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Hughes’s myth: the classics in Gaudete and Cave Birds
Authors: Roberts Neil 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
I have often had the fancy that there is some one myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought. W. B. Yeats, ‘At Stratford-on-Avon: Ideas of Good and Evil’, epigraph to Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being By this beguilingly capacious phrase ‘Hughes’s myth’, I do not mean a coherent narrative that is detectable on the surface or even underlying his published works.
Birthday Letters from Pontus: Ted Hughes and the white noise of classical elegy
Authors: Liveley Genevieve 
Published: November 2023

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More to reach you Than to reproach you, more to spark A contact through the see-saw bustling Atmospherics of higher learning And lower socializing, than to correct you With our archaic principles, we concocted An attack, a dismemberment, laughing. We had our own broadsheet to publish it. Our Welshman composed it— still deaf To the white noise of the elegy That would fill his mouth and his ear Worlds later, on Cader Idris, In the wind and snow of your final climb.
Virgil: A Paradoxical Poet?
Authors: Hardie Philip 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The present inquiry arose out of a wider question about the adequacy of conventional distinctions between the classicism of Virgil (and other Augustan poets) and the style of post-Augustan poets, to which the anachronistic labels ‘mannerist’ (following Ernst Curtius) and ‘baroque’ are often attached.1 From the features taken to characterize the ‘post-classical’ manner I point to three, connected in their effects: an excessive emotionalism, hyperbole, and paradox, all supposedly at variance with the balance and moderation of a classical Augustan style. Yet in the case of the first two of these features there appears to be more of a continuum than a gap between Virgil (at least in the Aeneid) and writers such as Lucan, Seneca, and Statius.
Thaumatographia, or ‘What is a Theme?’
Authors: Schwindt Jürgen Paul 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The following remarks are based on the hypothesis that the theme ‘paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture’ cannot easily be treated thematically, whether historically or systematically. To say ‘my theme is the paradoxical and the marvellous’ is problematic because if it is true that the paradoxical cannot, ‘as a rule’, be exactly philologically defined, this is even truer of the marvellous.1 The theme: positing, anchoring a thought that is, in itself, based on a momentum of unquiet, implies, to put it mildly, an awkward logical operation.
Constructing a Narrative of mira deum: The Story of Philemon and Baucis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 8)
Authors: Fabre-Serris Jacqueline 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Roman tradition is founded upon exempla. What is the mos maiorum, if not a repertoire of rules for living, in the form of anecdotes, which illustrate model behaviour?1 Following the economic, social, and political upheavals caused by the military conquests and Rome’s confrontation with Greek culture, these ‘customs received from the ancestors’, which had been handed down through the centuries orally, were called into question. With the mos maiorum, it was not only a set of rules, convictions, and values that was shaken, but also an entire way of thinking and of conceiving the relationship with the past.
Audience and Emotion in the Reception of Greek Drama
Authors: Ruffell Ian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
One of Oliver Taplin’s most important contributions to the study of Greek comedy has been his 1986 paper, ‘Fifth-Century Tragedy and Comedy: A Synkrisis’. It was here that he introduced the concept of metatheatre to classical critics but also situated the concept within some bold and challenging hypotheses about the nature of the audience’s experience. Developing his earlier explorations of tragic dramaturgy and rejecting moves towards a highly self-conscious tragedy, Taplin argued for a radical difference in the reception of tragic and comic performances. Subsequent comparative work on comedy and tragedy has tended to confirm Taplin’s picture of two genres separated by a common context, with broad (if not absolute) distinctions being maintained in terms of form and performance but historicist critics stressing the common cultural context. In this paper, I look again at this generic comparison and suggest that while formal distinctions can be upheld, the model of audience response requires, at the least, substantial qualification.
