A Political Asklepios: Justice, Heredity, and Reproductive Control in Plutarch’s De Sera
By Malina Buturović (Princeton University)
A Political Asklepios: Justice, Heredity, and Reproductive Control in Plutarch’s De Sera
The Madness of Antony: Mental Deficiency as a Marker of Character in Plutarch’s Life of Antony and Cicero’s Second Philippic
By Kyle West (University of Pennsylvania)
The Madness of Antony: Mental Deficiency as a Marker of Character in Plutarch’s Life of Antony and Cicero’s Second Philippic
It is the contention of this paper that both Cicero and Plutarch, in their treatments of Mark Antony, use mental impairment or deficiency as a marker of, and even a shorthand for, Antony’s deficient character. Awareness of this strategic invocation of mental illness as a common element in both authors’ characterizations of Antony can help illuminate the role of disability in ancient elite discourse more broadly.
Claudius’ Physical Attributes and his Political Authority in Suetonius’ Claudius
By Wesley Hanson (University of Pennsylvania)
Claudius’ Physical Attributes and his Political Authority in Suetonius’ Claudius
How to Write a Disabled God: Disability in Lucian of Samosata’s Dialogues
By Martina Astrid Rodda (University of Oxford)
How to Write a Disabled God: Disability in Lucian of Samosata’s Dialogues