Classics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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MASCULINITY AND MONUMENTS IN PROPERTIUS 4.9
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004-02-01)In elegy 4.9, Propertius connects the story of Hercules' transvestism to some of Rome's most ancient and venerable sites: the Ara Maxima, the subject of the poem's aition, and the sanctuary of the Bona Dea, where the poem's ... -
Horace's Journey Through Arcadia
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-04-01)Horace's Satire 1.5 encapsulates two of the Satires' major themes: friendship and aesthetics. This paper explores the poem's engagement with Epicureanism in connection with these themes. Through extended evocation of ... -
Incohat Ismene: The Dream Narrative as a Mode of Female Discourse in Epic Poetry*
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010-04-01)This article examines Ismene's nightmare in book 8 of Statius's Thebaid by contextualizing it within the epic's narrative, comparing it with the dream narrations of other female characters in epic poetry, and aligning it ... -
Translating the Iliad for a Wider Public
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010-12-01)This paper considers key principles and strategies in producing a translation of Homer's Iliad that succeeds for a wide audience both as poetic text and in performance. The author's translation of the last c. 100 lines of ... -
Genus quid est? Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex*
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008-01-01)From at least as early as Varro, Roman scholars and grammarians occupy themselves with cataloguing peculiar instances of grammatical gender. The practice, with little extant precedent in Greek tradition, finds the grammarians ... -
The TLL and the Sustaining of Scholarship
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“GOING FORWARD”: A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF THE THESAURUS LINGUAE LATINAE
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007-11-01)The article anteeo, written by Wilhelm Bannier, was published in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) in 1901. This entry has been rewritten according to contemporary standards at the institute and edited at each step in ... -
Perspective Systems in Roman Second Style Wall-painting
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Est locus uni cuique suus: City and Status in Horace’s Satires 1.8 and 1.9
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On Black Athena: Ancient Critiques of the 'Ancient Model' of Greek History
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Phaeacian Dido: Lost Pleasures of an Epicurean Intertext
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Cyclical Metaphors and the Politics of Horace, Odes 1.4
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Review article of The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change, edited by Stephen D. Houston, and of Agency in Ancient Writing, edited by Joshua Englehardt
(American Journal of Archaeology, 2014-07)Review of two books: The Shape of Script: How and Why Writing Systems Change by Stephen D. Houston; Agency in Ancient Writing by Joshua Englehardt -
Review of Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos by Dimitri Nakassis
(Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2014-10)Book review: a summary and critique of the book "Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos" by D. Nakassis, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 24.3 (October 2014) 564-566. -
The Knossos 'Jewel Fresco' Reconsidered
(British Archaeological Reports, 2008)The "Jewel Fresco" from Knossos shows a man's thumb and two fingers in relief touching a necklace of yellow beads with pendant beads in the shape of frontal faces. Conventionally, the fresco is reconstructed as a "sacred ... -
Evidence for Planning the Parthenon Frieze
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1991)This published abstract of a talk given at the AIA annual meetings in 1991 focuses on the many repeated elements and even entire figures which implies standard templates for the creation of whole scenes. -
The Periklean Building Program as Public Works Project
(American Journal of Archaeology, 1993)This published abstract of a talk given at the AIA annual meetings in 1993 focuses on the Periklean building program as a set of construction projects that provided employment for the large numbers of metics (resident ... -
Mycenaean Collections of Seals: The Role of Blue
(Aegaeum. Université de Liège and the University of Texas-Austin, 2010)This study looks at collections of seals in Mycenaean tholoi tombs and comes to the conclusion that seals were acquired in sets, often with the addition of one or two seals of a blue material (glass, amethyst), which ... -
The Bull-Leaping Scenes from Tell el-Dab'a
(American Journal of Archaeology, 2009)A review-article in 2 parts of M. Bietak, N. Marinatos, and C. Palyvou, Taureador Scenes in Tell el-Daba (Avaris) and Knossos. Part 1 (by Maria Shaw) focuses on international styles in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late ... -
Epicurus and Epicureanism
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)