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How did the Greeks translate tales into images? Why do artistic depictions of ancient myths sometimes “contradict” the textual versions that we think of as canonical? What caused the Romans to be anxious about decorated ceilings? Can numismatic images solve problems in Augustan politics or explain the provenance of the Warren Cup? How are the curators of ancient artifacts to supply the high-quality digital images that scholars need in order to answer these questions? And how are text-based scholars to make productive use of them? Images have their own semantic language, and their survival, usually divorced from their original context, makes it hard to interpret them with nuance and sophistication. Images for Classicists starts from the premise that the visual and textual records from antiquity are indispensable complements to one another and demonstrates some of the ways in which text and image, taken together, can complicate and enrich our understanding of ancient culture. While attempting to dissolve the distinctions between text- and artifact-based scholars, it also tries to bridge the gap between academy and museum by exploring the challenges that the digital revolution poses to curators and sketching some of the ways in which image-based collections may be deployed in the future.

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This book focuses on the return of the diasporic Greek second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and their evolving, often ambivalent, senses of belonging and conceptualizations of “home.” Drawing from a large-scale research project employing a multi-sited and multi-method comparative approach, Counter-Diaspora is a narrative ethnographic account of the lives and identities of second-generation Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans. Through an interdisciplinary gender and generational lens, the study examines lived migration experiences at three diasporic moments: growing up within the Greek diasporic setting in the United States and Germany; motivations for the counter-diasporic return; and experiences in the “homeland” of Greece. Research documents and analyzes a range of feelings and experiences associated with this “counter-diasporic” return to the ancestral homeland.Images and imaginations of the “homeland” are discussed and deconstructed, along with notions of “Greekness” mediated through diasporic encounters. Using extensive extracts from interviews, the authors explore the roles of, among other things, family solidarity, kinship, food, language, and religion, as well as the impact of “home-coming” visits on the decision to return to the ancestral “homeland.” The book also contributes to a reconceptualization of diaspora and a problematization of the notion of “second generation.”

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This volume of eighteen articles offers: Andrew R. Dyck, “The Fragments of Heliodorus Homericus”; Hayden Pelliccia, “Aeschylus, Eumenides 64–88 and the Ex Cathedra Language of Apollo”; G. Zuntz, “Aeschyli Prometheus”; Georgia Ann Machemer, “Medicine, Music, and Magic: The Healing Grace of Pindar’s Fourth Nemean”; Carlo O. Pavese, “On Pindar fr. 169”; Deborah Steiner, “Pindar’s ‘Oggetti Parlanti’”; Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, “Parody and Later Greek Comedy”; Noel Robertson, “Athens’ Festival of the New Wine”; Richard F. Thomas, “Two Problems in Theocritus (Id. 5.49, 22.66)”; Nita Krevans, “Ilia’s Dream: Ennius, Virgil, and the Mythology of Seduction”; Benjamin Victor, “Remarks on the Andria of Terence”; Cynthia Damon, “Comm. Pet. 10”; Harold Gotoff, “Oratory: The Art of Illusion”; Henri J. W. Wijsman, “Ascanius, Gargara and Female Power in Georgics 3.269–270”*; Robert V. Albis, “Aeneid 2.57–59: The Ennian Background”; Mario Geymonat, “Callimachus at the End of Aeneas’ Narration”; Alessandro Barchiesi, “Future Reflexive: Two Modes of Allusion and Ovid’s Heroides”; and Monika Asztalos, “Boethius as a Transmitter of Greek Logic to the Latin West: The Categories.”* By misunderstanding this article was published in an uncorrected form in HSCP, vol. 94 (1992). Any reference should be made to the article as published here.

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This volume of fifteen essays includes “The Early Greek Poets: Some Interpretations,” by Robert Renehan; “The ‘Sobriety’ of Oedipus: Sophocles OC 100 Misunderstood,” by Albert Henrichs; “Virgil’s Ecphrastic Centerpieces,” by Richard F. Thomas; “Notes on Quintilian,” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and “Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece,” by Jan Bremmer.

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This volume of sixteen essays includes “Sequence and Simultaneity in Iliad N, Ξ, and O,” by Cedric H. Whitman and Ruth Scodel; “Two Inscriptions from Aphrodisias,” by Christopher Jones; “The Authenticity of the Letter of Sappho to Phaon (Heroides XV),” by R. J. Tarrant; “Textual Notes on Lesser Latin Historians,” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; “Serenus Sammonicus,” by Edward Champlin; and “October Horse,” by C. Bennett Pascal.

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C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863–1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constantinople, and Athens. Cavafy set in motion the most powerful modernism in early twentieth-century European poetry, exhibiting simple truths about eroticism, history, and philosophy—an inscrutable triumvirate that informs the Greek language and culture in all their diachrony. The Cavafy Canon plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse.Based on a fifty-year continuous scholarly and literary interaction with Cavafy’s poetry and its Greek and western European intertexts, John Chioles has produced an authoritative and exceptionally nuanced translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy’s Canon into English.

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The papers in this volume are based on a 2006 Princeton University symposium in honor of Glen W. Bowersock on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study. Here a distinguished international group of ancient historians explores the classical antiquity that Bowersock has given us over a scholarly career of almost fifty years. The topics offered in East and West range throughout the ancient world from the second century BCE to late antiquity, from Hellenistic Greece and Republican Rome to Egypt and Arabia, from the Second Sophistic to Roman imperial discourse, from Sulla’s self-presentation in his memoirs to charitable giving among the Manichaeans in Egypt. This collection of essays represents the first attempt to take in Glen Bowersock’s well-developed scholarly interests as a whole. The contributors open up new avenues that often run well beyond the conventional geographical and temporal boundaries of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, leading to a host of fresh insights into antique thought and life.

