The inscriptions are also being made freely available on the website Attic Inscriptions Online, with notes aimed at school and university students and museum visitors.

You can browse the resource by date, by findspot, by original location, by present location, by inscription type, by monument type, and by publication date on AIO. You can also carry out a word search or an advanced search.

A sourcebook, Italy Before Rome, was published in 2021.

But both aspects of this assumption are highly problematic, since many slaves did not come from Greek-speaking areas, and were not native speakers of Greek or Latin. Even if they could communicate to some level, their forced removal from their language communities, and the expectation that they learn the language of their masters, cannot be ignored as central features of their experience of slavery.

Mobilizing the resources of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford University, we plan to produce a new print edition and an online open-access repository of this important historic material, with introductions, translation, and commentary designed to appeal to students and experts alike. It will amount to a revolution in the fields of Roman history and Roman law, and all areas of endeavour wherein these matter.

The project seeks to bring the islands and their scholars together to identify and explain similarities and differences between the islands’ experiences, through collaborative studies co-authored by Sicilian and Cypriot experts. In the long term, this project aims to contribute to current discussions of insularity in the humanities, which focus mainly on small islands, principally the Cyclades and Melanesia/Polynesia.