By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama
The cover of Seeing Theater, thoughtfully designed by my late brother-in-law and artist David Palacios, offers a succinct visual encapsulation of the book and an interesting twist on the only surviving...
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...
Maurizio Bettini’s In Praise of Polytheism is a thought-provoking new book on what ancient polytheistic religions can teach us about building inclusive and equitable futures.
At the heart of this book is a simple comparison: monotheistic religions are exclusive, whereas ancient poly...
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...
This post is part of our #AIASCS2021 blog series. Learn more at our virtual conference exhibit.
As part of our author blog series for the 2021 Archaeological Institute of America & Society for Classical Studies virtual conference, we reached out to author Tim Whitmarsh to discu...
This post is part of our #AIASCS2021 blog series. Learn more at our virtual conference exhibit.
As part of our author blog series for the 2021 Archaeological Institute of America & Society for Classical Studies virtual conference, we reached out to author Clara Bosak-Schroeder to d...
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...