Disability in Ancient Greece
Hosted by Fiona Radford and Peta Greenfield with guest Debby Sneed Abstract: There are many groups that are often overlooked in both ancient and modern societies. One of those are people with disabilities. Expert Dr…
Hosted by Fiona Radford and Peta Greenfield with guest Debby Sneed Abstract: There are many groups that are often overlooked in both ancient and modern societies. One of those are people with disabilities. Expert Dr…
With guest Emily Greenwood Abstract: The Athenian historian Thucydides observed and chronicled the greatest military conflict of his day: the epic contest between Athens and Sparta known as the Peloponnesian War…
With guest Edith Hall The theater was invented in ancient Athens, and its invention may have been connected to the emergence of democracy. In fact, public entertainment contributed in important ways to the functioning…
With guest Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Rebecca Newberger Goldstein joins Ancient Greece Declassified for a discussion about Plato, Socrates, and the legacy of Greek philosophy in the modern world. Goldstein is one of…
By Esther Eidinow Abstract: This article argues that victims of magic were also agents of ritual. Focusing on an experience of hostile magic reported by the fourth-century C.E. orator Libanius, it explores how…
By Julia Kindt Abstract: This article investigates the scope and meaning of ancient Greek personal religion as an additional dimension – besides official (polis) religion – in which the ancient Greek religious…
by Katherine Reinberger Abstract: Reinberger details recent archaeological findings found using dental analysis indicating that the first Battle of Himera (5th century BCE) involved combatants from a far wider area…
By Miriam Kamil Abstract: Kamil explores bleeding trees as an important motif in ancient literature both in the West and the East, suggesting that ‘transcultural anxiety around the wellbeing of trees’ has racked…
by J.S. Ubhi Abstract: Ubhi argues for the continued utility of the use of traditional methods of philological comparison between Indo-European languages. He uses Latin-Hittite and Greek-Sanskrit comparisons in order…
by Touraj Daryaee Abstract: Daryaee shows that Herodotus was not an infallible interpreter of foreign cultural practices by showing that his presentation of Persian court drinking practices misunderstood the centrality…