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Armonías discordantes: la musomachia de Ovidio (Fastos V, 1-110) y la política de la recepción hesiódica (2022)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2022). Armonías discordantes: la musomachia de Ovidio (Fastos V, 1-110) y la política de la recepción hesiódica. Auster, 27, Article e074. https://doi.org/10.24215/23468890e074

Roman Law and Latin Literature (2022)
Book
Ziogas, I., & Bexley, E. (Eds.). (in press). Roman Law and Latin Literature. Bloomsbury

Etymological Law (2021)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2021). Etymological Law. Incontri di filologia classica, 19, 179-200. https://doi.org/10.13137/2464-8760/32056

The origins of law coincide with the origins of language, as both Plato and Horace highlight. Thus, a systematic attempt to discover the etymological roots of words simultaneously reveals the source of legality. The article examines the etymological... Read More about Etymological Law.

Life and Death of the Greek Heroine in Odyssey 11 and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (2021)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2021). Life and Death of the Greek Heroine in Odyssey 11 and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. In G. Gazis, & A. Hooper (Eds.), Aspects of death and the afterlife in Greek literature (55-74). Liverpool University Press

Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus (2021)
Book
Ziogas, I. (2021). Law and Love in Ovid: Courting Justice in the Age of Augustus. Oxford University Press

Review of Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception. By Barbara Weiden Boyd (2019)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2019). Review of Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception. By Barbara Weiden Boyd. https://doi.org/10.1086/701817

Ovid's Hesiodic Voices (2018)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2018). Ovid's Hesiodic Voices. In A. Loney, & S. Scully (Eds.), Oxford handbook to Hesiod (377-393). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.48

Singing for Octavia: Vergil’s Life and Marcellus’ Death (2018)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (online). Singing for Octavia: Vergil’s Life and Marcellus’ Death. Harvard studies in classical philology, 429-481

Law and Literature in the Ancient World: The Case of Phryne. (2018)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2018). Law and Literature in the Ancient World: The Case of Phryne. In K. Dolin (Ed.), Law and Literature (79-93). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108386005.006

Ovid and Catullus: The Silence of Time. (2017)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2017). Ovid and Catullus: The Silence of Time. In A. Michalopoulos, S. Papaioannou, & A. Zissos (Eds.), Dicite, Pierides (202-219). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (2016)
Book
Ziogas, I., & Mitsis, P. (Eds.). (2016). Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475876

The political allegiances of major Roman poets have been notoriously difficult to pin down, in part because they often shift the onus of political interpretation from themselves to their readers. By the same token, it is often difficult to assess the... Read More about Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry.

Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics from Horace to Silius Italicus (2016)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2016). Introduction: Power, Puns, and Politics from Horace to Silius Italicus. In P. Mitsis, & I. Ziogas (Eds.), Wordplay and powerplay in Latin poetry (1-12). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475876-001

Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid (2016)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2016). Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid. In P. Mitsis, & I. Ziogas (Eds.), Wordplay and powerplay in Latin poetry (213-240). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110475876-012

Ovid’s engagement with legal discourse is a version of the elegiac recusatio, a simultaneous appropriation and denial of legalisms. Set against the background of Augustus’ adultery laws, Ovidian elegy aspires to dictate and reform the rules of amator... Read More about Love Elegy and Legal Language in Ovid.

Famous Last Words: Caesar's Prophecy on the Ides of March (2016)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2016). Famous Last Words: Caesar's Prophecy on the Ides of March. Antichthon, 50, 134-153. https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2016.9

Shakespeare’s Et tu, Brute has been influential in shaping a tradition that interprets Caesar’s last words as an expression of shock at Brutus’ betrayal. Yet this interpretation is not suggested in the ancient sources that attest the tag καὶ σύ, τέκν... Read More about Famous Last Words: Caesar's Prophecy on the Ides of March.

Orpheus and the Law: The Story of Myrrha in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2016)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2016). Orpheus and the Law: The Story of Myrrha in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Law in context (Bundoora), 34(1), 24-41

According to Horace, Orpheus and Amphion were the first legislators. They forbade casual sex, gave rights to spouses, and inscribed laws on wood (Ars Poetica 396-401). Orpheus, who is both the model of the devoted husband and the founding father of p... Read More about Orpheus and the Law: The Story of Myrrha in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Review of Richard Hunter. Hesiodic Voices: Studies in the Ancient Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. viii, 344p. ISBN 9781107046900. (2015)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2015). 2014. viii, 344p. ISBN 9781107046900

Virgilian Fama. Syson (A.) Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid . Pp. viii + 240. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2013. Cased, US$66.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1234-9. (2015)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2015). Virgilian Fama. Syson (A.) Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid . Pp. viii + 240. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2013. Cased, US$66.95. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1234-9. Classical Review, 65(2), 450-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x15000335

The Poet as Prince: Author and Authority under Augustus (2015)
Book Chapter
Ziogas, I. (2015). The Poet as Prince: Author and Authority under Augustus. In H. Baltussen, & P. Davis (Eds.), The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (115-136). University of Pennsylvania Press. https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291636-007

Sparse Spartan Verse: Filling Gaps in The Thermopylae Epigram (2014)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2014). Sparse Spartan Verse: Filling Gaps in The Thermopylae Epigram. Ramus, 43(02), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1017/rmu.2014.10

In the Apophthegmata Laconica, a collection of witty exchanges that highlight the shrewdness of Laconian brevity, we read the following story. An Argive once taunted a Spartan by pointing out the multitude of Spartan tombs in Argive territory. The Sp... Read More about Sparse Spartan Verse: Filling Gaps in The Thermopylae Epigram.

Stripping the Roman Ladies: Ovid's Rites and Readers (2014)
Journal Article
Ziogas, I. (2014). Stripping the Roman Ladies: Ovid's Rites and Readers. Classical Quarterly, 64(02), 735-744. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838814000494

Ovid's disclaimers in the Ars Amatoria need to be read in this context. My main argument is that, in his disclaimers, Ovid is rendering his female readership socially unrecognizable, rather than excluding respectable virgins and matronae from his aud... Read More about Stripping the Roman Ladies: Ovid's Rites and Readers.