Greek, roman and byzantine studies  

Stephanie Larson

In Odysseus’ account of the Underworld told to the Phaeacians, his selection of heroines (Od. 11.225-332) focuses on legends of Boeotia, southern Thessaly, and Athens; literary and archaeological evidence for connections between the Peisistratids, Boeotia... see more

Philip Rance

The mock battles by which Heraclius trained the army before the Persian wars of the 620’s A.D., called an innovation by George of Pisidia, can be shown to have a long history of precedents both in practice and in military theory.

Hagith Sivan

Several piyyutim, the Hebrew liturgical poems of late ancient date, make reference to the Persian and then Arab conquests of the Holy Land, and can shed light on Jewish responses to the Byzantine losses, losses which some Christian authors sought to blame... see more