After Stephanus
in Greek Ethnic Terminology
November 2009; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 3273 words.
The epitomised Stephanus is the only text of an Ethnika surviving from antiquity. Consequently we cannot speak of his successors in the same way that he himself may be regarded as successor of Oros,...
Ambiguous and Variable Ethnics
in Greek Ethnic Terminology
November 2009; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 8187 words.
This chapter discusses ambiguous and individual variable ethnics. Although differentiated and ambiguous, place-names and their ethnics are especially a feature of the Hellenistic age, the phenomenon...
The Ambiguous Name: The Limitations of Cultural Identity in Graeco-Roman Syrian Onomastics1
in Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics
November 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 10756 words.
This chapter examines the limitations of cultural identity in Syrian onomastics during the Graeco-Roman period. It warns against jumping to a conclusion based on modern understanding of the...
Another look at Virgil’s Ganymede
in Classics in Progress
January 2006; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 14247 words.
The twentieth century was marked by an accelerating intensity of critical attention to Virgil, triggered initially by a revaluation of the merits of Latin literature in comparison to its Greek...
Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
November 2005; published online February 2012.
Book. Subjects: classical literature. 450 pages.
Twenty chapters from two often-dissociated areas of Latin studies, classical and medieval Latin, examine continuities and developments in the language of Latin prose from its emergence to the twelfth...
Associative Adjectives and Verbs
in Greek Ethnic Terminology
November 2009; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 2060 words.
This chapter focuses on the second aspect of associative nomenclature, that of adjectives terminating in -ειος. This termination, though rarely used as a simple ethnic form when no ambiguity existed...
The Bellum Africum
in Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
November 2005; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 12124 words.
This chapter first addresses the ‘invention’ of literary prose. It takes two lexical examples to demonstrate the traditional character of the language, partly from Caesar himself, and partly from the null...
Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the De legibus
in Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
November 2005; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 17952 words.
This chapter argues that some apparent archaisms in the laws composed by Cicero in the De legibus should not be regarded as archaisms in a legal context. It also demonstrates that Cicero does indeed...
Ciceronian correspondences: making a book out of letters
in Classics in Progress
January 2006; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: classical literature. 21301 words.
This chapter exemplifies the complexities of the surviving evidence, looking at the literary works of Cicero. The Letters of Cicero are one of the most extraordinary survivals from the ancient world,...
Classics in Progress
January 2006; published online February 2012.
Book. Subjects: classical literature. 468 pages.
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and...