By Nicole Loraux, translated by Alan Sheridan Abstract: How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise the city of…
By Ruby Blondell Abstract: Homer in general, and Helen in particular, were of great interest to the lyric poets. This article examines ways in which major fragments of Alcaeus, Ibycus, and Sappho select and combine…
By Aristophanes, translated, with introduction, notes, and commentaries, by Sarah Ruden Abstract: This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes’ comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric…
By Sappho, translated and with an introduction by Josephine Balmer Abstract: This second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer’s classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently-discovered fragments,…
By Frances Titchener Abstract: Scholarly interest in Cornelius Nepos has typically been in direct proportion to what light Nepos could shed on other, more significant, figures of the day: Catullus and Cicero,…
By Lilah Grace Canevaro Abstract: This book argues that the structure of Hesiod’s Works and Days and the modes of reading the poem which it encourages reflect the interplay between self-sufficiency – Hesiod2019s Iron…
By Ruth Morello Abstract: This paper examines Pliny’s habit of “evasive display,” a practice which exploits the recusatio to the full and produces the sense of endless deferral in the letters. Letters are generically…
By Rebecca Armstrong Abstract: Ovid devoted about half of his poetic career to the production of several collections of amatory verse, all composed in elegiac couplets. Indeed, his irrepressible interest in love, sex…
By Yelena Baraz Abstract: In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar’s dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware,…
Edited by Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, and Dan-el Padilla Peralta Abstract: Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an…