Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods

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.

• PrefaceFigures and TableList of ContributorsGeneral Introduction: Agents of ChangeSilvia Castelli1 Mosquitoes, Molecules, and Megafauna: Who and What Has Agency in Human HistoryJ.R. McNeill2 Builders, Architects, and the Power of Context: Agents of Architectural Change in Fourth-Century-bce Epidaurus and DelphiJean Vanden Broeck-Parant3 Agents of Change around the Valley of the MusesRobin van Vliet and Onno van Nijf4 Callimachus vs. Conon: Competing Agents of Change for the Lock of BereniceBrett Evans5 Anonymizing Agents of Change in Philosophical Pseudepigraphy: The Case of Pseudo-Plato, De virtuteAlbert Joosse6 Cicero and Political Agency in Late-Republican RomeMerlijn Breunesse and Lidewij Van Gils7 Primus Juvencus and Other Agents of Change in the Rise of Christian Latin PoetryRoald Dijkstra8 John Cassian as an Agent of ChangeNienke Vos9 Greek-Latin Translation at the Court of Pope Nicholas V (r. 1447–1455): The Agents That Changed the Humanist Translation MovementAnnet den Haan10 Erasmus, an Unsuspected Superspreader of New Ancient Greek?Raf Van RooyIndex