{"id":1682,"date":"2026-03-16T15:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/?page_id=1682"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:36:50","slug":"pons-aelius-18-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/e-journal\/pons-aelius-18-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Pons Aelius 18 (March 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b0112f7df3885989f822ac144c65d4b5\">The Editorial Team are pleased to share Issue 18 of <em>Pons Aelius<\/em> below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2026\/03\/Pons-Aelius-Issue-18-May-2026.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1025px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Pons Aelius Issue 18 (May 2026).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d5912bb3-0413-4544-9444-4499c2092866\" href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2026\/03\/Pons-Aelius-Issue-18-May-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pons Aelius Issue 18 (May 2026)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/files\/2026\/03\/Pons-Aelius-Issue-18-May-2026.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-d5912bb3-0413-4544-9444-4499c2092866\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7d92bb1c5ab1a7eb0804adab50984072\">In This Issue <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10a2f1da1cd267895222fe91b73e7ece is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Dan Theodorou, Philipps-Universit\u00e4t Marburg<\/strong>: From \u201cStoicmaxxing\u201d to \u201cCucked\u201d Roman Emperors: Responses to the Ancient World in the Incelosphere<\/summary>\n<p><strong>theodoro@staff.uni-marburg.de<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0459ab30f46eda0ce548933afb4feeb4 is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Chantel Chesney, Wolfson College, University of Oxford: <\/strong>Fantasy Without Flight: The Inescapability of Politics and the Decline of Athenian Democracy in Aristophanic Comedy<\/summary>\n<p><strong>chantel.thora@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fdc98bb6fafd34e18a1c3388ab3cd98c is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Lynne Westhead, The Open University:<\/strong> How is Tiresias Old? Age, Time, and the Seer<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-889f49a99aa568cdcf4b172f57d80d32\"><strong>linda.westhead@open.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d2f9a4ababa676167c878cf636aa48cd is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Isaac Saunders, Newcastle University: <\/strong>Sacred Waters: The Archangel Michael and The Re-Narration of Pagan Healing Practices in Byzantine Asia Minor<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b81c6be16e58985a1b8821d13721e670\"><strong>i.e.r.saunders2@newcastle.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0b5d1984580c1f98b866afc562bcea8d is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Riley Phares, Newcastle University: <\/strong>And Away We Go: How Chariot Racing in The Hippodrome of Constantinople Was Used by Multiple Groups for Their Own Political and Personal Agendas<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15b6d81513ad3a53ddb80e904f41adf0\"><strong>r.a.phares2@newcastle.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b22e937461aa0c83b5cc823c0ab91cb is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Yolanda de Iuliis, University of Edinburgh:<\/strong> REVIEW: Peter Mark Adams, <em>Ritual &amp; Epiphany in The Mysteries of Mithras<\/em> (Theion Publishing, 2025).<\/summary>\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a2055911b7f7d288fe70c267697f15be\"><strong>yolanda.deiuliis@ed.ac.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-purple-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c76561d7cfc6d3f43060aeed706a7dc1\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Editorial Team are pleased to share Issue 18 of Pons Aelius below: In This Issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12013,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1682\/revisions\/1690"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.societies.ncl.ac.uk\/pgfnewcastle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}