Loeb Classical Monographs

The Loeb Classical Monographs series includes works on various topics.

James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6–8 June 2019
Henderson, Jeffrey, and Richard F. Thomas, ed. James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 6–8 June 2019, 2022, 336. Publisher's VersionAbstract

James Loeb (1867–1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in celebration of the sesquicentenary of his birth, the James Loeb Biennial Conferences were convened to commemorate his achievements in four areas: the Loeb Classical Library (2017); collection and connoisseurship (2019); and, after pandemic postponement, psychology and medicine (2023); and music (2025).

The subject of the second conference was Loeb’s deep and multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The volume’s contributors range broadly over the manifold connections and contexts, both personal and institutional, of Loeb’s archaeological interests, and consider these in light of the long history of collection and connoisseurship from antiquity to the present. Their essays also reflect on the contemporary significance of Loeb’s work, as the collections he shaped continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving environment for the arts.

The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant
Curtis, Lauren, and Irene Peirano Garrison, ed. The Lives of Latin Texts: Papers Presented to Richard J. Tarrant. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2021. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement.

The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics addressed in The Lives of Latin Texts is testament to Richard Tarrant’s wide-ranging influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism. Contributions on stylistic, dramatic, metapoetic, and philosophical issues in Latin literature (including authors from Virgil, Horace, and Seneca to Ovid, Terence, Statius, Caesar, and Martial) sit alongside contributions on the history of textual transmission and textual editing. Other chapters treat the musical reception of Latin literature. Taken together, the volume reflects on the impact of Richard Tarrant’s scholarship by addressing the expressive scope and the long history of the Latin language.
The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017
Henderson, Jeffrey, and Richard T. Thomas, ed. The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2020. Publisher's VersionAbstract

James Loeb (1867–1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in celebration of the sesquicentenary of his birth, the James Loeb Biennial Conferences were convened to commemorate his achievements in four areas: the Loeb Classical Library (2017), collection and connoisseurship (2019), psychology and medicine (2021), and music (2023).

The subject of the inaugural conference was the legacy for which Loeb is best known and the only one to which he attached his name—the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it has inspired: the I Tatti Renaissance Library, the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, and the Murty Classical Library of India. Including discussions by the four General Editors of each Library’s unique history, mission, operations, and challenges, the papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny also take stock of these series in light of more general themes and questions bearing on translations of “classical” texts and their audiences in a variety of societies past, present, and future.

Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector
Arnold-Biucchi, Carmen, and Martin Beckmann, ed. Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2019. Publisher's VersionAbstract

This volume addresses the question of the relation between sculpture and coins—or large statuary and miniature art—in the private and public domain. It originates in the Harvard Art Museums 2011 Ilse and Leo Mildenberg interdisciplinary symposium celebrating the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection. The papers examine the function of Greek and Roman portraiture and the importance of coins for its identification and interpretation. The authors are scholars from different backgrounds and present case studies from their individual fields of expertise: sculpture, public monuments, coins, and literary sources.

Sculpture and Coins also pays homage to the art historian Margarete Bieber (1879–1978) whose work on ancient theater and Hellenistic sculpture remains seminal. She was the first woman to receive the prestigious travel fellowship from the German Archaeological Institute and the first female professor at the University of Giessen. Dismissed by the Nazis, she came to the United States and taught at Columbia. This publication cannot answer all the questions: its merit is to reopen and broaden a conversation on a topic seldom tackled by numismatists and archaeologists together since the time of Bernard Ashmole, Phyllis Lehmann and Léon Lacroix.
Albert's Anthology
Coleman, Kathleen M., ed. Albert's Anthology. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2017. Publisher's VersionAbstract
Albert’s Anthology comprises 76 brief and informal reflections on a line or two of Greek or Latin poetry—and a few prose quotations and artistic objects—composed by colleagues and students of Albert Henrichs on the occasion of his retirement in Spring 2017. Appointed Professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University at the age of thirty in 1973 and Eliot Professor of Greek in 1984, Professor Henrichs has devoted his scholarly career to Greek literature and religion—especially his favorite Greek god, Dionysos—and to incomparably enthusiastic teaching of countless students at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His scholarship and dedication are legendary. This volume is offered to a brilliant and beloved scholar with gratitude, affection, and respect.
Images for Classicists
Coleman, Kathleen M., ed. Images for Classicists. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2015. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Contents

Kathleen M. Coleman Approaching the Visual in Ancient Culture: Principles
Luca Giuliani How Did the Greeks Translate Traditional Tales into Images?
Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Image, Myth, and Epic on Mosaics of the Late Roman West
Timothy M. O’Sullivan Aurati laquearia caeli: Roman Floor and Ceiling Decoration and the Philosophical Pose
Andrew Burnett and Dominic Oldman Roman Coins and the New World of Museums and Digital Images
Kathleen M. Coleman Approaching the Visual in Ancient Culture: Practicalities
East and West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock
Brennan, Corey T, and Harriet I Flower, ed. East and West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2008. Publisher's VersionAbstract

In this volume a distinguished international group of ancient historians explores the classical antiquity that Glen W. Bowersock has given us over a scholarly career of almost fifty years at Harvard and the Institute for Advanced Study, described by Aldo Schiavone in his introduction as "a world of plurality and of the multifarious, of the ethnic and cultural melting pot, the world of Romanized Greekness and Hellenized Romaness, of open, shifting identities, of travels, curiosities and exchanges, of East permeating West and the West understanding the East, of seas that unite much more than they divide, of malleability, pliability, and constant integration."

Contents
Aldo Schiavone "Only Connect"
Walter Ameling Ethnography and Universal History in Agatharchides
Andrea Giardina Metis in Rome: A Greek Dream of Sulla
Miriam T. Griffin Iure plectimur: The Roman Critique of Roman Imperialism
Christopher Jones The Survival of the Sophists
Robert J. Penella Himerius' Orations to his Students
Peter Brown Alms and the Afterlife: A Manichaean View of an Early Christian Practice
Maurice Sartre De Pétra à Jérusalem … et retour!
The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom
Jones, Christopher P. The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978. Publisher's VersionAbstract

The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. Christopher P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era.

Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio’s birthplace, education, and early career. He examines the civic speeches for what they reveal about Dio’s life and art, as well as the life, thought, and language of Greek cities in this period. From these and other works he reinterprets Dio’s attitude toward the emperors and Rome. The account is as lucid and pleasantly written as it is carefully documented.