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  • Chapter 6 - Pythagoras

  • Peter Kelly, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    Ovid and Plato
    Published online:
    19 June 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025, pp 92-113

  • Summary

    Shifts focus to the most extensive and contentious passage of natural philosophy in the Ovidian corpus, the Speech of Pythagoras from book 15 of the Metamorphoses. Ovid’s representation of the transmigration of souls has a number of important precedents in Plato’s dialogues, including that from the end of the Timaeus. Recollection forms an important component of the theories of transmigration from the dialogues, with the soul’s access to wisdom being the result of its ability to remember the knowledge that it gained when travelling beyond its incarnate existence. For Ovid’s Pythagoras, however, there is no eternal world beyond that of embodied existence, with the ability to remember past lives being as much a form of intertextual recollection as a precise philosophical theory. The Speech of Pythagoras provides a further opportunity for Ovid to underscore the fluid ontologies of the Metamorphoses, while disturbing the notion of metamorphosis as a unifying principle for the text. The illusion of a regular cycle of transmigration governing the lives and afterlives of the soul is disrupted by the inability for such a cycle to ever be fully integrated with the accounts of metamorphoses that precede it.

The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
  • Edited by John Sellars
  • Published online:
    02 July 2025
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    17 July 2025
  • The Meditations of the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is consistently one of the best-selling philosophy books among the general public. Over the years it has also attracted famous admirers, from the Prussian king Frederick the Great to US President Bill Clinton. It continues to attract large numbers of new readers, drawn to its reflections on life and death. Despite this, it is not the sort of text read much by professional philosophers or even, until recently, taken especially seriously by specialists in ancient philosophy. It is a highly personal, easily accessible, yet deceptively simple work. This volume, written by leading experts and aimed at non-specialists, examines the central philosophical ideas in the work and assesses the extent to which Marcus is committed to the philosophy of Stoicism. It also considers how we ought to read this unique work and explores its influence from its first printed publication to today.

  • DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY

  • Debby Sneed, Kyle Lewis Jordan, Cecily Bateman
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 July 2025, pp. 324-330
    Print publication:
    October 2025
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  • IDEAS EXCHANGED: CONNECTIVITY, IDENTITY, AND HOW WE WRITE HISTORIES OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY

  • Jessica McKenzie
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 June 2025, pp. 367-375
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    October 2025
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Cicero: Laelius de amicitia
  • Edited with Introduction and Notes by Katharina Volk, James E. G. Zetzel
  • Published online:
    27 June 2025
    Print publication:
    31 October 2024
  • Cicero's last dialogue, De amicitia, is a work of stylistic brilliance containing the fullest examination of the values and problems of friendship to survive from the Greco-Roman world. How do we make (and lose) friends? If a conflict arises between personal affection and ethical behavior, how do we decide what is right? What kinds of people make the most suitable friends? Written in 44 BCE, De amicitia provides both a striking analysis of the conflicts between personal and civic loyalty and a strong statement about the close links between friendship, wisdom, and virtue. In the first full commentary on De amicitia in more than a century, Katharina Volk and James Zetzel provide an illuminating guide to the dialogue, explaining language and style, philosophy, and historical context. An appendix contains a text with commentary of Cicero's famous correspondence with Matius about political and personal loyalty after the assassination of Caesar.

  • Late antique African Painted Wares (APW): tracing local production in North Africa

  • Heike Möller, Veronica Occari, Corisande Fenwick, Patrick Sean Quinn
  • Journal:
    Libyan Studies / Volume 56 / November 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 June 2025, pp. 89-116
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    November 2025
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  • The production and circulation of common wares during the late antique period in North Africa has been largely overlooked by past scholarship, despite their potential to shed light on late antique production, workshop organisation and regional ceramic economies. This paper provides the first detailed study of a distinctive type of late antique, wheelmade common ware, the so-called African ‘painted ware’ (APW). It first presents a critical overview of the distribution of painted wares and their typology, decoration and chronology based on existing publications. It then develops a typology of vessel shapes, but also decoration patterns based on a large, well-preserved assemblage of painted ceramics recently excavated by the DAI, INP and UCL at the archaeological sites of Bulla Regia and Chimtou in the Medjerda valley, Tunisia. To understand the composition, technology and provenance of the wares, petrographic and chemical analysis was conducted on 57 painted sherds from the two sites. The results suggest the existence of a production centre in the Medjerda Valley, with potters using local calcareous clay tempered with sand, while the decoration was obtained using iron-based pigments. Comparison with published painted wares at other sites contributes to an initial insight into regional distribution patterns of the painted ware.

  • A DAISY CHAIN? RERVM ROMANARVM—CARPTIM PERSCRIPTARVM—FLORENTISSIMVS AVCTOR (TAC. ANN. 3.30.2 WITH SALL. CAT. 4.2)

  • Christopher B. Krebs
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly , First View
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    25 June 2025, pp. 1-5
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  • In praising Sallust, Tacitus chose the epithet florentissimus in delightful allusion to the former’s apparently innovative (and influential) use of the adverb carptim in his presentation of his novel approach to writing res gestae populi Romani: the adverb and the superlative adjective share an easily discernible etymological connection.

  • PLATO’S POLITICS ‘TODAY’

  • Diego De Brasi
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 June 2025, pp. 338-344
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    October 2025
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