William Gladhill
PhD, Stanford University, 2008
CLAS 310 - Intermediate Latin 1
CLAS 418
CLAS 515D1
CLAS 612 - Topics in Latin Literature
Book:
Rethinking Roman Alliance: A Study in Poetics and Society (Cambridge 2016)
Rethinking Roman Alliance is a cultural reconstruction of the processes, contexts, and tensions inherent in the performance of ritual alliances. Such alliances are not merely restricted to international relations between Rome and another polity, but they permeate not only the stratified codes of conduct throughout Roman society, but they also bring order and coherence to the cosmos. Each moment of alliance pushes and pulls on all prior alliances in each of their various social and cosmological spheres. The manuscript completely alters modern conceptions of Roman alliance in the study and evaluation of a broad range of prose and poetic works. In particular Lucretius, Vergil, Manilius, and Lucan all engage with the poetry of alliance from differing perspectives that open a window into the nature of Roman culture and society. Roman narratives about alliance raise fundamental questions about the tension inherent in forming unions within an empire and a highly competitive social environment.
Selected Articles and Chapters
鈥淪ubversive Khoreia in Plato鈥檚 Protagoras.鈥� ICS (2014) 39: 17-31
鈥淒omus of Fama and Republican Space in Ovid鈥檚 in Augustan Poetry鈥� in the Roman Republic, J. Farrel and D. Nelis eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
鈥淭he Poetics of Human Sacrifice in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid鈥� in Human Sacrifice: Its Representation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, a special edition of Kernos, edited by Pierre Bonnechere (University of Leige, 2013).
Vergil Encyclopedia entries: Antonio da Firenze, Arae, Altars, Ants, Insects, Richard Heinze, Treaty, Blessed Isles, Oaths, Mettius Fufetius (Harvard University Press, 2013).
鈥淭he Emperor鈥檚 No Clothes: Suetonius and the Dynamics of Corporeal Ecphrasis,鈥� CA 31 (2012) 315-48.
鈥淪ons, Mothers, and Sex: Aeneid 1.314-20 and the Hymn to Aphrodite Reconsidered,鈥� Vergilius 58 (2012) 159-168.
鈥淕ods, Caesars, and Fate in Aeneid 1 and Metamorphoses 15,鈥� Dictynna 9 (2012) 1-17.
鈥淭he Poetics of Alliance in Vergil鈥檚 Aeneid,鈥� Dictynna 6 (2009) 36-69.
