Lampas - Volume 55, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract The battle of Salamis can be considered a ‘miracle’ in three respects. There is the ‘David and Goliath’ kind of miracle that a much smaller Greek fleet manages to defeat the Persian opponent. There is the miracle that the Greeks offer battle at all, after their endless debates. But the biggest miracle is Artemisia, called a literal θαῦμα by Herodotus himself. My close-reading of her bravura martial feat, which makes her Read More

Abstract Discussions about the interpretation of Plautus’ self-proclaimed tragicomoedia Amphitruo usually centre on the interpretation of the character of Alcumena, the wife of the eponymous general: should we see her as a tragic heroine or as a comic character? In this paper I will elaborate a third option, in which Alcumena is interpreted as a comic character precisely because her tragic features are grotesquely p Read More

Abstract What we know about women in ancient Rome depends on the available sources, but also on the questions we ask. In this article, the role of women in Latin literature is discussed in relation to the academic interest for these characters and the changes in these interests. Whereas a first generation of studies of Roman women was mostly focused on (stereo)types in literature, the second generation used material and Read More

Abstract The staging of Sophocles’ Antigone during and directly after the Second World War has been the subject of research in almost all European countries except the Netherlands. This is remarkable because Antigone was the only integral Greek tragedy that was performed during the Nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. In this article, I will compare the socio-political readings of productions of Antigone in 1943 and i Read More

Abstract A central topic of discussion in second language acquisition research is the question whether new vocabulary should be presented to pupils by means of vocabulary lists or in phrases (context). This question is not raised as often by teachers of Latin and it is therefore unsurprising that vocabulary lists have dominated Latin text books in the Netherlands for decades. This article concentrates on the effects of presenting L Read More