Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Political Thought offers a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans.

The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

As someone who writes about early Greek poetry, I spend a lot of time thinking about why its performance was so crucial to ancient life ... Athens still suffered from infighting, toxic politics and ...

Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city ...

A growing economy, it was thought, would go hand-in-hand with a liberalising political system ... to displace an established power. In the ancient Greek world, it was Athens that threatened ...

Poseidon: God of the Sea and Earthquakes In Greek mythology ... the sanctuary’s role in the region’s religious and political ...

Students study Classical languages and literatures in addition to art history and archaeology; economic, political, social and intellectual history; and philosophy, religion and myth. Ancient Greek ...

That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about ... “Oedipus,” which ...