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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Syllecta Classica.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1989) - Vol. 31 (2020)Latest Articles: Syllecta ClassicaTWOProject MUSE®Syllecta Classica2160-51571040-3612Latest articles in Syllecta Classica. Feed provided by Project MUSE®From the Editor’s Desk
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791989
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Dear readers, you hold in your hands the final volume of Syllecta Classica. The editorial board has taken the decision to close the journal after the present issue. Declining numbers of submissions, reduced funding, and an increasingly stretched departmental faculty in recent years have made maintaining the high quality of publishing difficult.Yet the quality has remained high. The current editorial staff gratefully acknowledges the efforts of previous editors in building the reputation of the journal. Syllecta Classica has published numerous important papers in Classics over its thirty-one-year existence and, I believe, contributed substantially to the peer-reviewed ecosystem of open debate responsible for making
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/534/image/coversmallFrom the Editor’s Desk2021-05-18text/htmlen-USFrom the Editor’s Desk2021-05-182021TWOProject MUSE®23362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002021-05-18The Problematic Greek Miracle
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791990
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Donna Zuckerberg surfs the web so that we don’t have to.1 What she finds there is a whole cascade of half-baked attempts to recruit the classics in the service of hateful ideologies. So, for instance — specifically, concerning the fight over the canon:2These attempts to scrub western history of its great figures are particularly galling to the alt-right, who in addition to the preservation of western culture, care deeply about heroes and heroic virtues. What is disturbing about such quotes is that their presuppositions are broadly correct. The modern discipline of Classics was indeed often entwined in an ideology of hero worship3 and in promoting the claim of historical continuity between Greeks, Romans, and modern
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/534/image/coversmallThe Problematic Greek Miracle2021-05-18text/htmlen-USThe Problematic Greek Miracle2021-05-182021TWOProject MUSE®1160442026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002021-05-18The-People-Who-Are-Men: Livy’s Book 7 Construction of the Populus Romanus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791991
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Whatever one thinks about Livy as an author, he did not write his history with the expressed intention of explicating the political culture of the Roman Republic for non-Roman readers. That political culture is, nevertheless, a prime focus of his work. Historians reading Livy as a source for politics at Rome can thus find themselves between a rock and a soft place: we have a wealth of evidence, but its very mass and weight can overwhelm the uncertain foundations on which we build. This is especially true when we look back to the fifth or fourth centuries BCE, a period for which Livy’s level of detail is remarkable, but its accuracy suspect at best. Comparison with other ancient writers and the interpretation of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/534/image/coversmallThe-People-Who-Are-Men: Livy’s Book 7 Construction of the Populus Romanus2021-05-18text/htmlen-USThe-People-Who-Are-Men: Livy’s Book 7 Construction of the Populus Romanus2021-05-182021TWOProject MUSE®974692026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002021-05-18Sexual Intercourse in Celsus’ De Medicina
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791992
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Composed most likely in the later years of Tiberius’ principate (r. 14–37 CE), the De Medicina of Aulus Cornelius Celsus is the earliest extant medical treatise written in Latin and employing Latin medical vocabulary (Supady 20). For modern discussions of Latin sexual vocabulary and ancient constructions of the male and female body, it has been an invaluable resource.1 Yet the sexual act itself in Celsus’ system of human health still lacks scholarly examination, and his general reticence on sexual topics may be to blame.2 The following discussion unpacks what little Celsus does say about sexual intercourse, read in conjunction with other ancient sources both medical and non-medical, in order to determine what, in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/534/image/coversmallSexual Intercourse in Celsus’ De Medicina2021-05-18text/htmlen-USSexual Intercourse in Celsus’ De Medicina2021-05-182021TWOProject MUSE®1050802026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002021-05-18Columella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 10
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/791993
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“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”Between 56 and 65 CE, during the reign of Nero, a Spanish writer called Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella released a twelve-book agricultural treatise on farming — De re rustica.1 Nestled between nine books covering varying aspects of farm life, and two books concerning the role of the overseer (or vilicus) and his wife in the management of the household, Book 10 of De re rustica jumps out at the reader immediately. For here, in comparison to eleven
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/534/image/coversmallColumella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 102021-05-18text/htmlen-USColumella’s Prose Preface: A Paratextual Reading of De Re Rustica Book 102021-05-182021TWOProject MUSE®1181022026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002021-05-18