Hermathena - A Trinity College Dublin Review

Nos 208-209 (Summer-Winter 2020)

Crises of leadership in Late Antiquity. Edited by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

• Crises of leadership in Late Antiquity: turning points in the history of the first millennium. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
• Consolidation strategies in Julian. Philip Bosman
• Selection criteria for a Caesar: Julian’s Caesares. Phoebe Garrett
• The accessions of Philip I and Jovian: crises in imperial succession and the war with Sasanian Persia. Peter Edwell
• Writing history in the post-apocalypse. Matthew O’Farrell
• Harbingers of crisis: greed, exploitation, and inequality in book 8 of the Sibylline Oracles. Ashley L. Bacchi
• Celestial signs, seers, and sibyls: Claudian’s Eutropius and the fourth-century poetics of hate speech. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Michael B. Charles
• Antichrists of the fourth century? Apocalyptic responses to crisis in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Catechetical Homily 15. Bronwen Neil
• A world in crisis: reconstructing identity in Late Antique Armenia. Natasha Parnian
• All the generalissimo’s men? Delegating military authority in the western Roman Empire. Jeroen W. P. Wijnendaele
• The Basiliscus crisis (475–476 CE) in the reign of Zeno. Hugh Elton.
• ‘Fools for Christ’ in Byzantium: religious extremism as a response to socio-political crisis. Vassilis Adrahtas
• The crises of heresy in the eastern Roman Empire: a case study of the Bogomils from the tenth to eleventh centuries CE. Jack Hanrahan-Shirley  

No. 207 (Winter 2019)

• Hesiod, Op. 750-752. Paul O’Mahoney
• War, Wisdom, and other gods: philological allegory in the Argonautica by Orpheus. Alexandra Madeła 
• Tibullus 2 and 2.4: going for broke. John Henderson
• Living philosophical fiction: Plato’s myth of Er in the Clementina. Benjamin De Vos
• Greek inscriptions in Ireland, Part III: Trinity College Dublin. Peter Liddel

No. 206 (Summer 2019)

• Bright stars and wide whorls. Paul T. Keyser 
• Versaque … Arctos erat: Ovid’s Callisto. Melissande Tomcik 
• Locating theatre in Herodotus’ Histories. Irene Stone 
• & Book Reviews 

Nos 204-205 (Summer-Winter 2018)

Elite responses to the rise of Achaemenid Persia. Edited by Selga Medenieks

• Acknowledgements. Selga Medenieks
• ‘ἐμήδισαν προθύμως οὐδ᾽ ἔτι ἐνδοιαστῶς’: Thessalian Medism and its repercussions. Emma Aston
• Silk purses and sows’ ears: Thebans, Boeotians, and the second Persian invasion 480-479 BCE. Samuel D. Gartland
• Milesian elite responses to Persia: the Ionian Revolt in context. Alan M. Greaves, John Brendan Knight, and Françoise Rutland
• The only one to medise? Notes on the career of King Demaratus of Sparta. Marcello Lupi
• Religious responses in Babylonia to the rise of Persia. Selga Medenieks
• The paradox of allegiances: Alexander I of Macedon and Persian power. E. P. Moloney
• Egyptian elites before the Persian conquest. Alexander Schütze
• ‘Our court shall be a little academe’: Judaean elites and the Persian Great King in the early Persian Empire. Jason M. Silverman

Nos 202-203 (Summer-Winter 2017)

The epistolary Cicero: further readings in the Letters. Edited by Roy Gibson and Ruth Morello

• Introduction. Ruth Morello with Roy Gibson
• Taking no interest in Atticus. John Henderson
• The first person in Cicero’s letters to Atticus. G. O. Hutchinson
• Un-parallel lives? The younger Quintus and Marcus Cicero in Cicero’s Letters. Rhiannon Ash
• Pro Marcello without Caesar: grief, exile and death in Cicero’s Epistulae ad familiares 4. Roy Gibson
• Further voices and familiar perspectives in Cicero’s Letters. Ruth Morello
• Last but not least: ad M. Brutum. Christopher Whitton
• Cicero the satirist? Scurrilous poses in the Letters. Amanda Wilcox
• What do (Cicero’s) letters count as evidence for? Andrew Riggsby

Nos 200-201 (Summer-Winter 2016)

