The following articles are in CJ 102.4
IN ARISTOPHANES� BIRDS
Carl Anderson and T. Keith Dix
Abstract: Aristophanes reworks the Prometheus of Prometheus Bound and the account of Peisistratos� procession to the Acropolis for his own comic purposes.
CLAUDIUS, SENECA AND LE PRINCE IDEAL
Josiah Osgood
Abstract: This paper analyzes Seneca�s representation of Claudius� voice in the Apocolocyntosis, arguing that the emperor�s problems in speaking are humorous, but also constitute a real failing that renders him unsuitable as a princeps. I begin by reviewing the importance attached to physical voice in Rome, and then show how emperors were judged as speakers. Seneca�s satire (which also depicts the voices of Augustus and Nero), it emerges, helps construct an imperial ideal that animates such later works as Suetonius� Caesars. In a final section I use the philosopher�s De ira to elucidate the ethical significance of Claudius� irregular speech.
William H.F. Altman
Abstract: On the basis of an �evolving argument in defense of eristics,� Leo Strauss�s Socrates in �On the Euthydemus� takes the brothers� eristic art seriously and seeks to become their student. Central to Strauss�s argument is the premise, based on Socratic doubts as to whether virtue is teachable, that �wisdom in the proper sense� is impossible. An alternate interpretation of the Euthydemus suggests that Plato�s Socrates is practicing the art of reproducing wisdom by teaching virtue to Ctesippus. The contrast between these interpretations distinguishes Strauss�s intentions from Plato�s.
