The world of Homeric epic already contained, or pointed to, other possible stories, non-heroic alternatives that the ensuing literary tradition would develop in different ways. The Circe episode is an… Read More
‘Is everything entirely made up of atoms? … Or is everything made up of atomless “gunk”—as Lewis (1991: 20) calls it—that divides forever into smaller and smaller parts?’ (Varzi 2014)
I have had the good fortune to direct or co-direct excavations at two legendary sites in Turkey–-Troy and Gordion, and the fieldwork that I have conducted there over the course of the last 25 years has continually… Read More
Pseudo-Quintilian’s 13th Major Declamation draws on a range of ancient authorities on bees and beekeeping, and scholars have assiduously documented the work’s predecessors in both poetry and prose.… Read More
Through the works of authors like Augustine, John Chrysostom, and Libanius, Jonathan Conant explores the late Roman debate about the morality, efficacy, and social and psychological costs of beating children. Placing… Read More
Satyr drama was instituted at the City Dionysia around the end of the sixth century BCE, and comedy was officially introduced approximately twenty years later, in 486. But both genres have a rich and interconnected… Read More
The Memnon colossus in Egyptian Thebes was a popular tourist destination. After an earthquake in 27 BCE toppled its massive head, the remaining stones began to emit a high-pitched noise each morning;… Read More
This paper explores the reception of the classical poetics of place and space by humanist authors within the context of the broader renewal of classical spatiality that was being carried out in literary and… Read More
In ancient Greek society, the concept of the Divine could be constructed and communicated through rituals, narratives, cult epithets, philosophical discourses, ritual performative texts, or hieroi logoi… Read More