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Solomon and Marcolf is known for being both important and mysterious. It pits wise Solomon, famous from the Bible, against a wily peasant named Marcolf. One of its two parts is a dialogue, in which the king and jester, sage and fool, prophet and blasphemer bandy back and forth questions and comments. Whereas Solomon is solemn and pompous, Marcolf resorts to low language and earthy topics. The other part comprises twenty short chapters in which Marcolf tricks Solomon time and again. These episodes are as impudent and scatological as is the dialogue. Together, the two parts constitute a rudimental prose novel or “rogue biography.”Cited by Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, Solomon and Marcolf is widely known by name. But until now it has not been translated into any modern language. The present volume offers an introduction, followed by the Latin and English, detailed commentary, and reproductions of woodcut illustrations from the 1514 edition. Appendixes help readers understand the origins and influence of a work that was composed around 1200, that attained its greatest popularity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and that has the potential still today to delight and instruct.

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This volume celebrates 100 years of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. It contains essays by Harvard faculty, emeriti, currently enrolled graduate students, and most recent Ph.D.s. It displays the range and diversity of the study of the Classics at Harvard at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Volume 100 includes: E. Badian, “Darius III”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “On Statius’ Thebaid”; Brian W. Breed, “Silenus and the Imago Vocis in Eclogue 6”; Wendell Clausen, “Propertius 2.32.35–36”; Kathleen Coleman, “Missio at Halicarnassus”; Stamatia Dova, “Who Is μακάρτατος in the Odyssey?”; Casey Dué, “Tragic History and Barbarian Speech in Sallust’s Jugurtha”; John Duffy and Dimiter Angelov, “Observations on a Byzantine Manuscript in Harvard College Library”; Mary Ebbott, “The List of the War Dead in Aeschylus’ Persians”; Gloria Ferrari, “The Ilioupersis in Athens”; José González, “Musai Hypophetores: Apollonius of Rhodes on Inspiration and Interpretation”; Albert Henrichs, “Drama and Dromena: Bloodshed, Violence, and Sacrificial Metaphor in Euripides”; Alexander Hollmann, “Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotos’ Histories”; Thomas E. Jenkins, “The Writing in (and of) Ovid’s Byblis Episode”; Christopher Jones, “Nero Speaking”; Prudence Jones, “Juvenal, the Niphates, and Trajan’s Column (Satire 6.407–412)”; Leah J. Kronenberg, “The Poet’s Fiction: Virgil’s Praise of the Farmer, Philosopher, and Poet at the End of Georgics 2”; Olga Levaniouk, “Aithôn, Aithon, and Odysseus”; Nino Luraghi, “Author and Audience in Thucydides’ Archaeology. Some Reflections”; Gregory Nagy, “‘Dream of a Shade’: Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes”; Corinne Ondine Pache, “War Games: Odysseus at Troy”; David Petrain, “Hylas and Silva: Etymological Wordplay in Propertius 1.20”; Timothy Power, “The Parthenoi of Bacchylides 13”; Eric Robinson, “Democracy in Syracuse, 466–412 B.C.”; Charles Segal, “The Oracles of Sophocles’ Trachiniae: Convergence or Confusion?”; Zeph Stewart, “Plautus’ Amphitruo: Three Problems”; Sarolta A. Takàcs, “Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E.”; R. J. Tarrant, “The Soldier in the Garden and Other Intruders in Ovid’s Metamorphoses”; Richard F. Thomas, “A Trope by Any Other Name: ‘Polysemy,’ Ambiguity, and Significatio in Virgil”; Michael A. Tueller, “Well-Read Heroes Quoting the Aetia in Aeneid 8”; and Calvert Watkins, “A Distant Anatolian Echo in Pindar: The Origin of the Aegis Again.”

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This volume includes "Proemic Convention and Character Construction in Early Greek Epic" by Adrian Kelly and Sarah Harden; "Alcman's Nightscapes (Frs. 89 and 90 PMGF)" by Felix Budelmann; "Epicharmus, Tisias, and the Early History of Rhetoric" by Wilfred Major; "drakeís, dédorke and the Visualization of kléos in Pindar" by Timothy Barnes; "Dance, Deixis, and the Performance of Kyrenaic History in Pindar's Fifth Pythian" by Robert Sobak; "Of Chaos, Nobility and Double Entendres: The Etymology of xaîos and bathuxaîos (Ar. Lys. 90-91, 1157; Aesch. Supp. 858; Theoc. 7.3)" by Olga Tribulato; "Hercules, Cacus, and Evander's Myth-Making in Aeneid 8" by Davide Secci; "The Literary and Stylistic Qualities of a Plinian Letter" by Thomas Keeline; "Between Poetry and Politics: Horace and the East" by Giuseppe La Bua; "Nero's Cannibal (Suetonius Nero 37.2)" by Tristan Power; "Systems of Sophistry and Philosophy: The Case of the 'Second Sophistic'" by Jeroen Lauwers; "The Plagiarized Virgil in Donatus, Servius, and the Anthologia Latina" by Scott McGill; and "Textual Notes on Palladius Opus Agriculturae" by John Fitch.

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This volume of fifteen essays includes “La titulature de Nicée et de Nicomédie: La gloire et la haine,” by Louis Robert; “Callinus 1 and Tyrtaeus 10 as Poetry,” by A. W. H. Adkins; “The Curse of Civilization: The Choral Odes of the Phoenissae,” by Marylin B. Arthur; “Arrian and the Alani,” by A. B. Bosworth; “A Fourth-Century Latin Soldier’s Epitaph at Nakolea,” by Thomas Drew-Bear; and “Seventeen Letters of Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Eduard Fraenkel,” by William Musgrave Calder III.

