What did Aristotle’s Rhetoric mean to medieval preachers? Clerical readers certainly absorbed it, as patterns of manuscript ownership tell us. But what did it offer them that was new? The… Read More
In one of the most evocative frescoes of the Renaissance, Raphael juxtaposes Plato and Aristotle. The pairing would seem obvious, since the two thinkers had been for centuries symbols of philosophy and… Read More
Translation is inherently comparative. As the current translator of Ovid's Tristia and the Principal Investigator of the multi-year project that aims at translating all of Ovid's works into Mandarin… Read More
This paper examines the epigraphic and material evidence of private associations and domestic cults of Italian merchants in late Hellenistic Delos to address the ways in which merchants employed religious practices… Read More
In a post-apocalyptic cityscape, a small group of survivors of war attempt to make sense of senseless violence, find community, and hold onto their agency. Called by some the Western… Read More
Parentheses number among the stylistic devices used by Tacitus to disrupt the flow of his narrative and to make himself manifest in his account of the past. They open gaps in the text, and through… Read More
