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Of the inscriptions from Hellenistic Delphi that record enslaved people sold to Apollo “on the condition of freedom,” about a quarter include an obligation to remain by (paramenein) their former owner, usually until the latter’s death.

In the list of Caesar’s actions as dictator provided by Suetonius in his Divus Iulius, one item stands out: the requirement that "neve ii, qui pecuariam facerent, minus tertia parte puberum ingenuorum inter pastores haberent" (Suet. Iul. 42). This reference raises far more questions than it answers, from the identities of the people who would be involved to the motives and potential effects of such a policy. The Latin used does not offer much clarity, leaving room for debate around the intended meaning of puberum ingenuorum.

By the turn of the first century CE in Rome, the slave market divided people with disabilities into two broad categories. From literature, we are best informed about those who were chosen for their unusual physical attributes or behaviours which made them exotic luxury items (e.g., Martial Ep. 6.39, 8.13, SHA, Comm. 11.1, and Pliny HN 34.6; Dench 2005: 279-292, Garland 2010, Trentin 2011).

In this paper I argue that Pliny creates a dialog with Lucretius’ poetry through allusion to his programmatic wormwood simile. Significant similarities between Pliny the Elder’s Historia Naturalis and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura have been recognized (Wallace-Hadrill, 1990; Conte, 1994), and both writers shape their style to mirror their concept of nature (Carey, 2003). However, it has not been supposed that Pliny actively engaged with the work of Lucretius.

What does the Argo have to do with Achilles?

Due to the resurgence of interest in aesthetics, scholars now appreciate the sophisticated ways aesthetic experience is drawn upon in Greco-Roman literature (Telò 2020, Martindale 2004, Bartsch 1997). A major focus of such criticism has been how ancient literature evokes the sublime (Lagière 2018, Porter 2016, Day 2013). While this focus is understandable, numerous other aesthetic sensibilities were important to ancient audiences. In this paper, I argue for the importance of bathos in Early Imperial Latin literature with a focus on Statius’ poetry. The paper is divided into two parts.

Religion in Martial’s apologia pro opere suo

         When Achilles dons women’s clothing on the island of Scyros, his new embodiment and habitus call into question his internal self-identity as a man. Habitus, embodiment, and self-identity have a complicated interrelationship (Philo LS 28P; Gill; Gleason; Corbeill). By adopting a new habitus, has Achilles’ placed his masculinity at risk?

Introduced in Egypt by Ptolemy I, the agoranomoi functioned as public notaries and, like their counterparts elsewhere in the Greek world, as regulators of the marketplace until the fourth century CE. These officials in Egypt are mostly known to us from their presence on contracts and studies of the office and its officials have tended to focus on the duties of the official as a consequence (Rahyab 2019, Rodriguez 2009, Vandorpe 2004, Pestman 1985, Raschke 1974).

This paper reveals that the famed manuscript conservator and antiquities dealer, Anton Fackelmann, made demonstrably false claims about the provenance of papyri he sold. My discoveries in the Duke University archive suggest that Dr. Fackelmann, leveraging his status as a well-known conservator (cf. Fackelmann, 2015; Nongbri), disguised commonplace Roman-era papyri as much earlier and more valuable pieces of Ptolemaic mummy cartonnage.