Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Recent Submissions
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On Limited Force: Prudence Below the Threshold of War
(SAGE Publications, 2024)This essay asks how military ethics should respond to adversaries deliberately conducting hostilities below the threshold of war, that is, whether to respond: (a) below the threshold of war with the novel limited force ... -
Athenaeus of Attaleia on the Elements of Medicine
(De Gruyter, 11 March 2024)Athenaeus of Attaleia (fl. mid-first century BC) offers a fascinating example of the interest among Graeco-Roman physicians in marking out the boundaries between medicine and philosophy. As founder of the so-called Pneumatist ... -
'Freedom is the sure possession...': modern receptions of Pericles' funeral oration
(Cambridge University Press, 11 January 2024)Pericles’ funeral oration has played a significant public role, especially in Anglophone countries, over the last century. Renaissance humanists had valued it simply as a masterful piece of oratory, to be studied for its ... -
Teaching Propaganda. Water, Food and Power in the Livre d’Écolier
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Wandering workers: mobility and skills in the Roman world
(Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)