Heavenly Haircuts & Missing Bodies: An Examination of Berenice’s Absence from...
1§1 The narrative, fantasy, and representation of Berenice II continue to provide a sense of mystery and intrigue. In the third century BCE, Callimachus forever repositioned perceptions and receptions...
View ArticleAn Unidentifiable Icon: Nikolaos Gyzis
1§1 Some artists defy all artistic labels. They bounce from named style to named style, never staying long enough to fully earn the title of adherent. These artists synthesize the various styles they...
View ArticleThe Writing on the Walls: Reading the Sexual Passivity of the Women of...
1§1 Ancient graffiti– drawings and text inscribed onto the face of a wall– are increasingly acknowledged as valuable sources for studying the daily lives of the ancients. Unlike monumental inscriptions...
View ArticleDead Dramatists Society
1§1 In his cycle of five epigrams on dramatic poets, Dioscorides assembles a “dead dramatists society” whose curious and unprecedented inclusion of both archaic and contemporaneous figures—Thespis,...
View ArticleIdealized and Barbarous Rome: Militarism in Tacitus’ Germania
Introduction[1] 1§1 Tacitus reexamines Roman stereotypes about the Germanic tribes in his ethnographical work, Germania. The Romans considered the German tribes a primitive and savage people, like many...
View ArticleThe Clemency and Cruelty of Tiberius in Tacitus’ Annals
1§1 Prior to Augustus’ reign, sovereignty and influence were largely distributed throughout the offices of the cursus honorum, Senate, and the Curiate, Centuriate, Plebeian, and Tribal Assemblies.[1]...
View ArticlePliny II the Hero
1§1 In Epistula 6.20, Pliny the Younger recounts his escape from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at the age of 17. He also writes about his uncle, Pliny the Elder’s mission to rescue the people of...
View ArticleThe Threatening Pardon: Moderation, Mercy, and Cruelty in the Political...
1§1 Mercy and cruelty are opposing forces often found within one’s character. Their Roman counterparts clementia and crudelitas are held in a similar view albeit a different context. Seneca writes at...
View ArticleThe Tragic Burp: Satire in Seneca’s Thyestes
1§1 The climactic feast in Seneca’s Thyestes is described to the audience by the character Atreus in lines 908–919. As he gazes upon his brother Thyestes gobbling down a sumptuous meal made from the...
View ArticleLiar, Liar, Rome on Fire! Seneca’s Philosophy of Deception
Introduction 1§1 In our surviving accounts of the Neronian period (AD 54-AD 68), we find a Rome brimming with deception in the highest political offices. The Roman historian Suetonius, among his many...
View ArticleGettin’ Jiggy With It: Writing Sex in the Philomela’s Daughter Episode of the...
Trigger Warning: The following text contains explicit material regarding sexual assault and pedophilia that may be triggering to survivors. 1§1 A moment of particular interest in Petronius’...
View Article“Uelocitate pensant moram”: Rhetoric and Intertextuality in Seneca’s Natural...
1§1 A study of Seneca’s rhetoric needs no apology. He has been called one of the “greatest writers of Latin prose in [his] (or perhaps any) period.”[1] The influence of his father, our source for the...
View ArticleThe Motif of Cannibalism in the Metamorphoses and Thyestes
1§1 Passion and revenge are two themes that characterize Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Seneca’s Thyestes. The tone in the Metamorphoses varies from grotesque to comedic to serious. Mythical tradition...
View ArticleHow the Status and Art of the Roman Freedman Complicate Petronius’s Trimalchio
Written by Rebecca Morris 1§1 Jonathan Z. Smith writes, “The historian’s task is to complicate, not to clarify.” Although Petronius is not a historian but a Roman author of the Neronian Age, his...
View ArticleThe New Social Order: The Portrayal of Freedmen in the Satyrica
1§1 After another guest laughs at the antics of the freedmen’s host Trimalchio, the wealthy freedman Hermeros angrily rebukes him, claiming that he himself proudly earned his freedom from servitude....
View ArticleA Familiar Image: A Re-Examination of Roma on Republican Denarii of the...
§i Between c. 211 BCE and the late 1st century BC, Rome produced the now-iconic “Roma” series of silver denarii. Numismatists and historians have traditionally identified the head represented on the...
View ArticleNostalgia Inverted: The Golden Age Motif in Strepsiades’ Pre-Dramatic History
§i. Lines 43—45 of Aristophanes’ Clouds narrate events which occur before the play begins. Nevertheless, they prove to be significant instances of the playwright’s characteristic humor and dramatic...
View ArticleScandal and Political Divisions in the Late Roman Republic and Modern America
1. Introduction 1§1 In November 2014, when Republican senator Ted Cruz depicted Democratic President Barack Obama as Catiline, he created an allusion that was possibly more meaningful than he realized....
View ArticleSubdivisions: The Containment of Femininity in Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae
§1 In the Ecclesiazusae, Aristophanes presents his audience with a radical political question: what would happen if the entire Athenian democracy were turned over to the women, and they became the...
View ArticleWar and Peace in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae
§1 Throughout Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, war and peace appear together as a unit, a binary intrinsic to the Roman identity. A close investigation of these terms, their locations in the text, and their...
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