Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin…[Read more]

The vast territorial extent of the Achaemenid Empire is often assumed to have impeded connectivity and communication within the empire. This paper challenges the validity of this assumption. Two factors in particular favor this conclusion—the presence of an extensive road network and the high communication speed in the empire, made possible by t…[Read more]

‘Seconds’ (1966) is the third film in what has been called John Frankenheimer’s paranoia trilogy, the first two installments of which are The ‘Manchurian Candidate’ (1962) and ‘Seven Days in May’ (1964). It is the story of a middle-aged banker who abandons family and career, purchasing from the secretive Company a new identity, vocation and…[Read more]

The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, serves as a template for George Nolfi’s story about the tensions surrounding fulfillment in private versus public life. A romance-thriller with science fiction overtones, the film is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story, The Adjustment Team. In Nolfi’s version,…[Read more]

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Co-edited volume of essays on ancient balletic interpretations of playscripts

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The re-evaluation of classical education (paideia) recurred throughout the Roman period, reaching a particularly fevered pitch during the late fourth century, as the empire became Christian. The political consequences of Christian learning become particularly clear in the debate between two learned, Latin-speaking Christians who translated Greek…[Read more]

Article exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.

CUP Co-Edited volume about actors and acting in Greek & Roman civilisation

Co-edited volume about progressive uses of classical culture in Britain 1789-1969

Book on classical Athenian theatre and society

A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy

Monograph on the Cultural History of the Odyssey

Co-edited volume of essays on the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and his continuing cultural presence (C.U.P.)

Co-edited volume of essays about female classical philologists

Co-Edited collection of essays on the performance history of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon from the fifth century BCE until the 21st century

OUP 1989

Thucydides’s unusual praise of the Athenian general Phrynichus in 8.27.5 gives insight into how the historian thought and wrote. The praise seems unwarranted in the immediate instance and in light of Phrynichus’s subsequent actions. I argue that the praise seems directed at the manner in which Phrynichus made his decisions, and how Thucydides’s…[Read more]