‘Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings’ by Christopher B Zeichmann reviewed by J D Evans (opens in new tab)

Christopher B. Zeichmann teaches history and religious studies at Toronto Metropolitan University, with a focus on the military in Roman-era Palestine and biblical interpretation. That might not sound like an obvious place to go for ideas about radical political thought. But that first impression is the result of a century or more of work by propagandists on both the left and the right. For those on the right, the ancient world is a repository of great classical inspiration; it is, after all,...