The involvement of supernatural factors such as fate and fortune in historical events is a familiar preoccupation of ancient historians. In the case of Tacitus' Annals, however, the issue is complicated by the… Read More
Hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, entanglement, métissage, syncretism and the Middle Ground are all terms that have been put forward in the past decade to capture processes of mutual cultural and… Read More
The paper is a forthcoming chapter in the four-volume Bloomsbury History of Epistemology, volume one of which is devoted to antiquity. The paper examines philosophical use of the terms "sophia… Read More
This paper describes the far reaching effects of the Platonist understanding of poetry, a historical condition under which Early Christian Latin poets such as Prudentius, Dracontius, and… Read More
Labeled a scholastic and even a plagiarist, the Egyptian doctor ʿAlī ibn Riḍwān (388/998–c. 453/1061) has not fared well in medieval and modern scholarship. Evaluations of Ibn Riḍwān’s work tend to stress his… Read More
It may already seem odd to talk about an ancient history of vegetarianism. The topic seems so modern as to be almost faddish. Most contemporary thinkers on vegetarianism are happy to… Read More
Cambridge historian Simon Goldhill explores the crucial period in nineteenth-century Britain when modern notions of sexuality and sexual identity took shape. He takes the unusual approach of focusing on a single… Read More
