Melita Classica is an additional initiative of the Association. The present journal is meant to be an annual publication in which Classicists can find an appropriate forum wherein the fruit of their literary endeavors and their researches can be published. Contributors for future publications are welcome and encouraged to submit their articles or material relating to the Classics – writing guidelines are printed at the end of this journal. The MCA is currently receiving submissions for Volume 10 until Friday 28th June 2023. For more information on how to submit to the journal, please send an email to the Editor at [email protected]

A free copy of the journal is given to the MCA’s fully-paid members and all contributors. Past volumes are uploaded for free public access two years from the physical publication of the journal. If you would like to learn more about how you can contribute to the journal’s future installments, or if you would like to purchase one of the older versions, please send an email to the Editor at [email protected] .

Guidelines on article submissions can be accessed here: Guidelines for Contributors.

Melita Classica Volume 9

1. The Publicani and the Governors of Asia: A Power Struggle on Financial Exploitation (123-41 BCE)

2. How to Become a Soldier of Love: the Transformation of militia and the Poetic Program of Tibulus

3. Change and Evolution in the Roman Army through Roman and Greek Eyes

4. ‘Girl Against the World’: Antigone’s Afterlives in Contemporary Women’s Myth Writing

5. Rt Hon. John Hookham Frere’s Malta Translation of Aristophanes Plays

6. The Tropification of Hollywood Heroes thrown into the Arena

7. Church Archives: an Attempt to Bring them in Order

Melita Classica Volume 8

1. Seduction or Rape? Power Dynamics beteen Citizen and Slave Sex.

2. The Modal Definition of Being in Plato’s Sophis.

3. Sermonic Stylistics in the Satires of Horace.

4. Non-Sleeping Satirists: Watchful Eye(s) and Insomnia…

5. Polyxena and the Manly Maiden. Death as Free Will in Euripides’ Hecuba.

6. Sirens, Lions and Wrestlers in Ring Composition in Lycophoron’s Alexandra.

7. The Inter-Relationship between the Orders of St Lazarus and St John during the 16th Century

8. [Note] The Use of Dom(i)nulus and Dom(i)nula as Terms of Endearment in Ancient Rome.

9. [Note] βάρβαρος, –ον, a truly Semitic Word.

Melita Classica Volume 7

1. Speeches and Military Leadership in Xenophon’s Anabasis and Cyropaedia .

2. Friends in High (and Low) Places? The Allobroges and the Politics of Patronage and Provincial Society in the Late Roman Republic.

3. The Christians and their Social Status in Gothia in the 4th century.

4. The Unexpected Evolution of the Fearful Lion’s Image.

5. He Alone in Homer and Vergil’s Aeneid

6. The Relationship of Blood, Intelligence and Delirium: Perspectives in the Hippocratic Treatises.

7. Remember me Thus: a Study of Latin Epitaphs of Mime Actresses

8. Sappho in the Greek Comedy: Mocked or Mocking?

9. [Note] Lampas, the Island of Comino

Melita Classica Volume 6

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1. Golden Age Roman Land Surveying

2. The ‘Lost’ 1751/52 and 1752/3 Collegio Romano Lectures of Carolo Benvenuti SJ

3. From Skyros to Paris

Melita Classica Volume 5

1. Fr Albert M. Grech O.P. (1883-1942): A Latin-to-Maltese literary and religious translator

2. Maltese Productions of Classical Theatre in the Post-WWII Period

3. Katullus, Poeżija Nu. 3

4. Crime and Punishment: Achilles in Homer’s Iliad

5. Theseus in Modern Culture: The Labyrinth of Inception

6. Poetic Imagery Leaves and the Solemn Oath of Achilles

7. Pain and Pleasure: Oration delivered at the 2018 Graduation Ceremony

8. Il-Bolla Kolleġġjata tal-Għarb: Oration delivered at Prof. Vella’s 2018 Book Launch

9. ITER ILLVSTRISSIMI AC REVERENDISSI DOMINI FABII CHISII NVNTII APOSTOLICI AB INSVLA MELITENSI ROMAM


Melita Classica Volume 4

1. A friend in high places: Demetrios, son of Diodotos, the Syracusan. A. Bonanno. MC 4 (2017) 11-58

2. A Lemmatic Commentary of Aeschylus, Agamemnon. J. R. Gatt. MC 4 (2017) 59-88

3. On the Latin introduction to Caxaro’s Catilena. V. Bonnici. MC 4 (2017) 89-122

4. “Hopeful that Aeschylus will not turn in his grave!”. C. Serracino. MC 4 (2017) 123-131

