Preface
Figures and Table
List of Contributors
General Introduction: Agents of Change
Silvia Castelli
1 Mosquitoes, Molecules, and Megafauna: Who and What Has Agency in
Human History
J.R. McNeill
2 Builders, Architects, and the Power of Context: Agents of
Architectural Change in Fourth-Century-bce Epidaurus and Delphi
Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant
3 Agents of Change around the Valley of the Muses
Robin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf
4 Callimachus vs. Conon: Competing Agents of Change for the Lock of
Berenice
Brett Evans
5 Anonymizing Agents of Change in Philosophical Pseudepigraphy: The
Case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtute
Albert Joosse
6 Cicero and Political Agency in Late-Republican Rome
Merlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils
7 Primus Juvencus and Other Agents of Change in the Rise of
Christian Latin Poetry
Roald Dijkstra
8 John Cassian as an Agent of Change
Nienke Vos
9 Greek-Latin Translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r.
1447–1455): The Agents That Changed the Humanist Translation
Movement
Annet den Haan
10 Erasmus, an Unsuspected Superspreader of New Ancient Greek?
Raf Van Rooy
Index
Silvia Castelli, Ph.D. (2019), VU Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor
of New Testament. She has published on ancient Jewish literature in
Greek and textual criticism, including Johann Jakob Wettstein’s
Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism. A Fight for
Scholarly Freedom, 2020.
Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990), Leiden University, is Professor of
ancient Greek. She has published on ancient and medieval linguistic
thought, ancient values, ‘anchoring’ innovation, and cognition,
including Minds on Stage. Greek Tragedy and Cognition (ed., with
F.J. Budelmann), OUP 2023.
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