Essays in honour of Brian McGing

• Preface. Monica Gale
• Reminiscences of Brian. Paul Cartledge
• East and West: lines of communication between Alexander and the Greeks. Shane Wallace
• Reading the Roman-Jewish treaty in 1 Maccabees 8: narrative, documents, and Hellenistic historical culture. Duncan E. MacRae
• Philo as rhetorician: diatribe moments in the De Abrahamo. John Dillon
• Plutarch and the Roman triumph. Judith Mossman
• The Emperor, the Jews, and the anatomy of Empire. Mark Humphries
• ‘Don’t forget the stone itself’: a Near Eastern threshold in the temple of the Lydian goddess. Selga Medenieks
• From quarry to metropolis: the journey of an Egyptian granite column from Mons Claudianus in Egypt to the Pantheon in Rome. Hazel Dodge
• A new inscription from Liverpool and its afterlife: World Museum, Liverpool 27.8.85.3. Peter Liddel and Polly Low

No 199 (Winter 2015)

• Crowing over Kebriones the Diver: Iliad 16.740-50, Augustan poetry, and traditions of the Troad
  David Braund
  
• Socrates framed: a cross-dialogue narrative in Plato
  E. E. Pender
• Julius Caesar and the Roman stasis
  Ayelet Peer
• Aurelius Victor and the ending of Sallust’s Jugurtha
  Justin A. Stover and George Woudhuysen
• The epic hero as sacrificial victim: Patroclus and Palinurus
  Sergios Paschalis
• Tacitus in Italy: between language and politics
  Salvador Bartera
• Stephen and Aubrey de Vere translate Horace
  Julian D. Reynolds
• Review of Jeffrey M. Duban. The Lesbian Lyre: Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st Century.
  GEORGE L. HUXLEY
• Review of Sean Sheehan. A Guide to Reading Herodotus’ Histories.
  and
  Elizabeth Irwin and Thomas Harrison (eds). Interpreting Herodotus.
  ROSARIA VIGNOLO MUNSON

No 198 (Summer 2015)

• Ἔπεα πτερόεντα again: a cognitive linguistic view on Homer’s ‘winged words’. Fabian Horn
  
• Platonist Brahmans? Platonic metaphors in Refutation of All Heresies 1.24. Donald L. Ross
• Martial’s farm in the window: the case for urban agriculture in ancient Rome.Tracey E. Watts
• & Reviews

Nos 196-197 (Summer-Winter 2014)

The Roman Civil Wars: A House Divided. Edited by Richard Westall

• Introduction. Richard Westall
• The construction of one’s enemies in civil war (49-30 BCE). Hannah Cornwell
• The logic of violence in Roman civil war. Carsten H. Lange
• Cassius Dio 41.43: religion as a liability in Pompey’s civil war. Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
• Pietatis Imago. Roger Pitcher
• The Lex Pedia of 43 BCE and its aftermath. Kathryn Welch
• Quintus Fufius Calenus: a forgotten career. Anna B. Miączewska
• Family matters: Velleius Paterculus and the Roman civil wars. Marius Gerhardt
• Caesar prophesies the future: Sallust Catiline 51.35-6. An exercise in historiography. Martin Stone†
• Varro on civil war: Book 4 of De vita populi Romani. Antonino Pittà
• The flight from Rome in January 49 BCE: rhetorical patterns in the narratives of Lucan and Cassius Dio. Stefano Poletti
• Pompeius at Pelusium: the death of the Roman lord of Asia. Richard Westall

No. 195 (Winter 2013)

• The Philosopher in Plato’s Sophist. Alex Priou
• Soul, Causation and Evil: Is Plato’s ψυχή indeed κινήσεως ἁπάσης αἰτία and τῶν πάντων αἰτία? Viktor Ilievski
• Phineus’ Perpetual Night: Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.2–4 and Apollonius, Argonautica 2.178–497. Brian D. McPhee
• Ciris 80: an emendation. Boris Kayachev
• & Reviews

No. 194 (Summer 2013)

Fabellae Dublinienses Revisited and Other Essays in Honour of Marvin Colker. Edited by Anna Chahoud