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This volume of fourteen articles includes “The Bee Maidens of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes,” by Susan Scheinberg; “Eleatic Conventionalism and Philolaus on the Conditions of Thought,” by Martha Craven Nussbaum; “The Basis of Stoic Ethics,” by Nicholas P. White; “New Comedy, Callimachus, and Roman Poetry,” by Richard F. Thomas; “On Cicero’s Speeches,” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; and “Ummidius Quadratus, Capax Imperii,” by Ronald Syme.

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Among the seventeen articles in this volume, dedicated to Walton Brooks McDaniel, are: “Language and Characterization in Homer,” by the late Adam Parry; “The Rhythm of Hesiod’s Works and Days,” by Charles Rowan Beye; “Pindar Fr. 169,” by Hugh Lloyd-Jones; “Nationality as a Factor in Roman History,” by F. W. Walbank; “Readings in Early Latin,” by Otto Skutsch; “On the Date of the First Eclogue,” by Wendell Clausen; “The Textual History of Juvenal and the Oxford Lines,” by Georg Luck; “The Multiples of the as,” by James A. Willis; “Ostraca Harvardiana,” by Gerald M. Browne; and “A White-Ground Cup by Euphronios,” by Joan R. Mertens.

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This volume includes Natasha Bershadsky, “A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod’s Cult in the Works and Days”; Alexander Dale, “Sapphica”; Andrew Faulkner, “Fast, Famine, and Feast: Food for Thought in Callimachus’ Hymn to Demeter”; Guillermo Galán Vioque, “A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain”; Jarrett T. Welsh, “The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata”; Andrea Cucchiarelli, “Ivy and Laurel: Divine Models in Virgil’s Eclogues”; John Henkel, “Nighttime Labor: A Metapoetic Vignette Alluding to Aratus at Georgics 1.291–296”; Salvatore Monda, “The Coroebus Episode in Virgil’s Aeneid”; Mark Toher, “Herod’s Last Days”; Bart Huelsenbeck, “The Rhetorical Collection of the Elder Seneca: Textual Tradition and Traditional Text”; Robert Cowan, “Lucan’s Thunder-Box: Scatology, Epic, and Satire in Suetonius’ Vita Lucani”; Erin Sebo, “Symphosius 93.2: A New Interpretation”; Christopher P. Jones, “Imaginary Athletics in Two Followers of John Chrysostom”; and William T. Loomis and Stephen V. Tracy, “The Sterling Dow Archive: Publications, Unfinished Scholarly Work, and Epigraphical Squeezes.”

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Volume 103 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Renaud Gagné, “Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus”; Jonas Grethlein, “The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad”; Daniel Turkeltaub, “Perceiving Iliadic Gods”; Ruth Scodel, “The Gods’ Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1”; Alberto Bernabé, “The Derveni Theogony: Many Questions and Some Answers”; Herbert Granger, “The Theologian Pherecydes of Syros and the Early Days of Natural Philosophy”; Olga Levaniouk, “The Toys of Dionysos”; Filippomaria Pontani, “Shocks, Lies, and Matricide: Some Thoughts on Aeschylus Choephoroi 653–718”; David Wolfsdorf, “φιλία in Plato’s Lysis”; Vayos Liapis, “How to Make a Monostichos: Strategies of Variation in the Sententiae Menandri”; Stanley Hoffer, “The Use of Adjective Interlacing (Double Hyperbaton) in Latin Poetry”; Alan Cameron, “The Imperial Pontifex”; Llewelyn Morgan, “Neither Fish nor Fowl? Metrical Selection in Martial’s Xenia”; Christina Kokkinia, “A Rhetorical Riddle: The Subject of Dio Chrysostom’s First Tarsian Oration”; Andrew Turner, “Frontinus and Domitian: Laus principis in the Strategemata”; Miriam Griffin, “The Younger Pliny’s Debt to Moral Philosophy”; Gregory Hays, “Further Notes on Fulgentius”; Wayne Hankey, “Re-evaluating E. R. Dodds’ Platonism”; Seán Hemingway and Henry Lie, “A Copper Alloy Cypriot Tripod at the Harvard University Art Museums”; and Maura Giles-Watson, “Odysseus and the Ram in Art and (Con)text: Arthur M. Sackler Museum 1994.8 and the Hero’s Escape from Polyphemos.”

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Volume 101 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Stephen Scully, “Reading the Shield of Achilles: Terror, Anger, Delight”; Hugh Lloyd-Jones, “Zeus, Prometheus, and Greek Ethics”; Robert W. Wallace, “An Early Fifth-Century Athenian Revolution in Aulos Music”; Lucia Athanassaki, “Transformations of Colonial Disruption into Narrative Continuity in Pindar’s Epinician Odes”; Christina Clark, “Minos’ Touch and Theseus’ Glare: Gestures in Bakkhylides 17”; Peter Grossardt, “The Title of Aeschylus’ Ostologoi”; John Gibert, “Apollo’s Sacrifice: The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy”; Albert Henrichs, “Hieroi Logoi and Hierai Bibloi: The (Un)Written Margins of the Sacred in Ancient Greece”; David M. Engel, “Women’s Role in the Home and the State: Stoic Theory Reconsidered”; James J. Clauss, “Once upon a Time on Cos: A Banquet with Pan on the Side in Theocritus Idyll 7”; Alexander Sens, “Pleasures Recalled: A.R. 3.813–814, Asclepiades, and Homer”; Christopher S. Mackay, “Quaestiones Pisonianae: Procedural and Chronological Notes on the S.C. De Cn. Pisone Patre”; Alex Hardie, “The Pindaric Sources of Horace Odes 1.12”; Charles E. Murgia, “The Date of the Helen Episode”; Mark Toher, “Nicolaus and Herod in the Antiquitates Judaicae”; W. S. Watt,† “Notes on the Anthologia Latina”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “New Readings in Valerius Maximus”; and R. Sklenář, “The Cosm(et)ology of Claudian’s ‘In Sepulchrum Speciosae.’”

