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Fat and Large Bodies in Homeric Poetry: Iros and Penelope Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 William Brockliss
Unlike the fat body of Iros, παχύς bodies in Homeric poetry are powerful, attractive, and consistent with a non-gender- specific conception of the erotic. In Odyssey 18, Iros’ bulk belies his lack of strength, but Odysseus’ large frame, elsewhere described as παχύς, both promises and delivers effective action. A threat of castration distances Iros from the erotic; Odysseus enjoys sexual intimacy with
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Supposititious Children and Athenian Civic Identity Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Kieran McGroarty
Supposititious children may be defined as children smuggled into households and then presented as legitimate off-spring. This article considers the sources that refer to such children in the Classical and Hellenistic periods at Athens. It explores the underlying concern of the male citizen that these children might be enrolled in the citizen population. It explains that this anxiety was tied to the
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Cato the Elder and the "Theoretical Farmers" of 18th- and 19th-century Britain Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Laura M. Banducci
Cato the Elder’s De agricultura, the first farming manual in Latin, inspired a genre of farming manuals and didactic texts; yet Cato’s real-life participation in farming and the accuracy of his knowledge has been called into question. Centuries later, we see the rise in agricultural writing among British gentlemen of the 18th and 19th centuries; here wealthy landowners wrote detailed instructions about
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Digital Media and Online Resources in Ancient Mediterranean Teaching Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Christine L. Johnston, Chelsea A.M. Gardner
This article presents a state-of-the-field assessment of the use of digital resources and tools in ancient Mediterranean studies teaching. This includes a presentation of the results of a recent survey focusing on pedagogical practices and multimedia use among ancient Mediterranean studies professionals and an overview of the benefits and challenges of incorporating rich-format media and digital resources
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Gail Smith Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Judith P. Hallett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Gail Smith Judith P. Hallett Non solum hoc ipso die, sed etiam in aeternum posterum tempus, obitum doleamus, celebremus vitam collegae praestantissimae, quae, non sine magno labore,9 fecit ut et haec universitas magnanima illustrisque, haec urbs excelsa concorsque10 multo munificiores praeclarioresque factae sint.11 Est tamen adepta gradum
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Ancient Olive Presses and Oil Production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya) by Ahmed M. A. Buzaian (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Conor Trainor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Ancient Olive Presses and Oil Production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya) by Ahmed M. A. Buzaian Conor Trainor Ahmed M. A. Buzaian. Ancient Olive Presses and Oil Production in Cyrenaica (North-East Libya). Open Access Monograph 3. London: British Institute for Libyan and North African Studies, 2022. Pp. 176. $55.00. ISBN 9781915808004
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Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle: Philosophical Theoria and Traditional Practice by Julie K. Ward (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Nevim Borçin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle: Philosophical Theoria and Traditional Practice by Julie K. Ward Nevim Borçin Julie K. Ward. Searching for the Divine in Plato and Aristotle: Philosophical Theoria and Traditional Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. v, 208. € 99.99 ISBN 978-1-316-51941-7
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received ________ Mary Beard. Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Pp. 336. $18.95. ISBN 9780520401495. Rebecca Benefiel and Catherine M. Keesling, eds. Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit: The Epigraphic Cultures of Greece, Rome, and Beyond. Brill Studies
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A Penny for His Thoughts? Socrates "the Sophist" and the Problem of Payment in the Clouds Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 D. David Williams
In this paper, I argue against the prevailing view that Aristophanes in the Clouds characterizes Socrates as a “sophistic” teacher-for-pay. To do so, I reexamine the play’s five potential references to teaching payments—Strepsiades’ description of the Thinkery (98–99), his offer of a wage (245–249), the Clouds’ exhortation to Socrates (804–812), a joke about Hyperbolus (874–876), and the “honor” that
