From time to time (usually about every four years) Ramus publishes a special or thematic number devoted to a specific topic. On this page you will find in reverse chronological order a list of these special numbers and their contents. Those marked with an asterisk (*) are also available in book form; for further information on these please go to the Aureal Publications page. All are available for purchase as a single issue.

Vol. 38 no 1 (2009): 'Apuleian Reflections' (editor John Penwill)

Introduction (John Penwill)

'Marsyas the Satyr and Apuleius of Madauros' (Ellen Finkelpearl)

'Plato Re-Read Too Late: Citation and Platonism in Apuleius' Apologia' (Richard Fletcher)

'The Elegiac Ass: The Concept of seruitium amoris in Apuleius' Metamorphoses' (Judith Hindermann)

'On Choosing a Life: Variations on an Epic Theme in Apuleius Met. 10 & 11' (John Penwill)

'Ec[h]oing the Ass-Novel: Reading and Desire in Onos, Metamorphoses and The Name of the Rose

(Karen Ni Mheallaigh)

'Apuleius in Meiji Japan: The Golden Ass as an Educational and Reformatory Novel' (Akihiko Watanabe)

Vol. 37 nos 1 and 2 (2008): 'Signs of Life? Studies in Later Greek Poetry' (editors Katerina Carvounis and Richard Hunter)

Introduction (Katerina Carvounis and Richard Hunter)

'Catalogue Technique in Dionysius Periegetes' (Jane Lightfoot)

'The Poetics of Knowledge in Oppian's Halieutica' (Emily Kneebone)

'Transforming the Homeric Models: Quintus' Battle among the Gods in the Posthomerica' (Katerina

Carvounis)

'"Sugaring the Pill": Gregory of Nazianzus' Advice to Olympias (Carm. 2.2.6)' (Mary Whitby)

'The Politics of Poetics: Nonnus' Dionysiaca and the World of Late Antiquity' (Robert Shorrock)

'The Death of Love in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: The Rapes of Nicaea and Aura (Fotini Hadjitoffi)

'The Abduction of Helen: A Reappraisal' (Michael Paschalis)

'Colluthus "Homeric" Epyllion' (Enrico Magnelli)

'Colluthus' Pastoral Traditions: Narrative Strategies and Bucolic Criticism in the Abduction of Helen

(Lucia Prauscello)

'Literariness and Levels of Style in Epigraphical Poetry of Late Antiquity' (Gianfranco Agosti)

Vol. 36 no 1 (2007): 'Dying for Josephus' (editors Simon Goldhill and Helen Morales)

Introduction (Simon Goldhill and Helen Morales) 

'The Failure of Rhetoric in Josephus' Bellum Judaicum' (Jonathan Price)

'Slaves to Rome: The Rhetoric of Mastery in Titus' Speech to the Jews (BJ 6.328-50)' (Myles Lavan)

'Who's the Toughest of Them All? Jews, Spartans and Roman Torturers in Against Apion' (John Barclay)

'Dilemmas of the Diaspora: The Esther Narrative in Antiquities 11.184-296' (Emily Kneebone)

'Josephus, Joseph and the Greek Novel' (Tim Whitmarsh)

Vol. 33 nos 1 and 2 (2004): 'Rethinking Terence'

Introduction: 'Terence's Mirror Stage' (A.J. Boyle)

'The Invention of Sosia for Terence's First Comedy, the Andria' (William S. Anderson)

'Terence and the Familiarisation of Comedy' (Elaine Fantham)

'The Terentian Marriage-Plot: Reproducing Fathers and Sons' (Suasan Lape)

Terence's Selbstaussöhnung: Payback Time for the Self (Hautontimorumenus' (John Henderson)

'Buy Young, Sell Old: Playing the Market Economies of Phormio and Terence' (Joseph A. Smith)

'The Joker in the Pack: Slaves in Terence' (Kathleen McCarthy)

'More than Menander's Acolyte: Terence as Translator' (Siobhan McElduff)

'The Unlovely Lover of Terence's Hecyra' (J.L. Penwill)

'The Plot Thickens: Hidden Outlines in Terence's Prologues' (Emily Gowers)

 

 

Vol. 31 nos 1 and 2 (2002): 'The Verbal and the Visual: Cultures of Ekphrasis in Antiquity' (guest editor Jas Elsner)

Introduction: 'The Genres of Ekphrasis' (Jas Elsner)

'Imaging the Cosmos: Ekphraseis in Euripides' (Robert Hannah)

'Evasive Epiphanies in Ekphrastic Epigram' (Verity Platt)

'Dazzling Likeness: Seeing Ekphrasis in Aeneid 10' (Anne Rogerson)

'Statius' Ekphrastic Games: Thebaid 6.531-47' (Helen Lovatt)

'"Can You Tell What It Is Yet?": Descriptions of Sex Change in Ancient Literature' (Rebecca Langlands)

