Walter Scheidel, What Is Ancient History

Stanford professor of Classics and History Walter Scheidel (henceforth S.) asks what ancient history is —or rather, what it should be today. S. had already posed this question in a 2016 article («What is Ancient History?», Daedalus, 145, p. 113–121), co-authored with the archaeologist Ian Morris, w...

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Gaia:Stanford professor of Classics and History Walter Scheidel (henceforth S.) asks what ancient history is —or rather, what it should be today. S. had already posed this question in a 2016 article («What is Ancient History?», Daedalus, 145, p. 113–121), co-authored with the archaeologist Ian Morris, where they concluded «we will need to raise our game, master new evidence, methods, and questions, and recognize that the ancient world was much bigger - and ancient history much longer - than our p...