Plato Strikes Back
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…
Promoting Diversity and Inclusivity
A Cornucopia of Classics Resources aims to streamline the development of more diverse and inclusive reading lists within the field of Classics.
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Ancient Greco-Roman Magic and the Agency of Victimhood
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…
Excavations at Nineveh: The Halzi Gate
By Diana Pickworth Abstract: In this article, Pickworth summarises the findings of the 1989-1990 University of California excavations around the defensive Halzi Gate at Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire and once…
Roman Sacrifice, Inside and Out
By Celia E. Schultz Abstract: The ‘insider-outsider problem’ has had little impact on the study of religion in pre-Christian Rome. Classicists generally assume that the modern idea of sacrifice as the ritual killing of…
Personal Religion: A Productive Category for the study of Ancient Greek religion?
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…
Where Did Writing Come From?: The rise, fall, and rediscovery of cuneiform
By Shelby Brown Abstract: Brown tracks the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia from the pictographic phase, when it was used to manage basic administration, to the adoption of the triangular reed stylus…
The Roman Economy: Trade in Asia Minor and the Niche Market
By Barbara Levick Abstract: In this article, Levick argues that the economy of Asia Minor was unusually dependent on trade, in comparison to other areas of the Roman Empire, because of favourable geography and the…
Pliny in Bithynia – And What Followed
By Barbara Levick Abstract: In this article, Levick discusses Pliny the Younger’s posting to Bithynia, a Roman province south of the Black Sea. She contests that this sought to address the mismanagement of urban…
Cyprus and the Phoenicians
By Patricia Maynor Bikai Abstract: Bikai uses Cyprus to explore the post-Bronze Age Collapse expansion of Phoenician trade in the Mediterranean, suggesting that this was used to relieve population pressures and to…
Mythbusting Ancient Rome: did Christians ban the Ancient Olympics?
by Shushma Malik and Caillan Davenport Abstract: Malik and Davenport dismantle the idea that the Theodosian Code banned the Olympic Games on grounds of paganism. Instead, they show, the infrastructure necessary for the…