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
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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…
Altera Roma: Livy’s Variations on a Ciceronian Theme
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…
Statius and Ovid: Transforming the Landscape
By Carole Newlands Abstract: This paper examines Statius’ depiction of landscape in comparison with Ovid’s. Three landscapes that illustrate Statius’ important and complex debt to Ovid are discussed: the sacred grove…
Subversive Geography in Tacitus’ “Germania”
By Zoë M. Tan Abstract: Geography is a fundamental element of ancient ethnography, yet the account of the environment in Tacitus’ Germania is notably sparse. Standard elements of geographic description are absent, or…
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…
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
Martial’s Short Poems and Catullus’ Long Poems
By Patricia Larash Article in The Classical Outlook, vol. 85, no. 4, 2008, pp. 136–140. View on JSTOR