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List of Abbreviations Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Abbreviations A&A Antike und Abendland: Beiträge zum Verständnis der Griechen und Römer und ihres Nachlebens AAT Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ABSA The Annual of the British School at Athens ABull The Art Bulletin AC L'Antiquité classique AClass Acta Classica: Proceedings
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Editors' Note Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note this fall 2023 issue of TAPA brings some familiar sections and some new features. As is the custom at TAPA, our Fall issue contains Matthew Santirocco's Presidential Address, originally delivered at the 2023 SCS Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Paragraphoi, following the model of our section "Classics After Covid" (Spring 2022)
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Reckonings Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Matthew S. Santirocco
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reckonings Matthew S. Santirocco keywords sustainability of Classics and SCS, misappropriations of Greece and Rome, race and racism, accessibility, SCS mission and priorities, SCS annual meeting, reparative scholarship, open access publishing, educational innovation i i speak to you tonight with a great sense of humility and gratitude
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Rupture and Return: Introduction Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Catherine Conybeare
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rupture and Return:Introduction Catherine Conybeare I più dimenticano che quando si esce dal tunnel si esce in un altro versante e in una diversa valle, non nella stessa valle e nello stesso versante dai quali si era partiti. Ignorare questa ovvia verità vuol dire rifiutare ogni e qualsiasi insegnamento contenuto nella crisi. Most people
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Rupture and Return: Hierarchy and Pedagogy Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Amy Pistone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rupture and Return:Hierarchy and Pedagogy Amy Pistone as we are all acutely aware, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have been catastrophic on a variety of fronts. Thinking about both rupture and return, however, I want to reflect on both what was lost and what was gained. To begin, I focus my comments about rupture on the ways that
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Becoming the Octopus: Three Variations on a Metaphor Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Martina Astrid Rodda
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Becoming the Octopus:Three Variations on a Metaphor Martina Astrid Rodda between 2018 and 2019 I hit a wall. Depression was involved, as was relationship breakdown; sexual assault made an appearance. Paradoxically, my work was the most stable aspect of my life: an understanding supervisor and a research topic fairly separate from my everyday
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Working in the Dark: Service and the Path to Return Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Suzanne Lye
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Working in the Dark:Service and the Path to Return Suzanne Lye Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat's how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, Anthem when i was asked to write an essay on the theme of "Rupture and Return," my first reactions were a mix of excitement, confusion
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On Being a Lapsed Classicist: From Personal and Disciplinary Rupture to Restoring Lost Traditions and Finding a Way Back Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Lylaah L. Bhalerao
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: On Being a Lapsed Classicist:From Personal and Disciplinary Rupture to Restoring Lost Traditions and Finding a Way Back* Lylaah L. Bhalerao Dem tell meDem tell meWha dem want to tell me Bandage up me eye with me own historyBlind me to my own identity —John Agard, Checking Out Me History (2004) when the pandemic began, I was in the penultimate
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Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Deborah Beck
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Bearing and Sharing the Burdens of Mentoring in the COVID-19 Pandemic Deborah Beck academic mentoring is one of the many forms of inequity that were laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. The plight of junior and contingent faculty is vividly presented in the other paragraphoi in this issue. The difficulties faced by members of the ever-increasing
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Let Me Know When You Get Home Safe Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Olivia Hopewell, Emily Aguilar
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Let Me Know When You Get Home Safe Olivia Hopewell and Emily Aguilar oh. emily and i are writing this in the summer of 2023 as recent alumnae of Bryn Mawr College's graduate program in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies. When Catherine approached us to contribute to this "Rupture and Return" issue, we jumped at the opportunity to reflect
