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Review Of Sarah F. Derbew. 2022. Untangling Blackness In Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp Xvi, 253. Paperback. (Isbn 9781108817912) $25.99., Emma English Oct 2024

Review Of Sarah F. Derbew. 2022. Untangling Blackness In Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp Xvi, 253. Paperback. (Isbn 9781108817912) $25.99., Emma English

New England Classical Journal

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A Letter From Cane President Thomas J. Howell Oct 2024

A Letter From Cane President Thomas J. Howell

New England Classical Journal

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Masthead Oct 2024

Masthead

New England Classical Journal

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Table Of Contents Oct 2024

Table Of Contents

New England Classical Journal

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Reception Of The Testimonium Flavianum: An Evaluation Of The Independent Witnesses To Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum, Chrissy M.E. Hansen Oct 2024

Reception Of The Testimonium Flavianum: An Evaluation Of The Independent Witnesses To Josephus’ Testimonium Flavianum, Chrissy M.E. Hansen

New England Classical Journal

The Testimonium Flavianum’s authenticity has been a prominent concern in Jesus studies for centuries. Recent studies have largely ruled it partially authentic, with the works of Whealey, Paget, and Allen arguing that independent witnesses to the Testimonium Flavianum existed beyond Eusebius. This essay assesses the independency of these alleged witnesses to the Testimonium Flavianum and concludes that none hold water. Per this paper’s findings, all versions of the Testimonium Flavianum have their origin in either Eusebius’ Historia Ecclesiastica or Demonstratio Evangelica.


Review Of Melanie Racette-Campbell. 2023. The Crisis Of Masculinity In The Age Of Augustus. Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Madison, Wisconsin: The University Of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Pp. Xi, 262. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780299343507) $99.95., Jaakkojuhani Peltonen Oct 2024

Review Of Melanie Racette-Campbell. 2023. The Crisis Of Masculinity In The Age Of Augustus. Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Madison, Wisconsin: The University Of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Pp. Xi, 262. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780299343507) $99.95., Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

New England Classical Journal

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Review Of Ronnie Ancona And Georgia Tsouvala (Eds.). 2021. New Directions In The Study Of Women In The Greco-Roman World. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. Xvi, 278. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780190937638) $110., J. Jo Spellman Oct 2024

Review Of Ronnie Ancona And Georgia Tsouvala (Eds.). 2021. New Directions In The Study Of Women In The Greco-Roman World. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. Xvi, 278. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780190937638) $110., J. Jo Spellman

New England Classical Journal

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Amy Barbour: Biography As Scholarly Self-Fashioning, Talia Boylan Oct 2024

Amy Barbour: Biography As Scholarly Self-Fashioning, Talia Boylan

New England Classical Journal

Amy Barbour (PhD Yale, 1902) was one of the first women to receive a PhD in Classics in the United States. This essay describes how Barbour’s social context, gender, and national identity inflected her engagement with transatlantic intellectual trends. A biographical sketch culminating with Barbour’s career at Smith College as Professor of Ancient Greek is followed by a description of her academic achievements in the light of contemporary disciplinary anxiety and the use of biography as a scholarly tool. This two-pronged approach complements the valuable body of scholarship on North American women Classicists, which has focused more on those women’s …


Echoes Of The Past: The Vitellian Women In Tacitus’ Histories, Caitlin Gillespie Oct 2024

Echoes Of The Past: The Vitellian Women In Tacitus’ Histories, Caitlin Gillespie

New England Classical Journal

This article argues that Tacitus’ characterizations of female members of the Vitellii evoke literary representations of several prominent Roman women of the late Republic and Julio-Claudian era. Tacitus draws upon a range of figures for his Vitellian women, from Fulvia to Livia, Antonia the Younger to Octavia. Literary resonances contribute to Tacitus’ representation of Vitellius as a bad emperor who nevertheless cared about his family. In rejecting or reflecting literary models, Tacitus uses Vitellius’ mother Sextilia, wife Galeria, and sister-in-law Triaria to create echoes and distinctions between past and present civil conflicts.


