American Journal of Philology

ISSNs: 0002-9475, 1086-3168

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  1. Plato's Apology and the Politics of Memory.Joseph Gerbasi - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):43-71.
    This article interprets Plato's Apology of Socrates in the light of recent studies on the Athenian amnesty of 403 and the rhetorical conventions to which the amnesty gave rise. Comparing the Apology to Lysias' Against Eratosthenes, it argues that Plato's defense of Socratic philosophy engages with the psychology of collective memory that inhered in the rhetoric of amnesty-era Athens. Additionally, it argues that, in composing the Apology, Plato took inspiration from Lysias' speech directly. Ultimately, this article advances our understanding of (...)
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  2. State of Play: Queer Theory.Simon Goldhill - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):1-13.
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  3. Erotic Pets and Metapoetic Dildos in Marcus Argentarius, Anyte, Meleager, and Catullus.Leah Kronenberg - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):105-147.
    This article argues that Marcus Argentarius' epigram on Myro's dead grasshopper and cicada ( Anth. Pal. 7.364) provides an obscene interpretation of Anyte's model ( Anth. Pal. 7.190) by transforming Myro's paignia ("playthings") into sex toys. Like Catullus (2, 3), he builds on Meleager's eroticization of Anyte's poem in Anth. Pal. 7.195, 196, 207, as well as Herodas Mimiambs 6 and 7, which combine the themes of metapoetic dildos, female poets, and the Demeter/Persephone myth. Finally, I show that an acrostic (...)
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  4. Gigantomachy and the Psychomachia of Prudentius.Aaron Pelttari - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):149-179.
    In the Psychomachia, Prudentius engages with the myth and poetry of the gigantomachy, in particular the work of Claudian, his foremost poetic contemporary and occasional rival. Prudentius' dialogue with Claudian is one crucial input for understanding how he blends epic poetry and scriptural interpretation into a full-scale personification allegory that depicts a war between good and evil within the cosmos and within individual human beings. In this way, the currency of the gigantomachy in the early 5th century is critical for (...)
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  5. How to Live Up to Sallust: Metaleptic Rhetoric in the Bellum Catilinae.Erik Pulz - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):73-104.
    This study explores similarities in themes, motifs, and diction within the preface and speeches of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae using the Genettean concept of metalepsis. While previous scholarship on the "metaleptic echoes" between preface and speeches has focused on metaliterary aspects, this article draws greater attention to the echo's impact on the rhetorical strategy of the speaker and its effect on the internal audience. Analyzing selected "metaleptic echoes" in the speeches of Caesar, Cato, and Catiline, it argues that the characters in (...)
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  6. Sun, Moon, and Cucumbers: The Eternal and the Ephemeral in Praxilla's Adonis.Celsiana Warwick - 2025 - American Journal of Philology 146 (1):15-42.
    This article argues that the juxtaposition of the sun, moon, and stars with ripe fruits in the extant fragment of Praxilla's Hymn to Adonis reflects the opposition in Archaic poetry between man's vegetal nature and the immortality of kleos aphthiton symbolized by eternal celestial bodies. The ripe fruits represent the short-lived youth and beauty celebrated by the female-oriented Adonis festival, while the celestial bodies represent the eternal fame closely bound up with adult warrior masculinity in epic and other genres. I (...)
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