Edited by Paul J. du Plessis Abstract: Why did Roman prosecutors typically accuse the defendant of multiple crimina, when in most standing criminal courts the punishment imposed on a guilty defendant was the same…
By Ruth Rothaus Caston Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Supplement No. 125, EMOTIONS BETWEEN GREECE & ROME (2015), pp. 129-148 (2015) View on JSTOR
By Joanna Kenty Abstract: In narrating Rome’s victory over Capua in the Hannibalic War, Livy engages substantially with Cicero’s three orations De Lege Agraria as an intertext, and in particular with Cicero’s argument…
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,…
By Lydia Langerwerf Abstract: Known to us only through the spectrum of hostile sources, Lucius Sergius Catilina (108-62 BC) is an enigma. Nevertheless, one aspect of his personality seems clear. However much they…
Translated by Betty Radice Abstract: Pliny started his career at the Roman bar at the age of eighteen. He moved through the regular offices in a senator’s career, held two treasury appointments and a priesthood, and…
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