Statues In Plutarch's Lives, Donald Lateiner Oct 2024

Statues In Plutarch's Lives, Donald Lateiner

New England Classical Journal

This article surveys where Plutarch mentions statues in the Lives and how they enrich his biographies. He alludes to statues in introductions, after death in conclusions, and in synkriseis. 1] They describe his subjects’ appearance. 2] They expressed community appreciation. 3] After some Hellenic and Roman honorands lost favor or were assassinated, their images suffered destruction. 4] Several communities compensated victims for ignominy by replacing their statues. 5] Several subjects erected statues as propaganda. 6] Several “heroes” address other men’s statues. 7] Statues or their absence counterpoint deaths and funerals. 8] Statues ironically embody excessive ambition. 9] Subsequent ancient …


Review Of Amy A. Koenig. 2024. The Fractured Voice: Silence And Power In Imperial Roman Literature. Madison, Wisconsin: The University Of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Pp. Vii, 228. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780299345303) $99.95., Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed Oct 2024

Review Of Amy A. Koenig. 2024. The Fractured Voice: Silence And Power In Imperial Roman Literature. Madison, Wisconsin: The University Of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin Studies In Classics. Pp. Vii, 228. Hardcover. (Isbn 9780299345303) $99.95., Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed

New England Classical Journal

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Full Issue (51.2) Oct 2024

Full Issue (51.2)

New England Classical Journal

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Table Of Contents May 2024

Table Of Contents

New England Classical Journal

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Caesare Indignum? The Bellum Hispaniense As A Supplement To The Corpus Caesarianum, Randolf Lukas May 2024

Caesare Indignum? The Bellum Hispaniense As A Supplement To The Corpus Caesarianum, Randolf Lukas

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Until well into the 20th century, the Bellum Hispaniense was considered the amateur work of an uneducated soldier. Recently, attempts have been made to vindicate this text as a representative of republican historiography by pointing out its similarities to pre-classical Latin prose. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to emphasize the linguistic and thematic continuities between the Bellum Hispaniense and the other works of the Corpus Caesarianum and to demonstrate how the unknown author adopts Caesarian ideology and propaganda.


Message From The President May 2024

Message From The President

New England Classical Journal

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Notice Of Retraction May 2024

Notice Of Retraction

New England Classical Journal

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Masthead May 2024

Masthead

New England Classical Journal

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(Re)Active Latin: Computational Chat As Future Colloquia, Patrick J. Burns May 2024

(Re)Active Latin: Computational Chat As Future Colloquia, Patrick J. Burns

New England Classical Journal

What do chatbots have to do with the teaching of Latin? In taking up such a question, this article has two goals: 1. to situate computational chat, and ChatGPT specifically, as a technological next step in a tradition—from the colloquia scholastica to active Latin—of dialogue as a primary mode of teaching the language; and 2. to argue that large language models can bolster Latin pedagogy by providing ubiquitous, on-demand, contextually responsive interlocutors for language practice. I discuss conversation-based classroom activities drawn from recent Latin pedagogical literature and demonstrate how they can be adapted to chat. A conclusion argues for deeper …


‘A Mirror For Fellow-Citizens’: Cicero’S Proto-Transformational Leadership Ideal Of The Rector Rei Publicae, Evan Rw Dutmer May 2024

‘A Mirror For Fellow-Citizens’: Cicero’S Proto-Transformational Leadership Ideal Of The Rector Rei Publicae, Evan Rw Dutmer

New England Classical Journal

In this article, I situate Cicero’s discussion of the rector rei publicae and orator perfectus in the De republica and De oratore in the context of James MacGregor Burns’s theory of the transformational leadership in his influential 1978 Leadership. I then consider how Cicero’s rector rei publicae would exhibit leadership behaviors of the Full Range Leadership Model, a popular operationalization of transformational leadership theory. Throughout, I also consider the limitations of applying transformational leadership as an interpretive frame for an ancient Roman leader such as Cicero. Cicero’s vision, I contend, can only succeed in being proto-transformational. The result of this …


