By Rachel Bird Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their…
By Zahra Newby Abstract: This book offers an introduction to the many forms that athletics took in the ancient world, and to the sources of evidence by which we can study it. As well as looking at the role of athletics…
By Amélie Kuhrt Abstract: Bringing together a wide variety of material in many different languages that exists from the substantial body of work left by this large empire, The Persian Empire presents annotated…
By Shahrokh Razmjou Abstract: Considers the Cyrus Cylinder, an Akkadian declaration on clay which praises Persia’s King Cyrus the Great, from a Persian point of view. Razmjou examines, amongst other topics, Babylon at…
By Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood Abstract: The author sheds new light on aspects of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical…
Abstract: A history podcast that covers the period of Eurasian and North African History known as the Hellenistic Age, which roughly stretches from the death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium (~336 – 30…
By Susan M. Heidenreich and Jonathan P. Roth Abstract: Modern research in neuroscience, which incorporates findings from diverse areas, such as chemistry, biology, neurophysiology, and psychology, allows scientists to…
By Suzanne Lye Abstract: In this paper, I argue that Styx defines the relationship between the gods through her power as the oath and separates the major geographical structures of the Olympian cosmos through her…
By Barbara Graziosi Abstract: Barbara Graziosi considers Homer’s famous works, and their impact on readers throughout the centuries. She shows how the Iliad and the Odyssey benefit from a tradition of reading that…
By Ekaterina V. Haskins Abstract: As one of the founding philosophers of the Western tradition, Aristotle raised many of the issues that still animate scholarly debates in the humanities. By contrast Isocrates, despite…