• Preface. Anna Chahoud
• The ‘Colker catalogue’: a brief history. Jane Maxwell
• TCD MS 115: an Ovid for the Middle Ages. John Scattergood
• Oliver of Cologne’s Historia Damiatina: a new manuscript witness in Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 496. Thomas W. Smith
• TCD MS 602 and the transmission of Petronius in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Giulio Vannini
• How much of the Satyrica do we read in Petronius Redivivus (TCD MS 602)? Ornella Rossi
• A note on Quintus Curtius and Gellius in TCD MS 602. Silverio Franzoni
• A pseudo-classical dialogue in TCD MS 632. Anna Chahoud and Ernesto Stagni
• Edward Lovett Pearce and the ‘Bath of Augustus’ (Fagel I.1.95). Edward McParland
• & Reviews

No. 193 (Winter 2012)

Places, Spaces, and Monuments in the Poetry of the First Century BC

• Editorial: Space, Place and Literary Topographies
• World under Construction: Space and Difference in Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I. Eva Marie Noller
• Maenius absentem Novium cum carperet (Horace, Satires 1.3.21): Characters, Places, Monuments. Claudia Conese
• omne patens: Reading Narrative Space in Ovid's Heroides. Bethany Flanders
• & Reviews

No. 192 (Summer 2012)

• Witches in time and space: Satire 1.8, Epode 5 and landscapes of fear. Marguerite Johnson
• From Energeia to energy: Plotinus and the formation of the concept of energy. Paul Kalligas
• The necessity of philosophy. John Dillon
• & Reviews

No. 191 (Winter 2011)

Philosophy and Mathematics II: Selected Papers from the John J. Cleary Memorial Conference. Edited by Peter D. Larsen and Eleni Kaklamanou

• Euclid's context principle. Peter Simons
• Wittgenstein, constructivism, and mathematical proof. Thomas McNally
• The provision of mathematics support and the role of the history of mathematics. Ciarán Mac an Bhaird
• Filling the Void: the application of Free Logic to programming. Hugh Gibbons
• & Reviews

No. 190 (Summer 2011)

Philosophy and Mathematics I: Selected Papers from the John J. Cleary Memorial Conference. Edited by Peter D. Larsen and Eleni Kaklamanou

• Introduction. Peter D. Larsen and Eleni Kaklamanou
• Proportion and Mathematics in Plato's Timaeus. S. Glenn
• Aristotle on Mathematical and Eidetic Number. Daniel P. Maher
• Russell and the Transfinite. James Levine
• & Reviews

No. 189 (Winter 2010)

(containing essays arising from an all-day seminar held in the Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition in Trinity College, Dublin, given by the distinguished Russian Platonist Professor Yury Shichalin and a group of his students, on the subject of the Platonic Corpus and our understanding of its composition)

• Introduction. John Dillon
• On the new approach to the chronology of the Corpus Platonicum. Yury Anatolievich Shichalin
• On the position of Crito in the Corpus Platonicum. Anastasia Zolotukhina
• Concerning the date of Plato's Phaedrus. Anna Usacheva
• Elenchus and Diairesis in Plato's Sophist. Olga Alieva
• Some Support from Computational Stylistics. Harold Tarrant
• & Reviews

No. 188 (Summer 2010)

• Memories of Kythera: an address. G. L. Huxley
• Problems in the Satires of Horace. E. Courtney
• An invocation of Chrestos in Magic. The question of the orthographical spelling of Chrestos and interpretation issues in PGM XIII.288-95. Eleni Pachoumi

• Comparing and connecting myths. G. L. Huxley review of Bruce Louden, Homer's Odyssey and the Near East.
• & Reviews

No. 187 (Winter 2009)

Articles

• 'The fox knoweth many things, the hedgehog one great thing': the relation of philosophical concepts and historical contexts in Plato's Dialogues. Michael Erler
• The ethics of descent in Plotinus. Euree Song
• Dr Johnson and the Irish. Niall Rudd
• Defining and displaying the human body: collectors and Classics during the British Enlightenment. Ellen Adams
• Notes on a biography of C. M. Bowra. G. L. Huxley
• & Reviews

No. 186 (Summer 2009)

• A possible Mesopotamian origin for Plato's World Soul. Leon Crickmore
• Reading Socrates in Plato's Dialogues (Stephen MacKenna Lecture, Dublin, January 2009). Christopher Rowe
• Reason in check: the scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. Daniel Vázquez
• A note on the name Hermathena and its lepidopteran namesakes. Eileen Kelly
• & Reviews