Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity

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).

• List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor’s Preface, Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. StruckAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Thomas Habinek, Giulia Sissa and Clifford Ando1. Knowledge, Thomas Habineck2. The Human Self, Giulia Sissa3. Ethics and Social Relations, James Ker4. Politics and Economies, Clifford Ando5. Nature, G.E.R Lloyd6. Religion and the Divine, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi7. Language, Poetry, Rhetoric, Sean Gurd8. The Arts, Ruth Webb9. History, Lucas Herchenroeder and Clifford AndoNotesBibliographyContributorsIndex