Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite… Read more
This 2008 “born digital” text is an online edition of a 2009 work published by the Trustees for Harvard University. Copyright, Center for Hellenic Studies. The 2009 print edition is available for purchase via Harvard University Press here. Read more
[This review was first published in Indo-European Studies Bulletin 13 (2008) 60–65.] West’s book is most useful for researchers in the Classics and in Indo-European studies. I have produced two different and mutually complementary reviews of it, one for Classicists and one for Indo-Europeanists, with the collegial permission of the… Read more
Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preliminaries to Philostratus’s On Heroes by Casey Dué and Gregory Nagy Introduction Philostratus, On Heroes Glossary Select Bibliography Notes In Memoriam Adrienne Mamelian Berenson and Janice Hunter Aitken “Strength and dignity… Read more
[[This essay is an online version of an original printed version that appeared in The Brill Companion to Hesiod, ed. F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and Ch. Tsagalis (Leiden 2009) 271–311. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example,… Read more
