The Carroll Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3 and no. 4

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Social Class

Discussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander

Tiresias, Ovid, gender and trouble : generic conversions from Ars into Tristia

Ovid’s brief Tiresias episode in the third book of his Metamorphoses (Met. 3.316-38) represents one of the most eloquent examples of Ovidian self-representation and contamination between his elegiac, epic and exilic corpora. Tiresias’ chauvinistic statement on the nature of women’s sexual pleasure constitutes the first point of connection between the Theban seer and the praeceptor of the Ars Amatoria. Additionally, as it has already been noted for the Actaeon story that precedes the Tiresias episode (which is explicitly paralleled by Ovid himself to his own fate in Tristia 2.103-8), Met. 3.316-38 also features what anachronistically sound like unmistakable echoes of the obsessive language and themes displayed throughout the Tristia. Such resonances, coupled with similarities between Tiresias and the praeceptor amoris, invite us to read Tiresias’ undeserved punishment at the hands of Juno as a double of Ovid’s own punishment for writing the Ars, a recognition which may also shed further light on Livia’s involvement in the verdict on Ovid’s exile

Tacitus on Titus? Visit to the Temple of Venus at Paphos

This article deals with Titus? visit to the temple of Venus at Paphos in the second book of Tacitus? Historiae. I argue that apart from its other literary intentions already mentioned by scholars, this digression implicitly connects Titus not only with Aeneas but also with Julius Caesar. Titus? affair with Berenice that recalls Caesar?s affair with Cleopatra, Tacitus? allusions to Lucan?s De Bello Civili where Caesar?s visit to the tomb of Alexander the Great is described, the ?????Motiv and fortuna?s favour that characterise both Roman generals, all contribute to connect Titus with Caesar and allow the reader to view a parallel between the Flavian and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Furthermore, the particular digression allows the historian to present certain aspects of his work and his historiographic practices and to reinforce his credibility

The Lighthouse at Pharos - A Narrative

This paper seeks to tell a story, a story of the colossal lighthouse of Pharos built outside a grand city as acknowledgement to and evidence of the prosperity and significance of Alexandria. Detailed accounts of the wealth and role of Alexandria, Ptolemy 1, Sostratus, and other contextual information is provided. Additionally, a synthesis of the various accounts regarding the dimensions and features of the lighthouse provides readers an view into the significance of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

Some uses of Plato in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon

The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between Achilles Tatius' novel Leucippe and Cleitophon and the Platonic corpus. I have searched for Platonic allusions of various natures and purposes and grouped them into thematic chapters. I have also compared instances of similar uses of Plato in contemporary authors in order to classify both the individual cases and the place of Achilles Tatius' novel in its literary environment, including the intended readership. In my introduction I have argued that through the combination in his works of philosophy and literary excellence Plato was an extremely important figure to the Greeks of the second sophistic. However, despite the increasingly influential opinion that Greek novel readership was not dissimilar to that of other works, the possibility that the Greek novelists used Plato in a more than cosmetic fashion has been relatively neglected. The uses of Plato on which I have concentrated are the employment of Platonic names as allusions to their namesakes; Platonic narrative technique as the model for the dialogue form and open-endedness of Leucippe and Cleitophon with the integration of this technique into the broader question of the discrepancies between the beginning and the end; the allusion to a particularly famous passage of the Phaedrus in the name of the heroine; the repeated allusions to the Phaedran flow of beauty, their purposes and the light they shed on the characterisation of Cleitophon; and the Phaedran scene-setting, indulged in by many other writers, which Achilles Tatius uses in two significant passages. The conclusions I have reached are that Achilles Tatius uses Plato far more extensively and imaginatively than hitherto realised; that such an intimate engagement can shed light on other issues, such as psychological characterisation and the question of humour; that Achilles Tatius wrote something of an "anti-Platonic" novel; and that his work displays many similarities with other works whose sophistication is less in doubt

Appendices for “Greater in Death: The Transformative Effect of Convivial Iconography on Roman Cineraria.”

Appendices to accompany a book chapter: Sulosky Weaver, C. L. “Greater in Death: The Transformative Effect of Convivial Iconography on Roman Cineraria.” In The Ancient Art of Transformation, edited by R.M. Gondek and E.M. Molacek. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Appendix I is a catalogue of funerary banquet scenes on Roman marble cineraria, and Appendix II is a catalogue of inscriptions found on the objects listed in Appendix I

Roman Architects and the Struggle for Fame in an Unequal Society

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the DOI in this recordSeries: Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 42

The Plaint in Athenian Law and Legal Procedure

This essay examines the contents of the plaint (engklema) and its role in Athenian law and legal procedure. The plaint contained the full names of the accuser and the defendant with patronymic and demotic and the name of the action the accuser was bringing against the defendant and the names of those who witnessed the summons. The plaint also contained a brief summary of the accuser’s main charges all expressed in the language of the relevant statute. The plaint therefore determined the main issues about which the judges would decide and defined what was relevant and irrelevant (exo tou pragmatos). It ensured that the judges would concentrate on the question, did the defendant violate the law? and that they would pay no attention to irrelevant issues like public service. After the trial, the plaint was kept on file in the office of the relevant magistrate and could be produced as evidence in subsequent litigation. In this way it helped to uphold the important principle of res iudicata