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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Classical Journal.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 115 (2019) through current issueLatest Articles: Classical JournalTWOProject MUSE®Classical Journal2327-58120009-8353Latest articles in Classical Journal. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Liminal Landscapes and Civic Alienation in Euripides’ Hippolytus
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989517
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Euripides’ Hippolytus of 428 bce famously closes with an aetiology, prophetically uttered by Artemis, that promises the dying protagonist an enduring tribute. The young women of Troezen, the small community on the Argolid across the Saronic Gulf from Athens and the setting of the play, will sacrifice to Hippolytus locks of their hair in a rite of marital initiation (1423–30):In exchange for these evils, to you, poor man, I shall grant greatest honors in the community of Troezen: before marriage, unwed maidens shall cut their hair for you, as across long ages you reap the deep sorrow of their tears. For all time the maidens’ craft of song shall have you as its theme, and Phaedra’s love for you shall not pass
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/808/image/coversmallLiminal Landscapes and Civic Alienation in Euripides’ Hippolytus2026-05-01text/htmlen-USLiminal Landscapes and Civic Alienation in Euripides’ Hippolytus2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1464592026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01A Day at the Games: Theatrical Environment and Experience in Catullus 64
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989518
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The relationship between Catullus 64 and theater has received relatively little attention when compared with other questions that have dominated studies of this poem, particularly those of generic affiliation, ecphrasis, Catullus’s use of myth, and his relationship to Greek culture. This absence comes as a surprise, especially considering the steady increase of interest in Catullus’s relationship to theater throughout the rest of his corpus.1 A number of scholars have attempted to address the relationship between poem 64 and theater, but they have largely focused strictly on textual allusions to Greek and Roman drama. Still fewer scholars have gone so far as to say that these textual allusions, along with a few
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/808/image/coversmallA Day at the Games: Theatrical Environment and Experience in Catullus 642026-05-01text/htmlen-USA Day at the Games: Theatrical Environment and Experience in Catullus 642026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1513252026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Ovid’s Cipus (Metamorphoses 15. 565–621) and the Horned Man Paradox
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989519
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[E]xperience of Ovid’s habit of reapplying received literary tropes with a startling panache and an eye for extreme effect (hyperbole, bathos, parody etc.) should put us on our guard on a philosophical front.1Ovid’s typically off-kilter selection of Roman heroes in the final two books of the Metamorphoses includes Cipus, a Roman citizen who is marked for kingship by horns on his head, but patriotically chooses to exile himself instead (15.565–621).2 Studies of Ovid’s Cipus have explored two main areas of interest, both profiting from comparisons with Valerius Maximus’ version of the same story.3 On one hand is the culture and history of the Republican period: Cipus is an apparent relic of early Republican beliefs
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/808/image/coversmallOvid’s Cipus (Metamorphoses 15. 565–621) and the Horned Man Paradox2026-05-01text/htmlen-USOvid’s Cipus (Metamorphoses 15. 565–621) and the Horned Man Paradox2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®922832026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Latin Language Pronunciation for Children
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989520
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One might question whether discussing the pronunciation of the Latin language is relevant in the education of primary age children. In fact, one of the main objectives of instructing Latin at elementary levels is precisely the establishment of a basic understanding “of language for reading comprehension and an appreciation of classical civilization.”1 Being captivated by mythology, ancient history, the lifestyles of the ancients, their customs and art, among others, is undeniably one of the cultural cornerstones in helping students grasp the true essence and cultural identity of ancient Greeks or Romans. Moreover, learning Classics not only facilitates an understanding of historical ideas and facts but also
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/808/image/coversmallLatin Language Pronunciation for Children2026-05-01text/htmlen-USLatin Language Pronunciation for Children2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®1325292026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01Index: Vol 121 (2025–2026)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989521
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A Cicada’s Life: Divine Intervention and Poetic Immortality in Apollonius’ Phineus Episode (Winter) 121.1.49A Day at the Games: Theatrical Environment and Experience in Catullus 64 (Droegemueller) 121.4.435Aelius Aristides’ Conception of Sacred Space (Downie) 121.1.82Divine and Human Inventors in Greek Didactic Poetry (Vergados) 121.1.25Following in the Footsteps of a God: The Transformative Power of Dionysus in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Peterson) 121.1.108From Replacing to Reclaiming a Father: Navigating Inheritance through Neoptolemus’ Tale (Ph. 343–90) (Cozzi) 121.3.298Invoking Prometheus in de Rerum Natura (Pope) 121.2.152January 17, Livia, and the Production of the Fasti Praenestini (Lott)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/808/image/coversmallIndex: Vol 121 (2025–2026)2026-05-01text/htmlen-USIndex: Vol 121 (2025–2026)2026-05-012026TWOProject MUSE®44902026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-05-01