5. Sound, word and meaning: Sanskrit and the Classics. M. Zammit. MC 4 (2017) 132-142


Melita Classica Volume 3

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1. Sanskrit, The Philosophy. M. Zammit. MC 3 (2016) 23-32

2. The Role of Slaves in Roman Land Surveying. L. Takacs. MC 3 (2016) 33-44

3. Themistocles as a trickster in Herodotus. N. Juchneviciene. MC 3 (2016) 45-62

4. Drawing Distinctions in the Laches., the Elenchus as search. J. Gatt. MC 3 (2016) 63-84

5. Aristotle on History. V. Paparinska. MC 3 (2016) 85-100

6. OChanged Forms, Migrating Identities: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Posthuman G. Lauri-Lucente. MC 3 (2016) 101-116

7. the Appropriation of the Classical Pastoral Elegy in Milton’s Lycidas, and Beyond. P. Vassallo. MC 3 (2016) 117-124

8. Ferrying Nothingness. The Charon motif in Murnau’s Nosferatu and Dreyer’s Vampyr. S. Catania. MC (2016) 125-140

9. Byzantine Greek on Maltese soil. Evidence from Tristia ex Melitogaudo. J. Blomqvist. MC 3 (2016) 141-168

10. Ovid on Gozo. Metamorphoses as a source for the Tristia ex Melitogaudo. S. J. Harrison. MC 3 (2016) 169-178

11. The Arabs in Malta. 870-1150. S. Fiorini and M.R. Zammit. MC (2016) 179-208

12. Duriba bi-Malta. Minted in Malta. deciphering the Kufic legend on the Fatimid quarter dinar. M.R. Zammit. MC 3 (2016) 209-216

13. Through Western Eyes. Greek and Latin Sources for Byzantine-Iranian Relations. D. Frendo. MC 3 (2016) 217-242

14. The Cult of Hercules in Roman Malta. A discussion of the Evidence. A. Bonanno. MC 3 (2016) 243-264

15. Magnis nota triumphis insula. Malta in the Liladamus of Jacques Mayre (1685). H. Hofmann. MC 3 (2016) 265-284

16. The First Performance of a Greek Play in the Island’s History. Classical drama in Malta in the late 1940s. C. Serracino. MC 3 (2016) 285-304


Melita Classica Volume 2

1. Notes on the Text of Juvenal. S.J. Harrison. MC 2 (2015) 9-16

2. The Serpent, the Moon, the Underworld. H.C.R. Vella. MC 2 (2015) 17-36

3. Economic Strategies of a Roman Landowner. L. Takacs. MC 2 (2015) 37-52

4. Truth Vindicated, Tristia ex Melitogaudo. S. Fiorini and H.C.R. Vella. MC 2 (2015) 53-72

5. Comparing History and Tragedy. N. Juchneviciene. MC 2 (2015) 73-98

6. Grandmothers in Roman Antiquity. C. Laes. MC 2 (2015) 99-114

7. Reflections on the Literary Sources on Byzantine Malta. B. Vella. MC 2 (2015) 115-120

8. Dissertations in Classics

9. Book reviews

10. The Social Status of Roman Land Surveyors

11. Pharmaceutical Latin

12. Greek Civilization as seen in its Literature


Melita Classics Volume 1

1. The Archaeology of Petronius, Engaging a Social Science with Lieterature. A. Bonanno. MC 1 (2014) 9-30

2. Myths-Some Greek and Oriental Types. H.C.R. Vella. MC 1 (2014) 31-38

3. Atticism and Attic Vernacular in second-Century Athens. J. Blomqvist. MC 1 (2014) 39-56

4. Descent into Hades, Orpheus, Odysseus and Aeneas. P. Vassallo. MC 1 (2014) 57-68

5. The MUTAT TERRA VICES Inscription. V. Bonnici. MC 1 (2014) 69-112

6. Book Reviews MC 1 (2014) 113-120

7. Il-Viżta Pastorali ta’ Mons. Dusina

8. Properzju-Elegiji

9. Thesis Dissertations