Exempla antiqua
By Ivy Livingston This site is intended to help teachers find pieces of classical or medieval Latin that illustrate particular grammatical constructions. Texts are drawn from objects (e.g. coins, inscriptions), as…
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Rome’s First Civil War and the Fragility of Republican Political Culture
By Harriet I. Flower Abstract: This chapter asks what civil war does to a republic, arguing that civil war destroys not only people and property but the whole social contract that gives a republic coherence. It…
Tarda Moles Civilis Belli : The Weight of the Past in Tacitus’ Histories
By Rhiannon Ash Abstract: This chapter examines three conspicuous instances of historiographical synkrisis in Tacitus’ Histories (Histories 1.50.2–3; 2.38; 3.51) in which the republican civil wars are the lens through…
Male and female spaces in Homer and in Heike monogatari
By Naoko Yamagata Abstract: The basic division of male and female spaces appears to exist in both Homer and Heike monogatari. In both the breach of the gendered division of spaces is used to underline crises, and, to…
Ab Urbe Condita: Roman History on the Shield of Aeneas
By Andreola Rossi Abstract: This chapter offers a reading of the shield of Aeneas that shows civil war to be disturbingly present in an artefact announced as a history of Rome’s triumphs: civil war fights for space…
Appropriation and Adaptation: Republican Idiom in Res Gestae 1.1
By Louise Hodgson Abstract: Augustus opens the Res Gestae with his age: ‘nineteen years old’ (annos undeviginti natus). This places the reader firmly in the autumn of 44, rather than the aftermath of Caesar’s…
Gender Reversals and Intertextuality in Tibullus
By Erika Zimmermann Damer Abstract: This paper argues that Tibullus’ practice of altering the gender of his intertextual references destabilizes gender as a biological, social, and even grammatical category in his…
Exemplary Influences and Augustus’ Pernicious Moral Legacy
By Rebecca Langlands Abstract: This chapter turns to the less often discussed, negative side of Suetonius’ generally laudatory biography of Augustus, arguing that the portrayal of the emperor’s private relationships…
Suetonius’ Rubric Sandwich
By Donna W. Hurley Abstract: This chapter looks at Suetonius’ method of arranging the material of the Caesars into thematic and chronological sections. Suetonius is generally said to begin his biographies with a…
Suetonius the Ventriloquist
By Cynthia Damon Abstract: This chapter surveys Suetonius’ prose style, particularly his tendency to include the emperors’ own words in verbatim quotation. The metaphor of the ‘ventriloquist’ is apt for Suetonius, who…