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Nero and the Christian Apocalypse (on S. Malik, The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm)
No full textSpeeches and the Late Republic in Cassius Dio (on C. Burden-Strevens, Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic: The Roman History, Books 3–56)
No full textCritical Females in Rome’s Foundation History (on P. Keegan, Livy’s Women: Crisis, Resolution and the Female in Rome’s Foundation History)
Get PDFMotifs of Fire in Imperial Latin Literature (on V. M. Closs, While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination)
No full textRichardson’s Essays on Early Rome (on J. H. Richardson, Kings and Consuls: Eight Essays on Roman History, Historiography, and Political Thought)
Get PDF5. The Athenian Portrayal of the Displacement and Flight of Plataean War Refugees in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries bce: Citizenship, Integration, Ethnic Identity
Get PDFPublished in Rachel Bruzzone, ed., Polemos and his Children (HISTOS Supplement 12), p. 87-118
1. Introduction: War and its Narratives
Get PDFPublished in Rachel Bruzzone, ed., Polemos and his Children (HISTOS Supplement 12), p. 1-15
Herodotean Intertexts in Apollonius Rhodius (on A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography)
Get PDFThe Enemy’s Brides: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on the Abduction of the Sabine Women
Get PDFUnlike other ancient sources focusing on the origin of Roman marriage, Dionysius of Halicarnassus read the abduction of the Sabine Women as a story to extol Roman foreign policy, based as it was on the principle of φιλανθρωπία as well as the foresight and political wisdom of the Roman ruling class. Romulus as a king-legislator and the Roman Senate are the real protagonists of the episode; the abducted women are bereft of, or given, agency according to their social and civic status: at first passive foreigners, they become fully sentient political beings after gaining Roman citizenship through marriage
Moving Livy
Get PDFIn this paper it is argued that Velleius’ apparent back-dating of Livy is unlikely and results from textual error