Classics

How did Christian communities across time and space engage with religious others? Informed by current debates on global history, the studies in this volume cover Eastern and Western Christian traditions stretching from the second to the twentieth century and portray Christianity as a fluid, relational, and globally entangled religion.

This study is the first to explore the striking intimacy of the early correspondence between Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Fronto (second century AD) as a literary production. Wytse Keulen presents Fronto's letter collection as a self-edited literary monument that brings his most important friendship to life with an emphasis on public appeal.

How did Plato conceive of the soul, and can his scattered statements be unified into a coherent psychological theory? Thirteen essays by international scholars examine key aspects of Plato's treatment of the soul - from perception and desire to its mathematical constitution - and shed light on his influence on later philosophy and psychology.

This volume gathers Robert L. Fowler's key texts on Greek mythology, mythography, and historiography - work that has reshaped views of mythography as a vital strand of Greco-Roman literary and intellectual history and sharpened our reading of Herodotus' revolutionary Histories. The collection is rounded out by two brand-new, previously unpublished essays by the author.