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Understanding Christianity Through Magical Objects

Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique ChristianityWhat do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid? The COVID-19 pandemic required many of us to
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Q&A with Laura Jansen, Guest Editor of Classical Antiquity’s Special Issue “Anne Carson’s Euripides”

Following her experimental translations of Euripides in Grief Lessons (2006), Anne Carson’s recent dialogue with Euripides is amongst her boldest. The Trojan Women (2021), a graphic ‘comics poem’, and H of H Playbook (2021), an ‘explosion of thought’ in the shape of a playbook with illustrations and
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The Story Behind the Cover of Seeing Theater

By Naomi Weiss, author of Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek DramaThe 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 image in c
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The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity

by Emily Gowers (Author)
Jan 2025
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Egyptian Things: Translating Egypt to Early Imperial Rome

by Edward William Kelting (Author)
Nov 2024
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Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran

by D. T. Potts (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access