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Writers and scholars, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, never cease to be intrigued by the life and work of Konstantinos Dapontes (1713–1784), a curious and captivating individual who left a lasting mark on the cultural landscape of the Greek-speaking world in the eighteenth century. One of the most prolific writers of his time, with over nineteen volumes to his name (and a number of neglected manuscripts in libraries and monasteries in Greece and elsewhere), Dapontes was also one of the few individuals who recorded his adventurous life in a systematic and surprisingly detailed fashion, and in doing so he bequeathed to his readers an abundance of autobiographical and confessional writings—a rare genre for this period of Greek culture.This book offers an English rendition of Dapontes’s idiosyncratic poem “Canon of Hymns Comprising Many Exceptional Things,” and selected passages from other important works of his, including Mirror of Women, “Geographical History,” and Letters on Pride and the Vanity of Human Life. The translation is accompanied by notes and a detailed introduction to Dapontes’s life and work, which provides the first systematic presentation of this significant Greek author to a broad audience of scholars and general readers.

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The hegemonization of European thought by Greek antiquity was famously questioned by major representatives of the avant-garde. However, this is only one ideological dimension of the extraordinarily intricate politics of the European avant-garde’s response to Greek antiquity—a dimension that has been overrated in current research on the subject. Greek Mythologies interrogates this one-sided methodological approach by exploring in a systematic and cross-disciplinary manner the complex, at times contradictory, responses to ancient Greece in Greek and broader Western European modernism. In this pioneering book, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis investigates the multilayered (often underexplored) ideological, literary, artistic, and epistemological channels through which ancient Greek mythology was received by the avant-garde as cultural capital and discursive paradigm conducive to a radical reassessment of established socioaesthetic structures. Exploring the dynamics of ruination and the reconfiguration of fundamental icons of ancient mythology (for example, Oedipus, Pasiphae, the Minotaur, the Danaids) in Greek surrealism, this book masterfully demonstrates that Greek antiquity, despite its theoretical devaluation by influential modernists, became an integral constituent of avant-garde myth-making. Focusing mainly on highly provocative dialogues between variants of ancient Greek mythoi and twentieth-century Greek and other European mechanisms of mythogenesis, the book navigates new territories in the field of reception studies.

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Volume 98 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology offers the following contributions: Leonard Muellner, “Glaucus Redivivus”; Michael Weiss, “Erotica: On the Prehistory of Greek Desire”; C. O. Pavese, “The Rhapsodic Epic Poems as Oral and Independent Poems”; Miles C. Beckwith, “The ‘Hanging of Hera’ and the Meaning of Greek ἄκμων”; Aryeh Finkelberg, “On the History of the Greek κοσμοσ”; Ruth Scodel, “The Captive’s Dilemma: Sexual Acquiescence in Euripides’ Hecuba and Troades”; Mary Depew, “Delian Hymns and Callimachean Allusion”; Joshua T. Katz, “Testimonia Ritus Italici: Male Genitalia, Solemn Declarations, and a New Latin Sound Law”; A. R. Dyck, “Narrative Obfuscation, Philosophical Topoi, and Tragic Patterning in Cicero’s Pro Milone”; Michael C. J. Putnam, “Dido’s Murals and Virgilian Ekphrasis”; Jeffrey Wills, “Divided Allusion: Virgil and the Coma Berenices”; Joseph Farrell, “Reading and Writing the Heroides”; and Rolando Ferri, “Octavia’s Heroines: Tacitus Annales 14.63–64 and the Praetexta Octavia.”

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Among the eleven articles in this volume, dedicated to Mason Hammond, are “The Emergence of Mediaeval Towns: Independence or Continuity?” by Professor Hammond; “Existimatio, Fama, and the Ides of March,” by Zvi Yavetz; “Sophocles: Ajax 815–824,” by Cedric H. Whitman; “The Myth of Pindar’s First Nemean: Sportsmen, Poetry, and Paideia,” by Peter W. Rose; “Aristophanes’ Ranae 862: A Note on the Anatomy of Euripidean Tragedy,” by Gregory W. Dickerson; “Speech and Narrative in the Aeneid,” by Gilbert Highet; and “The ‘Lighthouse’ of Abusir in Egypt,” by Fawzi el Fakharani.

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Among the nineteen articles in this volume are “Hera’s Anvils,” by Cedric H. Whitman; “A Further Remark on Lachmann’s Law,” by Calvert Watkins; “Catullus and Callimachus,” by Wendell Clausen; “The Original Form of the Second Eclogue,” by Otto Skutsch; “Servius and the Helen Episode,” by G. P. Goold; “Notes on Ovid: III,” by E. J. Kenney; “Pulcher Claudius,” by T. P. Wiseman; “A Leading Family of Roman Thespiae,” by C. P. Jones; “The Truth about Velleius Paterculus: Prolegomena,” by G. V. Sumner; “Origen, Aquila, and Eusebius,” by T. D. Barnes; and “Three Papyri from Fourth-Century Karanis,” by Gerald M. Browne.