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Lucan and Republican Promagistrates Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Roman M. Frolov
This paper argues that Lucan’s use of the word privatus to refer to the proconsuls Caesar and Pompeius corresponds to the republican formal definition of promagistrates as privati vis-à-vis magistratus (the existence of such a definition is, however, a subject of modern debate). Additionally, Lucan uses the label privatus to highlight Caesar and Pompeius’ unusually proactive role in the sphere domi
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Farms, Feces, and Food Safety in Roman Italy Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Smaranda Andrews, David Hollander, Rachel Meyers
This article examines a crucial and underexplored topic at the intersection of Roman foodways, agriculture, and health by considering the situation on the Roman farm where the extensive use of manure as well as other practices posed serious dangers to food safety. Manure was central to Roman agriculture, and a growing body of evidence for widespread instances of foodborne illnesses can be linked to
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"Hard to find another woman like her": Constantine's Empress Fausta Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Isabella Image
Discussion of the Empress Fausta, wife of Constantine, has in the past concentrated largely on theories about her death. This article follows current trends on Late Antique empresses by examining the clues about her life and activities. It demonstrates her role in helping Constantine assert his imperial legitimacy, and suggests an involvement in church affairs and patronage of buildings. In all, she
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The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture by Jason König (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Micah Myers
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture by Jason König Micah Myers Jason König. The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xxx, 444. $45.00. ISBN 9780691201290. Jason König’s monograph casts new emphasis on the role of mountains
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received ________ Selen Kılıç Aslan. Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy, 19. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xii, 402pp. $162.00. ISBN 978-90-04-54841-1. Michele Cutino, ed. The Johannine Tradition in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry. Studi e testi tardoantichi, 22. Turnhout:
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Xenophon's Cyrus in Paradise: Hunting and the Art of War in Antiquity Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Dustin Gish
Xenophon’s portrait of the education of Cyrus the Great in his Cyropaedia depicts a youth with an erotic desire for hunting, which in the ancient world trained men in the art of war. But Cyrus learned quickly from going on hunts in the royal parks or “paradises” of his grandfather, the King of Media, that the luxurious mode of hunting game in parks could not match the thrill of hunting animals in the
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Revisiting Wise "Barbarians" in the Hellenistic Era Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Philip A. Harland
The overriding sense of civilizational superiority among Greeks was encapsulated most potently in the concept of the “barbarian,” an uneducated foreigner who could do nothing more than babble nonsense, let alone contribute to civilization. The strong distinction between Greeks and barbarians was not always perfectly dichotomous, however, as seen in the wise barbarian theme that scholarship has long
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The Doctors in Tacitus' Annals: A Case of Ethnic Prejudice Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Konstantinos Arampapaslis
This paper discusses the portrayals of physicians in the Annals, and argues that they reveal Tacitus’ underlying ethnic prejudice against Greeks. The passages narrating the actions of Eudemus, Charicles, and Xenophon show that the historian portrays them negatively by underscoring their cunningness and involvement, direct or indirect, in the death of an emperor or heir. The pattern at work points to
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Teaching the Oresteia with Minority Report Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Elena Dugan
This article demonstrates a series of uncanny parallels between the Oresteia and the 2002 film Minority Report, and their import for our understanding of tragedy and film alike. I explore Minority Report’s Agatha as a modern Cassandra (as has been covered in some literature before), and extend the analogy to pair John Anderton and Orestes, Lamar Burgess and Apollo, and Spielberg’s Washington, DC and
