- ISSN: 0533-2451 (Print), 2052-8531 (Online)
- Editors: John Taylor University of Manchester, UK, Dr Phillip Horky University of Durham, UK, Professor Andrej Petrovic University of Virginia, USA, and Professor Ivana Petrovic University of Virginia, USA
- Editorial board
The New Surveys in the Classics are a series of short books dedicated to key themes and concepts in the classical world, and are available as part of a subscription to Greece & Rome. They deal with a wide range of topics, from key figures like Homer and Virgil, to subjects such as Greek tragedy, thought and science, women, slavery, Roman religion, and satire.
Classics – Cambridge Core Blog

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Sisterhood and slavery: a newly discovered manuscript of the ancient orator Hyperides
- 26 May 2023,
- Two thousand four hundred years ago, a seven-year-old girl in Athens, whose parents had died, was taken by her legal guardian to the island of Lemnos.…...

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Mighty Hermes and his shining light: a Greek god illuminated through ancient Iranian and Indian parallels
- 27 January 2023,
- Napoleon once said that ‘there are only two powers in the world, the sword and the spirit’ and that ‘in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the...

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A treasure trove of ancient astronomy and astrology
- 21 December 2022,
- Codex Climaci Rescriptus is worth knowing about. It is the only surviving Greek witness to Hipparchus’s previously lost star catalogue, is over seven centuries...
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