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Too Much Is Too Much? Κόρος in Ancient Criticism and the Poetics of Scale Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jonas Grethlein
abstract: The article explores the uses of κόρος (satiety, surfeit) in ancient criticism as part of a poetics of scale. It first shows that κόρος was applied to a wide range of different scales and used for an equally large array of phenomena. Then it suggests that Pindar's references to κόρος in Abbruchformeln (break-off formulas) may have been the origin of its later deployment by critics. Underneath
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Aeneas's Trousseau: Gender(ed) Exchange in Aeneid 1 Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Rachel Lilley Love
abstract: Dido's gifts to the shipwrecked Trojans in book 1 of the Aeneid resemble suitors' gifts (ἕδνα) recorded in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Reading Dido against a Hesiodic rather than Homeric model casts her as a suitor of Aeneas, which in turn lends further coloring to the composition of Aeneas's reciprocating gifts of a palla ("dress"), uelamen ("veil"), corona ("crown"), and jewelry, gifts
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Origin Stories: Plundered Libraries and Theories of Appropriation in Greek and Roman Imperial Literature Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Alexandra Leewon Schultz
abstract: This article argues that anecdotes about Roman generals plundering foreign libraries were a type of Roman origin story that gained traction among imperial authors writing about the republican past. Scholars have traditionally treated these anecdotes as historical sources that document not only the beginnings of Roman literary, scientific, and book history, but also Rome's ability to transform
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Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Erica M. Bexley
abstract: This article argues that the model of the Plautine seruus callidus underpins Seneca's Atreus, whose similarities to the clever slave include verbal mastery, metatheatrical plotting, eavesdropping, and cultivating a special relationship with the audience. Analysis of these parallels is situated in the broader frame of theater history to show how comedy can influence tragedy and how the Thyestes'
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Immigrant Muse: Sapphic Fragmentation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée, Hoa Nguyen's "After Sappho," and Vi Khi Nao's "Sapphở" Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Christopher Waldo
abstract: This article explores three receptions of Sappho by Asian American writers, arguing that Sappho's fragmentation has made her a fellow immigrant in the eyes of these diasporic authors. Divorced from her social and cultural contexts on archaic Lesbos, Sappho signifies primarily as fragmentation itself, the loss of an originary whole. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha uses the corporeal fragmentation of
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Latin Vocabulary and Reading Latin: Challenges and Opportunities Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Tom Keeline, Tyler Kirby
abstract: Scholars agree that you need to know 95‒98% of the words in a text in order to understand it. Using a digital and statistical analysis of a four-million-word corpus, we quantify the challenge of reaching this threshold in classical Latin. The vocabulary distribution has a long tail: to read with fluency you'd have to learn a lot of uncommon words. Because of the nature of the extant classical
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What Skills Do Students Need for Upper-Division Latin? Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Colin Shelton
abstract: This article explores the language-proficiency levels required in traditional upper-division university courses in Latin. It introduces a research framework to Classics called "domain analysis" and analyzes upper-division Latin at one university to determine the target functional outcomes for students in lower-division courses. The article finds that traditional upper-division Latin requires
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List of Abbreviations Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Abbreviations A&A Antike und Abendland: Beiträge zum Verständnis der Griechen und Römer und ihres Nachlebens AAT Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ABSA The Annual of the British School at Athens ABull The Art Bulletin AC L'Antiquité classique AClass Acta Classica: Proceedings
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Beyond the Parallel: The Iliad and the Epic of Gilgameš in Their Macro-Regional Tradition Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Tom Hercules Davies
summary: There is a lion simile in the Iliad (18.316–22) very close in language, theme, and purpose to a lion simile in the Standard Babylonian Version of Gilgameš (8.61–62). For some scholars, this parallel is a smoking gun: it proves the Iliad is a deliberate adaptation of a specific, Neo-Assyrian recension of Gilgameš. Other remain skeptical: the parallel can be explained as a coincidence. This
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Envy, Jealousy, and Class Conflict in Classical Athens: φθόνος and the Manipulation of Unacceptable Emotions Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Anthony Ellis
