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Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology
How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? How, if at all, is it relevant to our own world with its different forms of democracy? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have …
Plato through Homer
Plato's best-known cosmological dialogues are almost always discussed in a topical manner. The "Timaeus" is reduced to its theological and scientific doctrines; the Atlantis story …
Eroticism in Ancient and Medieval Greek Poetry
Ancient Greek poetry, even at its most sophisticated, presupposed a degree of familiarity with and assimilation of many more elementary types of song. The continuous if uneven …
Abortion in the Ancient World
Ethical dilemmas and heated arguments on abortion very similar to our own, exercised Greek and Roman doctors, philosophers, historians, theologians, dramatists, novelists and …
Interpreting Classical Texts
How should I interpret a classical text? However I interpret it, someone else will so do differently, and even the nature of the interpreter's task is a matter of dispute; …
Speaking Volumes
In a poem written in exile, Ovid pictures his latest book in conversation with his previous volumes, united in the bookcase containing his collected works back in Rome. One can …
The Invention of Ancient Slavery
Slavery was a fundamental institution in the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, but little agreement. The modern debate …