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Author: Christopher Smith

Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, and Director of the British School at Rome from 2009 to 2017, my research focuses on the following questions. Where does power come from? How do societies create, control and destroy power? I start from archaic Mediterranean practices of social and political influence, and seek to explore their legacy and relevance to subsequent periods and different social forms. For more, see https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/staff/cjs6/

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