ROWING FOR ATHENS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. QUINTUS FABIUS PICTOR AND GRECO-ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AT ROME 1
5. BELIEVING THE PRO MARCELLO 24
6. THE STOIC PARADOXES ACCORDING TO CICERO 39
7. HORATIAN JOTTINGS 47
8. SERA VINDEMIA: MARGINAL NOTES ON THE TEXT OF HORACE AND JUVENAL 56
9. CRITICA VARIA 67
10. HYPERMETER AND ELISION IN VIRGIL 76
11. VERGIL, PHILODEMUS, AND THE LAMENT OF IUTURNA 90
12. THE AUTHENTICITY OF AMORES 3.5 114
13. OVID ON THE AUGUSTAN PALATINE (TRISTIA 3.1) 129
14. OVID AND AUGUSTUS 140
15. (MIS)USES OF MYTHOLOGY IN PETRONIUS 152
16. STRUCTURE AND HISTORY IN THE GERMANIA OF TACITUS 164
17. THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES, OR, ON FLATTERY AND ENCOMIUM IN THE SILVAE 174
18. PSITTACUS REDUX: IMITATION AND LITERARY POLEMIC IN STATIUS, SILVAE 2.4 189
19. THE PSEUDO-FULGENTIAN SUPER THEBAIDEN 200
20. AT PLAY WITH ADONIS 219
21. STIGMATA AETERNA: A HUSBAND’S CURSE 230
22. CAUGHT IN THE ACT: IN FILIA DEPREHENDERE IN THE LEX IULIA DE ADULTERIIS 243
23. THE DAIMON OF EUDAIMONIA 250
24. A DRINK FROM THE DAUGHTERS OF MNEMOSYNE: POETRY, ESCHATOLOGY AND MEMORY AT THE END OF PINDAR'S ISTHMIAN 6 259
25. ROWING FOR ATHENS 271
26. RATIONALISM, NAIVE AND MALIGN, IN EURIPIDES’ ORESTES 277