Liberty

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.

• 1. Ancient history and contemporary political theory: the case of liberty Valentina Arena2. Liberty, bondage and liberation in the Late Bronze AgeEva von Dassow3. ‘Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof!’ Reading Leviticus 25:10 through the centuries Jonathan Stökl4. Placing Plato in the history of libertyMelissa Lane5. Freedom, ethical choice and the Hellenistic polis Benjamin Gray6. Non-domination and the libera res publica in Cicero’s RepublicanismJed Atkins7. Religion, toleration, and religious liberty in republican empire Clifford Ando8. The idea of freedom in the writings of non-Chalcedonian Christians in the fifth and sixth centuriesPhilip Wood9. Political freedom in Byzantium: the rhetoric of liberty and the periodization of Roman historyAnthony Kaldellis 10. The liberties of the ancients: a roundtable with Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner Kinch Hoekstra and Quentin Skinner