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Vol. 59, No. 1 (2026)

Supplication, Speech, Eating: Maurice Blanchot and Niobe in the Iliad

Ann Smock, Mario Telò

pp. 1-26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2026.a982370

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Pornographic Enargeia and Counter-Narrative Desire in the Onos

Anna Athanasopoulou

pp. 27-65

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2026.a982371

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Prometheus’s Prophecy of the Future Itinerary of Io in Prometheus Bound

Yoshinori Sano

pp. 67-94

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2026.a982372

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The Transmission of the Theognidean Tradition as a Cultural Memory Practice

Jan Skarbek-Kazanecki

pp. 95-118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2026.a982373

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Volume 58, Number 3, Fall 2025

Volume 58, Number 2, Spring 2025

Animals Under Empire

Guest Editors: Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne and Edward Kelting

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Introduction: "Animals Under Empire"

Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne, Edward Kelting

pp. 129-142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962486

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Pets as Humans and Humans as Pets in Imperial Rome

Sian Lewis

pp. 143-164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962487

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Empire of Ants

Eleni H. Manolaraki

pp. 165-193

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962488

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Slavery and Interspecies Solidarity in Androcles and the Lion: Egyptian and Aesopic Perspectives

Edward Kelting

pp. 195-224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962489

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Animal Difference: Phūsis as a Force in Aelian's De Natura Animalium

Ellen Finkelpearl

pp. 225-250

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962490

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Making Manimals: School Fables and Physiognomy in the Roman Empire

Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne

pp. 251-305

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a962491

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Volume 58, Number 1, Winter 2025

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Slavery’s Rome

Walter Scheidel

pp. 1-25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953229

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Julius Caesar and Origin Stories in the Works of Josephus

Jennifer Gerrish

pp. 27-48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953230

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Reading (With Heliodorus) Skin Color as Difference in Homer’s Odyssey

Carol Dougherty

pp. 49-73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953231

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Rape and Revenge in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Carman Romano

pp. 75-100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953232

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The Ancient Photograph: Mirror and Time in Horace Odes 4.10

Robert A. Rohland

pp. 101-125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953233

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Books Received

pp. 127-128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2025.a953234

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