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<jats:p>This article deals with one particular aspect of Livy's narrative of the Gallic Sack of Rome, told in Book 5, and traditionally placed in 390 <jats:sc>b.c.</jats:sc>—namely the issue over the validity of the ransom agreement struck by the Romans with the Gauls. ...

<jats:p>In his <jats:italic>Meditations</jats:italic>, Marcus Aurelius repeatedly presents a disjunction between two conceptions of the natural world. Either the universe is ruled by providence or there are atoms. At 4.3, we find perhaps its most succinct statement: ἀνα...

<jats:p>The διακριτικὴ τέχνη (the art of separating or discriminating), from which the sixth definition of the <jats:italic>Sophist</jats:italic> starts (226b1–231b9), is puzzling. <jats:italic>Prima facie</jats:italic> the art of separating does not fit the initial div...

<jats:p>Euripides’ <jats:italic>Bacchae</jats:italic> is one of the most intensively studied Greek tragedies. Generations of scholars have explored the play from different perspectives and offered fascinating insights. But there are still aspects that have not received ...

<jats:p><jats:disp-quote><jats:p>Social magic always manages to produce discontinuity out of continuity.</jats:p></jats:disp-quote></jats:p><jats:p>Social dialect, which can be defined negatively as dialect associated with variables other than geographic region, was har...

International audience; In Herodotus’ Histories, at 1.66, one reads the passive aorist indicative εὐθηνήθησαν (Ionic), or εὐθενήθησαν (Attic), depending on the spelling preferred by the editors. And in Dem. 19.231, one reads the now obelised middle or passive present in...

<jats:p>Roman emperors were at the pinnacle of society. They were supreme commanders of the armies, the highest priests and the ultimate source of law and justice. These three roles were made clear to the inhabitants of the empire from the reign of Augustus onwards thro...

<jats:p>This paper deals with an apparently straightforward question: the degree to which ancient educators thought it necessary to introduce a playful element into the programmes of schools, and the way in which such ideas were put into practice.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Scholarship on <jats:italic>Ecclesiazusae</jats:italic> (as on <jats:italic>Wealth</jats:italic>) has been largely divided between those who are in favour of a fantastical/positive reading of the play and view it as a celebration of comic energy void of serious ...