... of the University of California Homer Odyssey Iliad epic Archilochus mourning simile octopus Thetis Nereids wave water weather sea ἀβάπτιστος εἶμι φελ- λὸς ὣς ὑπὲρ ἕρκος ἅλμας.   Undipped I will travel cork- like over the surface of the sea. —Pind. Pyth. 2.80–81 In her poetry...

...Ben Radcliffe This article considers how mourning is configured as a site of political and aesthetic conflict in Aeschylus’ Persae . Aeschylus represents the Persian defeat at Salamis as a catastrophe that unsettles the Persians’ habitual modes of visualizing and quantifying the empire’s population...

...Aaron M. Seider This article considers Catullus’ reaction to his brother’s death and argues that the poet, having found the masculine vocabulary of grief inadequate, turns to the more expansive emotions and prolonged dedication offered by mythological examples of feminine mourning. I begin...