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Atheism at the Agora A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism

Atheism at the Agora: A History of Unbelief in Ancient Greek Polytheism

1st Edition

By James C Ford
August 11, 2023

This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a ...

Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity History and Comparative Perspectives

Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity: History and Comparative Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo, Alberto del Campo Tejedor
June 30, 2023

This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as ...

Classicising Crisis The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire

Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire

1st Edition

Edited By Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
May 31, 2023

Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a ...

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire

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By Dana Fields
May 31, 2023

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. ...

Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition The Muses in America

Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition: The Muses in America

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By Robert J. Rabel
May 31, 2023

This volume explores the reception of the classical past in the works of twentieth-century American dramatist Robert E. Sherwood and his use of the ancient world to critique key events and trends in American history.  It explores his comedies and the influence of both Greek Old and New Comedy, as ...

Xenophon’s Socratic Works

Xenophon’s Socratic Works

1st Edition

By David M. Johnson
May 31, 2023

Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon, a student of Socrates, military man, and man of letters, is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work, the Memorabilia (Socratic ...

A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices Decoding Divination

A Cognitive Analysis of the Main Apolline Divinatory Practices: Decoding Divination

1st Edition

By Giulia Frigerio
May 05, 2023

This volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in Classical and Hellenistic Greece, merging neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural studies with archaeology. Through a deep analysis of primary sources and the historical ...

Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion

Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek Religion

1st Edition

By K.A. Rask
April 14, 2023

Employing frameworks of lived religion and materiality, this book provides the first full-length study of personal religious experience in the Greek Archaic and Classical periods. Rask analyzes archeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence to highlight the role of individuals as vital actors and ...

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

1st Edition

By D. M. Spitzer
March 24, 2023

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. The book’s 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the ...

Religion and Apuleius' Golden Ass The Sacred Ass

Religion and Apuleius' Golden Ass: The Sacred Ass

1st Edition

By Warren S. Smith
December 30, 2022

This volume examines Apuleius’ comic donkey novel, The Golden Ass, within the context of the popular beliefs and Jewish and Christian writings that were part of the intellectual culture of his own day in 2nd century C.E. North Africa, a culture which can also be glimpsed in some early Arabic ...

The War Cry in the Graeco-Roman World

The War Cry in the Graeco-Roman World

1st Edition

By James Gersbach
December 23, 2022

This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the "war cry"; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars. Gersbach introduces the term and paradigm "battle...

Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great

Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great

1st Edition

By Andrew J. Pottenger
November 30, 2022

This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the ‘Donatist schism’ and ‘Arian controversy’. Commonly remembered as the ‘first Christian emperor’ of the Roman ...

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