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Aristofane e la Chimera? Acarnesi 703-712 (2020)
Journal Article
Capra, A., & Cavalli, M. (2020). Aristofane e la Chimera? Acarnesi 703-712. Annali della Facoltà di Studi Umanistici dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 72, 33-43

A Funerary Epigram for Diokles the Rhodian Dramatist (2020)
Journal Article
Coward, T. (2024). A Funerary Epigram for Diokles the Rhodian Dramatist. Axon, 4(2), 93-114. https://doi.org/10.30687/Axon/2532-6848/2020/02/007

This funerary verse inscription, found in 1976, is for the previously unknown dramatist Diokles of Rhodes. This entry re-examines the text based on visual autopsy, proposes a new supplement on the last line, and sets the poem within the literary and... Read More about A Funerary Epigram for Diokles the Rhodian Dramatist.

Epigraphy and Ambitions: Building Inscriptions in the Hinterland of Carthage (2020)
Journal Article
Hellstrom, M. (2020). Epigraphy and Ambitions: Building Inscriptions in the Hinterland of Carthage. The Journal of Roman Studies, 110, 57-90. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435820001380

Building inscriptions are not a good proxy for building activity or, by extension, prosperity. In the part of Roman North Africa where they are the most common, the majority of surviving building inscriptions document the construction of religious bu... Read More about Epigraphy and Ambitions: Building Inscriptions in the Hinterland of Carthage.

Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. C. (2020). Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 3, 43-61. https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.vi3.9256

Performances of Latin drama had become a widespread phenomenon in European schools by the middle of the sixteenth century. The potential for these dramas to have a significant impact on the students who performed or watched these plays was recognised... Read More about Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux.

Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. C. (2020). Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama. Translation and Literature, 29(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0410

This essay takes up the question of what impact Greek tragedy had on original plays written in Latin in the sixteenth century. In exploring George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes sive calumnia (printed 1577) and its reworking of scenes and images... Read More about Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama.

Remembering, forgetting, and rewriting the past: Athenian inscriptions and collective memory (2020)
Journal Article
Low, P. (2020). Remembering, forgetting, and rewriting the past: Athenian inscriptions and collective memory. Histos, Supplements(11), 235-268

This chapter explores the ways in which the Athenians responded to inscriptions after their creation, and in particular their approaches to the emendation, destruction, and recreation of inscribed public texts. It argues that these approaches reveal... Read More about Remembering, forgetting, and rewriting the past: Athenian inscriptions and collective memory.

From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words (2020)
Journal Article
Nicosia, M. (2020). From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words. Hugoye (Washington, D.C.), 23(1), 61-97

Rhetoric was part of the borrowed Greek educational system of the Enkyklios paideia, together with logic and grammar. However, the technical terminology had to be adapted, so the question is which strategies were used to create the vocabulary of Syri... Read More about From Antony of Tagrit to the Arabic version : the Syriac technical vocabulary of rhetoric and the migration of words.

The economic world of the populus Romanus (2020)
Journal Article
Russell, A. (2020). The economic world of the populus Romanus. Revue d'histoire du droit international, 22(4), 536-564. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-12340134

Rome’s transformation from city-state to territorial empire involved a massive increase in wealth; it also both created and responded to fundamental political changes, in a moment often positioned as the creation myth of republicanism. James Tan has... Read More about The economic world of the populus Romanus.