This book examines how the experience of living with slavery shaped the way that the Roman elite thought about empire.

Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman culture, proposing an organic model which defies the current legalistic approach. She approaches Roman religion as a 'thinking' religion (in contrast to the ingrained idea of Roman religion as orthopraxy) and warns against writing the environment out of our understanding of Roman religion, as has...

An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.

This book reconstructs Aristotle's account of desire from his various scattered remarks. It will be relevant to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

A groundbreaking approach to late Byzantine intellectual history and the philosophy of visionary reformer Gemistos Plethon.

The first exploration of the idiosyncratic brand of Platonism in the multifarious literary corpus of Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120-180).

The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.

Argues that Juvenal actively concealed his own authorship from his Satires in response to a dangerous political climate.

Rethinks the relations between reasoning and revelation and, therefore, the nature of philosophy and religion in archaic Greece.

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato's Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.