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This collection of essays focuses on Livy's way of employing intertextual strategies in dealing with his direct and indirect sources. In sum, this perspective throws Livy's literary aspirations as an author of historiography into sharper relief. Livy emerges as a thoughtful critic not only of his sources but also of historiographical methodologies. This book includes articles by Jane D. Chaplin, Andrew Feldherr, Mary Jaeger, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Timothy J. Moore, Wolfgang Polleichtner, and Nadejda Popov-Reynolds.

The collection features nineteen philosophical letters by Iamblichus, the only surviving Platonist philosopher from antiquity. These letters, newly translated into English, explore a range of topics including providence, fate, and the cardinal virtues, while addressing both students and influential figures in Syrian society. They reflect the moral concerns of the time and highlight the public dimensions of Iamblichus's thought. This volume serves as a valuable resource for those studying late antiquity, Neoplatonism, and early Christianity.

This book brings together traditional approaches to the reception of the Homeric epic poems in Vergil's Aeneid, new advances in the field of Hellenistic poetry, as well as latest results from studies of emotions in antiquity. Using selected Vergilian passages that can be compared with a sufficient amount of relevant material from ancient poets and philosophers, this book attempts to reconstruct in greater detail what probably was Vergil's own understanding of what it meant to write epic poetry in his time.