What is Religion?
September 15, 2017
Richard Holloway— As with many useful words, symbol comes from Greek. It means to bring together things that had come apart, the way you might glue the bits of a broken plate… READ MORE
Category: Ancient History
The Paleo Diet in Ancient Civilization
August 23, 2017
James C. Scott— I am neither an advocate nor a practitioner of the Paleo diet. I love bread, pasta, butter, and yogurt far too much to forsake them altogether. On… READ MORE
The Limits of Tolerance
August 15, 2017
Emily Katz Anhalt— The ancient Greeks were open-minded without being tolerant. They didn’t devise the world’s first-ever democracy by tolerating everything. Their unprecedented transition from tribalism to civil society derived… READ MORE
Pride Month Bookshelf: LGBTQIA+ History, Cultural Studies, and Literature Beyond June
June 28, 2017
Presenting our Yale University Press Pride Month reading list—because celebrating #Pride2017, learning from the history of the movement, championing stories and contributions of LGBTQIA+ individuals, and working each day to insist on equal… READ MORE
A Maya Child’s Tale: The Origin of the Sun
June 21, 2017
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos— In his field diary entry of October 30, 1960, ethnographer Marcelo Díaz de Salas wrote down a brief story that he’d been told by Miguelito, a young… READ MORE
Immortal Oracle: the Berlin Painter Speaks: An Interview with J. Michael Padgett by David Ebony
May 24, 2017
David Ebony — In dark times of social turmoil, political upset, and the seemingly perpetual war and violence that define our present era, it helps to consider the art of… READ MORE
Was There a Spartan Mirage?
October 6, 2016
Paul A. Rahe— It has always been hard for outsiders to get their minds around classical Lacedaemon, or Sparta as it is more commonly called today. Even in antiquity—as a… READ MORE
The Olympians of Ancient Greece
August 12, 2016
Neil Faulkner— In the early days, the Olympics seem to have been an informal local festival with only aristocratic contestants. Athletes competed not so much as representatives of their cities… READ MORE
The Persian Wars: Why We Must Attend to Sparta
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Paul A. Rahe— The study of ancient Greek history in modern times has always been Athenocentric. It could hardly have been otherwise. Much of what was written about Hellas in… READ MORE
Byzantium and the Rights of Women
October 27, 2015
Jonathan Harris— Ancient Greece and Rome are often seen as the origin of much that underpins the political systems of modern democracies such as the United States, from separation of… READ MORE
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