Pushing the Boundaries of Historia

<p><em>Pushing the Boundaries of Historia</em> collects together 20 chapters whose coverage extends from the prehistory of Greece through early Christianity in the Roman Empire to the reception of classical texts by contemporary playwrights and poets. The essays range beyond Greece and Rome to the ancient realms of Persia and China and explore a vast array of ancient authors – Homer Herodotus Thucydides Euripides Vergil Ovid Livy and Tacitus.</p><p></p><p>Written by philologists historians epigraphers palaeographers archaeologists and art historians it brings together the best of old and new traditions of classical study from senior emeritus faculty with established records of scholarly productivity to the newest generation of classics and archaeology professors. What draws together the disparate strands of academic inquiry found in these pages is a passion for understanding how the lessons of the world of the ancient Greeks Romans and their still lamentably understudied neighbors can offer commentary on the contemporary world.</p>