Liberty
Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives
Liberty
Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives
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Liberty: Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives is the first study of the ancient notions of liberty in the interconnected societies of the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium and how they relate to modern political theory.
Valentina Arena is Reader in Roman History at University College London, UK. Her work focuses on the history of ancient ideas and ancient political thought as well as the wider intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic, with a particular interest in the fields of Roman oratory and antiquarianism. She is the author of Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press 2012) and has edited and co-edited volumes on Roman political culture, Varro and the antiquarian tradition. Her essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and edited volumes. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC funded research project Ordering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians.