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A Tribute to Peter Green

Oct 01 2024
With his trademark lyrical, witty, and accessible prose, Peter Green’s work transcended academia.
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Understanding Christianity Through Magical Objects

May 22 2024
Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique ChristianityWhat do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid?
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Q&A with Laura Jansen, Guest Editor of Classical Antiquity’s Special Issue “Anne Carson’s Euripides”

Jan 04 2024
Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion of thought’ in the shape of a playbook with illustrations and
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The Story Behind the Cover of Seeing Theater

Dec 15 2023
By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek DramaThe cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual encapsulation of the book and an interesting twist on the only surviving image in c
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Q&A with C. Luke Soucy, Translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Dec 11 2023
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In this boldly lyrical translation, C. Luke Soucy revives the magnum opus of Rome’s most clever and creative poet, faithfully matching the epic’s wit and style while confronting the sexuality, violence, and
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In pictures: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity

Nov 16 2023
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of rabbinic literature. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late anci
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Judith Butler Explores Fury and Justice in the Humanities

Jun 14 2023
By Mario Telo, Editorial Board Chair, Classical AntiquityWe are very proud to publish “Fury and Justice in the Humanities” by Judith Butler in the new issue of Classical Antiquity. The boldest and most compelling thinker, the most influential and inspiring public intellectual, someone whose
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A City Prone to Disasters

Jun 07 2023
by Jonas Borsch, author of "God’s Wrath over Antioch, 525–540 CE: Beginning of the End?" from the new special issue of Studies in Late AntiquityThe Tyche (or "Fortune") of Antioch (modern Antakya), now at the Vatican Museum in Rome. The statue is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bronze original
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Q&A with Sureshkumar Muthukumaran, author of The Tropical Turn

Mar 28 2023
The Tropical Turn chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels t
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Journeying through the Great Kingdoms of Africa

Mar 21 2023
The legacy and impact of African kingdoms in the continent's history from the 20th century to today. © Edmond FortierEdited by John Parker, this groundbreaking book takes us through nine key regions, including ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Zulu Kingdom. The book features detailed maps and ov
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