Greek Philosophical Writing – A Cornucopia of Classics Resources: Diverse Food for Thought

From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom

Edited by Nancy S. Rabinowitz and Fiona McHardy Abstract: Ancient sources raise a variety of issues—slavery, infanticide, abortion, rape, pederasty, domestic violence, death, sexuality—that may be difficult to discuss…

Date: 27 September 2021
Category: Greek Archaeology Greek Art and Culture Greek Philosophical Writing Latin Comedy/Satire Reception and the Culture Around Classics

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…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Greek Historiography Greek Language and Literature Greek Oratory/Rhetoric Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Resources

Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta

By Noreen Humble Abstract: Xenophon of Athens (c. 430–354 BCE) has long been considered an uncritical admirer of Sparta who hero-worships the Spartan King Agesilaus and eulogises Spartan practices in his Lacedaimoniôn…

Date: 14 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Philosophical Writing

Diogenes Laertius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller Abstract: Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work…

Date: 6 July 2021
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Philosophy Greek Resources

Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece

by Yiqun Zhou Abstract: Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West…

Date: 5 July 2021
Category: Greek Art and Culture Greek Comedy/Satire Greek Epic Greek Lyric Greek Philosophical Writing

Women philosophers in the ancient greek world: donning the mantle

By Kathleen Wider Abstract: This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these…

Date: 4 July 2021
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Philosophy Greek Resources

Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle

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…

Date: 4 July 2021
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Oratory/Rhetoric Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Philosophy Greek Resources

Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition

by Emma Gee Abstract: This book is a study of a Hellenistic didactic poem, the Phaenomena, written by Aratus in c.276 BC, and of its reception, primarily in the Roman period up to the fourth century AD. Aratus’ poem…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Greek Didactic Poetry Greek Language and Literature Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Resources Latin Language and Literature

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