summary: The emotion of phthonos—envy, jealousy, begrudgery—was typically attacked in classical Greece as an irrational, inexcusable, and self-destructive vice. But, in a handful of passages, scholars have argued that it means something like "righteous indignation." This article focuses on these puzzling instances—dubbed "good phthonos"—and reexamines the theory that they are the lexical residue of
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Love Otherwise: Pseudo-Demosthenes' Erōtikos and the Aesthetics of Erōs Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Ava Shirazi
summary: Pseudo-Demosthenes' Erōtikos is often regarded as a generic exercise in erotic discourse, resulting in few analyses of the text. I offer a reappraisal of the speech, arguing that this overlooked work creatively incorporates, and at times reorients, fourth-century and even earlier discourses on erōs. The text, I show, offers us important insights into conversations around embodied beauty and
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Inventing the Latin Rhetorical Handbook: Rhetorica ad Herennium 4.1–10 Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Christopher S. Van Den Berg
summary: This essay examines Rhetorica ad Herennium 4.1–10, arguing that it is part of a programmatic textual performance. The author likens his crafting of rhetorical examples to a kind of visual display for the reader. He also explores the tension between the orator's rival imperatives to perform for an audience and to remain rhetorically inconspicuous. This tension helps us to understand the place
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"A True Republic"—Anti-Epicurean Discourse in Numenius of Apamea Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Matthew M. Gorey
summary: This article proposes a novel interpretation of a literary fragment by Numenius of Apamea that appears to praise the philosophical cohesion of the Epicurean school by likening it to a "true republic" (fr. 24 Des Places). By situating Numenius's comments within a broader tradition of anti-atomist polemics, I show that this passage can also be understood as a sarcastic parody of the Epicureans
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Physician Authority, Patient Agency, and the Divine in Ancient Greek Medicine Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Calloway Scott
summary: This article reassesses the consensus concerning the relation between Hippocratic-inspired medical practice and temple healing in Greek antiquity. This consensus holds that Hippocratic medicine and the temple cures effected in Asklēpieia were not perceived as oppositional or contradictory therapeutic outlets but instead as complementary "sectors of care." After reviewing the status quaestionis
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ποικίλα ποικίλως: Situating Aelian's Miscellanistic Programs between Greek and Roman Models of Variety in the Second Sophistic Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Scott J. Digiulio
summary: Despite the heterogeneity of the sophist Aelian's oeuvre, which ranges from fictional letter collections to anti-imperial polemics to explicitly miscellanistic works, comparatively little work has been done to contextualize Aelian within narratives of imperial miscellanism. This essay situates Aelian within this tradition by comparing his reflections on poikilia ("variety"), including his
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Machine Learning and the Future of Philology: A Case Study Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Barbara Graziosi, Johannes Haubold, Charlie Cowen-Breen, Creston Brooks
summary: This paper argues that machine learning (ML) has a role to play in the future of philology, understood here as a discipline concerned with preserving and elucidating the global archive of premodern texts. We offer one initial case study in order to outline broader possibilities for the field. The argument is in four parts. First, we offer a brief introduction to the history of classical philology
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Editors' Note Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note for this issue's paragraphos, we commissioned a piece on "Race, Recovery, and Hope," jointly authored by Bridget Murnaghan (SCS President 2020) and Shelley Haley (SCS President 2021), to reflect on the two consecutive presidential panels, focused respectively on William Sanders Scarborough (SCS 2021) and Helen Maria Chesnutt
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Sites Of Salvation; Classics And Small Liberal Arts Colleges Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Shelley P. Haley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Sites Of Salvation; Classics And Small Liberal Arts Colleges Shelley P. Haley keywords endangered Classics, small liberal arts colleges (SLACs), state of SCS as in previous scs/apa presidential address publications, my text is only lightly edited, and footnotes are at a minimum. The Society is financially better off in the fiscal year
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Race, Recovery, and Hope Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Shelley P. Haley, Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Race, Recovery, and Hope Shelley P. Haley and Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan keywords archives, Baltimore, Helen Maria Chesnutt, John Wesley Gilbert, race, racism, William Sanders Scarborough 1. BACKGROUND TO THE PRESIDENTIAL PANEL OF SHEILA (BRIDGET) MURNAGHAN (2020) AND OF SHELLEY P. HALEY (2021) two incidents, one of racial profiling and
