Featuring outstanding scholarship at the intersection of historical and political studies, the Bloomsbury Ancient Politics series seeks to examine and refresh the study of ancient political thought and culture in ancient Mediterranean and Near/Middle Eastern civilizations. In looking at both Graeco-Roman antiquity and the wider ancient world, the series helps us better understand the worldview of canonical thinkers in ancient political thought, while bringing new questions and approaches to the conversation.

This series offers innovative readings of classic texts, comparative analyses of political culture, actors and institutions, interpretations of historical evidence, and explorations of the legacy of the ancient world in more recent political thinking. It features a wide range of approaches and methodologies drawing on multiple contributing disciplines.

This series is for scholars and students in classics, history, political science and philosophy, and area studies of the Mediterranean region and western Asia.