be perfectly acceptable.
Happy to help! 😊 It has been a while since I worked on this area so I'll keep an eye out for anything more recent than these suggestions, but they should at least provide a decent sized rabbit warren to get you going!
September 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Happy to help! 😊 It has been a while since I worked on this area so I'll keep an eye out for anything more recent than these suggestions, but they should at least provide a decent sized rabbit warren to get you going!
Maybe there is something useful in all of that. Happy reading!
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Maybe there is something useful in all of that. Happy reading!
Then check out McCarty (2017) 'Africa Punica? Child Sacrifice and Other Invented Traditions in Early Roman Africa', Religion in the Roman Empire 3, pp.393-428 www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
Africa Punica? Child Sacrifice and Other Invented Traditions in Early Roman Africa
The religious life of Roman Africa (like many provinces) is often cast as the simple persistence of Iron Age Punic or Libyan practices, perhaps glossed with a 'Romanised' veneer: 'tradition' is treate...
www.mohrsiebeck.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Then check out McCarty (2017) 'Africa Punica? Child Sacrifice and Other Invented Traditions in Early Roman Africa', Religion in the Roman Empire 3, pp.393-428 www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/a...
On sacrifice you might be interested in recent work on the 'molk', likely a form of child (or sometimes sheep/goat) sacrifice in North Africa, especially at Carthage. Matthew McCarty has recently written interestingly about this. Start with his chapter in A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity.
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On sacrifice you might be interested in recent work on the 'molk', likely a form of child (or sometimes sheep/goat) sacrifice in North Africa, especially at Carthage. Matthew McCarty has recently written interestingly about this. Start with his chapter in A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity.
I would also definitely recommend that you check out the other work of both Rebecca Gowland (her Durham website has a long list of relevant publications) and Rebecca Redfern more generally. This primarily addresses the bioarchaeological evidence but much more too.
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I would also definitely recommend that you check out the other work of both Rebecca Gowland (her Durham website has a long list of relevant publications) and Rebecca Redfern more generally. This primarily addresses the bioarchaeological evidence but much more too.
See also Carroll and Graham (eds). (2014) Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond, JRA Supplement 96. Especially the chapter by Gowland, Chamberlain & Redfern, with their bibliography covering the history of the debate. ToC available here: journalofromanarchaeology.com/supplement-96/
Supplement 96 – Journal of Roman Archaeology
journalofromanarchaeology.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
See also Carroll and Graham (eds). (2014) Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond, JRA Supplement 96. Especially the chapter by Gowland, Chamberlain & Redfern, with their bibliography covering the history of the debate. ToC available here: journalofromanarchaeology.com/supplement-96/
Sorry to be late spotting this but I definitely have a few recommendations! First, the work of Maureen Carroll, especially her 2011 article on Infant death & burial in Journal of Roman Archaeology, and her 2018 book 'Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World' academic.oup.com/book/2639
Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World: 'A Fragment of Time'
Abstract. The book is a comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood in a cultural overview encompassing the entirety of the Roman Empire. It brin
academic.oup.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Sorry to be late spotting this but I definitely have a few recommendations! First, the work of Maureen Carroll, especially her 2011 article on Infant death & burial in Journal of Roman Archaeology, and her 2018 book 'Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World' academic.oup.com/book/2639
Congratulations Val - it looks fab!
July 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Congratulations Val - it looks fab!