Arethusa
Thematic and Special Issues

Volume 36 (2003)

Arethusa 36.2 (May): Re-Imagining Pliny the Younger
Guest Editors: Ruth Morello and Roy K. Gibson

Volume 35 (2002)

Arethusa 35.1 (Winter): Epos and Mythos: Language and Narrative in Homeric Epic
Guest Editor: Carolyn Higbie

Volume 33 (2000)

Arethusa 33.2 (May): Fallax Opus: Approaches to Reading Roman Elegy.
Guest Editor: Trevor Fear

Fallax Opus: Approaches to Reading Roman Elegypresents six essays which demonstrate current modes of apprehending elegy (the deconstructive potential of elegiac language, the contextual elaboration of issues of power and gender and the interpretive history of the text), allowing a rounded image of the contemporary significance of elegy to emerge. The essays engage the broad scope of elegiac material available in the form of the very different works of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid, in addition to the didacticism of the Ars Amatoria and the understudied elegiac work of the woman writer Sulpicia.

Contents:

1. Trevor Fear - Introduction
2. Parshia Lee-Stecum - Poet/Reader, Authority Deferred: Re-Reading Tibullan Elegy
3. Alison Sharrock - Constructing Characters in Propertius
4. Ellen Greene - Gender Identity and the Elegiac Hero in Propertius 2.1
5. Trevor Fear - The Poet as Pimp: Elegiac Seduction in the Time of Augustus
6. Duncan F. Kennedy - Bluff Your Way in Didactic: Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris
7. Mathilde Skoie - Sulpicia Americana: A Reading of Sulpicia in the Commentary by K. F. Smith (1913)

Arethusa 33.3 (Sept): Elites in Late Antiquity
Guest Editors: Michele Salzman and Claudia Rapp

Arethusa’sfirst issue devoted entirely to Late Antiquity, Elites in Late Antiquityincludes articles on various aspects of the study of elite culture in both the Latin West and the Byzantine East. It considers the formation, social mobility, hierarchies, and social functions of elites from various viewpoints, including social, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and political, with essays by many of the leading historians of Late Antiquity.

Contents:

1. Michele Salzman and Claudia Rapp - Introduction
2. Peter Brown - The Study of Elites in Late Antiquity
3. Dan Caner - Social Mobility and Elitist Response in Early Fifth-Century Monastic Treatises
4. Susanna Elm - A Programmatic Life: Gregory of NazianzusÕ Orations 42 and 43 and the Constantinopolitan Elites
5. John Matthews - The Roman Empire and the Proliferation of Elites
6. Claudia Rapp - The Elite Status of Bishops in Late Antiquity in the Ecclesiastical, Spiritual, and Social Contexts
7. Michele Salzman - Elite Realities and Mentalities: The Making of a Christian Aristocracy

Volume 31 (1998)

• Number 3, Fall 1998: Vile Bodies:Roman Satrire and Corporeal Discourst

Volume 30 (1997)

• Number 2, Spring 1997: The Iliad and its Contexts

Volume 29 (1997)

• Number 2, Spring 1996: The New Simonides