The theatre is an iconic element of Greco-Roman culture, with dozens of plays and hundreds of theatres surviving today. Without the theatre, the ancient Mediterranean would be a very different place.

Theme: A day at the theatre

• Rosie Wyles, 'The city Dionysia in Athens - Theophoric Theatrics'.
• Camilla Tosi, 'Republican Roman theatre - Politics in Plautus'.
• Jo Ball, 'Drama at the edge of empire - Theatre in Roman Britain'.
• Owain Williams, 'The development of the Theatre of Dionysus - Tents, trays, and cranes'.
• Jessica Clarke, 'The acoustics of the Greek theatre masks - Loud and clear?'.
• David Potter, 'Courtesans, actresses, and empresses - Theatre in late antiquity'.

Features:

• Jona Lendering, 'The treasure of Oxyrhynchus - A textual Pompeii'.
• Richard Marranca, 'Interview with Paul Cartledge - Myth and myth making in the life of Alexander the Great'.
• Sean Mowbray, 'Partridge eggs for non-elite Pompeiians?'.
• Lindsay Powell, 'A Roman VIP tours sights on the Nile - Germanicus in Egypt'.
• Manon Henzen, 'Bitter and bizarre or like ambrosia? - Eating flower bulbs in antiquity'.
• David Kertai, 'How the Lebanese invented international trade - Byblos, the first port'.
• Philip Matyszak, 'Lyrists, brass bands, and water organs - Music in Rome'.