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This volume includes: Daniel Kölligen, “Ὄρθος, The Watchdog”; Richard L. Phillips, “Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered”; Antonio Tibiletti, “Pondering Pindaric Superlatives in Context”; Matthew Hiscock, “Αὐθέντης: A ‘Mot Fort’ in the Discourse of Classical Athens”; James T. Clark, “Off-Stage Cries? The Performance of Sophocles’ Philoctetes 201–218, Trachiniae 863–870, and Euripides’ Electra 747–760”; Giuseppe Pezzini, “Terence and the Speculum Vitae: ‘Realism’ and (Roman) Comedy”; Neil O’Sullivan, “Quotations from Epicurean Philosophy and Greek Tragedy in Three Letters of Cicero”; Ernesto Paparazzo, “A Study of Varro’s Account of Roman Civil Theology in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and Its Reception by Augustine and Modern Readers”; Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri, “Dardanio Anchisae: Hiatus, Homer, and Intermetricality in the Aeneid”; Michael A. Tueller, “Dido the Author: Epigram and the Aeneid”; Benjamin Victor, Nancy Duval, and Isabelle Chouinard, “Subordinating si and ni in Virgil: Some Characteristic Uses, with Remarks on Aeneid 6.882–883”; Richard Gaskin, “On Being Pessimistic about the End of the Aeneid”; Gregory R. Mellen, “Num Delenda est Karthago? Metrical Wordplay and the Text of Horace Odes 4.8”; Kyle Gervais, “Dominoque legere superstes? Epic and Empire at the End of the Thebaid”; D. Clint Burnett, “Temple Sharing and Throne Sharing: A Reconsideration of Σύνναος and Σύνθρονος in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods”; Charles H. Cosgrove, “Semi-Lyrical Reading of Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity”; Byron MacDougall, “Better Recognize: Anagnorisis in Gregory of Nazianzus’s First Invective against Julian”; Alan Cameron, “Jerome and the Historia Augusta”; Jessica H. Clark, “Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority in Servius Danielis”; and Jarrett T. Welsh, “Nonius Marcellus and the Source Called ‘Gloss. i.’”

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The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement.The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics addressed in The Lives of Latin Texts is testament to Richard Tarrant’s wide-ranging influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism. Contributions on stylistic, dramatic, metapoetic, and philosophical issues in Latin literature (including authors from Virgil, Horace, and Seneca to Ovid, Terence, Statius, Caesar, and Martial) sit alongside contributions on the history of textual transmission and textual editing. Other chapters treat the musical reception of Latin literature. Taken together, the volume reflects on the impact of Richard Tarrant’s scholarship by addressing the expressive scope and the long history of the Latin language.

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Guillelmus de Aragonia was known as a philosopher for his commentary on Boethius and his works on physiognomy, oneirology, and astronomy; he was also a physician, perhaps a personal physician to the king of Aragon. In a time of intellectual upheaval and civil strife, when nobility was on the verge of being defined with legal precision as it had not been since antiquity, Guillelmus taught that true nobility is an acquired habit, not an inborn quality. Guillelmus wrote De nobilitate animi, “On Nobility of Mind,” around 1280–1290. Working in the recently renewed Aristotelian tradition, he took an independent and original approach, quoting from philosophers, astronomers, physicians, historians, naturalists, orators, poets, and rustics pronouncing proverbs. This edition presents the Latin text, based on six manuscripts, three of them hitherto unknown, along with an English translation. An introduction reviews Guillelmus’s life and work, considering his theory of nobility in the contexts of history, philosophy, and rhetoric, and studies the authorities he quotes with particular attention to the troubadours, lyric poets from the area known today as the south of France. An appendix of sources and analogues is also included.

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Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985) was one of the most prominent representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the “patriarch” of Surrealism in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics. In both his paintings and poems, he engaged in a critical, often ironic dialogue with Greek history and cultural traditions and their ideological appropriations in established cultural and political discourses. Engonopoulos was arguably the keenest advocate of Surrealist black humor and irony in Greece. His overall approach to the Greek past, informed as it was by the socio-aesthetic principles of French Surrealism, constitutes one of the most ingenious and provocative cases of artistic mythogenesis in the European avant-garde.This volume offers a collection of his most representative poems, including his long poem Bolivár, which was written in the winter of 1942–1943 and soon acquired the status of an emblematic act of resistance against the Nazis and their allies (Italians and Bulgarians), who had occupied Greece in 1941.

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This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coins—or large statuary and miniature art—in the private and public domain. It originates in the Harvard Art Museums 2011 Ilse and Leo Mildenberg interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection. The papers examine the function of Greek and Roman portraiture and the importance of coins for its identification and interpretation. The authors are scholars from different backgrounds and present case studies from their individual fields of expertise: sculpture, public monuments, coins, and literary sources.Sculpture and Coins also pays homage to the art historian Margarete Bieber (1879–1978) whose work on ancient theater and Hellenistic sculpture remains seminal. She was the first woman to receive the prestigious travel fellowship from the German Archaeological Institute and the first female professor at the University of Giessen. Dismissed by the Nazis, she came to the United States and taught at Columbia. This publication cannot answer all the questions: its merit is to reopen and broaden a conversation on a topic seldom tackled by numismatists and archaeologists together since the time of Bernard Ashmole, Phyllis Lehmann and Léon Lacroix.

