Known from ancient authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato, and more than
2,500 inscriptions, proxeny (a form of public guest-friendship) is the best attested interstate …

Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern
societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society …

On the Agora traces the evolution of the main public square of the Greek polis for the six
centuries from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the height of the Roman …

Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education.
Controversiae (declamations), imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional …

This volume examines 1 Corinthians 1-4 within first-century politics, demonstrating the
significance of Corinth's constitution to the interpretation of Paul's letter. Bradley J. Bitner …

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhēsia
(free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhēsia first …

In the Hellenistic period (c. 323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators,
and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens …

To work on the Hellenistic always means taking an initial position on Classical Athens and
its 'legacy'—if only by ignoring both, and even though the total mass of Hellenistic evidence …

In this volume, Ralph Korner argues that John's extensive social identification with Judaism
(s), Jewishness, and Jewish institutions does not reflect a literary program of replacing Israel …

Two generations after notions about a 'caste-system'in the later Roman Empire were
overturned, scholarly views continue to diverge over the extent to which the age was marked …