Persaeus of Citium: A Lapsed Stoic?
This article examines the historical evidence on the life of Persaeus of Citium, a Stoic philosopher and immediate student of Zeno, the founder of Stoicism. It also considers the anecdotal accounts of Persaeus’ actions with regard to Stoic philosophy as it was understood to apply during his lifetime.
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth
The Percy Jackson And The Olympians, Book Four: Battle Of The Labyrinth By Rick Riordan Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children, April 14, 2009…
Classical culture for a classical country: scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco
What is the place of the classical past and its study in Italy, a classical country whose roots reach back to antiquity, but has existed as an independent nation only since 1860?
Socrates and democratic Athens: The story of the trial in its historical and legal contexts
Socrates was both a loyal citizen (by his own lights) and a critic of the democratic community’s way of doing things.
Natural Capacities and Democracy as a Good-in-Itself
A paper on moral and political philosophy, arguing on Aristotelian grounds, that democracy is not only an instrumental good, but a good-in-itself for humans…
The instrumental value of others and institutional change: An Athenian case study
A primary motive for certain Athenian rule changes in the direction of increased legal access and impartiality in the fourth century B.C. was Athenian awareness of the increased instrumental value of foreigners.
Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death
The circumcellions were roving bands of violent men and women found in late Roman Africa. The problem is that far more of them have been produced by literary fictions, ancient and modern, than once existed. The fictions have their own intriguing history, but they are otherwise useless for those who are interested in the banality of what actually happened.
Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective
This paper draws on evolutionary psychology to elucidate ultimate causation in imperial state formation and predatory exploitation in antiquity and beyond. Differential access to the means of reproduction is shown to have been a key feature of early imperial systems.
Shock and Awe: The Performance Dimension of Galen
The explicit purpose of Galen’s anatomical dissections was to map the world of knowledge normally hidden within the body and then, by showing how form followed function, to reveal the perfection of Nature’s design. This essay, however, does not focus on the scientific and teleological dimensions of his anatomical enterprise, but aims instead to explore its performance dimension.
Making Space for Bicultural Identity: Herodes Atticus Commemorates Regilla
Herodes and Regilla built a number of installations during their marriage, some of which represented their union in spatial terms. After Regilla died, Herodes reconfigured two of these structures, altering their meanings with inscriptions to represent the marriage retrospectively. This paper considers the implications of these commemorative installations for Herodes’ sense of cultural identity.