Past Events

This talk will reexamine the evidence for the temple of the lares permarini vowed by L. Aemilius Regillus in 190 BC when he defeated the generals of Antiochus III at the Battle of Myonessus. Livy’s account… Read More

This presentation examines how Latin poetry of the Augustan period interprets, assimilates, and reimagines the idea of the Greek chorus. I argue that in Augustan Rome, Greek choreia (“dance-song”) is… Read More

What do we expect from a reference work in the Digital Age? or, come to that, what exactly is a modern reference work? The current migration of the Oxford Classical Dictionary from its… Read More

The paper explores various ways in which Greek vases give physical presence to the immaterial.

One of the earliest works written by Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) reveals his awareness of his African origins. This complicates conventional universalist claims about the most important father of the church… Read More

The narrative style and linguistic register of our earliest surviving collections of Aesop's fables suggest a deliberate and cultivated simplicity.  This… Read More

The involvement of supernatural factors such as fate and fortune in historical events is a familiar preoccupation of ancient historians. In the case of Tacitus' Annals, however, the issue is complicated by the… Read More

Hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, entanglement, métissage, syncretism and the Middle Ground are all terms that have been put forward in the past decade to capture processes of mutual cultural and… Read More

The paper is a forthcoming chapter in the four-volume Bloomsbury History of Epistemology, volume one of which is devoted to antiquity. The paper examines philosophical use of the terms "sophia… Read More