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Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus by Arum Park (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Georgios Spiliotopoulos
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus by Arum Park Georgios Spiliotopoulos Arum Park. Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023. Pp. xi, 241. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13342-0. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Lawrence
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The Oxford Latin Syntax. Volume II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse by Harm Pinkster (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Andrew R. Dyck
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Oxford Latin Syntax. Volume II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse by Harm Pinkster Andrew R. Dyck Harm Pinkster. The Oxford Latin Syntax. Volume II: The Complex Sentence and Discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xxxii, 1,438. $190.00. ISBN 9-780199-230563. In 1969, after refuting the widely held belief
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received ________ Joshua Billings and Christopher Moore, eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 400. $120.00. ISBN 9781108494687. With contributions by the editors and K. A. Morgan, M. Munn, H. Tell, R. Bett, M. Bonazzi, E. Rodriguez, C. Balla, M. E. Kotwick
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Breaking the Silence: Io and Philomela in Ovid's Metamorphoses Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Giulio Celotto
This paper, which serves as the introduction to the volume, suggests that stories of ancient Roman women shattering the curtain of silence that surrounds them can be repurposed to support contemporary women's struggle to make their voice heard. In particular, the tales of Io and Philomela in Ovid's Metamorphoses can be used to amplify the powerful message of the recently developed Me Too movement,
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The Future is Female: Circe, Augustus, and the Prehistory of Rome Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Jessica Blum-Sorensen
This paper focuses on one of ancient mythology's most notorious voices, the nymph Circe, daughter of the Sun and witch of Aeaea. Tracing the evolution of Circe's mythology through the works of Vergil, Ovid, and Valerius Flaccus, it shows how these early imperial authors use her presence in Rome's family tree to push back on Augustus' version of Rome's genealogy and his own right to rule. By embedding
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Women Speaking Prophecy in Lucan's Civil War: An Ecofeminist Analysis Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Laura Zientek
Through the lens of trans-corporeality, a theoretical approach associated with ecofeminism, this paper examines the depiction of women's prophetic visions and voices in Lucan's Bellum Civile. Analysis of a Roman matrona, the Pythia of Delphi, and the Thessalian magos Erictho demonstrates the significance of women's agency within the civil war narrative and highlights how Lucan framed greater female
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Women's Collective Action in Tacitus' Annals Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Caitlin Gillespie
This article analyzes female collective action as embodied public performance in two episodes within Tacitus' Annals: the trial of Libo Drusus in 16 ce, and the trial of Aemilia Lepida four years later. Both defendants are accompanied by entourages of leading women, and their narratives provide vehicles for Tacitus' observations on the demise of the Roman elite and traditional republican institutions
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Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Prudence Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley Prudence Jones Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii, 275. $170.00. ISBN 978-1-1386-3509-8
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The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete by Günther Hölbl (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Brian S. Kunkel
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete by Günther Hölbl Brian S. Kunkel Günther Hölbl. The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete. Volume I: the Egyptian-Type Artifacts. With contributions by
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh, eds. Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750–1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 288. $110.00. ISBN 9780192884190. With contributions by the editors and P. Dotlačilová, E. Hall, J. Krämer, A. J. Lappin, R. Lysell, L. Nikiforova, Z. Schweitzer. Bram L. H. ten Berge.
