Sappho’s Immortal Daughters
By Margaret Williamson Book Description: She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C.E. She composed lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was–and is–the most highly regarded woman poet of Greek…
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Virtus Effeminata and Sallust’s Sempronia
By Barbara Weiden Boyd Article in Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), vol. 117, 1987, pp. 183–201. View on JSTOR
The Elegiac Woman at Rome
By Maria Wyke Article in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, no. 33 (213), 1987, pp. 153–178. View on JSTOR
Women’s Voices and Catullus’ Poetry
By Judith P. Hallett Article in The Classical World, vol. 95, no. 4, 2002, pp. 421–424. View on JSTOR
Julius Caesar and the Roman stasis
By Ayelet Peer Abstract: Thucydides was perhaps the most influential historian in antiquity; his work inspired countless subsequent authors. In the past decade, interest in the connection between Julius Caesar’s…
Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics
By Bobby Xinyue Abstract: Virgil’s Georgics offers near-contemporary responses to and repeated meditations on the subject of the divinization of Octavian, the soon-to-be Augustus, who in the wake of his victory at…
Distorted Oaths in Aeschylus
by Isabelle Torrance Abstract: This paper argues that Aeschylus systematically distorts normative ritual paradigms of oath-taking for dramatic purposes. Oaths in Aeschylus tend to be conspiratorial and/or political in…
Alexander’s Cavalry Charge at Chaeronea, 338 BCE.
By Matthew A. Sears and Carolyn Willekes Abstract: The Battle of Chaeronea, fought in 338 BCE between Philip of Macedon and the Greek city-states, is known only from meager literary evidence and a few archaeological…
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in Cultural Receptivity
By Margaret C. Miller Book Description: It is a commonplace of modern scholarship that the Athenians hated and despised the Persians, but the claims of contempt are disproved by the evidence of archaeology, epigraphy,…
The Roman City and Its Periphery: From Gaul to Rome
By Penelope Goodman Book Description: The first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism –…