G.W. Bowersock is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His latest book, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam, was published in April. (May 2013)
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A Different Turning Point for Mankind?
May 9, 2013
The Axial Age and Its Consequences
edited by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas
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The Magical Donkey
December 20, 2012
The Golden Ass
by Apuleius, translated from the Latin by Sarah Ruden
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Apocalypse Then
April 5, 2012
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
by Elaine Pagels
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Too Much for Trevor-Roper
January 12, 2012
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The Audacious Historian
December 22, 2011
An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
by Adam Sisman
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The Tremendous, Ferocious Bentley
November 24, 2011
Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
by Kristine Louise Haugen
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The Rise of ‘Decline and Fall’
November 25, 2010
History and the Enlightenment
by Hugh Trevor-Roper
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From the Craze of Achilles to the Wisdom of Xenophon
April 29, 2010
The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
by Caroline Alexander
The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika
edited by Robert B. Strassler, translated from the Greek by John Marincola, and with an introduction by David Thomas
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Men and Boys
September 24, 2009
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
by James Davidson
Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods
by Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella
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The Scholar of Scholars
May 14, 2009
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West
by Anthony Grafton
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Court Poet & Pornographer
February 26, 2009
Martial’s Epigrams: A Selection
translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Garry Wills
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The Classicist’s Eye
November 6, 2008
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays
by Daniel Mendelsohn
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The Other Theodora
October 23, 2008
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Brilliant, Beautiful & Byzantine
September 25, 2008
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
by Judith Herrin
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The Revenge of the Trojan Women
August 16, 2007
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The Art of Risk
June 14, 2007
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
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Junius Q. Publicus
June 14, 1984
The World of the Citizen in Republican Rome by Claude Nicolet, translated by P.S. Falla
The Noblest Roman: Marcus Brutus and His Reputation
by M.L. Clarke
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Restoration & Revolution
June 12, 1980
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The Emperor of Roman History
March 6, 1980
Roman Papers by Ronald Syme, edited by E. Badian
Ammianus and the Historia Augusta by Ronald Syme
Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta by Ronald Syme
The Historia Augusta: A Call for Clarity by Ronald Syme
History in Ovid by Ronald Syme
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
Sallust by Ronald Syme
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The Lod Mosaic
February 14, 2011
It’s not easy to make sense of the remarkable Lod Mosaic, a large, ancient floor newly discovered in Israel and now on display in the United States for the first time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the very difficulty of interpretation, together with the excellent state of preservation, is what makes it so fascinating.