Products and services
Do you think with your heart or with your head? Far from a metaphorical question, this debate roiled ancient medicine at a very literal level. The topic of where, precisely, the soul interfaced with the body was a contentious one, with many arguing for the brain but many others rooting for the heart in all […]
Read More
Today’s media increasingly serves us clickbait climate histories. Headlines prompt us to read how the city-states of the Maya collapsed because of drought, how massive empires like that of the Neo-Assyrians or Akkadians buckled from the pressures of aridity and famines, or why Genghis Khan’s armies were successful due to abundant rains across Mongolia. Such […]
Read More
Over the years I have become increasingly fascinated by the relationship of ancient Rome to the United States, not as the source of particular institutions or a political vocabulary, but as revealing unresolved questions of identity that derive from their shared founding myths. That founding is neither located in a constitutional moment nor organized around […]
Read More
The discipline of Classics stands at a curious crossroads. While some of its advocates resist conflating the ancient Greco-Roman world with the twenty-first century, others weaponize Greco-Roman antiquity for modern gain. The latter stance becomes especially contentious when discussions of skin color enter the fray. Intent on correcting myopic perspectives, I foreground dynamic iterations of […]
Read More
View of the Stoa of Attalos during reconstruction in 1956 (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Agora Image: 2012.55.0183)
Read More
What does it mean and what does it take to be a foreign language speaker in late antique Christianity? Was such a person considered a heretic? A barbarian? A Christian of equal standing? A saint or a demon? To frame this problem in more tangible terms, let’s imagine a respectable Greek-speaking churchgoer in fourth-century Constantinople. […]
Read More
‘It’s a tense stand-off as Melvyn Bragg raps John Humphrys’, reads a 28 July 2014 Evening Standard headline. What was the cause of this dispute between two giants of British broadcasting? Lord Bragg’s show In our time featured discussions with academics on cultural, historical and scientific topics. When talking about key moments in history, there […]
Read More
As America reckons more fully with the legacy of slavery, and the world confronts the horrors of ongoing systems of oppression of peoples such as the Uyghurs in China and the Rohingya in Myanmar, what can we learn from the history of slavery in ancient Greece? This book argues that an understanding of ancient Greek […]
Read MoreKeep up with the latest from Cambridge University Press on our social media accounts.
