The investigation offers no real answers, but asks many questions. Given the exigencies of the future needs of the Roman state in areas as diverse as army supply, the massing of currency, and arrangements for the… Read More
Since it's founding in 2011, the Paideia Institute for Humanistic Study, a independent non-profit organization promoting the study of Latin, Ancient Greek, and the classical humanities, has grown into a multi-… Read More
Acts of benefaction (euergetism) toward the local community by Ptolemaic officials, officers and priests belonging to different but also at times intersecting cultural spheres are an essential mechanism for… Read More
Seen from a distance Thucydides and Tacitus have much in common: they are both uncomfortable authors whose unsparing commitment to revealing the truth results in grim depictions of the amoral deployment of… Read More
I will discuss my work in producing a new verse translation with introduction of the Odyssey, forthcoming from Norton (November 2017). The obvious question about any new translation of an already-much-… Read More
Magic – the word evokes the mysterious and the marvelous, the forbidden and the hidden, the ancient and the arcane. But what did magic mean to the people who coined the term, the people of ancient Greece… Read More
Drawing on Homer, Herodotus, Plato, and Epicurus, among others, this paper recovers an ancient, though largely forgotten, democratic tradition which associates the egalitarian mindset with the tendency… Read More
This talk will examine the burning of written material at Rome from the Republican period until the rise of Christianity, using the lens of book history. We will consider why and how Romans burned written… Read More
