Project MUSE®: Classical World - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Classical World.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 99 (2005) through current issueLatest Articles: Classical WorldTWOProject MUSE®Classical World1558-92340009-8418Latest articles in Classical World. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Honor, Fear and Profit": Non-Universal Terms in Thucydides
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969494
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Editor's noteMy colleague Daniel P. Tompkins passed away on June 10th, 2023, following a long illness. Dan was beloved by many and for many reasons, not least for his generosity in scholarly exchanges, a quality he combined with a remarkably broad-ranging and fecund intellect. This generosity, combined with his (frequently confessed) writer's block, left him often unable to complete a number of papers that should have been published; his friends all knew of the sheer quality and originality of work that he had left behind unpublished. A conversation with Jeffrey Rusten over email in 2024 left me convinced to pursue putting one of these essays into publishable form. Rusten handled much of the scholarly editorial
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmall"Honor, Fear and Profit": Non-Universal Terms in Thucydides2025-09-11text/htmlen-US"Honor, Fear and Profit": Non-Universal Terms in Thucydides2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®596342026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Vicinus Ideology and Discourses of Urban Neighborliness In Plautus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969495
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Of Plautus' 21 extant plays, 18 include a neighbor or interactions with neighbors.2 Of these 18 plays, 12 explicitly refer to the identity of a neighbor as a vicinus, -a, while 10, with some overlap, depict one of the neighboring houses as a brothel.3 Yet even with this apparent abundance of neighbors populating the Plautine stage, little attention has been paid to the playwright's characterization of neighbors and the pivotal role of neighborliness in many of Plautus' comedies.4 This is especially surprising given the overwhelming scholarly interest in other social relationships depicted on the Plautine stage, including those of friendship, patron-client relations, sisterhood, and slavery.In a manner of speaking
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallVicinus Ideology and Discourses of Urban Neighborliness In Plautus2025-09-11text/htmlen-USVicinus Ideology and Discourses of Urban Neighborliness In Plautus2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®1645152026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Giving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It: Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato's Symposium with Levinas and Lacan
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969496
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Plato's Symposium, as the first extant work in Western philosophy to explicitly explore the relationship between eros (love/desire) and the Good, has long provoked debate. Traditionally, scholars have asked whether Platonic love is ultimately self-serving or genuinely concerned with the beloved's good. Rather than rehearsing that familiar debate, this article approaches the Platonic dialectic of love through two influential 20th-century thinkers—Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Lacan—who were deeply engaged with Plato's legacy in philosophy and psychoanalysis. As David Halperin (1989: 27–28) has argued, Plato's innovation lies precisely in treating eros not merely as a physical urge or emotional sentiment, but as a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallGiving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It: Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato's Symposium with Levinas and Lacan2025-09-11text/htmlen-USGiving What I Do Not Have to Someone Who Does Not Need It: Reading Erotic Parapraxis in Plato's Symposium with Levinas and Lacan2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®851882026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Classics and the US Craft Beer Industry
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969497
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Among the most famous US craft beers is Pliny the Elder, a Double IPA that has been brewed since 2000 by Russian River Brewing Co.1 To some, the use of Pliny the Elder to name a modern American hoppy ale may seem like an odd choice. The historian himself, Pliny the Elder, has no direct connection to beer, and his writing includes only a smattering of references to the beverage (Plin. HN 8.8–9; 14.19.101; 14.51; 18.12.68; 22.81). Nevertheless, the naming of the hoppy ale appears to have been rooted in some understanding of classical culture. According to the beer's online description:
After much research in beer books, brainstorming, and deliberation, we came up with "Pliny the Elder." Pliny, the man, lived in the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallClassics and the US Craft Beer Industry2025-09-11text/htmlen-USClassics and the US Craft Beer Industry2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®1813882026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Euripides: Bacchae ed. by William Allan and Laura Swift (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969498
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Publishers are invited to submit new books to be reviewed to Professor Lawrence Kowerski, Classics Program, Hunter College, 695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065; email: lawrence.kowerski@hunter.cuny.edu.William Allan and Laura Swift have produced the first "large-scale commentary in English" after E. R. Dodds' Oxford edition of 1944/1960 (ix). In so doing, they have made a much-needed contribution in reorienting Dodds' commentary around issues of current interest and offering a formidable synthesis of current scholarship on Euripides' drama. They have produced a rich and edifying volume that will be indispensable for scholars of the Bacchae and a useful introduction for students.Allan and Swift begin their commentary
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallEuripides: Bacchae ed. by William Allan and Laura Swift (review)2025-09-11text/htmlen-USEuripides: Bacchae ed. by William Allan and Laura Swift (review)2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®85032026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Greco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia's Tidewater Region, 1607–1826 by Benjamin Stephen Haller (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969499
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In this book Haller examines select writings of five seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early nineteenth-century authors that he claims possessed a close connection to eastern Virginia: George Sandys, William Strachey, William Byrd II, Thomas Jefferson—and, most peculiar, William Shakespeare. Haller treats (mistreats?) the reader to a whole chapter on, and numerous additional references to, Shakespeare's play The Tempest, despite the fact that there is no genuine evidence that the play, whose action takes place on an island off the coast of North Africa, possesses any connection to colonial Virginia. Given the frequency of shipwrecks in the seventeenth century, one cannot posit such a connection, as Haller does, on the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallGreco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia's Tidewater Region, 1607–1826 by Benjamin Stephen Haller (review)2025-09-11text/htmlen-USGreco-Roman Literature and Culture in the Imagination of Virginia's Tidewater Region, 1607–1826 by Benjamin Stephen Haller (review)2025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®64652026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11Index to Volume 118
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/969501
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The Index exhibits separately: (I) Contributors; (II) Contents, arranged with reference to the main types of material appearing in the journal. Certain conventions, e.g., that of indicating reviewers by enclosing their names in parentheses immediately after the designation of books reviewed, will be familiar from earlier volumes. Reviews are regularly listed by name of modern author, editor, translator, etc.J. Alvares P., 275.J. Ballengee, 31; D. C. E. Bartelds, 199.G. N. Daugherty, 95.J. Flynn, 115.Y. He, 225.D. J. Jacobson, 127; K. A. Jazwa, 397.L. Kronenberg, 183.H. López Gómez, 67.R. Mitchell-Boyask, 157.I. Reinhardt, 1; J. Rogers, 339.P. Salzman-Mitchell, 275; E. T. Schnaible, 261D. P. Tompkins, 323.H. Zhang
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/317/image/coversmallIndex to Volume 1182025-09-11text/htmlen-USIndex to Volume 1182025-09-112025TWOProject MUSE®58892026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-09-11