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Volume 97 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology is a special issue, entitled “Greece in Rome,” comprising revised versions of papers presented at a Loeb Classical Conference on the question of the Greek influence on Roman culture, with a particular though not exclusive emphasis on the Augustan period. The papers reflect the complexity of the relationship between the cultures involved—Greek, Roman, and Italic—and span many fields: history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, religion, and the visual arts.Contributors include: G. W. Bowersock, “The Barbarism of the Greeks”; John Scheid, “Graeco Ritu: A Typically Roman Way of Honoring the Gods”; Calvert Watkins, “Greece in Italy outside Rome”; Gisela Striker, “Cicero and Greek Philosophy”; Brad Inwood, “Seneca in His Philosophical Milieu”; Bettina Bergmann, “Greek Masterpieces and Roman Recreative Fictions”; Elaine K. Gazda, “Roman Sculpture and the Ethos of Emulation: Reconsidering Repetition”; Ann Kuttner, “Republican Rome Looks at Pergamon”; Cynthia Damon, “Greek Parasites and Roman Patronage”; Richard F. Thomas, “Vestigia Ruris: Urbane Rusticity in Virgil’s Georgics”; R. J. Tarrant, “Greek and Roman in Seneca’s Tragedies”; Christopher P. Jones, “Graia Pandetur ab Urbe”; Albert Henrichs, “Graecia Capta: Roman Views of Greek Culture”; and Sarolta A. Takács, “Alexandria in Rome.”

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This volume of sixteen articles includes: T. D. Barnes, “The Significance of Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus”; Wendell Clausen, “Cicero and the New Poetry”; Gregory Crane, “Three Notes on Herodas 8”; Thomas K. Hubbard, “Pegasus’ Bridle and the Poetics of Pindar’s Thirteenth Olympian”; C. P. Jones, “Suetonius in the Probus of Giorgio Valla”; Peter E. Knox, “Ovid’s Medea and the Authenticity of Heroides 12”; Norbert F. Lain, “Catullus 68.145”; Jeffrey S. Rusten, “Structure, Style, and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier’s Choice (Thuc. 2.42.4)”; Richard Seaford, “Immortality, Salvation, and the Elements”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Tu Marcellus eris”; Friedrich Solmsen, “Aeneas Founded Rome with Odysseus”; Joseph B. Solodow, “Raucae, tua cura, palumbes: Study of a Poetic Word Order”; Richard F. Thomas, “Unwanted Mice (Arat. Phaen. 1140–1141)” and “Virgil’s Georgics and the Art of Reference”; Brent Vine, “An Umbrian-Latin Correspondence”; and Robert Wallace, “The Date of Isokrates’ Areopagitikos.”

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This volume of sixteen essays includes “The Earliest Stages in the History of Hesiod’s Text,” by Friedrich Solmsen; “Notes on Plautus’ Bacchides,” by Otto Skutsch; “Gadflies (Virg. Geo. 3.146–148),” by Richard F. Thomas; “Homoeoteleuton in Latin Dactylic Poetry,” by Lennart Håkanson; “Augustus and August: Some Pitfalls of Historical Fiction,” by A. B. Bosworth; and “The Career of Arrian,” by Ronald Syme.

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Included in this latest volume are: “A Structural Analysis of the Digressions in the Iliad and the Odyssey,” by Julia Haig Gaisser; “Bacchylides’ Ode 5: Imitation and Originality,” by Mary R. Lefkowitz; “Agamemnonea,” by Hugh Lloyd-Jones; “Euripides, Alcestis 1092–1098,” by Marylin A. Whitfield; “Ληκυθιον Απωλεσεν,” by Cedric H. Whitman; “Near Eastern Material in Hellenistic and Roman Literature,” by M. L. West; “Chrysalus and the Fall of Troy (Plautus, Bacchides 925–978),” by H. D. Jocelyn; “Symmetry and Sense in the Eclogues,” by Otto Skutsch; “Some Callimachean Influences on Propertius, Book 4,” by Hugh E. Pillinger; “Pliny the Procurator,” by Ronald Syme; “Seneca and Juvenal 10,” by Bernard F. Dick; “Theodosius the Great and the Regency of Stilico,” by Alan Cameron; “Architect and Engineer in Archaic Greece,” by R. Ross Holloway; and “A Terracotta Lamp in the McDaniel Collection,” by Sidney M. Goldstein.

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The present volume in this distinguished series includes the essays “Homer as Oral Poet,” by Albert B. Lord; “Callimachus, Fragments 260–261,” by Hugh Lloyd-Jones and John Rea; “A King’s Notebooks,” by E. Badian; “Roman Policy in Spain before the Hannibalic War,” by G. V. Sumner; “The Proconsulate of Albus,” by G. W. Bowersock; “A Remark on Lachmann’s Law,” by J. Kuryłowicz; “Culex 59,” by O. Skutsch; “Maximianus a Satirist?” by Joseph Szövérffy; and other essays by Virginia Brown, R. D. Dawe, Sidney M. Goldstein, Mason Hammond, Nancy L. Hirschland, C. P. Jones, A. R. Littlewood, Charles E. Murgia, Carlo Pavese, and E. J. Weinrib.

