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(Content Warning: This paper contains detailed discussion of infanticide and infant death)

I propose a solution to an old problem: how was high tone assigned in Ancient Greek (Attic) to words conventionally described as being “recessive,” the default and most common accentual pattern in the language (Probert 2006)? Linguists have come tantalizingly close, but we still lack a single explanatory system that works perfectly. The contributions of Steriade and Sauzet established that tone assignment is based on trochaic feet constructed right-to-left (Itō & Mester, who posit a purely moraic mechanism, disagree, followed by Revithiadou).

The Greek symposion has been extensively studied (e.g. Murray, ed. 1990, 2018; Catoni 2010; Lynch 2011; Topper 2012; Hobden 2013; Węcowski 2014; Corner 2015), and it is widely accepted that this convivial custom dates to the 8^th century, largely based on influential interpretations of Nestor’s Cup from Pithekoussai by Murray (1994) and Węcowski (2014:127-139, 2017).

In this talk I look at the literary texture and allusions in the Copa, its mix of high and low vocabulary and culture, and show how Surisca’s gender and status color the poem’s sophisticated presentation of the garden space. The copareplaces and unmans (24 sed non et uasto est inguine terribilis) Priapus’ usual masculine control over the garden (see Richlin 1992) and in the process reverses many earlier literary tropes. Rather than warning people away from the garden, she issues an invitation.

Lucy Hutchinson (1618-1681) was a Latinist and poet who produced the first full translation of Lucretius into English verse—a philosophically controversial choice for a committed Puritan woman, and one that she herself questions in the preface to her manuscript. Hutchinson’s work outside the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, her biography of her husband, has only in the past few decades come into scholarly focus (e.g. the work of David Norbrook and Hugh de Quehen).

"Similium alia facies in alia ratione": Farming, oratory, and education in Cicero and Quintilian

In Bella Civilia 4.12-51, Appian narrates approximately eighty proscription tales, focusing on the most notable tales out of the numerous stories he encountered in his research. He includes tales of the proscribed who were executed due to betrayal by a family member and those who were saved due to the risks their family members took to protect them. Women are key actors in the proscription tales found in Appian given that the domestic sphere became a political battleground during this period (Milnor 2005).

In recent years research increasingly focused on Oxford's leading role hosting German "refugee classical scholars" in the 1930s, e.g., The Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University (2017) or Christopher Stray’s Festschrift Classical Scholarship and its History (2019).