This book contains writings by twenty-three ancient Roman authors, newly translated and equipped with brief introductions and explanatory notes. It includes some well-known classical works, intriguing texts by lesser-known...
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the...
Mastrangelo, Marc. "The Decline of Poetry in the Fourth-Century West." 16, no. 3-4 (2009): 311-329. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12138-009-0131-5, For more information on the published version, visit Springer's...
Mastrangelo, Marc. "The Early Christian Response to Platonist Poetics: Boethius, Prudentius, and the Poeta Theologus." In The Poetics of Late Latin Literature, edited by Jaś Elsner and Jesús Hernández Lobato, 391-423. New York:...
Farrington, Scott T., ed. Enthousiasmos: Essays in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature: Festschrift for Eckart Schütrumpf on His 80th Birthday. Baden-Baden, Germany: Academia, 2019., For more information on the...
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical...
For more information on the published version, visit Cambridge University Press's Website., Mastrangelo, Marc, and John Harris. "The Meaning of Republic 606a3–b5." The Classical Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1997): 301-305....
While there has been recent work on character and characterization in tragedy, no treatment of Sophoclean characterization has appeared in print since P.E. Easterling's work. This paper is an attempt to reopen the topic with...
Mastrangelo, Marc. "Persius Flaccus, Aulus." In Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, edited by Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Vol. 2, 886-87. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2001., Life: One of the four major Roman satirists (the others are...
This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a...