The study of Greek warfare should involve much more than reconstructing the experience of combat ...

Stahl's classic book on Thucydides, here in English for the first time, penetrates as few others ...

What are states but large bandit bands, and what are bandit bands but small states?' So asked St ...

Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. The historic...

The standard image of Sparta is of an egalitarian, military society which disdained material poss...

In recent study Greek religion has often dissolved itself into many religions. The eleven origina...

How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the trauma of conflict? What de...

The Aeneid may be considered a test case for diverging modern methods of criticism. Does the epic...

The writings of Julius Caesar have beguiled by their apparent simplicity. Generations of readers ...

The history of Sparta is increasingly seen as important, not only for its own sake but also for u...

How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade...

The Tiber has been joined by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint ab...

The history of the Hellenistic world has long been more popular than has widely been realized. Th...

The study of archaic Greece (c. 750-480 BC) is being transformed by exciting discoveries and inte...

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigne...

Plutarch's writings, for long treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are n...

The Greeks, in Dr Johnson's phrase, 'shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity'. The cult...

Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by ...

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the gr...