The First Historian Podcast
by Jennifer Roberts. Description: Jennifer Roberts, Professor of Classics at the City College of New York, discusses Herodotus. Podcast by Historically Thinking. View on the website.
by Jennifer Roberts. Description: Jennifer Roberts, Professor of Classics at the City College of New York, discusses Herodotus. Podcast by Historically Thinking. View on the website.
by Alexandra Villing Abstract: The focus of my enquiry will be the archaeological evidence for Greek-Egyptian interaction in the 8th-6th centuries BC, examined primarily from three key perspectives: the scope and…
by Lynette G. MItchell Abstract: This title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at…
by Orlando Patterson Abstract: This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the problems of the nature of helotry and, more specifically, its relation to the condition of slavery; of its origin; and the problem of…
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…
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…
By Lucia Cecchet Abstract: While the origins of civic subdivisions are generally obscure, much effort has been put into understanding their nature and function in the organisation of the public and private life of the…
By Esther Eidinow Abstract: In this book, question tablets from the oracle at Dodona are set side-by-side with curse tablets (katadesmoi or defixiones) from across the Ancient Greek world (for the period 6th-1st…
By Elizabeth Irwin Abstract: The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This 2005 book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from…
By Naoko Yamagata Abstract: The basic division of male and female spaces appears to exist in both Homer and Heike monogatari. In both the breach of the gendered division of spaces is used to underline crises, and, to…