Minor Characters, Major Shifts: The Cases Of Pholoe, The Cretan Slave (Aen. 5.281-5), And Cretheus, The Bard (Aen. 9.774-7), Lien Van Geel May 2024

Minor Characters, Major Shifts: The Cases Of Pholoe, The Cretan Slave (Aen. 5.281-5), And Cretheus, The Bard (Aen. 9.774-7), Lien Van Geel

New England Classical Journal

Although Pholoe, the Cretan slave (Aen. 5.281-5), and Cretheus, the bard (Aen. 9.774-7), have both received some scholarly attention, I demonstrate that there is additional significance in their fleeting appearances. Virgil’s seemingly rushed treatment of these two characters has larger implications than initially may seem the case, especially when placing them next to Virgil’s use of Homeric epic in the particularly intertext-heavy Books 5 and 9. I demonstrate how these minor characters function as Virgil’s illustrations of Aeneas’ movement away from the Homeric world, as the text progresses towards the proto-Roman project that features prominently in the Aeneid’s narrative.


Bedfellows, Ingrates: Redressing Tacitus’S Freed(Wo)Men Narrative In The Pisonian Conspiracy, Alice Bowen Tan May 2024

Bedfellows, Ingrates: Redressing Tacitus’S Freed(Wo)Men Narrative In The Pisonian Conspiracy, Alice Bowen Tan

New England Classical Journal

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Full Issue May 2024

Full Issue

New England Classical Journal

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Call For Papers For 2024 Cane Annual Meeting Oct 2023

Call For Papers For 2024 Cane Annual Meeting

New England Classical Journal

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Canepress Publications And Digital Downloads Oct 2023

Canepress Publications And Digital Downloads

New England Classical Journal

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“Neither Orthodox Nor Enlightened:” Dorothy Sayers And Classical Education In America, Jessica Richardi Oct 2023

“Neither Orthodox Nor Enlightened:” Dorothy Sayers And Classical Education In America, Jessica Richardi

New England Classical Journal

In 1947, accomplished author and intellectual Dorothy Leigh Sayers shared her unorthodox views on education with an audience at Oxford University. The concerns she expressed about the failings of modern schooling and her proposed remedy would catalyze the “classical education” movement in the United States decades later, a movement characterized by adherence to the medieval trivium as both a tool of learning and a model for child development. The transmission of Sayers’s ideas to America, variations in the classical learning movement, and Sayers’ continued influence are discussed.


Malthi In Media: Peopling An Ancient Village In Virtual Space, Rebecca Worsham Oct 2023

Malthi In Media: Peopling An Ancient Village In Virtual Space, Rebecca Worsham

New England Classical Journal

Digital applications have increased the possibilities for the visualization of archaeological material. This paper presents two reconstructions of the Bronze Age settlement Malthi, created using Minecraft and Twine, both readily accessible programs. These recreations draw on data from archaeological work at the site and are intended to depict alternative interpretations of the settlement, allowing for the uncertainty inherent in archaeology. They are likewise intended to invite interaction with the site beyond physically visiting, with the goal of increasing participation in the formation of knowledge about Malthi. The approach advocated here is applicable to other projects struggling with ambiguous data.


Full Issue Oct 2023

Full Issue

New England Classical Journal

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Masthead Oct 2023

Masthead

New England Classical Journal

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Table Of Contents Oct 2023

Table Of Contents

New England Classical Journal

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Horace C. 3.27 And Virgil, Aeneid 9, Michael C. J. Putnam Oct 2023

Horace C. 3.27 And Virgil, Aeneid 9, Michael C. J. Putnam

New England Classical Journal

This essay examines the imaginative connection between c. 3.27 of Horace, one of the poet’s longest and most intense odes, and a salient episode in book 9 of Virgil’s Aeneid. In particular it searches out the multivalent appearances of the concept of pietas in the descriptions of Europe’s behavior toward her father and of Nisus and Euryalus. In their case we attend both to the association between the two innamorati themselves and to that between Euryalus and his mother. I take it for granted that the two Latin masters knew and valued the work of each other.