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This volume includes Carolyn Higbie, “Divide and Edit: A Brief History of Book Divisions”; Ho Kim, “Aristotle’s Hamartia Reconsidered”; Andrew Faulkner, “Callimachus and His Allusive Virgins: Delos, Hestia, and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite”; José M. González, “Theokritos’ Idyll 16: The Χάριτες [Kharites] and Civic Poetry”; Matthew Leigh, “Boxing and Sacrifice: Apollonius, Vergil, and Valerius”; Sviatoslav Dmitriev, “The Rhodian Loss of Caunus and Stratonicea in the 160s”; Radosław Piętka, “Trina tempestas (Carmina Einsidlensia 2.33)”; James Uden, “The Vanishing Gardens of Priapus”; Maria Ypsilanti, “Trimalchio and Fortunata as Zeus and Hera: Quarrel in the Cena and Iliad 1”; Martin Korenjak, “Ps.-Dionysius Ars Rhetorica I–VII: One Complete Treatise”; Jarrett T. Welsh, “The Grammarian C. Iulius Romanus and the Fabula Togata”; Silvio Bär, “Quintus of Smyrna and the Second Sophistic”; and Simon Price, “The Road to Conversion: The Life and Work of A. D. Nock.”

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This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Written by leading international scholars in a number of disciplines (critical theory, gender studies, comparative literature, English studies, Greek studies, anthropology, classics), the essays of this volume situate Cavafy’s poetry within the broader contexts of modernism and aestheticism and investigate its complex and innovative responses to European literary traditions (from Greek antiquity to modernity) as well as its multifaceted impact on major figures of world literature—from North America to South Africa.Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard Dellamora, Mark Doty, James Faubion, Diana Haas, John Chioles, Albert Henrichs, Kathleen Coleman, Michael Paschalis, Peter Jeffreys, and Panagiotis Roilos.

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Volume 104 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes: Jeremy Rau, “Δ 384 Τυδῆ, Ο 339 Μηκιστῆ, and τ 136 Ὀδυσῆ”; Naomi Rood, “Craft Similes and the Construction of Heroes in the Iliad”; Yoav Rinon, “The Tragic Pattern of the Iliad”; Catherine Rubincam, “Herodotus and His Descendants: Numbers in Ancient and Modern Narratives of Xerxes’ Campaigns”; Chiara Thumiger, “Personal Pronouns as Identity Terms in Ancient Greek: The Surviving Tragedies and Euripides’ Bacchae”; Luis Andrés Bredlow Wenda, “Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus: Some Textual Notes”; Ulrich Gotter, “Cultural Differences and Cross-Cultural Contact: Greek and Roman Concepts of Power”; Christopher Krebs, “Hebescere virtus (Sallust BC 12.1): Metaphorical Ambiguity”; Alexei A. Grishin, “Ludus in undis: An Acrostic in Eclogue 9”; Jackie Elliott, “Aeneas’ Generic Wandering and the Construction of the Latin Literary Past: Ennian Epic vs. Ennian Tragedy in the Language of the Aeneid”; Luis Rivero García, “Virgil Aeneid 6.445–446: A Critical Note”; Monika Asztalos, “The Poet’s Mirror: Horace’s Carmen 4.10”; Denis Rousset, “The City and Its Territory in the Province of Achaea and ‘Roman Greece’”; and Alexander Kirichenko, “Satire, Propaganda, and the Pleasure of Reading: Apuleius’ Stories of Curiosity in Context.”

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Albert’s Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry—and a few prose quotations and artistic objects—composed by colleagues and students of Albert Henrichs on the occasion of his retirement in Spring 2017. Appointed Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University at the age of thirty in 1973 and Eliot Professor of Greek in 1984, Professor Henrichs has devoted his scholarly career to Greek literature and religion—especially his favorite Greek god, Dionysos—and to incomparably enthusiastic teaching of countless students at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His scholarship and dedication are legendary. This volume is offered to a brilliant and beloved scholar with gratitude, affection, and respect.

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This volume of nineteen articles offers: Marianne Palmer Bonz, “The Jewish Donor Inscriptions from Aphrodisias: Are They Both Third-Century, and Who Are the Theosebeis?”; Timothy W. Boyd, “Where Ion Stood, What Ion Sang”; C. O. Brink, “Can Tacitus’ Dialogus Be Dated? Evidence and Historical Conclusions”; Robert D. Brown, “The Bed-Wetters in Lucretius 4.1026”; Joseph W. Day, “Interactive Offerings: Early Greek Dedicatory Epigrams and Ritual”; Marian Demos, “Callicles’ Quotation of Pindar in the Gorgias”; Margalit Finkelberg, “The Dialect Continuum of Ancient Greek”; Andrew Garrett and Leslie Kurke, “Pudenda Asiae Minoris”; Stephen Harrison, “Yew and Bow: Vergil Georgics 2.448”; C. P. Jones, “A Geographical Setting for the Baucis and Philemon Legend (Ovid Metamorphoses 8.611–724)”; Alan Kershaw, “En in the Senecan Dramatic Corpus”; Paul T. Keyser, “Later Authors in Nonius Marcellus and His Date”; William T. Loomis, “Entella Tablets VI (254–241 B.C.) and VII (20th cent. A.D.?)”; Alan Nussbaum, “Five Latin Verbs from Root *leik-”; Michael Peachin, “The Case of the Heiress Camilia Pia”; Alexander Sens, “A Beggarly Boxer: Theocritus Idyll 22.134”; D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “Comm. Pet. 10”; W. S. Watt, “Notes on Seneca De Beneficiis, De Clementia, and Dialogi”; and Shirley Werner, “On the History of the Commenta Bernensia and the Adnotationes super Lucanum.”