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Viper's Mouth and Hound's Howl: Discovery, Remedy and Polysemy at Nicander Theriaca 233 and 671 Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Taylor S. Coughlan
This paper examines the polysemy of οὐ̑λος (“deadly,” “repeated,” “whole/healthy”) in Nicander’s Theriaca as a window onto the poet’s interest in the process of discovery. The core of this article treats the use of the term to describe a hound’s howl in the aetiological narrative of Alcibius’ discovery of a curative herb. I argue that Nicander deploys οὐ̑λος to call attention to the polysemy of the
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Closing Ranks: Publius Salonius and the Early Roman Army Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jessica H. Clark
A tangled tale of military resistance and reform (342 bce) includes a new rule that a man not be a centurion after being a military tribune, inspired, Livy notes, by soldiers’ dislike of P. Salonius, who moved between those ranks. This article examines this episode as evidence for the development of Rome’s military and the increasingly separate orientation of centurions and military tribunes therein
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Allusions to Livia and Her Gentes in Vergil's Aeneid Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 K. F. B. Fletcher, Sanjaya Thakur
Vergil’s Aeneid contains more allusions to Augustus’ wife than scholars have previously recognized; because Livia was connected with both the Drusi and Claudii, Vergil’s references to those gentes and their ancestors allude to her (among other people). Vergil pays special attention to the Claudii, the gens of which Livia was a member, into which she had married, and to which her sons also belonged
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Impaired Consciousness, Madness and Mental Incapacitation in the Roman Law Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Andres Pelavski
This paper explores common ideas shared by doctors and jurists in the Roman Empire concerning conditions with mental compromise. Recent scholarship has been reluctant to see an ongoing debate between experts in these two disciplines. Conversely, I will argue that it is possible to unveil a fluent exchange of ideas and concepts between legal commentators and medical writers around issues of mental incapacity
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Der Taucher von Paestum: Jugend, Eros und das Meer im antiken Griechenland by Tonio Hölscher (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Elise Markoff
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Der Taucher von Paestum: Jugend, Eros und das Meer im antiken Griechenland by Tonio Hölscher Elise Markoff Tonio Hölscher, Der Taucher von Paestum: Jugend, Eros und das Meer im antiken Griechenland. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2021. Pp. 152. €25,00. ISBN 9783608964806. In October 2018, a conference was held in Paestum to mark
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The Contradiction of the "Hymn to Zeus" in Nemean 3 Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Christopher Waldo
This article examines the opening lines of Pindar's Nemean 3, which present an interesting problem from the perspective of genre. Pindar characterizes the poem in question as a ὕμνος (11) to Zeus, contradicting the position that the singular purpose of epinician is the glorification of the victor. According to this view, it is impossible for one poem to be both an epinician to a man and a hymn to a
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Authorship Analysis and the Ending of Seven Against Thebes: Aeschylus' Antigone or Updating Adaptation? Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Nikos Manousakis, Efstathios Stamatatos
The present paper revisits the discussion concerning the authenticity of a crucial part in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes: the highly controversial ending of the play. Much has been written on the subject by various scholars, and even though there is now a general consensus that at some point in antiquity the ending of the play was "touched" by an author other than Aeschylus, the problem still remains
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Quicumque Meos Violavit Amores: Romantic Roadblocks and the Inmates of Tartarus in Tibullus 1.3 Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Joshua Paul
One common thesis on the underworld of Tibullus 1.3 suggests that the elegist casts the prisoners of Tartarus as enemies of love. In this article, I argue that the residents of Hades correspond not to nebulous obstacles between Tibullus and Delia but rather to precise character types readers encounter throughout the elegies. I consider specific verbal correspondences in book 1 of Tibullus to highlight
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Q. Marcius Philippus in the Third Macedonian War Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Hongyu Sun
Q. Marcius Philippus (cos. I, 186; II, 169; cen. 164) is generally considered a duplicitous diplomat by both ancient and modern historians. This paper re-examines his diplomacy in the Third Macedonian War. It can be argued that Marcius was more interested in promoting his own political interest than in tricking and harming the Greeks. There was no novelty in Marcius' diplomacy. Instead, Scipio Africanus
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Editor's Report on Book Reviews Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Report on Book Reviews COVID-19 continues to complicate all aspects of scholarly publishing, not least the process of successfully completing the process of the review of new books. As a result, in this issue, there are no book reviews. We are very optimistic that we will have reviews in issue 116.4. We thank authors for their
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-22
