Modern scholars on Lysias 19 “On The Property Of Aristophanes” have been divided about whether the plaintiffs who prosecuted the politician Aristophanes’ brother-in-law charged him by γραφή or πογραφή. This paper argues ...

The eponymous hero of Philostratus’ first work, the Life of Apollonius of Tyana, uses his status as a unique representative of perfected and divinely ordained Hellenic philosophy on earth—that is, as the quintessential ...

My senior thesis provides a comprehensive way of reading Euripides’ tragedy Medea by encompassing both the traditional Greek heroic and maternal aspects of Medea’s identity, in particular explaining how this reading clarifies ...

This paper attempts to find the relationship between the self and time in De Brevitate Vitae. It is argued that Seneca’s advice to his addressee to withdrawal from public office in order to avoid the “brevity of life” is, ...

Lucan wrote the Bellum Civile, an epic about the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, under a firmly entrenched Empire that had presided over political violence and personal excess for decades. Lucan’s epic is about the ...