Serena Connolly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Connolly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Connolly |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOLLY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Classics 131 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold
Suetonius reports that the emperor Caligula was fond of saying that a man ought to choose between being frugal (frugi) and being a Caesar. While generally understood as a self-referential declaration of Caligula’s excess, it has also been interpreted as a pun on the name of M. Licinius Crassus Frugi, whose son was an enemy of the emperor. This paper identifies an additional pun that contrasts the Phrygian king Midas, famed for his golden touch, w…
As Used by the Augusta
Scribonius Largus, in his collection of pharmaceutical recipes ( Compositiones ), describes ten as having been used by members of the imperial family, including Livia. A model from the field of modern consumer research reveals that Livia used such endorsements to create a persona of discernment and intellectualism, qualities hitherto largely overlooked. Réesumé: Dans sa collection de recettes pharmaceutiques ( Compositiones ), Scribonius Largus e…
Wisdom from Rome
For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare assumed their audiences knew them well—and they almost certainly did. Yet most Classicists today have either never heard of them or mistakenly attribute them to Cato the Elder. The Distichs are a collection of approximately 150 two-line maxims in hexameters that offer instructi…
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Antiquity
Classical antiquity was a significant but overlooked interlocutor in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s well-studied conversations with black history and his contemporary world. Basquiat drew on his knowledge of classical antiquity to explore issues of culture and heritage, imperialism, and social exclusion. The interaction of themes from ancient history, black history, and American history in his paintings provided him ways to think about military, politica…
Binarism in the Disticha Catonis
Thematic and structural binarism pervades the Disticha Catonis . It appeals to a fundamental mode of cognition rooted in an early and critical stage of human cognitive development that uses pairs to structure and organize our thinking and perceptions. Partly as a result of its binarism, the collection’s maxims are easily understood and remembered, which explains why they were read or quoted by adults in the Classical and post-Classical periods an…
Disticha Catonis Uticensis
Lives behind the Laws
Revelations about the lives of provincials in the Roman Empire
Constantine answers the veterans
Moments of high drama are not normally the stuff of law codes. But the compilers of Theodosius's Code have preserved for us a dramatic encounter between the emperor Constantine and his veterans that reveals insights into the development of both imperial hearings and the recording of them in the early years of the fourth century, a century often characterized by drama and ceremony. As I hope to show, the exchange demonstrates important continuitie…
Lives behind the Laws
Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Seeking Justice in the Roman World Petitioning in the Roman World 2. The Rescript System The Codex Hermogenianus The Rescript System in Motion The Work of the scrinium libellorum 3. The Rescript System in Context Petitioners Places 4. Using the System With the Law Before the Law Against the Law 5. The Emperor and his Petitioners Petitioners in Need: The New Understanding of Poverty The Roles of the Emperor Li…
Binarism in the Disticha Catonis
Thematic and structural binarism pervades the Disticha Catonis . It appeals to a fundamental mode of cognition rooted in an early and critical stage of human cognitive development that uses pairs to structure and organize our thinking and perceptions. Partly as a result of its binarism, the collection’s maxims are easily understood and remembered, which explains why they were read or quoted by adults in the Classical and post-Classical periods an…
Lives behind the Laws
Revelations about the lives of provincials in the Roman Empire
Constantine answers the veterans
Moments of high drama are not normally the stuff of law codes. But the compilers of Theodosius's Code have preserved for us a dramatic encounter between the emperor Constantine and his veterans that reveals insights into the development of both imperial hearings and the recording of them in the early years of the fourth century, a century often characterized by drama and ceremony. As I hope to show, the exchange demonstrates important continuitie…
Lives behind the Laws
Abbreviations Preface Introduction 1. Seeking Justice in the Roman World Petitioning in the Roman World 2. The Rescript System The Codex Hermogenianus The Rescript System in Motion The Work of the scrinium libellorum 3. The Rescript System in Context Petitioners Places 4. Using the System With the Law Before the Law Against the Law 5. The Emperor and his Petitioners Petitioners in Need: The New Understanding of Poverty The Roles of the Emperor Li…
Disticha Catonis Uticensis
Binarism in the Disticha Catonis
Thematic and structural binarism pervades the Disticha Catonis . It appeals to a fundamental mode of cognition rooted in an early and critical stage of human cognitive development that uses pairs to structure and organize our thinking and perceptions. Partly as a result of its binarism, the collection’s maxims are easily understood and remembered, which explains why they were read or quoted by adults in the Classical and post-Classical periods an…
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Antiquity
Classical antiquity was a significant but overlooked interlocutor in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s well-studied conversations with black history and his contemporary world. Basquiat drew on his knowledge of classical antiquity to explore issues of culture and heritage, imperialism, and social exclusion. The interaction of themes from ancient history, black history, and American history in his paintings provided him ways to think about military, politica…
Wisdom from Rome
For about one thousand years, the Distichs of Cato were the first Latin text of every student across Europe and latterly the New World. Chaucer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare assumed their audiences knew them well—and they almost certainly did. Yet most Classicists today have either never heard of them or mistakenly attribute them to Cato the Elder. The Distichs are a collection of approximately 150 two-line maxims in hexameters that offer instructi…
As Used by the Augusta
Scribonius Largus, in his collection of pharmaceutical recipes ( Compositiones ), describes ten as having been used by members of the imperial family, including Livia. A model from the field of modern consumer research reveals that Livia used such endorsements to create a persona of discernment and intellectualism, qualities hitherto largely overlooked. Réesumé: Dans sa collection de recettes pharmaceutiques ( Compositiones ), Scribonius Largus e…
Caligula, Midas, and the Failure to Make Gold
Suetonius reports that the emperor Caligula was fond of saying that a man ought to choose between being frugal (frugi) and being a Caesar. While generally understood as a self-referential declaration of Caligula’s excess, it has also been interpreted as a pun on the name of M. Licinius Crassus Frugi, whose son was an enemy of the emperor. This paper identifies an additional pun that contrasts the Phrygian king Midas, famed for his golden touch, w…
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