The first full study of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Greco-Roman epic poetry, illuminating many major texts.

Volume 17, 2020 This is the seventeenth volume of the hard-copy edition of a journal that has been published online (www.jgrchj.net) since 2000. As they appear,

How did Roman writers use the metaphor of the body politic to respond to the downfall of the Republic? In this book, Julia Mebane begins with the Catilinarian C

The aim of this volume is to study Silius’ poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as tran

This is the first book-length study of the reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica in the epic poems of Silius Italicus (Punica), Statius (Thebaid, Achilleid