Despite the dearth of contemporary witnesses for the late Augustan and early Tiberian Principates, Ovid's Fasti has remained curiously untapped as a historical source for the period. The aim of this new research is to show that the poem of some five thousand lines on the Roman c…
Rhetoric and religion in ancient Greece and Rome
by Harris, Edward M., Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E., Mueller, Hans-Friedrich, Papaioannou, Sophia, Serafim, Andreas, Demetriou, Kyriakos, Furley, William, Liotsakis, Vasileios, Filonik, Jakub, Degelmann, Christopher, Holland, Glenn, Keramida, Despina, Melidis, Konstantinos, Patzelt, Maik, Sarischouli, Panagiota
It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is…
