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Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays (2011)
Journal Article
Bexley, E. (2011). Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays. Trends in Classics, 3(2), 365-393. https://doi.org/10.1515/tcs.2011.016

This article analyzes the Senecan background to Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love by focusing upon both playwrights' predilections for graphic violence and sexual content. Kane's version of the Phaedra story presents sex, death and mutilation as acts that... Read More about Show or Tell? Seneca's and Sarah Kane's Phaedra Plays.

Metapoetic Pseudonyms in Horace, Propertius and Ovid (2011)
Journal Article
Heslin, P. (2011). Metapoetic Pseudonyms in Horace, Propertius and Ovid. The Journal of Roman Studies, 101, 51-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0075435811000062

Two poets addressed by Propertius in his first book are in fact pseudonyms. Ponticus was formed on the model of Horace's Alpinus to designate someone who embodies the antithesis of the poet's Callimachean sensibilities. Bassus is none other than Hora... Read More about Metapoetic Pseudonyms in Horace, Propertius and Ovid.

Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher. (2011)
Journal Article
Horky, P. S. (2011). Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher. Classical Antiquity, 30(1), 119-147. https://doi.org/10.1525/ca.2011.30.1.119

This article explores the historiographical traditions concerning Herennius Pontius, a Samnite wisdom-practitioner who is said by the Peripatetic Aristoxenus of Tarentum to have been an interlocutor of the philosophers Archytas of Tarentum and Plato... Read More about Herennius Pontius: the Construction of a Samnite Philosopher..

Gods and heroes in comic space: a stretch of the imagination? (2011)
Journal Article
Miles, S. (2011). Gods and heroes in comic space: a stretch of the imagination?. Dionysus ex machina, 2, 109-133

The article explores the stage movement of gods, heroes and mythical figures in Aristophanic stage space. All four of the Aristophanic comedies that contain these characters (Peace, Birds, Frogs and Wealth) are found to adhere to the same patterns of... Read More about Gods and heroes in comic space: a stretch of the imagination?.