Articles, reviews, etc.

Forthcoming

Please write to me if you are interested in complete drafts of any of the following forthcoming pieces:

• An article on philosophical consolation and modern approaches to grief.

• “Consolation in Question: Philosophical Perspectives on Grief between Greece, Rome, and China.” In Comparative Explorations: New Perspectives on Ancient Worlds, ed. Jingyi Jenny Zhao and Arthur Harris.

• “Remembrance Disrupted: Theory and Practice in the Stoic Therapy of Grief.” In A Perfect Death? Literary, Historical, and Philosophical Reflections on Life, Death, and Remembrance in Greco-Roman Antiquity, ed. W. Nijs and I. François.

• “An Audience of Intellectuals? The Readership of Latin Technical and Scientific Literature in the Early Roman Empire.” In T. Fögen (ed.), Portrayals of ‘Intellectuals’ in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Mohr Siebeck).

• Gargilius Martialis, De arboribus pomiferis / De hortis and Medicinae ex holeribus et pomis; Ps.-Gargilius Martialis, Curae boum. In J. Stover (ed.), Oxford Guide to the Transmission of the Latin Classics (Oxford University Press)

2024

• Review of Courtney Ann Roby, The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (Cambridge 2023), Annals of Science 4 April 2024

2023

• “The Agricultural Preface between Rome and China: The Virtues of Farming in Columella and Jia Sixie.” Hermes 151.3: 71–104 (BiblioScout link)

• Review of Fabio Tutrone, Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca’s Consolation ad Marcia (De Gruyter 2023), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2023.05.26

2022

• “Columella aduersus astrologos: Weather Signs and Stars in Res rustica 11.” Materiali e discussioni 89: 157–68 (LIBRAweb link)

2021

• “‘We Fortunate Souls’: Timely Death and Philosophical Therapy in Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia.”American Journal of Philology 142.3: 425–60 (Muse permalink)

• Review of T. K. Johansen (ed.), Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê (Cambridge 2021), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.11.13.

• Entries for remugio, remulceo, Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Vol. IX.2, Fasc. VII

2020

• Entries for regressio, regressus, Thesaurus linguae Latinae, Vol. IX.2, Fasc. VI

2019

• “Epistula 86 Once Again: Agriculture and Philosophy in Seneca’s Moral Letters.” Classical Philology 114.2: 218–37 (permalink)

2018

• “A Stoic Source for the Monkey-Rope.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 20.3: 58–65 (Muse permalink)

2017

• “The Philosophical Justification for the Equant in Ptolemy’s Almagest.” Phronesis 62.4: 417–42 (JSTOR permalink, Brill permalink)