One of the earliest works written by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) reveals his awareness of his African origins. This complicates conventional universalist claims about the most important father of the church… Read More
The narrative style and linguistic register of our earliest surviving collections of Aesop's fables suggest a deliberate and cultivated simplicity. This… Read More
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
