Hugh Lindsay

Adoption in the Roman world

Preface Introduction 1. Adoption, kinship and the family: cross cultural perspectives 2. Kinship in Greece and Rome 3. Greek adoptions: comparisons and possible influences on the Roman world 4. Procedural aspects of Roman adoption 5. The testamentary adoption 6. Roman nomenclature after adoption 7. Adoption and inheritance 8. Roman freedmen and their families: the use of adoption 9. Adoption in Plautus and Terence 10. Sallust and the adoption of Jugurtha 11. Adrogatio and adoptio from Republic to Empire 12. Testamentary adoptions - a review of some known cases 13. Political adoptions in the Republic 14. Clodius and his adoption 15. The adoption of Octavian 16. Political adoption in the early empire at Rome, Pompeii and Ostia 17. The imperial family Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index.

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Simon Goldhill throws down the gauntlet to the entire field of classical reception studies in his new book Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity. This flourishing sub-discipline of Classics has, in the last two decades in particular, explored a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. It has also attempted to forge connections with and creatively borrow from other academic disciplines including History, Literary Studies, Art History and Cultural Studies to name but a few. Interdisciplinary by its very nature classical reception requires researchers working in the field to engage both with antiquity and its cultural products, as well as with their reception in later periods and cultures. Research projects of this nature are intellectually challenging because they necessitate the crossing of disciplinary boundaries. Therein of course lies the inherent danger, namely of producing work that has too broad a remit and therefore, as some detractors would have it, adds nothing of value to our understanding of classical antiquity. Goldhill’s contention, however, is that we have not gone far enough down this road.

Who was apicius

The identity of the epicure Apicius and his relationship to the only complete cookery book to survive from antiquity is examined. A case is made for a single significant identity of that name. The book itself may incorporate very few truly Apician components, and should be dated shortly before AD 385.