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Aristophanes' Contemporaries (2024)
Book Chapter
Miles, S. (2024). Aristophanes' Contemporaries. In M. C. Farmer, & J. B. Lefkowitz (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Aristophanes (304-318). Wiley

The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus (2024)
Book
Thomas, E., & Prins, J. (in press). J. Prins, & E. Thomas (Eds.). The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004705838

Plato’s Timaeus inspired a uniquely enduring interest across disciplines. In the centuries between its composition and the seventeenth century, scholars looked to this dialogue for answers to questions about the structure of the universe and how to l... Read More about The Legacy of Plato’s Timaeus.

Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics (2024)
Book Chapter
Ingleheart, J. (2024). Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics. In T. Franklinos, & J. Ingleheart (Eds.), Essays on Propertian and Ovidian Elegy (87-105). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198908111.003.0005

The practice of reading two elegies closely against each other has proved illuminating for the study of Ovid’s Amores. Often there are clear verbal links between paired elegies. Such pairs provide an implied narrative and dramatic sequence; they allo... Read More about Reading sex in Amores 1.4 and 1.5: repetition, coupling, and Ovidian erotics.

Translation and the homosexual canon: Thomas Cannon’s 1749 ‘Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d’ (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age (2023)
Book Chapter
Horky, P. S. (2023). Italic Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic Age. In M. Garani, D. Konstan, & G. Reydams-Schils (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy (3-26). Oxford University Press

Natural Selection Shadowed Forth: Aristotle’s 'De partibus animalium' after Darwin (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Fragmentary Modernism : The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936 (2023)
Book
Goldschmidt, N. (2023). Fragmentary Modernism : The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936. Oxford: Oxford University Press

'Fragmentary Modernism' begins from a simple observation: what has been called the 'apotheosis of the fragment' in the art and writing of modernism emerged hand in hand with a series of paradigm-shifting developments in classical scholarship, which b... Read More about Fragmentary Modernism : The Classical Fragment in Literary and Visual Cultures, c.1896 - c.1936.

Book Review: Hollerich, M.J. Making Christian History. Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers (Oakland: University of California Press) (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Atreus Callidus: The Tragic Afterlife of Plautus's Comic Hero (2023)
Journal Article
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.