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Archaic and Classical Atimia: Citizenship, Religious Exclusion, and Pollution Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Kevin Woram
summary: This essay argues that the punishment of atimia, the restriction of citizenship rights, had a primarily religious nature. The loss of social, legal, or political privileges associated with atimia varied in its particulars among poleis, but in nearly every case it entailed a sacred punishment. This consistent feature reflected the Greek understanding of citizenship as a covenant with the divine
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Socrates and "the Sophists" in Old Comedy Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 D. David Williams
summary: This article examines the characterization of Socrates and the socalled "Sophists" in Old Comedy, seeking to refine our understanding of how the comic poets portray intellectuals. I qualify the claim that they uniformly present Socrates and the Sophists as a single type of comic intellectual by considering how Socrates is consistently characterized in direct opposition to Protagoras, Prodicus
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Migration, Mobility, and the Hierarchy of Violence in the Classical and Early Hellenistic Polis Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Paul Vădan
summary: This paper argues that the social structures of the classical and early Hellenistic polis were governed by a normative "hierarchy of violence" that rendered free Greek non-citizens vulnerable to extrajudicial harm. It looks beyond the legal protections afforded to some outsiders and explains that the use of extrajudicial violence was considered the prerogative of the nominally untouchable
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The Consulate of 346 C.E. Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Alan J. Ross
summary: The changes to the Roman state brought about by Constantine were consolidated thanks to the survival of his dynasty after his death. This article challenges the dominance of Christian sources to our understanding of the political history of Constantine's sons. Bringing to light overlooked numismatic evidence, it argues that discrepancies in the consular fasti during 340s are not evidence for
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Litora Persona Ludo: Greco-Roman New Comedy amid Other Dramatic Genres in Statius's Achilleid Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Mathias Hanses
summary: This paper analyzes in-depth a statement frequently made in passing, namely that Statius's Achilleid alludes to Greek and Roman New Comedy. I argue that Statius sets the island of Scyros apart from the rest of the poem as a world reminiscent of the stage. Here, the experiences of the young Achilles echo tragedy, pantomime, satyr play, and especially the plays of Menander, Plautus, and Terence
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Why Lovesickness Is Not a Disease: Galen's Diagnosis and Classification of Psychological Distress Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Luis Alejandro Salas
summary: Galen reports a series of vivid case histories in his professional autobiography, Prognosis. His diagnoses are equally spectacular. Among them, the case of Justus's wife invites scrutiny: Galen discovers the woman is suffering from an anxious disorder caused by pathological desire for a pantomime. He frames her case history with the famous story of Erasistratus of Ceos's diagnosis of Antiochus
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Editors' Note Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editors' Note for this issue's paragraphos, we commissioned a piece on "Race, Recovery, and Hope," jointly authored by Bridget Murnaghan (SCS President 2020) and Shelley Haley (SCS President 2021), to reflect on the two consecutive presidential panels, focused respectively on William Sanders Scarborough (SCS 2021) and Helen Maria Chesnutt
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Sites Of Salvation; Classics And Small Liberal Arts Colleges Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Shelley P. Haley
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Sites Of Salvation; Classics And Small Liberal Arts Colleges Shelley P. Haley keywords endangered Classics, small liberal arts colleges (SLACs), state of SCS as in previous scs/apa presidential address publications, my text is only lightly edited, and footnotes are at a minimum. The Society is financially better off in the fiscal year
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Race, Recovery, and Hope Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Shelley P. Haley, Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Race, Recovery, and Hope Shelley P. Haley and Sheila (Bridget) Murnaghan keywords archives, Baltimore, Helen Maria Chesnutt, John Wesley Gilbert, race, racism, William Sanders Scarborough 1. BACKGROUND TO THE PRESIDENTIAL PANEL OF SHEILA (BRIDGET) MURNAGHAN (2020) AND OF SHELLEY P. HALEY (2021) two incidents, one of racial profiling and
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Archaic and Classical Atimia: Citizenship, Religious Exclusion, and Pollution Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Kevin Woram
