George of Pisidia’s Depiction of the Persians and its Classical Antecedents
By Erik Hermans
George of Pisidia was a prominent Greek poet at the court of emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641) in Constantinople in the seventh century. Although often neglected by modern scholars, George of Pisidia’s poetic achievement was recognized in medieval centuries and Psellos even considered George superior to Euripides. The secular part of George of Pisidia’s poetic oeuvre consists of several lengthy poems that eulogize the political and military achievements of emperor Heraclius.
A Still Triumphant Empire with the Barbarians at the Gates: Imperial Epic and Ethnographic Discourse in the Bellum Geticum of Claudian
By Randolph Ford
It has become a commonplace that the period of Late Antiquity, here understood to refer primarily to the fourth through seventh centuries, witnessed a negotiation of political and ethnic identities in the western empire that may only be paralleled with the Romanization of these provinces that began in earnest in the first century B.C. (Ladner, 1976; Heather, 1999; Pohl, 2013). This paper considers the epic poem Bellum Geticum of Claudian, written ca. A.D. 402, in light of its appropriation of epic panegyric and ethnographic discourse.
Anchoring Epic: Vergilian Quotations in Paulinus’ Epic on John and the Christian Tradition
By Roald Dijkstra
Paulinus of Nola (354-431) was one of the leading Christian poets of the late fourth century literary revival in the Roman Empire. Several of the carmina he wrote in his first period of literary activity were small Biblical epics, including his carmen 6 on John the Baptist. In order to make this epyllion a success, Paulinus had to anchor it both in the classical and Christian tradition of epic poetry. His use of classical quotations shows how he found a way to do so.
Accenting Sequences of Enclitics in Ancient Greek: Rediscovering an Ancient Rule
By Philomen Probert
Accenting sequences of enclitics in ancient Greek: rediscovering an ancient rule
Philomen Probert, Oxford
This paper results from work done together with Dr Stephanie Roussou. It presents an ancient rule about sequences of Greek enclitics that modern debate has missed, although Lehrs (1837: 129) had correctly interpreted the crucial text.
Previous scholarship
Archaisms and Innovations in Homeric Accentuation
By Jesse Lundquist
Archaisms and Innovations in Homeric Accentuation
Jesse Lundquist, UCLA
‘To Have’ and ‘To Hold’ in Mycenaean
By Hans Bork
'To Have’ and ‘To Hold’ in Mycenaean
Hans Bork, UCLA
The Quickening Course and Watery Ways: Deriving Greek κέλευθος ‘path’ from PIE *h1léwdh-
By Todd Clary
The Quickening Course and Watery Ways: Deriving Greek κέλευθος ‘path’ from PIE *h1léwdh-
A New Type of Ring Composition? Toward a Technique of Inherited Poetics
By Alexander Forte
A New Type of Ring Composition? Towards a Technique of Inherited Poetics
Alexander SW Forte
Harvard University
Performing Measurement in the Roman East
By Melissa Bailey
State Standards and Metrological Culture in Imperial Rome
By Andrew M. Riggsby