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Miracula : weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome
\"Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores \"the incredible\" as presented by little-known classical writers like Callimachus and Phlegon of Tralles. Yet, it offers much more: even familiar authors such as Herodotus and Cicero often couldn't resist relating sensational, tabloid-worthy tales. The book also tackles ancient examples of topics still relevant today, such as racism, slavery, and misogyny. The pieces are by turns absorbing, enchanting, curious, unbelievable, comical, astonishing, disturbing, and occasionally just plain daft. An entertaining and sometimes lurid collection, this book is perfect for all those fascinated by the stranger aspects of the classical world, for history enthusiasts, and for anyone interested in classical history, society, and culture\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities
The ancient Romans have left us far more information about themselves than has any other Western society until much more recent times. This text is a collection of odd facts and opinions, carefully gleaned from the wide body of evidence left to us by the Romans themselves.
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Suet. Ner. 7.1: Britannicum subditivum
Charles describes how and why Nero used a term, Britannicum subditivum, with regard to his stepbrother Britannicus.
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Xenophon and the Execution of the Athenian Captives at Aegospotami
Xenophon's Hellenica is examined and critiqued, focusing on the battle of Aegospotami and Athenians' reaction to the executions of Athenian soldiers captured in battle. Particularly noteworthy in Xenophon's account is the fact that Philocies' death is mentioned while the execution of the Athenian captives at Aegospotami is not.
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A Note on Hesiod fr. 62 Merkelbach-West
In the book Fragmenta Hesiodea edited by R. Merkelbach and M. L. West, a part of the Greek epic poem Catalogue of Women is critiqued and analyzed. Merkelbach and West claim that in line three of the poem, the text of Heinsisus should be considered. Included in their analysis is a snippet offered by Eustathius on the Iliad.
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An unresolved crux in Hermias of Alexandria (In Phdr. 68.11 Couvreur)
Hermias of Alexandria's Phaedrus Commentary is critiqued, focusing on the episode involving Socrates and Phaedrus and the theme of atonement for an offense against the gods that framed this dialogue.
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Arachne's Attitude: Metamorphoses 6.25
An analysis of Metamorphoses 6.25 is offered, focusing on Arachne's attitude and similarities between Minerva's visitation of Arachne and Allecto's Turnus in Aenid 7. Arachne serves as a telling example of competitions between the vindictive Greek mythological gods.
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Why Miletus? Chariton's Choice of Setting and Xenophon's Anabasis
Trzaskoma examines Chariton's Greek novel Callirhoe.
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On a Forgotten Manuscript Fragment of Calcidius' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
A critique of a forgotten manuscript fragment of Calcidius's commentary on Plato's Timaeus, contained in Ovid's Turolensis 2 is offered. In the manuscript, Calcidius compared the cosmos, the city and the human body.
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The Pleonasm of the New Gallus, and the Gallus of the Monobiblos
Scholars have wondered for years whether the Gallus addressed in Prop. 1.5, 10, and 13 is to be identified with the poet Cornelius Callus. The Gallus of Prop. 1.20 is generally thought to be the poet, and the Callus of Prop. 1.21 is universally agreed not to be. A growing number of scholars has come to identify the Gallus of the earlier poems with Cornelius Gallus, but others have resisted, mainly on the grounds that in Prop. 1.5.23-4, the figure named Gallus hints at a family of senatorial rank, whereas the poet came from an equestrian family. Here, Somerville examines the new Gallus and the Gallus of the Monobiblos.
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