At the beginning of this term I found myself discussing in class with my students the (in)famous pamphlet published by the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate at Antioch in 363 (seemingly in response to his local critics), Misopogon, at the same time as I was reading the brilliant book by Jonathan Spence about the early … Continue reading Emperors, books and resistance from Antioch to China: Julian and Yongzheng| Georgy Kantor's blog
The brilliant British Academy memoir of Donald Russell by Christopher Pelling and Michael Winterbottom, published last week, notes, no doubt correctly, that ‘it is unlikely that any scholar has ever made such brilliant contributions to textual criticism at so advanced an age’ (p. 227). This is to make public, in grateful memory, just one such … Continue reading what happened to Hipparchus: a crux in Philostratus| Georgy Kantor's blog
The days of lockdown have inevitably caused a proliferation of book lists, and I am afraid I have fallen prey to the fashion too. So here is my choice of forty books (for the historic number of days in the quarantine) on Roman history between the fall of Carthage and the ‘third century crisis’, inevitably … Continue reading forty books on Roman history| Georgy Kantor's blog
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens was founded in 1881 to provide American graduate students and scholars a base for their studies in the history and civilization of the Greek world…| [quem dixere chaos]