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Post-Hellenistic Perspectives on Divination, the Individual, and the Cosmos (2021)
Journal Article
Simonetti, E. G. (2021). Post-Hellenistic Perspectives on Divination, the Individual, and the Cosmos. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, 65(2), https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650205

This article investigates the relation between ancient divinatory theories and ontological assumptions about individuals, the gods, and the cosmos through the writings of Dio Chrysostom, Epictetus, and Maximus of Tyre—three philosophers who belong to... Read More about Post-Hellenistic Perspectives on Divination, the Individual, and the Cosmos.

Archytas: Author and Authenticator of Pythagoreanism (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). Archytas: Author and Authenticator of Pythagoreanism. In C. Macris, T. Dorandi, & L. Brisson (Eds.), Pythagoras Redivivus: Studies on the Texts Attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Academia

Bodies Out of Time: Sculpting Queer Poetics and Queering Classical Sculpture in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy (2021)
Journal Article
Watson, J. (2022). Bodies Out of Time: Sculpting Queer Poetics and Queering Classical Sculpture in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 29(2), 190-213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-021-00595-2

Two major themes dominate the poetry of the Alexandrian poet, C. P. Cavafy: homosexual desire and Greekness, broadly defined. This paper explores the interconnectivity of these motifs, showing how Cavafy’s poetic queerness is expressed through his re... Read More about Bodies Out of Time: Sculpting Queer Poetics and Queering Classical Sculpture in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy.

Cicero’s Philosophical Works (2021)
Book Chapter
Gilbert, N., & McConnell, S. (2021). Cicero’s Philosophical Works. In Classics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0361

Cicero (106–43 BCE) was a Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher. As well as speeches, letters, and rhetorical treatises, Cicero wrote numerous philosophical works. These can be divided into two periods—those written before the civil war between Ju... Read More about Cicero’s Philosophical Works.

Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul? (2021)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2021). Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul?. In A. Long (Ed.), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy and Theology: Life, Divinity and Identity (41-65). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108935777.003

It is a commonplace among scholars that the early Pythagoreans posited an immortal soul. The earliest source to associate immortality of the soul to the Pythagoreans unequivocally, Dicaearchus of Messana, stipulates that they held that (a) the soul i... Read More about Pythagorean Immortality of the Soul?.

Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum Andrew Faulkner, Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780199599820. $155.00. (2021)
Journal Article
Lygouris, K. (2021). Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum Andrew Faulkner, Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 496. ISBN 9780199599820. $155.00. Bryn Mawr Classical Review,

On the Political Outlook of the 'Anonymus Iamblichi' (Diels-Kranz 89) (2021)
Journal Article
Sørensen, A. D. (2021). On the Political Outlook of the 'Anonymus Iamblichi' (Diels-Kranz 89). Classical Quarterly, 71(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838821000288

The political outlook of the so-called ‘Anonymus Iamblichi’ (DK 89) has been a subject of controversy in the scholarly literature, with some commentators judging him to be a committed democrat, while others see in him a partisan of aristocracy or eve... Read More about On the Political Outlook of the 'Anonymus Iamblichi' (Diels-Kranz 89).