Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship, much of it explicitly revisionist, on Quintus Ennius, and in particular on his masterpiece, the historical epic poem Annales. At the same time, a… Read More
Edward Cohen, author of the new Oxford monograph Athenian Prostitution: The Business of Sex, will discuss male and female prostitution at Athens, and explore why the sale of sex –– lawful and pervasive in the… Read More
The question of agricultural labor is fundamental to our understanding of the economy and society of the Roman world. For this reason it has been the subject of debate for centuries. Through the late twentieth… Read More
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
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
