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
In 1986 excavations in the portico of the so-called “Marble Forum” of the Roman colonia of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain) uncovered a fragment of an inscribed elogium of Aeneas, along with… Read More
In the Age of Exploration, the world-changing confrontation between Europe and Mesoamerica was mediated by ancient Rome. Spain's conquest of Mexico in the 1500s coincided with the Renaissance … Read More
Whether Virgil was to be considered an orator or a poet was one of the key issues in the reception of his work, as is attested by discussions in Florus, Macrobius, Servius and Tiberius Claudius Donatus. … Read More
This talk analyses the politics of display in the sanctuary at Hellenistic Delos, particularly the ‘vase festivals’ endowed by Ptolemaic and Antigonid kings and others in the third century bc. It embeds these… Read More
