Between Republic and Empire

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Asylia

By Kent J. Rigsby

In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable," meaning immune from war. A famous passage of Tacitus describes the appeals of many cities for...

The Last Generation of the Roman Republic

By Erich S. Gruen

Foreign Bodies

By A. David Napier

Reading Sappho

By Ellen Greene

In this volume, scholarship on Sappho moves beyond a limiting focus on textual reconstruction or analysis of her possible biography to study her as a powerful and influential voice in the Western c...

Re Reading Sappho

By Ellen Greene

Hellenistic Constructs

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The Eye Expanded

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The sixteen contributors to this volume, all of whom have been in different ways encouraged and inspired by the work of Peter Green, have gathered to celebrate that eclectic scholar's own love of t...

The Messiah before Jesus

By Israel Knohl

"In a world that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus, who is des...

Luminous Debris

By Gustaf Sobin