Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology: Recent submissions
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Extended Book Review: Lyndall Gordon, The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse (London: Virago, 2022), Cloth, 496pp, 978-0-349-01211-7
(TS Eliot Society, 17 June 2024) -
Thucydides on colonialism and hegemonic discourse
(Routledge, 29 July 2024)As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins once observed, Thucydides appears as “the true father of history – Western history, that is.” His work provides an origin myth of critical historical consciousness as a specifically ... -
Plotinus and the identity theory of truth
(Dipartimento di Civiltà e forme del sapere, Università di Pisa, 2024)In this paper I argue that, in Enn. V 5[32] and V 3[49], Plotinus defends a version of the identity theory of truth – the view that truth consists in a form of identity between what is thought or said and what is the case. ... -
Automatic puppets, Toy Carts, and Robots. Aristotle’s Metaphysics of Artefacts and the Question of Automata
(Oxford University Press, 2024) -
Thucydides and the Plague at Athens
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 18 June 2024)Thucydides’ account of the plague at Athens in 430 BCE is the first naturalistic and secular representation of epidemic disease and its effects. In sharp contrast to contemporary ideas of plague as divine punishment, he ...