The writing of Spartan history for long involved gliding - sometimes seamlessly - between the evidence of very different ancient sources. Now, a short series conceived by The Classical Press of Wales
Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. His historical methods and qualities were for long subjected to little systematic analysis. However, in recent deca
Plutarch's Parallel Lives systematically pair and compare famous Greeks with famous Romans. Yet amid the traditional scholarly mining of Plutarch for nuggets of historical detail, the purposes and eff
The intellectual, particularly the literary, culture of late Antiquity is approached by classicists here not as transition or closure, but in terms of transformation and dynamic change. The focus is o
Six essays by Welsh and English classicists draw on archaeological as well as literary evidence to analyze the practice and theory of colonization. They consider such topics as ideologies of Greek col
`This book is destined to be as groundbreaking as Syme's Roman Revolution and will take the discourse in a wholly new direction. Kathryn Welch's radically new reconstruction of the strategy of the Rep
Images of ancient Sparta are irrepressible in Western thought. A model of excellence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, in the Enlightenment and French Revolution Sparta was invoked by radical thinke
The classicists and historians here are essentially writing about Cicero, and his trafficking in praise and blame, but they also consider the larger context in which he delivered his speeches. Among t
Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem
Fifteen papers presented by Mitchell (classics and ancient history, Exeter U., UK) and Rubinstein (ancient history, Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) collectively demonstrate the inseparability of cul
Warfare was only one form of the violence that had a profound impact on Archaic and Classical Greek society, literature and government. This important series of thirteen papers, from a seminar held in
A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent,
From c.550 BC until her defeat at the battle of Leuktra in 371 BC, Sparta was a dominant force in the Greek world. This has traditionally ben explained by Sparta's egalitarian and militaristic society
Creeping specialization has infected Achaemenid studies, as it does nearly every discipline and profession, but this anthology of 14 essays is meant to appeal to the general classicist with an interes
Paintings, sculpture, stage directions, and literary representation are among the evidence that 10 papers from a panel at a classics conference in Glasgow in September 2002 draw on to explore how clas
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their time engaged in or thinking about competition. Organised competitions - with rules, audiences and winners - included the Olympic and gladiatorial game
This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar. Chapters by distinguished scholars deal with the politics of Spartan nudity; the insecurity of Spartan kings and their involvement with d
The papers in this volume treat the cultural history of the Roman empire from the earliest days of the Principate until the sixth century. They offer interpretations of epigraphic and legal as well a
Eleven papers on aspects of Greek religion from Minoans to the classical world. Striking similarities are revealed between religious ideas in Greece and non-Greek Asia. There are special studies of Ap
The experience of warfare shaped soldiers and their families in the ancient world. Drawing partly on modern studies of battle `syndromes' this collection of essays examines this important phenomenon.
The nine papers in this edited book derive from an international conference on organised crime held at Lampeter, 1996. They illustrate the antiquity of violence and crime and the need to put evidence
Crucial to the understanding of Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states, the history of Sparta is, at last, receiving due attention.
Stahl's classic book on Thucydides is one of the most profound and widely respected modern studies of the Athenian historian. Published in German in 1966 as Thukydides: Die Stellung des Menschen im ge
Powell (director, Institute of Classics and Ancient History, University of Wales) places the work of Virgil into his contemporary politics, examining the logic and literary genres of Virgil's poems an
Mostly Irish and English scholars examine difficulties that modern historians encounter when trying to apply methods of biography to figures in the classical and biblical world, and when interpreting
In conjunction with the production of the play Cyclops in February 2003, a conference was organized in Cincinnati, Ohio to explore the current trends in scholarship and future directions for research
Mitchell (Hellenistic culture, U. of Exeter, UK) and Katsari (ancient history, U. of Leicester) present 13 papers exploring the economic history of Asia Minor during the Roman Empire. The papers--gath
