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Xenophon’s moralizing approach to leadership has often been grouped with his pervasive piety as evincing a deeply reactionary mentality (Breitenbach, Cawkwell). I will argue instead that it represents an innovative response to the increasingly professionalized conditions of warfare in the fourth century; one heavily informed by the author’s own battlefield experiences. This novel environment demanded dynamic generals capable of uniting complex armies that otherwise could easily fragment into specialized, mercenary and allied components (Parke).

1929 was a watershed year for the war memoir and the war novel. Graves’ Good-bye to All That, Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, and Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front all appeared that year, as did Richard Aldington’s Death of a Hero. Although it is little read now, Aldington’s novel sold more than 10,000 copies in its first three months in print. It mirrors the better-known texts in its strongly autobiographical plot and its outspoken anger at the waste of war.

Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End, a quartet of novels first published between 1924 and 1928, is a work profoundly concerned with time and change, slippages and fractures, endings and beginnings.

At the end of the Great War, Ezra Pound lamented, “There died a myriad, / And, of the best, among them / … for two gross of broken statues, / for a few thousand battered books” (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, V). Responding to the War’s senseless devastation and to a post-war culture in ruins became a central, defining task of Pound’s art and that of his modernist contemporaries.

The last words of Joyce’s Ulysses are not, in fact, “yes I said yes I will Yes.” They are “Trieste-Zurich-Paris / 1914-1921.” Joyce’s insistence on ending his books with the dates and times of their composition vividly reminds the reader that Ulysses was composed during the Great War and in its midst; moreover, the bulk of Ulysses, and in particular the episodes that break out of what Joyce termed the “initial style,” were composed between March 1918 and October 1921 during a period when Joyce’s own life was deeply affected by the War.

The extinction of the traditional full-time tenure track/tenure secure faculty has entered an endgame phase, a half-century of ever-increasing exploitation of adjunct/contingent faculty now complicated by the rise of the largely anti-faculty CyberSage MOOC option favored by a strong coalition of higher education presidents, foundations, and politicians.

Just how different are the interests of Non Tenure-System faculty from those in the tenure system? So different that they should be covered by separate bargaining agreements? Or represented by different officers in the union - - or different negotiators at the bargaining table? University of Illinois at Chicago United Faculty believes that in most matters, from pay to pensions, the interests of NTS and TS faculty at UIC are one and the same.

The overwhelming trend to hire contingent faculty in lieu of tenured or tenure-track faculty is drastically changing the composition and nature of academia. It is incumbent for all academic disciplines to consider what this trend means, and it is particularly important for disciplines like Classics to address how this shift will affect the future of the discipline.

At my (large, public, research) institution, the non-tenure-track faculty unionized a little over ten years ago. In their first contract negotiation, they won an agreement in 2004 under which all lecturers (the standard title here for non-ladder teaching faculty) who had been teaching for a certain period, usually on one-year renewable contracts, obtained a high level of job security. Although they work on fixed-term contracts, in practice a lecturer who is successful in a major review, after eight consecutive terms, has a presumption of renewal.

While most monographs that touch on women and Roman law in the Early Empire tend to treat those subjects in separate spheres, i.e. either analyses of Roman laws that rarely deal with women or examinations of Roman women vis-à-vis only those laws that pertain to their sex (e.g. marriage), we must not lose sight of the wider political implications concerning women, adultery and treason under the Julio-Claudian emperors.