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On 26 June A.D. 363, the Emperor Julian succumbed to a battle wound and died in Persia with considerable consequences for Christianity in the Roman Empire. For Christians, Julian’s death provided the opportunity not only for the return of a line of Christian emperors, but also for the occasion, much sooner than they might have originally anticipated, to render this pagan emperor and his acts in relation to the church for posterity.

Plutarch mentions a now-lost treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi, filled with spoils taken from the Athenians (Mor. 400F, 401C; Lys.

An Argonautica is one of the most significant portions of the overview of Greek mythology in book 4 of the Bibliotheke of Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus’ Argonautica is largely based on a mythographical work by Dionysius Scytobrachion that was written at approximately the same time as Apollonius’ Argonautica, and which apparently heavily rationalized the story of the Argonauts to give it a more historical veneer (Rusten 1982).

“Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit—If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero, in Epistulae ad familiares IX, 4.

The Aegritudo Perdicae is a late Latin epyllion of 290 verses. Scholars tentatively agree that it was composed during the fifth century in North Africa. The poem remained unknown to modern scholars until 1876, when Dümmler announced its existence in a footnote to his ‘Gedichte an Prudentius’. Dümmler mentioned it only as one of the works contained in the early sixteenth-century manuscript Harleianus 3685 (H). Baehrens took notice and became the poem’s first editor in the following year.

This paper explores how the slave operates as both paradigm and point of differentiation in Livy’s account of the struggles between patricians and plebeians in the early books of his history. It draws on recent debates in Classical scholarship about the possibility of recovering the discourses of the oppressed in elite literary texts (McCarthy; Richlin), and on work which maps how public narratives of domination (including poetic literature) both shape and are shaped by the “offstage responses” of subordinates (Scott; Fitzgerald).

Law’s Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Republican Statutes

This paper examines the various articulations of empire in surviving statutes (leges) from the mid- and late Republic, and argues that the language employed in these texts provides a useful, and underexplored, window onto the collective representation of Roman imperialism in the last two centuries BCE.