Fission and State-collapse in the Late Roman West

I intend to establish criteria that define the existence of a state and apply them to the fifth-century Roman west in order to assess when the state in this period came to an end. The metric I will be using is that of legitimacy, or “the probability that other authorities will act to confirm the …

Generic Relations in Horace Carm. 2.1

In this paper, I examine two sets of stanzas from Horace’s Carm. 2.1, and I juxtapose them to two tragic passages from Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes and Persians. Scholarship has explored how Carm. 2.1 appropriates stylistic and thematic elements from tragedy and historiography, as Horace imitates the style pf Pollio’s Histories. I will show that …