By Mario Telo, Editorial Board Chair, Classical Antiquity
We are very proud to publish “Fury and Justice in the Humanities” by Judith Butler in the new issue of Classical Antiquity. The boldest and most compelling thinker, the most influential and inspiring public intellectual, some...
by Jonas Borsch, author of “God’s Wrath over Antioch, 525–540 CE: Beginning of the End?” from the new special issue of Studies in Late Antiquity
The Tyche (or “Fortune”) of Antioch (modern Antakya), now at the Vatican Museum in Rome. The statue is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bron...
We are delighted to welcome Kristina Sessa to the editorial team for the journal, Studies in Late Antiquity. Sessa is Professor of History at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, OH. She has degrees from Princeton and Berkeley, and has taught at Claremont McKenna College as well a...
This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series.
For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about our program and what new projects he’s most excited about. Eric also shar...
For the Archaeological Institute of America & Society for Classical Studies 2021, Eric Schmidt shares virtual conference highlights.
“I acquire broadly in premodern history and religion. Our publishing program has a cultural studies remit overall, and as part of the premode...
by Edward J. Watts, author of The Final Pagan Generation: Rome’s Unexpected Path to Christianity
In 392 AD, a Christian mob destroyed the Alexandrian temple of Serapis, the biggest and most impressive temple in the eastern Mediterranean. The six-hundred-year-old Serapeum complex ha...
Rome in the time of the fourth century was one of dramatic political and religious change. After thousands of years of pagan tradition, Christianity was suddenly the new order. In 311, The Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment...
We’re celebrating the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, which is being held from January 2-5, 2020, in Washington, DC, with a special offer from UC Press journals. We’ve made recent issues of our journals likely to most appeal to scholars of the ancient world free to re...