'Written on the Body: Ekphrasis, Perception and Deception in Heliodorus' Aethiopica' (Tim Whitmarsh)

'Testing the Boundaries of Ekphrasis: Lucian On the Hall' (Zahra Newby)

'Gods and Painters: Philostratus the Elder, Stoic Phantasia and the Strategy of Describing' (Karel Thein)

'Philostratus, Histoi, Imagines 2.28: Ekphrasis and the Web of Illusion' (Duncan McCombie)

'The Body Is Not Painted On: Ekphrasis and Exegesis in Prudentius Peristephanon 9' (Christian Kässer)

Vol. 26 no 1 (1997): 'Ovid and Exile I' (guest editors Gareth D. Williams and Andrew D. Walker)

 

Introduction (Andrew D. Walker)

'Postscripts from the Edge: Exilic Fasti and Imperialised Rome' (A.J. Boyle)

'Ovid's Heroides and Tristia: Voices from Exile' (P.A. Rosenmeyer)

'The Role of the Book in Tristia 3.1' (Carole Newlands)

'Quaerenti plura legendum: On the Necessity of "Reading More" in Ovid's Exile Poetry' (Sergio Casali)

Vol. 26 no 2 (1997): 'Ovid and Exile 2' (guest editors Gareth D. Williams and Andrew D. Walker)

 

'Writing in the Mother-Tongue: Hermione and Helen in Heroides 8 (A Tomitan Approach)' (Gareth Williams)

'Not Wavering but Frowning: Ovid as Isopleth (Tristia 1 through 10)' (John Henderson)

'Return to Sender: The Rhetoric of nomina in Ovid's Tristia' (Ellen Oliensis)

'Oedipal Narratives and the Exilic Ovid' (Andrew D. Walker)

*Vol. 23 nos 1 and 2 (1994): 'Roman Literature and Ideology I'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'John Patrick Sullivan' (A.J. Boyle)

'Hanno's Punic Heirs: Der Poenulusneid des Plautus' (John Henderson)

'Ideology for an Empire in the Prefaces to Cicero's Dialogues' (Thomas N. Habinek)

'Image, Ideology and Action in Cicero and Lucretius' (J.L. Penwill)

'Political Declensions in Latin Grammar and Oratory, 55 BCE - CE 39' (Patrick Sinclair)

'Taking the Woman's Part: Engendering Roman Love Elegy'(Maria Wyke)

'The Ending of Ovid's Fasti' (Carole Newlands)

'"Quid attinet ueritatem per interpretem quaerere?" Interpretes and the Satyricon' (Gareth Schmeling)

*Vol. 24 no 1 (1995): 'Roman Literature and Ideology II'

'Happy Birthday, Dead Lucan: (P)raising the Dead in Siluae 2.7' (Martha Malamud)

'Martial and the Book' (D.P. Fowler)

'Alogia and Emphasis in Juvenal's Fourth Satire' (Martin M. Winkler)

'Martialis Rediuiuus: Evaluating the Unexpected Classic' (A.J. Boyle)

 

 

Vol. 21 no 1 (1992): 'Essays on Hesiod I' (guest editor Apostolos N. Athanassakis)

Introduction (Apostolos N. Athanassakis)

'Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics' (Richard P. Martin)

'Rhetoric and Poetics in Hesiod' (John T. Kirby)

'The Poetry of Justice: Hesiod and the Origins of Greek Law' (Michael Gagarin)

'Discourse and Conflict in Hesiod: Eris and the Erides' (Michael N. Nagler)

'Eros and the Woman' (Page DuBois)

Vol. 21 no 2 (1992): 'Essays on Hesiod II' (guest editor Apostolos N. Athanassakis)

Introduction (Apostolos N. Athanassakis)

'Authorisation and Authorship in the Hesiodic Theogony' (Gregory Nagy)

'The World of Hesiod' (Diskin Clay)

'Cattle and Honour in Homer and Hesiod' (Apostolos N. Athanassakis)

Vol. 20 no 2 (1991): 'The New Cambridge Latinist'

'Intellectual Pluralism and the Common Pursuit: Ramus Twenty Years' (A.J. Boyle)

'Persius' Didactic Satire: The Pupil as Teacher' (John Henderson)

'Re-viewing Pygmalion' (John Elsner and Alison Sharrock)

'Vocal Variations and Narrative Complexity in Ovid's Vestalia: Fasti 6.249-468' (Gareth Williams)

   

 

Vol. 20 no 1 (1991): 'Greek Drama' (guest editors: Bruce Heiden and Dolores O'Higgins)

Introduction (Bruce Heiden and Dolores O'Higgins)

'The Endless End of the Oedipus Rex' (Pietro Pucci)

'The Maze of the Logos: Euripides Suppliants 163-249' (Ann Michelini)

'Narrator and Narrative in the Philoctetes of Sophocles' (Dolores O'Higgins)

