Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.