This paper opens with an overview of recent work on the ontology of fictional characters and then proceeds to arguments about the ontological status of characters who appear in fictionalizing narratives such as the Odyssey or the Ramayana who are simultaneously the objects of religious belief. Prof. Johnston suggests that such characters draw unique advantages...
The Department of Classics is pleased to present The Joan Palevsky Lecture in Classics. The lecture will be given by Dan-el Padilla Peralta on "Citizenship's insular cases: from Greece and Rome to Puerto Rico." Padilla Peralta is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
This conference will explore distributed authorship in ancient and new media, by placing scholars who work on this topic in the texts and practices of classical antiquity in dialogue with scholars who work on comparable modes of distribution in the digital domain. By staging a conversation with this particular mix of scholars, we aim to capitalise on the divergent...
