The Body and its Travails

Plutarch concludes his Life of Pelopidas with the story of how Alexander was assassinated in his bed by his own wife Thebe and her brothers (358/357 BCE). This paper argues that Plutarch not only prolonged the Life of Pelopidas as posthumous vengeance for his hero’s demise (Georgiadou 1997, Sprawski 2006), but also wrote Alexander’s murder to satisfy the quintessential elements of the end a tyrant ought to experience. In a 2013 article, Nino Luraghi proposed that motifs which recur in the death narratives of tyrants have symbolic meaning and he identified elements (i.e.

This paper posits an explanation for the contrast between the respective valences of male nudity in early Greek epic poetry and contemporary visual culture.

Recent research on women’s clothing has paid attention to women wearing togas, but no one has yet looked at the togate adulteress as a forced cross-dresser. Campanile and Carla-Uhink have edited the first book-length study of cross-dressing in antiquity in English, but their book focuses predominately on male cross-dressing. With my paper, I aim to start a conversation on one aspect of female transvestism in the Roman world by looking at reasons why certain women wore male clothing.

This paper investigates the nexus of ekphrasis, landscape, and identity in Achilles Tatius’s Leucippe and Clitophon by examining a single, striking case study: the arrival of the phoenix at the end of the third book (3.25). Few moments tie these strands of the novel so tightly together as does the phoenix, which affords us an opportunity to see how Achilles Tatius’s imagined landscape becomes a key character in his narrative project.