Phrenitis is one of the most prominent mental diseases (with our explicit categorisation) in ancient medicine, and a disease label that will survive, through varying anatomic… Read More
This talk discusses the industries for one of the most vital, yet understudied, containers of the Roman wine trade: the dolium. Used primarily for the fermentation and storage of wine, dolia were expensive and labor-… Read More
This talk examines two episodes of human-animal communication in the Odyssey and Valmiki’s Ramayana. How does reading these texts together reveal their poetic strategies and… Read More
It has long been recognized that the speech given to Cremutius Cordus in the final pages of Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam alludes to eschatological texts such as Plato’s Phaedo and… Read More
What did Aristotle’s Rhetoric mean to medieval preachers? Clerical readers certainly absorbed it, as patterns of manuscript ownership tell us. But what did it offer them that was new? The… Read More
In one of the most evocative frescoes of the Renaissance, Raphael juxtaposes Plato and Aristotle. The pairing would seem obvious, since the two thinkers had been for centuries symbols of philosophy and… Read More
Translation is inherently comparative. As the current translator of Ovid's Tristia and the Principal Investigator of the multi-year project that aims at translating all of Ovid's works into Mandarin… Read More
This paper examines the epigraphic and material evidence of private associations and domestic cults of Italian merchants in late Hellenistic Delos to address the ways in which merchants employed religious practices… Read More
