The Sulpiciae Conquestio that has been transmitted as part of the Epigrammata Bobiensia is a curious work, one that is replete with intertextual allusions to Virgil’s Aeneid in particular. Close examination of the course ...

The article aims to analyze various issues concerning the status of women in the context of wine consumption in ancient Rome. The study focuses on Latin literary texts that narrate prohibitions against Roman women drinking ...

This article analyzes lines 2.645-648 of Lucan’s Civil War. These four lines contain Pompey’s command for the consuls to sail from Brundisium to Epirus, and from there to proceed to Greece and Macedonia, where they were ...

Vocabularius breviloquus by the German humanist Johannes Reuchlin contained specialized vocabulary, including legal terminology. Bartholomew of Bydgoszcz, who owned a copy of the work, made his own notes alongside certain ...

The fictional correspondence of Xenophon has survived to our times in a fragmentary form, thanks to Stobaeus, whose Anthology contains excerpts from the Socratic letters. This correspondence is also part of the collection ...

Euripides’ The Phoenician Women belongs to the category of tragedies in which the offstage space – that is, events occurring beyond the immediate visual perception of the audience – plays a significant role. These events ...

At the center of the article is the Physiologus – probably the best-known text of late antiquity and the Middle Ages after the Bible – and the descriptions of animals presented there. The depictions of the individual animals ...

Scribonius Largus’s (1st-century) Compositiones Medicamentorum is one of the most important sources in the history of medicine. The recipes it contains were used in European medicine until the end of the 17th century. The ...

In 2025, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Latin conference Concilium Latinum Lodziense, held annually since 2004 at the University of Lodz by the Department of Classical Philology at UŁ, the Polish Philological ...