This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil, and Shakespeare. The contributors – Francis Cairns, Ian Du
Late Antiquity is the somewhat unsatisfactory name for the period in Europe roughly from the fourth to the eighth century. It was a time of transition from Roman hegemony to a largely Christian societ
Theophrastus' Characters written in Athens in the fourth century B.C. has been translated, imitated and often quoted out of context. Millett (ancient history, University of Cambridge) provides a look
Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves..., they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service". While the Greek east under Roman rule was
13 papers discuss issues raised by Moses Finley's Ancient Economy did ancient states interfere in or regulate production? and more radically is there any such thing as a conscious ancient economic pol