Explore a new, free-access collection of book chapters and journal articles, examining themes of politics and power, and the dynamics between political thought, philosophy, history and society in both the classical world and beyond it. 

Featured journals include those published by Cambridge on behalf of the Classical Association and the Roman Society, as well as the Journal of Roman Archaeology, Antiquity and Cambridge's new open access journal Public Humanities. Where not already open access, all chapters and articles are now free to read until 31 August 2025.

Spotlighting Sparta

This new collection (curated by Thomas Clements, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) highlights the long history of research carried out by the British School at Athens in Sparta and Laconia and subsequently published in Annual of the British School at Athens (ABSA). Beginning with British fieldwork in the region in 1904, the articles selected contain a mixture original fieldwork, archaeological interpretation, studies of ancient inscriptions, and historical analyses, spanning the earliest phases of the Classical polis of Sparta right up until the medieval, Byzantine settlement which later occupied the Acropolis Hill. As a result of the British connection to Laconia, ABSA has long been a preferred repository of research on Sparta and Laconia.

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