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Explanations of the political success of Cleon and other demagogues in Peloponnesian War-era Athens tend to focus on demagogues’ utility: their charismatic speech, for instance (Arist. Pol. 1305a12-13; Henderson 1990; Rhodes 1995), their expertise in management (Andrewes 1962; Davies 1981), or their support of measures that tangibly benefited the impoverished majority (e.g., Thuc. 2.65.10; Ar. Eq. 773-776; Xen. Hell. 1.7.2; Finley 1962; Munn 2000).

The translation of the Bible into Latin by Jerome, based as it was not only on the original Hebrew text but also on several well-established Greek translations, is one of the most significant extant translation projects of the ancient world. Apart from cultural ramifications, it offers the scholar an excellent window into perceived linguistic correspondences between the original Hebrew and the Latin of late antiquity. This paper focuses on one particular set of linguistic correspondences from one particular corpus by studying the translation of verbs in the book of Ecclesiastes.

Reports of lifespans on Roman tombstones long drew attention as evidence bearing on various demographic questions. Since the 1960s, however, this body of evidence has been increasingly abandoned (and probably rightly so) in the face of internal statistical indications which suggest both that the individual texts are unreliable and that the aggregate is unrepresentative for most purposes. The present study focuses on a potentially more valuable subset of this evidence consisting of stones that spell out timespans to the day or the hour (or even fractions thereof).

This paper presents a new reading of the chairman’s patronymic in the prescript of IG II² 105 and 523, an Athenian alliance with Dionysius of Syracuse of 368/7 B.C.E. Autopsy has shown that the current reading, Daippus, found in all modern editions (IG II² 105, SIG³ 163, Tod 136, Rhodes and Osborne 34) diverges from the actual letters on the stone. The inaccurate reading affects other restorations in the inscription, while the new reading restores a name and person whose existence was previously unknown.

This paper will discuss some differences between the Homeric technique of verse-making and the technique of later epic poetry by analyzing constructions for the verb προσέειπεν in the epics. The concept of construction, borrowed from Usage-Based Linguistics and Language Acquisition studies, is a refinement and expansion of Parry’s formula, and proves to be a very powerful tool for analyzing a poet’s technique (Bozzone 2010).

My paper is concerned with the translation into Chinese of the participles in 10a1-11b5 of Plato’s Euthyphro, with the larger goal of testing scholarly hypotheses on the relationship between language and thought.

In this poster, I propose to analyze alliteration systematically across a large body of Latin literature using an algorithmic approach. For my dataset, I will use the Latin texts found in the Perseus Digital Library. The texts will be analyzed using the programming language Python, with each line (and group of adjacent lines) scored and ranked for "alliterative density." I recently presented preliminary work on this subject at a recent digital methodologies conference; that paper, however, dealt primary with methodological and theoretical concerns.

This paper presents the initial results of an ongoing study which focuses on using the Reacting to the Past pedagogy in introductory Greek culture classes. The study was first conducted during spring semester, 2013. It seeks to measure the effect on learning outcomes of not only playing a Reacting to the Past game but also of using the pedagogy to structure an entire course.

This paper discusses a well-known, but as yet unexplained semantic peculiarity confined to Attic (para)tragedy, namely the recurrent use of ἔγχος in the sense of 'sword' and other weapons, and βέλος of non-missile weapons (cf. LSJ s.vv.). The tentative explanation offered here for their origin and application suggests that Sophocles' Ajax antedates Aeschylus' Oresteia, itself datable to 458 BC.

This paper argues that the Curia Iovis of the Augustan colony of Simitthus in Africa Proconsularis continued to be the public voting institution of the populus described in the surviving civic statutes from Baetica and Italy. It focuses on the regulations the curia adopted on November 27, 185CE, which were found inscribed on three faces of a rectangular base in 1882 and published by René Cagnat in 1883 and more fully in 1885 (CIL VIII 14683).