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…
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Influence of Culture over Marital Love and Fidelity in Ancient Rome and Ugboha of Edo State
By Monica Omoye Aneni Abstract: This paper, interrogated the roles and pressures of culture over marital love and fidelity and vice-versa in both societies. The study employed historical and comparative methodologies…
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 –…
Latin Historians
By C.S. Kraus and A.J. Woodman Abstract: In recent decades there has been a complete revolution in the way we read the historians of Greece and Rome. Their works have been shown to be quite different in nature from…
The Power of the Epistolary Preface from Statius to Pliny
By Victoria E. Pagán Article in The Classical Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1, 2010, pp. 194–201. View on JSTOR
Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World: Ovid
by Katharina Volk Abstract: This book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid’s life, presents the author’s works…
Ennius’ Annals: Poetry and History
By Cynthia Damon and Joseph Farrell Abstract: In the context of recent challenges to long-standing assumptions about the nature of Ennius’ Annals and the editorial methods appropriate to the poem’s fragmentary remains,…
Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger: An Introduction
By Roy K. Gibson and Ruth Morello Abstract: This is the first general introduction to Pliny’s Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative…