This talk is a report from the field on two experiments in editing conducted with recent classes at Penn. The first took a pragmatic approach and produced a mockup of a variorum edition of (some of) Tacitus' Annals;… Read More
Soon after Actium, Augustus required populations (and cults) to be uprooted and moved to create Nikopolis and a greater Patras. In Athens, still trying to recover from the devastating siege of Sulla, a period… Read More
This talk will examine the fragments of Lucilius' first collection of Satires (later numbered Books 26-30) with special attention to the remnants of the poet's apologia in the last book. I will argue that throughout… Read More
Synopsis: There seems to be an uneasy fit between one account of goodness in the Republic ‹ that it is a real property of what is good, derived, somehow from the form of the good ‹ and the argument of the dialogue as… Read More
Roberta Stewart presents the work of an experimental reading course, a book group, designed for combat veterans. Since 2008 she has read Homer, Odyssey and Iliad, with combat veterans and used the ancient texts to… Read More
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 follows:
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 … 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