Aeschylus’ Eumenides, Chronotopes, and the ‘Aetiological Mode’
Authors: Revermann Martin 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
There is no question that Oliver Taplin’s work on Aeschylus contains some of the best thinking done in the twentieth century on this eminent artist. Moreover, the methodology he developed in his seminal 1977 monograph for meeting some of the exegetical challenges this dramatist presents (or imposes?) on every generation of readers and spectators is foundational in the true sense of the word: subsequent residents of the house may, for better or worse, redesign the floor-plan, add an extension, update the kitchen or redecorate the bathroom (tasks which, in my domestic as well as my scholarly life, I myself have recently embarked on). But it is the soundness of the foundations and the sheer raw potential of the building as a whole that really matter. It is Oliver’s lasting achievement that the house he built is any real estate agent’s dream: a rock-solid structure, beautifully appointed, and in the right neighbourhood.
Intimate Relations: Children, Childbearing, and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage
Authors: Zeitlin Froma I 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousae, produced in 411 bce, Euripides’ kinsman, who has infiltrated the women’s festival in transvestite garb has just been unmasked as a male impostor. In a desperate attempt to save himself, he snatches a baby from one of the women, threatening to kill the child at the altar if he is not released. The audience ought to recognize this as a parody of a scene from Euripides’ Telephus, even though produced almost thirty years earlier (in 438) because, if nothing else, Aristophanes’ fondness for this play throughout his career ensured its afterlife, at least in the comic theatre. The Telephus is parodied, quoted, or alluded to in eight of Aristophanes’ surviving plays, and in the Frogs, the character Euripides names it last and best in his own list of plays (863–4). Alan Sommerstein speculates that the fame of the Telephus may have been due to the fact that it was the first to introduce the long line of Euripides’ ‘ragged heroes’, but the novelty of its sensational plot surely also relied on the presence of an infant on stage and the ploy of taking it hostage. The runner-up for the number of parodiccitations (7) in Aristophanic comedy of Euripidean tragedy was the Alcestis. It too is an unusual play in several respects, including a rather remarkable scene in which one of Alcestis’s offspring is allowed to voice a lament over his mother’s lifeless body that veers between the conventional forms and his childlike reactions.
Wagner’s Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism
Authors: Goldhill Simon 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
This chapter will enter some painful territory: painful for classicists, painful for me as a Jew, and painful for anyone who cares about the development of the twentieth century and the place of Hellenism in it. It might seem therefore misplaced and even somewhat churlish to offer it in celebration of the work of Oliver Taplin of all people, who has done so much to bring ancient Greek theatre to a wider audience in a wholly positive manner, and who has worked so productively and generously at the interface between modern literature and the ancient world. But my subject, if not its painfulness, is deeply indebted to his work.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge And The Fine Arts
Authors: Paley Morton D 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Although Coleridge’s thinking and writing about the fine arts was both considerable and interesting, this has not been the subject of a book before. Coleridge owed his initiation into art to Sir George Beaumont. In 1803-4 he had frequent opportunities to learn from Beaumont, to study Beaumont’s small but elegant collection and to visit private collections. Before leaving for Malta in April 1804, Coleridge wrote ‘I have learnt as much from Sir George Beaumont respecting Pictures & Painting and Paint[ers as] I ever learnt on any subject from any man in the same Space of Time.’ In Italy in 1806, Coleridge’s experience of art deepened, thanks to the American artist Washington Allston, who taught him to see the artistic sights of Rome with a painter’s eye. Coleridge also visited Florence and Pisa, and later said of the frescoes in Pisa’s Camp Santo: ‘The impression was greater, I may say, than that any poem ever made upon me.’ Back in England, Coleridge visited London exhibitions, country house collections, and even artists’ studios. In 1814, both Coleridge and Allston were in Bristol—Coleridge lecturing, Allston exhibiting. Coleridge’s ‘On the Principles of Genial Criticism’ began as a defense of Allston’s paintings but became a statement about all the arts. This book, an important contribution to Coleridge’s intellectual biography, will make readers aware of a dimension of his thinking that has been largely ignored until now.
