Description
This book is a collection of essays that explore how classical antiquity can be used to better understand other historical periods. The essays explore how classical antiquity can be used to understand the ancient world, the Greco-Roman world, and the modern world.
In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review.