summary: This essay argues that the punishment of atimia, the restriction of citizenship rights, had a primarily religious nature. The loss of social, legal, or political privileges associated with atimia varied in its particulars among poleis, but in nearly every case it entailed a sacred punishment. This consistent feature reflected the Greek understanding of citizenship as a covenant with the divine
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Socrates and "the Sophists" in Old Comedy Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 D. David Williams
summary: This article examines the characterization of Socrates and the socalled "Sophists" in Old Comedy, seeking to refine our understanding of how the comic poets portray intellectuals. I qualify the claim that they uniformly present Socrates and the Sophists as a single type of comic intellectual by considering how Socrates is consistently characterized in direct opposition to Protagoras, Prodicus
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Migration, Mobility, and the Hierarchy of Violence in the Classical and Early Hellenistic Polis Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Paul Vădan
summary: This paper argues that the social structures of the classical and early Hellenistic polis were governed by a normative "hierarchy of violence" that rendered free Greek non-citizens vulnerable to extrajudicial harm. It looks beyond the legal protections afforded to some outsiders and explains that the use of extrajudicial violence was considered the prerogative of the nominally untouchable
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The Consulate of 346 C.E. Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Alan J. Ross
summary: The changes to the Roman state brought about by Constantine were consolidated thanks to the survival of his dynasty after his death. This article challenges the dominance of Christian sources to our understanding of the political history of Constantine's sons. Bringing to light overlooked numismatic evidence, it argues that discrepancies in the consular fasti during 340s are not evidence for
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Litora Persona Ludo: Greco-Roman New Comedy amid Other Dramatic Genres in Statius's Achilleid Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Mathias Hanses
summary: This paper analyzes in-depth a statement frequently made in passing, namely that Statius's Achilleid alludes to Greek and Roman New Comedy. I argue that Statius sets the island of Scyros apart from the rest of the poem as a world reminiscent of the stage. Here, the experiences of the young Achilles echo tragedy, pantomime, satyr play, and especially the plays of Menander, Plautus, and Terence
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Why Lovesickness Is Not a Disease: Galen's Diagnosis and Classification of Psychological Distress Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-08-31 Luis Alejandro Salas
summary: Galen reports a series of vivid case histories in his professional autobiography, Prognosis. His diagnoses are equally spectacular. Among them, the case of Justus's wife invites scrutiny: Galen discovers the woman is suffering from an anxious disorder caused by pathological desire for a pantomime. He frames her case history with the famous story of Erasistratus of Ceos's diagnosis of Antiochus
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List of Abbreviations Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: List of Abbreviations A&A Antike und Abendland: Beiträge zum Verständnis der Griechen und Römer und ihres Nachlebens AAT Atti della Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Classe di Scienze morali, storiche e filologiche ABSA The Annual of the British School at Athens ABull The Art Bulletin AC L’Antiquité classique AClass Acta Classica: Proceedings
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Introduction: Classics after COVID Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Joshua Billings, Irene Peirano Garrison
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: Classics after COVID Joshua Billings and Irene Peirano Garrison founded shortly after the civil war, TAPA and its predecessors have weathered world wars, depressions, pandemics, and social and political upheaval of all kinds; its pages have documented the transformation of Classics in the United States from a relative scholarly
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Classics and the Precariat Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Chiara Sulprizio, Ric Rader
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Classics and the Precariat Chiara Sulprizio and Ric Rader when i (chiara) took up my position at Vanderbilt in 2016, I was given a one-year contract. Since I teach at a well-resourced university, there was a network of child care centers where I could enroll my child—a nice perk that many academic jobs do not include. However, precarity
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Let's Open Our Eyes and Leap Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Joy Connolly
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Let’s Open Our Eyes and Leap Joy Connolly in pictures of nothing, the art historian Kirk Varnedoe describes the bafflement minimalist art created when it first appeared in the 1960s. Stacked metal boxes, piles of timber: were they Dadaist jokes? Some new form of anti-art? Accepting them felt like resigning to the death of virtuosity, complexity