'Euripides' Hekabe and the Somatics of Dionysiac Drama' (Froma I. Zeitlin)

'Tragedy and Comedy in the Frogs of Aristophanes' (Bruce Heiden)

*Vol. 18 nos 1 and 2 (1989): 'Imperial Roman Literature II.1'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'Flavian Epicists on Virgil's Epic Technique' (Philip Hardie)

'Textual Strategies and Political Suicide in Flavian Epic'( Donald T. McGuire jr)

'Ratis audax: Valerius Flaccus' Bold Ship' (Martha A. Davis)

' Monarchal Power and Imperial Politics in Statius' Thebaid' (William J. Dominik)

'Statius' Thebaid: A Glimmer of Light in a Sea of Darkness' (D.E. Hill)

'Silius Italicus as "doctus poeta"' (Arthur J. Pomeroy)

'Reading Tacitus' Tiberian Annals' (Bronwyn Williams)

'Tacitus/The World in Pieces' (John Henderson)

*Vol. 19 no 1 (1990): 'Imperial Roman Literature II.2'

'Ambages reciprocae: Reviewing Apuleius' Metamorphoses' (J.L. Penwill)

'Ausonius' "Late Antique" Poetics and "Post-Modern" Literary Theory' (S. Georgia Nugent)

'Authoritarianism, Autonomy and Ammianus Marcellinus' (R.F. Newbold)

'Making a Virtue of Perversity: The Poetry of Prudentius' (Martha Malamud)

'Claudian: Court Poet as Artist' (C.E. Gruzelier)

*Vol. 16 nos 1 and 2 (1987): 'Imperial Roman Literature I'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'Generalising About Ovid' (Stephen Hinds)

'Structure and Meaning in the Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus' (P.J. Davis)

'The Satires of Persius: A Stretch of the Imagination' (Peter Connor)

'Senecan Tragedy: Twelve Propositions' (A.J. Boyle)

'Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation' (Marcus Wilson)

'Lucan/The Word at War' (John Henderson)

'"Against Interpretation": Petronius and Art Criticism' (Niall W. Slater)

'Martial' (J.P. Sullivan)

'Greeks and Romans in Book 12 of Quintilian' (Thomas N. Habinek)

'Juvenal Satire 15: Cannibals and Culture' (William S. Anderson)

 

 

*Vol. 12 nos 1 and 2 (1983): 'Senecan Tragedy'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'Virtus and pietas in Seneca's Hercules Furens' (Gilbert Lawall)

'The Tragic Mode of Seneca's Troades' (Marcus Wilson)

'Nil iam iura naturae ualent: Incest and Fratricide in Seneca's Phoenissae' (Elaine Fantham)

'An Analysis of Seneca's Medea' (Helen Fyfe)

'Poetic Technique and Rhetorical Amplification: Seneca Medea 579-669' (John Henderson)

'Vindicat omnes natura sibi: A Reading of Seneca's Phaedra' (P.J. Davis)

'The Oedipus of Seneca: An Imperial Tragedy' (D. Henry and B. Walker)

'The Sinful Nature of the Protagonist in Seneca's Oedipus' (Joe Park Poe)

'Revenge or Resignation: Seneca's Agamemnon' (Jo-Ann Shelton)

'Secreti loquimur: An Interpretation of Seneca's Thyestes' (William M. Calder III)

'Hic epulis locus: The Tragic Worlds of Seneca's Agamemnon and Thyestes' (A.J. Boyle)

'Dissonant Sympathy: Song, Orpheus and the Golden Age in Seneca's Tragedies' (Charles Segal)

*Vol 8 no 2 (1979): 'Virgil's Georgics'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'The Didactic Tradition in Vergil's Georgics' (Gretchen Kromer)

'Vergil's Georgics and the Pastoral Ideal' (P.J. Davis)

'The Georgics as Description: Aspects and Qualifications' (Peter Connor)

'From Hesiod to Homer by Way of Rome' (Dorothea Wender)

'In medio Caesar: Paradox and Politics in Virgil's Georgics'(A.J. Boyle)

'Poetic Self-consciousness in Georgics 2' (Frances Muecke)

'The Farmer's Battles' (Aya Betensky)

*Vol. 4 no 2 (1975): 'Ancient Pastoral'

Introduction (A.J. Boyle)

'The Green Cabinet and the Pastoral Design. Theocritus, Euripides, and Tibullus' (Gilbert Lawall)

'Aspects of Theocritean Otium' (Harriet Edquist)

'Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry' (Charles Segal)

'Vergil's Pastoral Modes' (Robert Coleman)

'Virgil's First Eclogue: Poetics of Enclosure' (Michael C.J. Putnam)

'A Reading of Virgil's Eclogues' (A.J. Boyle)

'Neronian Pastoral and the World of Power' (Eleanor Winsor Leach)