Rome: City and Empire
By Michèle Lowrie In this article, Lowrie examine Rome not just as a physical city but also as the seat and symbol of an empire, and the societal mentality that comes with that. Published in The Classical World, Vol.…
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Greek Perspectives on the Achaemenid Empire: Persia Through the Looking Glass
By Janett Morgan How did the Greek view of Persia and Persians change so radically in the archaic and classical Greek sources that they turned from noble warriors into peacock-loving cross-dressers with murderous…
Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia
By Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 BCE) was a vast and complex sociopolitical structure that encompassed much of modern-day Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and…
Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in the 4th Century BCE
By Yun Lee Too This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon’s Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one…
Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 B.C.E.
By Vanessa B. Gorman Situated on the southwest coast of modern Turkey, Miletos stood for centuries as one of the paramount cities in the Hellenic world, a gateway between the East and West. It became especially famous…
Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King
By Emma Bridges Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks’ historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted,…
A Companion to Roman Italy
Edited by Alison Cooley This collection of essays investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms — political, cultural, social, and economic — upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification…
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Duplicitous Simplicity in Ovid, Amores 1
By Molly Pasco-Pranger Published in The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2012), pp. 721-730
Alexander the Great and Propaganda
Edited by Elizabeth Baynham, John Walsh Abstract: Alexander the Great and Propaganda explores the use of propaganda – whether literature, coinage, or iconography – in the court of Alexander the Great, as well as those…