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Disciplinecraft: Towards an Anti-racist Classics Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Mathura Umachandran
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Disciplinecraft: Towards an Anti-racist Classics* Mathura Umachandran “We cannot begin to address the obscene injustices in this country without grappling with whiteness—not as a simplistic racial categorization, but as a deeply structured relationship to power and group entitlement.” Tweet by Kimberlé Crenshaw, February 22, 2021. “Racist
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Global Classics Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Shadi Bartsch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Global Classics Shadi Bartsch what does it mean to speak of “global Classics” in the “post-COVID era?” Reaching the post-COVID period may have eluded us, but the notion of a global Classics—Classics as it is received outside the West—has been a topic of serious interest in the field over the past decade, even in advance of the new opportunities
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Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Thomas J. Nelson
summary: In this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8–487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon’s scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105–8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both the debate over Chryseis and her eventual return
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"If the Wolf Sees You First, You Lose Your Voice": Proverbs and the Agōn over Definitions of Justice in Book 1 of Plato's Republic Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 John R. Tennant
summary: Plato’s use of proverbs often goes unremarked. This article demonstrates how reference to the folk proverb “If a wolf sees you first, you lose your voice” in Republic 1 frames Socrates’ exchange with Thrasymachus as a verbal battle over the definition of justice, with proverbs as weapons. In an agonistic culture that prized the use of quotations in argument and gnomic anthologies in education
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Free Will, Moral Character, and Ethical Action: The Meaning of προαίρεσις in Polybius Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Marcin Kurpios
summary: This paper offers a new perspective on Polybius’s thinking about human action and character by focusing on his use of the term προαίρεσις and its contextualization within rhetorical and philosophical settings. The paper attempts to trace and interpret the applications of the term in the Histories, with a focus on the implications for Polybian ethics. The investigation reveals that at certain
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The Portrait of the Actor in Cicero's Pro Roscio comoedo Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Hannah Čulík-Baird
summary: In the Pro Roscio comoedo, Cicero depicts Roscius as an individual empowered with civic identity, a power made even more palpable by the presence in the speech of an enslaved actor who was owned and trained by Roscius. In this article, I reexamine Cicero’s portrayal of Roscius’s relationality to enslaved performers in the Pro Roscio comoedo in order to present a “portrait” of the actor in
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The Diseased Breath of Inspiration: Sickness and the Sibyl in Aeneid 6 Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Kenneth Draper
summary: This article examines medical discourse in the scene of the Sibyl’s inspiration by Apollo in Aeneid 6, arguing that Virgil marks the Sibyl and her environment as diseased. This language has important implications for the Sibyl’s prophecy of the Italian war and for the second half of Virgil’s poem, suggesting that they are tainted by the pollution of civil strife.
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Eating Up the Plot: "Ontological Metalepsis" in Apuleius's Tales of Aristomenes and Diophanes Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Jeffrey P. Ulrich
summary: Though critics of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses have long recognized how inset tales can reverberate in the larger narrative structure in interesting ways, they have overlooked how the direction of influence is often reversed. This article analyzes how elements of the frame narrative in the Met. seep into the secondary diegetic level of inset tales at two vital interpretative junctures. First,
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Eating Up the Plot: “Ontological Metalepsis” in Apuleius’s Tales of Aristomenes and Diophanes Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jeffrey P. Ulrich
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Free Will, Moral Character, and Ethical Action: The Meaning of προαίρεσις in Polybius Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Marcin Kurpios
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Disciplinecraft: Towards an Anti-racist Classics Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mathura Umachandran
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The Diseased Breath of Inspiration: Sickness and the Sibyl in Aeneid 6 Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kenneth Draper