Amazons—fierce horsewomen-archers on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles battled Amazon queens and the Athenians reveled in their victory over… Read More
Plato's Apology is a literary and philosophical masterpiece. It offers a vivid portrait of Socrates and ariveting answer to the question at the heart of Greek philosophy: "How ought one to… Read More
Chariton’s Callirhoe, earliest of the extant Greek novels, assigns a prominent role to zēlotupiā (“jealousy”), which not only functions as the driving force behind the plot, but also… Read More
Seneca has been called an "egregius vitiorum insectator," an "outstanding persecutor of vices," and sometimes the vices toward which he turned his attacks were his own. A tendency toward self-criticism or self-… Read More
This presentation will introduce my new project on legal culture in the world of the Roman provinces, and suggest that (a) there emerged a new interest in law in the first three centuries AD, revolving in particular… Read More
The NYU Classics Department will be hosting this fall's Latinfest on Friday, November 21. Our text will be Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae, and Penn students will be responsible for running the discussion of… Read More
Full of erotic spice and charm, the late antique collection of Aristaenetus’ fictitious letters was the work of a gifted litterateur of ca. 500 A.D., who drew on a wealth of classical and post-classical models. Long… Read More
Running throughout fifteenth-century Italian intellectual life was a debate: what was the nature of that Latin language? Was it an "artificial" language — one with its own, notionally permanent rules? Or was it a "… Read More
