Argues that Lucretius presents the male body as ineluctably vulnerable and thereby shows Roman masculinity to be a fiction.

A literary approach to Roman philosophy demonstrating the relevance of gender, feminism and rhetoric to the history of the self.

How a study of anti-Epicurian discourse can lead us to a better understanding of the cultural history of Epicurianism

Sharrock.--William C. Fitzgerald, University of California, Berkeley "American Historical Review"

In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described