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Among the fourteen articles in this volume are “Aspects of Religion in Classical Greece,” by W. den Boer; “Mani and the Babylonian Baptists: A Historical Confrontation,” by Albert Henrichs; “On Euripides’ Helen,” by Christian Wolff; “Alexander, Palamedes, Troades, Sisyphus—A Connected Tetralogy? A Connected Trilogy?” by George Leonidas Koniaris; “The Φύσις of Comedy,” by Erich Segal; “Phaethon, Sappho’s Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas,” by Gregory Nagy; “Thematic S-Aorists in Homer,” by Catharine Prince Roth; “Etyma Enniana,” by Calvert Watkins; “Ennian Laurentis Terra,” by Alan J. Nussbaum; “The Concept of Periodicity in the Ad Herennium,” by H. C. Gotoff; and “Emendavi ad Tironem: Some Notes on Scholarship in the Second Century A.D.,” by J. E. G. Zetzel.

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This volume of seventeen essays includes “Royal Documents in Maccabees II,” by Christian Habicht; “Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Teachings of the Sophists,” by Peter W. Rose; “The Text of Aristotle’s De Motu Animalium,” by Martha C. Nussbaum; “Symposium at Sea,” by W. J. Slater; “Emendations of Pseudo-Quintilian’s Longer Declamations,” by D. R. Shackleton Bailey; “Limes Arabicus,” by G. W. Bowersock; and “The Plancii of Perge and Diana Planciana,” by C. P. Jones.

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The Cambridge Songs, from the Latin Carmina Cantabrigiensia, is the most important anthology of songs from before the thirteenth-century Carmina Burana. It offers the only major surviving anthology of Latin lyric poems from between Charlemagne and the Battle of Hastings. It contains panegyrics and dirges, political poems, comic tales, religious and didactic poems, and poetry of spring and love. Was it a school book for students, or a songbook for the use of professional entertainers? The greatest certainty is that the poems were composed in the learned language, and that they were associated with song. The collection is like the contents of an eleventh-century jukebox or playlist of top hits from more than three centuries.This edition and translation comprises a substantial introduction, the Latin texts and English prose in carefully matched presentation, and extensive commentary, along with appendices, list of works cited, and indices.

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Ancient metricians saw Greek verse in essentially paradigmatic terms, as a mosaic of discrete feet or phrases, each with its own name and each conforming, within a permitted range of variation, to some fixed model. The syntagmatic alternative to this view offered here represents the first attempt since the early nineteenth century to make a decisive break with inherited metrical categories and assumptions. It argues that feet and phrases, to the extent that they exist at all in Greek lyric verse, tend to be present at the level of parole rather than langue—constituting one of a number of possible ways of articulating some larger rhythmical continuum. These larger rhythmical structures, comparable to the movements of a piece of Classical Western music but allowing for a more fluid bar structure, a greater variety of basic time signatures, and more frequent modulation, are the minimal independent utterances in lyric discourse.Recognition of their existence and character allows a reduction of the bewildering multiplicity of rhythmical nomenclature to something much more simple and manageable, as well as a clearer view both of the architectonics of the Greek stanza and of the main lines of its development during the three centuries (700–400 B.C.) when rhythmical innovation and experimentation were at their height. The organization of the book is partially by genres, partially historical; its use in the study of individual passages is facilitated by a full index locorum.

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This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis “for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness.” The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue with death, as many critics hastily concluded, these elegies are laments for what is seen and perceived in certain “timeless moments” that, like the Oxopetra headland, project into the beyond, into another reality, revealing truths that, to the poet’s constant dismay, remain “unverifiable” and “unutterable.” The poems here function as a “contemporary form of magic,” a key opening the portals to this other reality, at least for those who speak Elytis’ language: the language of the Secret Sun. In West of Sorrow, published in November 1995, only months before his death, it becomes even clearer that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life and love and beauty.

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Volume 102 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Mika Kajava, “Hestia: Hearth, Goddess, and Cult”; Jonathan Burgess, “Untrustworthy Apollo and the Destiny of Achilles: Iliad 24.55–63”; Anna Bonifazi, “Relative Pronouns and Memory: Pindar beyond Syntax”; William Race, “Pindar’s Olympian 11 Re-Visited Post-Bundy”; Michael Clarke, “An Ox-Fronted River-God (Sophocles, Trachiniae 12–13)”; William Allan, “Religious Syncretism: The New Gods of Greek Tragedy”; Edward Harris, “Notes on a Lead Letter from the Athenian Agora”; Miriam Hecquet-Devienne, “A Legacy from the Library of the Lyceum? Inquiry into the Joint Transmission of Theophrastus’ and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Based on Evidence Provided by Manuscripts E and J”; Jordi Pàmias, “Dionysus and Donkeys on the Streets of Alexandria: Eratosthenes’ Criticism of Ptolemaic Ideology”; Craige B. Champion, “Polybian Demagogues in Political Context”; Marco Fantuzzi, “The Magic of (Some) Allusions: Philodemus AP 5.107 (GPh 3188 ff.; 23 Sider)”; Brian Krostenko, “Binary Phrases and the Middle Style as Social Code: Rhetorica ad Herennium”; Deborah Steiner, “Catullan Excavations: Pindar’s Olympian 10 and Catullus 68”; Andrew Dyck, “Cicero’s Devotio: The Rôles of Dux and Scape-Goat in His Post Reditum Rhetoric”; Mario Geymonat, “Capellae at the End of the Eclogues”; Sergio Casali, “Nisus and Euryalus: Exploiting the Contradictions in Virgil’s Doloneia”; Thomas Cole, “Ovid, Varro, and Castor of Rhodes: The Chronological Architecture of the Metamorphoses”; Niklas Holzberg, “Impersonating the Banished Philosopher: Pseudo-Seneca’s Liber Epigrammaton”; E. Courtney, “On Editing the Silvae”; and D. R. Shackleton Bailey, “On Editing the Silvae: A Response.”

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