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Full Issue May 2021

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New England Classical Journal

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Scipio’S Rome And Critias’ Athens: Utopian Mythmaking In Cicero’S De Republica And Plato’S Timaeus, Evan Rw Dutmer May 2021

Scipio’S Rome And Critias’ Athens: Utopian Mythmaking In Cicero’S De Republica And Plato’S Timaeus, Evan Rw Dutmer

New England Classical Journal

Scholarly debate on the relationship between Cicero’s De republica (On the Republic) and De Legibus (On the Laws) and the thought of Plato tends to focus on the supposed congruities or incongruities of the De republica and De legibus with Plato’s own Republic and Laws. Still, Plato’s discussion of ideal constitutions is not constrained to the Republic and Laws. In this essay I propose that we look to another of Plato’s dialogues for fruitful comparison: the Timaeus-Critias duology. In this essay I bring these two texts into substantive dialogue to illuminate mysterious features of both. …


Towards A ‘Political’ Tibullus: Ceres And Grain In Elegies Books 1 And 2, Victoria Jansson May 2021

Towards A ‘Political’ Tibullus: Ceres And Grain In Elegies Books 1 And 2, Victoria Jansson

New England Classical Journal

This article argues that unfulfilled prayers to Ceres in Tibullus’ elegies are symptomatic of Rome’s grain crises at the end of the Republic and beginning of Empire. My approach includes philological, socioeconomic, and psychoanalytic analysis of the elegies, in which the poet examines the shifting definition of a ‘Roman’ in his day. I seek to demonstrate the ways in which the poet grapples with the political and economic forces at work during the most turbulent period of Roman history: a time when income inequality was roughly equivalent to that of the U.S. and E.U. today.


Lector Intende, Laetaberis: A Research-Based Approach To Introductory Latin, Daniel Libatique, Dominic Machado May 2021

Lector Intende, Laetaberis: A Research-Based Approach To Introductory Latin, Daniel Libatique, Dominic Machado

New England Classical Journal

In the 2019-20 academic year, we undertook a full redesign of our introductory Latin curriculum at the College of the Holy Cross in order to provide students with a more meaningful encounter with the Latin language. We primed our students to work with real, unedited Latin texts within their first year of study by highlighting Latin grammatical concepts that were frequent, complex, and unfamiliar to English speakers, which meant introducing topics like the passive voice, the subjunctive, third-declension adjectives, and indirect statement that are foundational to the Latin language much earlier than we had previously.


“Women Must Weep—Or Unite Against War”: Virginia Woolf’S Feminist Critique Of Classical Epic In To The Lighthouse, Kit Pyne-Jaeger May 2021

“Women Must Weep—Or Unite Against War”: Virginia Woolf’S Feminist Critique Of Classical Epic In To The Lighthouse, Kit Pyne-Jaeger

New England Classical Journal

Previous scholarship on Virginia Woolf’s classicism has acknowledged her debt to Vergil primarily in the context of the Eclogues or Georgics, and her debt to classical epic as a genre rarely and sparsely. Tremper (1992) and Tudeau-Clayton (2006) have both suggested a reading of “The Lighthouse,” the third part of To the Lighthouse, as an example of modernist epic. This paper, conversely, proposes that the novel in its entirety functions as a satirical critique of epic, specifically of Vergil’s Aeneid, with the goal of demonstrating the pitfalls of epic ideology as it impacted English society during the First World War.


Caesar And Genocide: Confronting The Dark Side Of Caesar’S Gallic Wars, Kurt A. Raaflaub May 2021

Caesar And Genocide: Confronting The Dark Side Of Caesar’S Gallic Wars, Kurt A. Raaflaub

New England Classical Journal

Julius Caesar’s military achievements, described in his Gallic War, are monumental; so are the atrocities his army committed in slaughtering or enslaving entire nations. He stands accused of genocide. For today’s readers, including students and teachers, this poses problems. It raises questions, not least about Caesar’s place in the Latin curriculum. Applying modern definitions of “genocide,” is he guilty as accused? If so, is it justified to condemn him of a crime that was recognized as such only recently? Without condoning Caesar’s actions, this paper seeks fuller understanding by contextual analysis, placing them in the context of Roman—and ancient (if …


The Helen Maria Chesnutt Scholarships For Equity In Classical Study May 2021

The Helen Maria Chesnutt Scholarships For Equity In Classical Study

New England Classical Journal

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Message From The President, Teresa Ramsby May 2021

Message From The President, Teresa Ramsby

New England Classical Journal

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The 2021 Classical Association Of New England Student Writing Contest May 2021

The 2021 Classical Association Of New England Student Writing Contest

New England Classical Journal

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Masthead Nov 2020

Masthead

New England Classical Journal

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Tonio Hölscher, Visual Power In Ancient Greece And Rome: Between Art And Social Reality., Nicole Brown Nov 2020

Tonio Hölscher, Visual Power In Ancient Greece And Rome: Between Art And Social Reality., Nicole Brown

New England Classical Journal

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Kathleen Mccarthy, I, The Poet: First-Person Form In Horace, Catullus, And Propertius. Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 258. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-5017-3955-2). $52.95., Brian W. Breed Nov 2020

