This paper considers Odes 2.19 in which Horace represents himself as encountering Bacchus in the wild teaching carmina to Nymphs and Satyrs. It argues as… Read More
Perhaps the most famous physical book in Latin literature is the libellus offered to Nepos by Catullus in the first lines of the poem that opens his Carmina. Such instances of literary… Read More
Despite ample artifactual evidence for Mycenaean maritime activity, few anchorages and harbors of the Mycenaean period have been identified on Aegean coasts, and even less is known about the people and… Read More
"Epicurean” appears frequently in Renaissance documents as a generic term of abuse, interchangeable with heretic, atheist, even sodomite. When Lucretius’ Epicurean poem De Rerum Natura reappeared in 1417, this… Read More
Theseus was in some ways an odd choice as "Athenian National Hero," since he was not a native born Athenian, had a non-Athenian mother, and never had a stable family life that could be a model for his people. This… Read More
Lycophron's Alexandra opens with a thirty-verse prologue in which an unnamed messenger announces to Priam (also not directly named) that he will be reporting the prophecy uttered by Cassandra at the moment… Read More
Consistently at the beginning and end of major sections of De Architectura, Vitruvius reflects on the order in which he presents his material. He frequently stresses that the design of his treatise follows a… Read More
This paper is concerned with the figure of the centaur in the imagination of the Greeks. Beginning with the Lefkandi centaur, the Greeks manufactured centaur figures in a… Read More