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received Mont Allen. The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi: Allegory and Visual Narrative in the Late Empire. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 325. $99.99. ISBN 9781316510919. Michael A. Anderson. Space, Movement, and Visibility in Pompeian Houses. London and New York: Routledge
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The Art of the Trojan Catalogue (Iliad 2.816–877) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Eunice Kim
Contrary to the view that the Trojan Catalogue lacks artistry or sensitivity to the Iliad's larger drama, I argue that it interweaves motifs used of epic obituaries and raises the theme of the doomed Trojan leader to underscore Hector's fate at the end of the epic. Hector's doom is put into greater relief through the Trojan Catalogue's deliberate contrast to the preceding Catalogue of Ships, which
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Artemisia of Halicarnassus: Herodotus' Excellent Counsel Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Thornton C. Lockwood
Numerous ancient sources attest that Artemisia of Halicarnassus, a fifth-century bce tyrant whose polis came under Persian rule in 524 bce, figures prominently in Xerxes' naval campaign against Greece. At least since Pompeius Trogus' first-century bce Philippic History, interpretations of Artemisia have juxtaposed her "virile courage" (uirilem audaciam) with Xerxes' "womanish fear" (muliebrem timorem)
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A Lover not a Fighter? Poetic and Aristocratic Honor in Tibullus 1.3 Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Federico di Pasqua
Tibullus 1.3 constructs a narrative that blends traditional and elegiac themes. This synthesis, instantiated in Delia's matronly virtue and the love poet's militaristic epitaph, constitutes the poem's narrative core, in which Tibullus establishes a traditional dimension for his amorous pursuits. Furthermore, by casting himself as a Roman Odysseus, the speaker asserts heroic status for himself, both
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Battling for Latin: Instructors and Students on the Challenges of Teaching and Learning Beginners' Latin in UK Universities Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Mair E. Lloyd, James Robson
Beginners' Latin courses play a crucial role in opening up the study of the ancient world to university students with little or no previous exposure to the language. Yet many learners struggle: in 2018, for example, 23% of undergraduates in UK universities either failed or withdrew from their beginners' Latin module. The current article reports on a series of semi-structured interviews dedicated to
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Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives ed. by Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 David Levy
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives ed. by Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston David Levy Felicity Loughlin and Alexandra Johnston, eds. Antiquity and Enlightenment Culture: New Approaches and Perspectives. Metaforms, 17. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Pp. 247. $127.00. ISBN 9789004412675. Publishers
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-15
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received Antony Augoustakis and Marco Fucecchi, eds. Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos. Mnemosyne Supplements, 458. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 299. $127.00. ISBN: 978-90-04-51849-0. With contributions by the editors and T. Baier, N. W. Bernstein, S. Casali, P. Esposito, F. Fabbri, A. Keith, N. Lanzarone
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Persians, a Long Thrēnos Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Marta González González
Starting from the idea that in Persians Aeschylus was attempting to arouse fear and pity in the audience (rather than glee at victory over the enemy), I propose to demonstrate that one of the resources he deployed to this end was the use of vocabulary and formulas typical of the genre of funerary epigraphy. This enabled him to present Persian grief in terms very familiar to the Athenian–and more generally
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The Presence of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in Girolamo Vida's Christiad Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Stefano Cianciosi
Christian readers engaged for centuries with Lucretius' De Rerum Natura and often contrasted or harmonized its Epicurean ideas. By analyzing a series of loci similes, I suggest that the imitation of Lucretius in a Neo-Latin epic written in sixteenth century Italy, Girolamo Vida's Christiad, represents a polemical response to that ancient author. Learned readers experienced cognitive dissonance when
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Like Father, Like Son? Reading & Rereading Homer's Odyssey in Daniel Mendelsohn's An Odyssey Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 S. R. Knighten
The cultural presence of Homer's Odyssey throughout literary history cannot be understated. It is a text that has inspired endless reading and adaptation, especially in the twenty-first century. One new adaptation stands out among the ever-growing list of Odyssey reinterpretations. Daniel Mendelsohn's 2017 memoir An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic recounts a classics professor's experience teaching
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Active Learning Techniques to Enhance Conceptual Learning in Greek Mythology Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Stephen A. Sansom, Todd Clary, Carolyn Aslan
Students in large-enrollment humanities courses need each other and frequent instructor feedback to learn complex concepts. This article details active learning techniques and assessments that we used to increase student communication, engagement, and learning in a large-enrollment, university-level Greek mythology course. We first inventory these techniques, including polling, structured-analysis
