Matthew F Payne

• Horsing Around

  Open Access•Matthew Payne, Matthew F Payne•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2026

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  This article argues that the text of a hendecasyllabic fragment of Cinna, transmitted by Aulus Gellius, is defective, and that a neglected conjecture made by the sixteenth-century scholar Gyraldus gives a better reading . mannis , a loanword from Cisalpine Gaulish, may be the first usage of this word in Roman literature. Furthermore, reading mannis allows for the recognition of echoes of Cinna’s poem in the elegies of Ovid and Propertius. While G…

• Torture, Truth and National Security in Seneca's Troades

  Open Access•Matthew Payne, Matthew F Payne•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2022•Referências: 9

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  This article argues that the encounter between Andromache and Ulysses in Seneca's Troades engages with the genre of declamation to juxtapose two different discourses surrounding torture: one focussed on torture's connection to truth, the other on its connection to tyranny. It describes how the Greek general Ulysses, convinced of the danger of letting the Trojan prince Astyanax live, threatens his mother Andromache with physical torture in order t…

• Torture, Truth and National Security in Seneca's Troades

  Open Access•Matthew Payne, Matthew F Payne•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2022•Referências: 9

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  This article argues that the encounter between Andromache and Ulysses in Seneca's Troades engages with the genre of declamation to juxtapose two different discourses surrounding torture: one focussed on torture's connection to truth, the other on its connection to tyranny. It describes how the Greek general Ulysses, convinced of the danger of letting the Trojan prince Astyanax live, threatens his mother Andromache with physical torture in order t…

• Horsing Around

  Open Access•Matthew Payne, Matthew F Payne•ARTICLE•The Classical Quarterly•2026

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  This article argues that the text of a hendecasyllabic fragment of Cinna, transmitted by Aulus Gellius, is defective, and that a neglected conjecture made by the sixteenth-century scholar Gyraldus gives a better reading . mannis , a loanword from Cisalpine Gaulish, may be the first usage of this word in Roman literature. Furthermore, reading mannis allows for the recognition of echoes of Cinna’s poem in the elegies of Ovid and Propertius. While G…

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