Title Deeds: Translating a Classic1
Authors: Heaney Seamus 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Twenty-three years ago, in May 1981, there was a gathering at once solemn and dangerous in the village of Toomebridge in Northern Ireland. The name of the place comes from the Irish word tuaim, meaning, as you would expect, a burial mound, and in the circumstances that meaning was most appropriate. The bridge at Toome links County Antrim, on the east bank of the River Bann, to County Derry, on the west bank, and a lot of the crowd that were gathered in the main street of the village on this particular occasion had crossed from the County Derry side. They were there to meet a hearse that contained the body of a well-known County Derry figure, and once the hearse arrived they would accompany it back to a farmhouse on a bog road some six or seven miles away, where the body would be waked in traditional style by family and neighbours. They had come to Toome to observe custom and to attend that part of the funeral rite known in Ireland as ‘the removal of the remains’.
The Autobiography of the Western Subject: Carson’s Geryon
Authors: Hall Edith 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
To an essay about Echo in the Stanford Literary Review, the poet Anne Carson once appended the subtitle ‘A notional refraction through Sophokles, Plato and Defoe’. My chapter here, an attempt to under- stand Carson’s project in Autobiography of Red (1997) as a poetic his- tory of western ideas about human selfhood, offers instead a notional refraction of Geryon, a Greek mythical figure in whom Carson has demonstrated particular interest, through Stesichorus, Dante, and Heidegger. Besides the fragments of the archaic Greek poet Stesichorus’ lyrical narrative poem the Geryoneis (especially those contained in P.Oxy 2617), in my view the Christian picture of the objectified Geryon painted by Dante, and Heidegger’s identification of time as the chief locus by which human subjectivity orients itself, are two of the most important intellectual and aesthetic compass points that can help us reading the poetic map of Carson’s poem.
Catullus in New Zealand: Baxter and Stead
Authors: Harrison Stephen 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The translation and imitation of Latin poets has been a consistent feature of modern New Zealand poetry in English. Fleur Adcock (1934–) has produced some fine translations of two of the greatest twelfth-century Latin poets, Hugh Primas and the Archpoet (1994), and Ian Wedde (1946–) has presented us with a modern Kiwi Horace in The Commonplace Odes (2001). Likewise, Anna Jackson’s poetic interest in Catullus, which she discusses in her chapter in this volume, follows that of other figures in New Zealand poetry, as she herself acknowledges. In this chapter I want to look at two major predecessors of Jackson in making versions of Catullus in New Zealand— James K. Baxter and C. K. (Karl) Stead.
Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity
Authors: Parry Graham 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Browne was in love with antiquity. He was fascinated by the depth of time, and excited by its obscurity. The grand actions and ‘wilde enormities of ancient magnanimity’ stirred his imagination, while the wisdom and knowledge he supposed the Ancients to possess aroused in him both admiration and envy ( UB 5.170). Almost everything that Browne wrote has antiquity for a back- ground, to provide the basic information on a subject, to offer contrast or confirmation, or to act as illustration or exotic amplification to the matter in hand.
Imperatives and Other Directives in the Greek Letters from Mons Claudianus*
Authors: Leiwo Martti 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Approximately 6,000 ostraca have been found at Mons Claudianus in the eastern desert of Egypt. Of these 631 have so far been published, as O. Claud. I–III. The number of letters is not precise, as there is not always a difference between a letter and, for example, a receipt, but 170–80 of these texts can be defined as letters.1 All ostraca can be dated to the period between the emperors Trajan and Antoninus Pius. My focus is on the imperatives and other directive expressions found in the letters. The definition of a directive is: A orders, commands, or requests B to do X by expressing a desire (want, wish) that B do X.
Vina fictitiafrom Latin into Greek: The Evidence of the Papyri*
Authors: Maravela-Solbakk Anastasia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
It is generally admitted that the suffixes amply used in Greek derivation from the late Roman period onwards, are Latinate suffixes, that is they represent a transplantation into Greek of the Latin suffixesatusand -atum.1 The morphological incorporation of these suffixes into the Greek suffixation system was an easy matter. The derivative words could be neatly subsumed under the group of verbal adjectives (and their derivative nouns) in well established in Greek since the time of Homer.
