An Ancient Way of ‘Giving One’s Two Cents’?

We’re all familiar with the idea of a person’s ‘two cents’. Someone pontificates on a given topic, and rounds it off with something like, ‘W

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Vergil the Same, despite the Praises or Rebukes of Critics

So says Macrobius’ Symmachus:haec est quidem, Euangele, Maronis gloria ut nullius laudibus crescat, nullius vituperatione minuatur… .Saturnalia 1.24

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Some Favorites

Two of my favorite scholars that I’ve been reading recently on Late Antiquity are Alan Cameron and Robert Kaster. Their writings are models of careful

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