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When Money Talks. A History of Coins and Numismatics by F. L. Holt (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Antonino Crisà
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: When Money Talks. A History of Coins and Numismatics by F. L. Holt Antonino Crisà F. L. Holt. When Money Talks. A History of Coins and Numismatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 336. £25.99. ISBN 9780197517659. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Lawrence Kowerski, Classics Program
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Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis by Sarah C. Humphreys (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 John Ma
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis by Sarah C. Humphreys John Ma Sarah C. Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2 Vols.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xxi, 1457. $365.00. ISBN 9780199788256; 9780198788263. Some time in the 350s bce, after the death of Kallias,
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-23
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received Robert Arnott. Crossing Continents: Between India and the Aegean from Prehistory to Alexander the Great. Oxbow and Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2022. Pp. 138. £34.99. ISBN 978-1-78925-55-6. Baukje van den Berg. Homer the Rhetorician: Eustathios of Thessalonike on the Composition of the Iliad. Oxford Studies in Byzantium. Oxford:
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Sensory Disorientation During Crisis: Foucault's "Heterotopia" and the Plague in Ancient Athens Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Diane Harris Cline
This article explores the sensory experience of being in Athens during the plague (430–426 bce). By approaching the ancient epidemic from a perspective of sensory archaeology, we discover that the intensity of suffering caused by the two-pronged calamity of overcrowding inside the city walls plus the plague was likely exacerbated by unexpected sensory stimuli in once-familiar places (Foucault's "heterotopia")
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Agonistic Display in Classical Greek Warfare Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Jonathan M. Reeves
Warfare in the classical period has often been regarded as a quintessentially communitarian and cooperative activity, the enterprise of citizen-militiamen whose activity was motivated by and contributed to civic solidarity. In this paper, I gather fifth- and fourth-century sources that attest individual rivalries, agonism, and status-seeking within armed forces of the classical poleis. I argue that
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Putting the "I" into "Ovid": Seneca's Apocolocyntosis as Fan Fiction Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Robert S. Santucci
This article suggests a novel approach for the interpretation of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis. I argue that the text represents Seneca's attempt to lay claim to the Metamorphoses, a canonical poem influential on his own corpus, by engaging in a virtual rewrite of that text. I call this phenomenon fan fiction, since the character of Diespiter, in suggesting that Claudius' deification be added to the Metamorphoses
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A Third Gracchus Brother? Revisiting Plutarch's Account of the Death of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Emma Ljung
This article presents a new reading of Plutarch's account of the death of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus. Scholarly consensus holds that the "brother" asking the senate for permission to bury the murdered tribune is Caius, thereby linking the two Gracchi by means of the elder's demise. Yet, Plutarch himself suggests that Caius was at Numantia when Tiberius died. I argue that contrary to dominant views
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Developing a Graduate Level Pedagogy Course: A Test Case at Florida State University Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Michael Furman
This article explores the issue of pedagogical training for graduate students in the field of classics using the program at Florida State University as a model. After establishing the current state of available training in Ph.D. granting institutions across the United States and identifying the importance of such training, a framework for a graduate level pedagogy course is built using the Scholarship
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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem by Elizabeth A. Clark (review) Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Scott Goins
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem by Elizabeth A. Clark Scott Goins Elizabeth A. Clark, Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 285. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-19-088823-7. Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Lawrence Kowerski
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Books Received Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Books Received Mustafa Adak and Peter Thonemann. Teos and Abdera: Two Cities in Peace and War. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. $100.00. ISBN 9780192845429. Evelyn Adkins. Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press
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Index to Volume 115 Classical World (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-20
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Index to Volume 115 The Index exhibits separately: (I) Contributors; (II) Contents, arranged with reference to the main types of material appearing in the journal. Certain conventions, e.g., that of indicating reviewers by enclosing their names in parentheses immediately after the designation of books reviewed, will be familiar from earlier