Building and Examining Linguistic Phenomena in a Corpus of Representative Papyri
Authors: Porter S E , Donnell M B O‘ 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Imagine, if you will, becoming the primary researcher on a study that has received grant funding to study the language people use to greet each other in a variety of situations in modern America. Full of vigour and enthusiasm for this new endeavour, you set out to carry out the necessary field work. ‘Surely the data can be collected in a few hours ‘, you think to yourself, ‘and then we can move on to the real work of analysis and model development ‘. To this end you drive to the gates of a large factory in a nearby town as you are aware a new shift of workers are about to clock-in. Clipboard at the ready, you watch as a stream of several hundred people go through the gate and you take note of the words they use to greet each other. Quickly, you have identified the two or three phrases used over and over again. Satisfied, you return to your lab to begin the analysis. However, your keen graduate assistant quickly dampens your enthusiasm—though perhaps saves your professional reputation—by pointing out that collecting data from one shift of factory workers in a non-conversational setting could hardly be considered to entirely represent the use of greeting language in modern America. In response, you suggest a plan to return to the factory each day for the next two weeks and to observe.
Philostratus
Authors: Costa C D N 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
From what point did you seize my soul? Clearly from the eyes, whereby alone beauty makes its entrance? For just as tyrants seize citadels, and kings strongholds, and gods lofty sites, so too Love seizes the citadel of the eyes. He fortifies it not with wooden palisades or brick walls, but only with the eyelids, and then quietly and insidiously he enters the soul-swiftly as he has wings, unimpeded as he is naked, irresistible as he is an archer.
Aristaenetus
Authors: Costa C D N 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Over a long time, my good friend, I have learnt also that all skills have need of fortune, and fortune is improved upon by skills. For these do not achieve their ends without divine assistance, while she wins greater esteem by giving the experts opportunities to use her. Well, then, since I’m quite aware that a preamble is tedious if you are impatient to hear more, without further ado I’ll tell you what happened.
Hippocrates
Authors: Costa C D N 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
From my stay with you in Rhodes, Damagetus, I know that ship called ’Helios’, a splendid one with a good stern, service­able keel, and plenty of deck room. You also praised her sea­worthiness, saying she was nippy, safe, responsive to skilful handling, and you praised the speed of her sailing. Send her to me-but, if possible, equipping her with wings, not oars. For I have urgent business, my friend, and indeed must sail with all haste to Abdera. I want to cure a city of an illness caused by the illness of one man, Democritus. You must have heard of the man’s reputation: it is he whom the city has alleged to be in a desperate plight through madness. My wish, or rather my prayer, is that he is not really deranged, but that it only seems so to them. They say he laughs all the time, and never stops laughing at everything, and that seems to them a sign of mad­ness. So tell your friends in Rhodes to be always moderate in their behaviour, and not to laugh much or scowl much, but learn moderation in both, so that you may seem most charming to some, and to others a wise thinker pondering on virtue. And yet, Damagetus, there is something worrying in his laughing at everything. If excess is a bad thing, continual excess is worse.
Introduction: Medicine and the Historical Relations of Gender, Nature, and Authority
Authors: Flemming Rebecca 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Med I C In E has now become an accepted, even favoured, area of enquiry for those interested in the history of women, and in past interpretations and organizations of sexual difference more broadly.1 It is asked of an increasing number of historical societies, whether, for instance, there were female healers, and how they related to other contemporary medical practitioners, both individually and institutionally. How female patients fared, how women ‘s bodies were conceived and comprehended both when sick and well, and why. How these situations and conceptions interrelate, and what broader sets of circumstances are also at stake in all this.
