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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985877
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time, construct that it is, is in fact a plural concept: There are times shaped by culture, its contracts, agendas, and routines, and times that we have come to see as ecological, the time of trees, of insects, of oceans. As sociologist Barbara Adam has written: It is not either winter or December, or hibernation time for the tortoise, or 1 o’clock, in time for Christmas dinner. It is planetary time, biological time, clock and calendar time, natural and social time all at once.1This article examines several such times in the Iliad. It argues first that the epic shows multiple temporalities of life being violently replaced by the single temporality of human industry, and then shows how this violent displacement is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/12/image/coversmallLives That Bend, Lines That Break: Time, Death and Enjambment in the Iliad2026-03-19text/htmlen-USLives That Bend, Lines That Break: Time, Death and Enjambment in the Iliad2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1327752026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Capitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985878
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in a landmark essay published in 2019, Brent Shaw asked “Did the Romans Have a Future?” and gave a negative answer: The Romans did not have “a” future, a “time that is densely populated with things that are planned, known, and solidly pictured,” but that they had fragmented visions of times to come, futures.1 Shaw’s essay is avowedly only an initial, hesitant exploration of Roman futurity and concentrates on a history of absence. A follow-up question remains: How should we write the history of these multiple Roman futures?2 There is a long tradition in Classical Studies of drawing upon cultural and social anthropology to help reckon with the alterity of ancient Mediterranean cultures.3 In this case, recent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/12/image/coversmallCapitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity2026-03-19text/htmlen-USCapitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®2102862026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Ovid and the Ara Pacis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985879
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at the end of book 1 of his Fasti (1.709–22), Ovid commemorates the anniversary of the dedication of the Ara Pacis Augustae on January 30, 9 b.c.e.:1 The poem itself has led us to the Altar of Peace. This will be the second day from the end of the month. Be present, Peace, with your finely arranged hair wreathed with boughs from Actium, and remain gentle in all the world. As long as enemies are absent, may the reason for a triumph also be absent. You will be for our leaders a glory greater than war. May the soldier bear only weapons with which to restrain weapons, and may nothing except for a procession be announced by the fierce trumpet. May the world both near and far shudder at the descendants of Aeneas; may any
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985880
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from its earliest appearance, the story of the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris and his torture device—the brazen bull—has been interpreted as a parable of morality and power.1 The narrative takes place in the city of Akragas (modern Agrigento). There, the sculptor Perillus gifts the tyrant Phalaris a bronze bull. While superficially an elegant statue, its interior conceals a macabre truth—a hollow chamber for victims. Once the tyrant delivers his sentence, the condemned is sealed inside as fire is kindled underneath; the agonizing screams that follow are channeled through a set of tubes, out of which resounds the lifelike bellowing of a bull. Yet, in a twist of fate, Perillus himself would be the first to meet immolation
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/12/image/coversmallPoenae mirande repertor: Recontextualizing the Poet and the Prince in Ovid Tristia 3.11*2026-03-19text/htmlen-USPoenae mirande repertor: Recontextualizing the Poet and the Prince in Ovid Tristia 3.11*2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1390362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Narrow Spaces and Narrative in Petronius’s Satyrica
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985881
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in luis buñuel’s 1962 movie The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), a group of high-society friends gather for an elegant soiree. The evening starts well, but after retreating to the salon for some musical entertainment, the guests find themselves inexplicably unable to leave. Whenever someone tries to exit the salon, he or she turns back before stepping across the threshold, for no apparent reason. Although no visible barriers prevent them from leaving, the guests soon realize they are trapped. Hours stretch into days and as time passes, tensions rise and the guests grow restless and mean. Their good manners fade away and they begin to turn on one other, revealing a selfish, savage nature underneath the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/12/image/coversmallNarrow Spaces and Narrative in Petronius’s Satyrica2026-03-19text/htmlen-USNarrow Spaces and Narrative in Petronius’s Satyrica2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®969062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Orienting the Ass: Queer Objects in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985882
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how do we find our way in a world made by and for others? How do we orient ourselves in the cultural field of an alien power? Dominant ideologies hand out cultural cues and markers designed to configure subjects around their force field—milestones that point the obedient social wayfarer in the direction of their own subjection. Yet the question of how we read these signs if we stand to some degree outside the ruling cultural power is a complex one, engendering forms of resistance, confusion, despair and hilarity, as queer and colonized subjects in recent histories and contemporary cultures know all too well.In ancient Rome, these experiences are often effaced from the historical record, and we rely on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/12/image/coversmallOrienting the Ass: Queer Objects in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses2026-03-19text/htmlen-USOrienting the Ass: Queer Objects in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses2026-03-192026TWOProject MUSE®1251822026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-03-19Rethinking Empire in the Epistula Didonis ad Aeneam
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/985883
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the epistula didonis ad aeneam, poem 71 in Shackleton Bailey’s (SB) edition of the Anthologia Latina (and hereafter the Epistula), is one of the few post-Ovidian examples1 of Dido’s response to Aeneas’s departure in propria persona. Picking up on Ovid’s tendency to offer revisions to his work,2 the Epistula presents its own creative experimentation with the Dido story of Heroides 7 and of Aeneid 4. Totaling 150 hexameter lines, the Epistula opens with a preface in the voice of the poet, pleading for the good favor of the poem’s judges, before turning to the letter written by Dido. The letter itself falls into several distinct sections, and, perhaps most notably, is punctuated by two lyric interludes with repeating
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