13 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Classics scholar and Stoicism researcher — involved in translating and contextualizing Stoic texts for contemporary audiences.
American lawyer and author — author of The Immortality Key — who argues that ancient Greek and early Christian religious rites used psychedelic beverages, and that these rites are the origin of Christianity.
American classicist who has produced influential translations and commentaries on Cicero's philosophical and rhetorical works.
British classicist who has edited and translated Cicero's philosophical works, including De Finibus.
British classicist at Cambridge who wrote SPQR (a history of ancient Rome), Confronting the Classics, Women and Power, and The Shock of the Ancient — and who became a prominent public intellectual and defender of academic freedom through her Times Literary Supplement blog and media presence.
British research university — the oldest in the English-speaking world — whose philosophy and classics departments (the PPE degree, the greats curriculum) have trained an enormous proportion of British intellectual and political leadership.
American historian — Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College — author of Republics Ancient and Modern — who traces the intellectual history of republican government from Athens through the American Founding.
Mary Beard's 2015 history of Rome from its origins to 212 CE — when all free inhabitants of the empire became citizens — focusing on Roman political culture, social life, and the paradoxes of Roman identity rather than battles and emperors.
American classicist and historian — University of Georgia — author of The Prince of Medicine (on Galen) and Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing — who writes the most accessible popular accounts of ancient medicine.
Fustel de Coulanges's 1864 analysis of Greek and Roman city-state civilization — arguing that the ancient city was founded on and organized around ancestral religion, not rational politics — a foundational work of historical sociology.
American classicist and military historian at Hoover Institution — raisin farmer — author of The Western Way of War, Carnage and Culture, The Second World Wars, and The Case for Trump — the leading conservative classicist applying ancient history to contemporary politics.
Scottish social anthropologist whose monumental comparative mythology work The Golden Bough synthesized global data on magic, religion, fertility cults, and dying-and-rising gods, profoundly shaping 20th-century thought on religion and culture.