A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domains of reflection and practice in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. Ranging from knowledge to nature, the human self to the linguistic and figurative arts, and ethics to politics to religion, the contributors produce an entirely new history of ideas. The distinctive intellectual life of antiquity is not simply shown in the area of theory, nor is it merely seen in context. Instead, this volume reveals how ancient societies generated knowledge and representations in their culture and embodied practice.The 6-volume set A Cultural History of Ideas is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available in print for individuals or for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable dgtl library. The dgtl product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or dgtlly via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

About the Author

Clifford Ando is David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor in the department of Classics and History at the University of Chicago, USA. He writes widely on the histories of government, law, and religion in the Roman Empire. His most recent books include The Discovery of the Fact (2020), with William P. Sullivan; The New Late Antiquity (2021), with Marco Formisano; and Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century (2021), with Myles Lavan. Thomas Habinek †2019 was Dean's Professor of Classics and long-time chair of the Classics Department at the University of Southern California, USA. A specialist in Roman culture, he wrote, among many works, The Politics of Latin Literature: Writing, Identity and Empire in Ancient Rome (1998) and The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order (2005). Giulia Sissa is Distinguished Professor of Political Theory, Classics, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She writes about the political and erotic cultures of Greece and Rome in a long-term perspective and always from the standpoint of contemporary issues. Among her most recent books are Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World (2008); Jealousy: A Forbidden Passion (2017); and Le Pouvoir des femmes. Un défi pour la démocratie (2021).