Disease often served as a potent metaphor for deficient character in antiquity. This phenomenon is explored through a canvassing of poetic, philosophical, and technical works that describe a target as gouty.… Read More
This paper examines the conversational exchanges depicted in Cicero’s De Oratore and considers what they may tell us about linguistic politeness in Late Republican Rome. It focuses in particular on verbal… Read More
When dealing with Aristotle’s Poetics, scholars typically assume that he regards tragedy as the most valuable of poetic genres; Aristotle’s analysis of comedy would then be marginal to his whole… Read More
A remarkable feature of early Greek colonies is the division of the land into equal klêroi (“lots,” “plots of land”) and their apparent assignation by lot to a group of settlers who were themselves… Read More
The site of Marzuolo in inland southern Tuscany, in a landscape of small farmers reconstructed by the Roman Peasant Project, highlights the precariousness of current models of the Roman rural… Read More
This paper examines current trends in the scientific study of laughter and humour—including evolutionary, cognitive and psychological theorizing and empirical research—and considers how such research may help… Read More
Modern historians of the founding principles of the United States of America have often dismissed the Revolutionaries' frequent references to Greek and Roman history, politics, philosophy, statesmen and literature as… Read More
Following a tradition of ancient commentary, some contemporary scholars have suggested that fragments from, and testimony about, Aristotle’s lost Eudemus provide strong evidence for… Read More
Our knowledge of Sophocles’ fragmentary Tereus has now been enriched by the publication of POxy. 5292, portions of which overlap with S. fr. 583 (preserved by Stobaeus). Among other things,… Read More
What can Greek and Latin literature of antiquity teach us at a moment when our entire world, or at least our polity, seems to be breaking apart? Or to sound a less apocalyptic note, when many of the principles… Read More
