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Destabilizing Haemon: Radically Reading Gender and Authority in Sophocles' Antigone
(Helios (Texas Tech University Press), 2014)
Some Observations on Procopius’ Use of Numbers in Descriptions of Combat in Wars 1-7
(Classical Association of Canada, 2015)
Expelling Misconceptions: Astrologers at Rome
(Classical Philology / University of Chicago Press, 2011)
"The views ... that the science of astrology swept the Roman world to win the devotion of the Roman people and the Roman emperors, that emperors consequently loved and feared astrology -- have become standard in scholarly ...
From oikos to polis: Ideology and Genealogy in Pindar's Olympian 9
(Syllecta Classica, 2015)
In Olympian 9, Pindar constructs a family for his victor, Epharmostos, whose family does not—contrary to the generic expectations of epinikian—appear in the ode. By establishing connections between the early ethnic and ...
Roman Women, Wise Women, and Witches
(Phoenix / Classical Association of Canada, 2016)
In this article I explore the connections among the physiological effects of envy, the stereotypes that adhered to old women, and the literary representations of witches in Roman society, arguing that it is possible to get ...
A Sympotic Self: Instruction through Inebriation in Anacreon
(Mouseion, 2018-03)
As early as the fifth century, Anacreon was the poet of wine, love, and song; even his
death—choking on a pip—is attributed to the grape. The fact that the symposion
looms large in the extant fragments is, therefore, ...