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Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era (2024)
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Nicosia, M. (2024). Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era. Histoire Epistémologie Langage, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/12v6a

This paper investigates the engagement with Greek progymnasmata exercises shown by the first rhetorical handbook in Syriac: Antony of Tagrit’s On Rhetoric (ninth century). Despite lacking any specific reference to progymnastic authors or texts and ha... Read More about Antony of Tagrit and the progymnasmata: Towards a Syriac rhetorical theory in the Abbasid Era.

Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination (2024)
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Horky, P. S. (2024). Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2877, Article 012085. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012085

When did chaos come to be opposed to order? This paper considers the earliest references in the Western world to the concepts of “chaos” (Xάος) and “order” (κόσμος), understood as cosmological concepts; these terms are first attested in the epic Theo... Read More about Order and chaos in the ancient Greco-Roman philosophical imagination.

Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery (2024)
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Nicosia, M. (2024). Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery. Le Muséon, 137(1-2), 137-169. https://doi.org/10.2143/MUS.137.1.3293318

Due to the absence of Syriac translations of ancient Greek novels or explicit references to any of them in the Syriac literature, scholars agreed for a long time that these texts never reached Syriac environments. However, in 2008, Aldo Corcella reco... Read More about Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery.

The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes (2024)
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McPhee, B. D. (online). The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10270

Helenus’ oracle in Sophocles’ Philoctetes is commonly misunderstood as an unqualified revelation of an immutable future: the gods have fated Philoctetes to rejoin the Greek army at Troy. This has occasioned further misinterpretations of the play, es... Read More about The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes.

The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum (2024)
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Losito, L. (online). The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum. Classical Quarterly, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838824000181

The narrative and design of Cicero's overlooked collection of letters to his brother Quintus (henceforth, QFr.) demand investigation. Within each book, the constituent letters delineate the trajectory of Cicero's life, transitioning from his politica... Read More about The Narratives of Cicero's Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem: career, republic and the Epistulae ad Atticum.

Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception (2024)
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Thomas, E. (2024). Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception. Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 10(1), 131-146

This article compares how the theatrical architectural spaces of Francesco Guitti at Parma and Gian Lorenzo Bernini at Rome used classical traditions of spectacle to satisfy contemporary sensationalist demands. Guitti’s stage machinery devised after... Read More about Bernini’s Two Theatres and the Trauma of Classical Reception.

Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome (2024)
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Thomas, E. (in press). Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome. Antichthon, 58,

This paper discusses two imperial Roman literary descriptions of architectural space (Luc. 10.111-135 and Stat. Silv. 4.2) as responses to the real architectural space of imperial palatial complexes in Rome, Nero’s Golden House and Domitian’s Palatin... Read More about Built space, written space: baroque spatialities between architecture and text in Lucan, Statius, and the palaces of imperial Rome.

The Orient In Herodian (2024)
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Hekster, O., & Kaizer, T. (in press). The Orient In Herodian. Historia,

This paper investigates appearances of the Orient in Herodian. Firstly, through the way in which the East, the Orient, and the opposition between West and East, appears and reappears as a literary theme throughout Herodian’s History and as such trigg... Read More about The Orient In Herodian.

Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49 (2024)
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de Lisle, C. (2024). Ian Worthington, Athens after Empire. A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, New York – Oxford (Oxford University Press) 2021, 432 S., ISBN 978-0-19-063398-1 (geb.), £ 35,49. Klio, 106(1), 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2024-2010

Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek (2024)
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Vatri, A. (2024). Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 77(6), 896-909. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10233

Emphasis is a ubiquitous notion in classical scholarship, but its vagueness has repeatedly been criticized (and its usefulness, consequently, questioned) by Greek linguists. This brief study seeks to identify (and secure) a place for this notion in t... Read More about Pinpointing Linguistic Emphasis in Classical Greek.

Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’ (2024)
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Ingleheart, J. (2024). Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’. Classical Receptions Journal, 16(3), 254-272. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad032

This paper analyses the fragmentary apologia for pederasty by Thomas Cannon. Published in pamphlet form in 1749, it was suppressed and prosecuted, and lost to history until its recent recovery. The recovery of the text is only partial, as it was pres... Read More about Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’.

The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations (2024)
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Low, P. (2024). The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 41(1), 76-91. https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340428

This article investigates the theoretical assumptions and implications of De Ste. Croix’s approach to interstate politics in The Origins of the Peloponnesian War. It suggests that two approaches can be identified in the work: one which sees a fundame... Read More about The Origins of the Peloponnesian War, the Origins of the Peloponnesian War, and Theories of International Relations.

Natural Selection Shadowed Forth: Aristotle’s 'De partibus animalium' after Darwin (2023)
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Swallow, P. (2023). Natural Selection Shadowed Forth: Aristotle’s 'De partibus animalium' after Darwin. Aristotelica, 4(4), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.17454/ARIST04.06

Until the last years of his life, Charles Darwin had actually never read Aristotle. The sole reference he makes to his naturalist forebear in On the Origin of Species came in an addition to the fourth edition, published in 1866, in which he mistakenl... Read More about Natural Selection Shadowed Forth: Aristotle’s 'De partibus animalium' after Darwin.

Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero (2023)
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Bexley, E. M. (2023). Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero. TAPA, 153(2), 459-503. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2023.a913470

This article argues that the model of the Plautine seruus callidus underpins Seneca's Atreus, whose similarities to the clever slave include verbal mastery; metatheatrical plotting; eavesdropping; and cultivating a special relationship with the audie... Read More about Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero.

Book Review: Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press) (2023)
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Dahm, K. (in press). Book Review: Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press). Histos, 18,

“Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of
California Press)”, in Histos 18 (2024), forthcoming, 2.050 words.

Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching (2023)
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Holmes-Henderson, A., & Wright, T. F. (2023). Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching. English, 72(278), 87-95. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efad023

This introduction frames the guest edition of the journal on ‘Oracy and English Studies’. The pieces in this special forum explore how a renewed focus on speaking can re-imagine what it means to ‘do English’. We are two university-level teachers, one... Read More about Making the voice matter in English Studies Teaching.