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…
By Rachel Bird Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their…
By Barbara Goff Abstract: Set at the end of the Trojan war, “Euripides’ Trojan Women” depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the…
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 Anita Nikkanen Abstract: The selected poems depict the bitter-sweet love affairs of the poet-lovers and their mistresses, from the heartbreak of rejection to the elation at love reciprocated. While Propertius’ and…