Iambus II
Authors: Kerkhecker Arnd 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Iambus I makes a remarkable introduction. 1 Form and content set it off from the following poems. Hipponax and his new Iambus start the Book with a challenge to the present. In his programmatic opening poem, Callimachus sets himself against the Iambic tradition. Iambus I is marked off and stands apart. when does the collection proper begin? In Iambus II, the speaker is the poet. The entrance gate is left behind. we now hear ‘Cal1imachus’ himself.
Iambus III
Authors: Kerkhecker Arnd 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The gap between the beginning of the poem on the verso of POxy. 101 I fol. IV and its end on the recto is bridged by POxy. 2215 fr. 1: it overlaps lOII fol. 1vv 178-86 at the top (1-9 = fr. 193,5-13) and fol. 1vr 190 at the bottom (20 = fr. 193,24), “forming with it a combination in which every verse but one of the thirty-nine, of which as we now discover the piece consisted, is represented. I do not know that we are much better off for that, but there is no other piece of Callimachus (apart from the hymns and the epigrams) of which the same can be said”.
Iambus VI
Authors: Kerkhecker Arnd 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The length of Iambus VI, and the proportions of its parts, can be determined with some certainty. Beginning and end arc securely established. fost of the Jines are represented in some form. ‘T’here are two lacunae, but there is no doubt about their place in the poem, and little about their extent. (On the evidence of the papyri, see the Excursus above.) We can, again, survey the poem as a ,Whole. It will be worth the trouble: there is some fine writing to be salvaged here. Even in its mutilated state, Iambus VI deserves a place of honour among the works of Callimachus.
The Hospitality of Athenian Justice: The Metic in Court
Authors: Patterson Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
By common judgement, ancient and modern, the popular courts were the emblem of classical Athenian democracy. For better or worse, the Athenians themselves viewed the institution of popular justice delivered by large juries who were paid for their services as their own distinctive democratic invention. Modern commentators have not failed to appreciate both the practical and ideological importance of the Athenian jury to the character and stability of Athenian democracy; in recent years careful (and sociologically informed) reading of the rhetoric of the Athenian courtroom has illuminated the courts as the focal point of the expression of democratic civic ideology and as a forum for elite display and mass validation of public status and prestige within the citizen community. In the courts, Athenian litigants articulated for Athenian juries the meaning of their common citizenship in a democratic city.
‘Whoring Under Contract’: The Legal Context of Prostitution in Fourth-Century Athens
Authors: Cohen Edward E 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Modern scholarship often proffers political explanations of Athenian civilization and institutions, interpretations focusing on the ‘status’ of individuals-’citizens’ (politai), ‘resident foreigners’ (metics), or ‘slaves’.2 Even business activity has been explained not in economic terms, but as a manifestation of political power: according to a thesis dominant for decades, citizens unifonnly lived on incomes derived from capital investments and property; only non-citizens worked personally and actively in trade and production.
Canonists Construct the Nun?: Church Law and Women’s Monastic Practice in Merovingian France
Authors: Peyroux Catherine R 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
‘In ep1scopo ecclesia est.’1 So goes the venerable adage, surely never more appropriate than when bishops were gathered in solemn council to manifest the authority of the church in the production of the body of decrees and statutes governing the faith, and the faithful, that we identify as early medieval canon law. The role and prerogative of this church in the governance of religious women in the christianized barbarian kingdoms of the west has long been a matter of speculation and dispute. In recent years, two dominant interpretations have emerged. One sees the Merovingian period as a time characterized by the comparative autonomy, and equality of spiritual potential, of consecrated women, whose religious authority would later be eclipsed in the Carolingian age by the rise of an organized church that ‘reflected the prejudices of the patriarchal societies where Christianity was born and propagated’ .
Introduction
Authors: Rawson Beryl 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
WHETHER a new child was always so welcome in Roman society depended on many factors, such as the parents’ status and financial situation, the sex of the child, how many siblings there were. Diverse factors have always affected the welcome and fate of newborn infants in any society. That children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome and valued and visible in Roman society is the main argument of this book. Moreover, there are distinctively Roman concepts and treatment of children which can be identified.