Kathleen Mccarthy, I, The Poet: First-Person Form In Horace, Catullus, And Propertius. Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 258. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-5017-3955-2). $52.95., Brian W. Breed

New England Classical Journal

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Joseph J. Walsh, The Great Fire Of Rome: Life And Death In The Ancient City. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. P. 192. Paper (Isbn 978-1-4214-3371-4) $19.95., Kelly Shannon-Henderson Nov 2020

Joseph J. Walsh, The Great Fire Of Rome: Life And Death In The Ancient City. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. P. 192. Paper (Isbn 978-1-4214-3371-4) $19.95., Kelly Shannon-Henderson

New England Classical Journal

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Announcement - Awards, Scholarships, And Funds Nov 2020

Announcement - Awards, Scholarships, And Funds

New England Classical Journal

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Full Issue Nov 2020

Full Issue

New England Classical Journal

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Message From The President, Teresa Ramsby Nov 2020

Message From The President, Teresa Ramsby

New England Classical Journal

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Shipwrecked Spouses: Leukothea’S Veil And Marital Reunion In The Odyssey, David West Nov 2020

Shipwrecked Spouses: Leukothea’S Veil And Marital Reunion In The Odyssey, David West

New England Classical Journal

This article proposes a new view of the mysterious incident in which Odysseus wears Leukothea’s veil to make it safely ashore in Odyssey 5, arguing that it bears directly on one of the epic’s fundamental themes, the reunion of the hero with Penelope. Through an analysis of the traditional referentiality of the veil in the Homeric epics and of Odyssean similes associating shipwreck with family reunion, it is shown that Leukothea’s veil identifies Odysseus with Penelope while both signifying and magically effecting the recovery of chastity, and ultimately of his marriage.


Messalina’S Moveable Domus: Landscape And Memory In Annals 11, Caitlin Gillespie Nov 2020

Messalina’S Moveable Domus: Landscape And Memory In Annals 11, Caitlin Gillespie

New England Classical Journal

This article addresses the intersection between landscape, memory, and power in Messalina’s movements through Rome, as recorded in Tacitus’ Annals. Messalina’s journeys demonstrate her appropriation of spatial memory and her transgressions of gender and status, as she attempts to relocate the imperial domus to the home of Gaius Silius. Reading the imperial domus as a kind of landscape opens new avenues for interpretation. Tacitus recognizes the relationship between the imperial mother and the Palatine domus, and connects Messalina to the space itself. He thereby prompts readers to consider the fragile nature of imperial power and dynastic succession as …


Vassiliki Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’S Rituals In Roman Literature. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-4214-2891-8) $54.95., Karen Hersch Nov 2020

Vassiliki Panoussi, Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’S Rituals In Roman Literature. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. 288. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-4214-2891-8) $54.95., Karen Hersch

New England Classical Journal

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Books Received Nov 2020

Books Received

New England Classical Journal

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Table Of Contents Nov 2020

Table Of Contents

New England Classical Journal

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Announcement - 2020 Cane Student Writing Contest Nov 2020

Announcement - 2020 Cane Student Writing Contest

New England Classical Journal

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Announcement - 2021 Cane Summer Institute Nov 2020

Announcement - 2021 Cane Summer Institute

New England Classical Journal

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Jacqueline De Romilly, The Life Of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition And The Betrayal Of Athens, Translated By Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 228. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-5017-1975-2). $29.95., Joshua Nudell Nov 2020

Jacqueline De Romilly, The Life Of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition And The Betrayal Of Athens, Translated By Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings. Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 228. Cloth (Isbn 978-1-5017-1975-2). $29.95., Joshua Nudell

New England Classical Journal

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Musonius Rufus, That One Should Disdain Hardships (The Teachings Of A Roman Stoic), Translated By Cora E. Lutz, With An Introduction By Gretchen Reydams-Schils. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 160. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-300-22603-4) $22.00., Joshua Kinlaw Nov 2020

Musonius Rufus, That One Should Disdain Hardships (The Teachings Of A Roman Stoic), Translated By Cora E. Lutz, With An Introduction By Gretchen Reydams-Schils. New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, 2020. Pp. 160. Cloth (Isbn 978-0-300-22603-4) $22.00., Joshua Kinlaw

New England Classical Journal

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Message From The President, John Higgins May 2020

Message From The President, John Higgins

New England Classical Journal

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Books Received May 2020

Books Received

New England Classical Journal

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Masthead May 2020

Masthead

New England Classical Journal

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Table Of Contents May 2020

Table Of Contents

New England Classical Journal

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Verbal Agency In The Speech Of Cremutius Cordus (Tacitus Annals 4.34-5), Daniel Libatique May 2020

Verbal Agency In The Speech Of Cremutius Cordus (Tacitus Annals 4.34-5), Daniel Libatique

New England Classical Journal

This article analyzes the agency (or lack thereof) in the verbs of the speech of Cremutius Cordus at Tacitus Annals 4.34-5. Cordus divests himself of agency in order to grant it to written works of literature, which can carry an author’s legacy and authority into posterity even if the author himself is punished with death. By their very existence, such works, imbued with agency and power by their authors, stymie the efforts of book-burners and the authors’ enemies to efface cultural memory.