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 11 until Friday 28th June 2024. 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 10
1. Views on Treason in Ancient Greece: Supporting Philip II of Macedon in Fourth-Century Athens by Nikolaos Anargyros Cheimaras
2. Rethinking Indo-Mediterranean Relations: New Approaches to the Roman Indian Ocean Following the 3rd Century Crisis by Jon Mateo Gabilondo Gutierrez
3. Creating Roman Identity: Caesar’s Bello Gallico and the Enfranchisement of Cisalpine Gaul by Lars Sheppard-Larsen
4. Virginity and Purity: Implications of the Vestals’ Sexual Status by Sisi Xie
5. Lil Nas X and the Classical Tradition: Exploring Classical Imagery in the Montero (CMBYN) Music Video by Yentl Love
6. Between Personal and Institutional Devotion in Mesopotamia: The Divine Feminine in the Diyala’s Glyptic (3rd Millenium BC) by Vera Gonçalves
7. Contact and Exchanges between Babylon and Hattusa: the Influence of the asipu and the asu on the Hittite Healing Tradition (14th and 13th Centuries BCE) by Ana Satiro
8. Communicating Power and Legitimacy? Dynastic Display in Ancient Persia and the Near East by Clare E. Parry
9. The Colosseum on the Silver Screen: the Allure of Hollywood Gladiators for the Alt-Right by Alexandra Sills
Melita Classica Volume 9
1. The Publicani and the Governors of Asia: A Power Struggle on Financial Exploitation (123-41 BCE) by Tom Zhuohun Wang
2. How to Become a Soldier of Love: the Transformation of militia and the Poetic Program of Tibulus by Clemens Wurzinger
3. Change and Evolution in the Roman Army through Roman and Greek Eyes by Gabriele Brusa
4. ‘Girl Against the World’: Antigone’s Afterlives in Contemporary Women’s Myth Writing by Shelby Judge
5. Rt Hon. John Hookham Frere’s Malta Translation of Aristophanes Plays by Ivan Said
6. The Tropification of Hollywood Heroes thrown into the Arena by Alexandra Sills
7. Church Archives: an Attempt to Bring them in Order by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
Melita Classica Volume 8
1. Seduction or Rape Power Dynamics between Citizen and Slave Sex by Zanthia Dwight
2. The Modal Definition of Being in Plato’s Sophist. by Andrew Hull
3. Sermonic Stylistics in the Satires of Horace by Oscar Goldman
4. Non-Sleeping Satirists Watchful Eye(s) and Insomnia by Sofia Foskolou
5. Polyxena the manly maiden. Death as free will in Euripides’ Hecuba by Cristiana Lucidi
6. Sirens, Lions, and Wrestlers in Ring Composition in Lycophron’s Alexandra by William Troy Farris
7. The Inter-Relationship between the Orders of St Lazarus and of St John during the 16th century by Charles Savona-Ventura
8. The Use of Dom(i)nulus and Dom(i)nula as Terms of Endearment in Ancient Rome by Lisa Brunet
9. βάρβαρος, – ον, a truly Semitic word by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
Melita Classica Volume 7
1. Speeches and Military Leadership in Xenophon’s Anabasis and Cyropaedia . by Antonis Damigos
2. Friends in High (and Low) Places? The Allobroges and the Politics of Patronage and Provincial Society in the Late Roman Republic. by Ralph Moore
3. The Christians and their Social Status in Gothia in the 4th century. by Miron Jurik
4. The Unexpected Evolution of the Fearful Lion’s Image. by Veronica Piccirillo
5. He Alone in Homer and Vergil’s Aeneid by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
6. The Relationship of Blood, Intelligence and Delirium: Perspectives in the Hippocratic Treatises. by Mary Elizabeth Harpas
7. Remember me Thus: a Study of Latin Epitaphs of Mime Actresses by Muditha Dharmasiri
8. Sappho in the Greek Comedy: Mocked or Mocking? by Emanuele Vuono
9. [Note] Lampas, the Island of Comino by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
Melita Classica Volume 6
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1. Golden Age Roman Land Surveying by Levente Takacs
2. The ‘Lost’ 1751/52 and 1752/3 Collegio Romano Lectures of Carolo Benvenuti SJ by Jurgen R Gatt
3. From Skyros to Paris by Gabriel Zammit
Melita Classica Volume 5
1. Fr Albert M. Grech O.P. (1883-1942): A Latin-to-Maltese literary and religious translator by Ivan Said
2. Maltese Productions of Classical Theatre in the Post-WWII Period by Paul Xuereb
3. Katullus, Poeżija Nu. 3 by Jessica Farrugia
4. Crime and Punishment: Achilles in Homer’s Iliad by Samuel Azzopardi
5. Theseus in Modern Culture: The Labyrinth of Inception by Melanie Zammit
6. Poetic Imagery Leaves and the Solemn Oath of Achilles by Steve De Marco
7. Pain and Pleasure: Oration delivered at the 2018 Graduation Ceremony by Carmel Serracino
8. Il-Bolla Kolleġġjata tal-Għarb: Oration delivered at Prof. Vella’s 2018 Book Launch by George Francis Vella
9. ITER ILLVSTRISSIMI AC REVERENDISSI DOMINI FABII CHISII NVNTII APOSTOLICI AB INSVLA MELITENSI ROMAM by Victor Bonnici
Melita Classica Volume 4
1. A friend in high places: Demetrios, son of Diodotos, the Syracusan. by Anthony Bonanno
2. A Lemmatic Commentary of Aeschylus, Agamemnon. by Jurgen R. Gatt
3. On the Latin introduction to Caxaro’s Catilena. by Victor Bonnici
4. “Hopeful that Aeschylus will not turn in his grave!”. by Carmel Serracino
5. Sound, word and meaning: Sanskrit and the Classics. by Maria Zammit
Melita Classica Volume 3
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1. Sanskrit, The Philosophy. by Michael Zammit
2. The Role of Slaves in Roman Land Surveying. by Levente Takacs
3. Themistocles as a trickster in Herodotus. by Nijole Juchneviciene
4. Drawing Distinctions in the Laches., the Elenchus as search. by Jurgen Gatt
5. Aristotle on History. by Vita Paparinska
6. OChanged Forms, Migrating Identities: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Posthuman. by Gloria Laura-Lucente
7. the Appropriation of the Classical Pastoral Elegy in Milton’s Lycidas, and Beyond. by Peter Vassallo
8. Ferrying Nothingness. The Charon motif in Murnau’s Nosferatu and Dreyer’s Vampyr. by Saviour Catania
9. Byzantine Greek on Maltese soil. Evidence from Tristia ex Melitogaudo. by Jerker Blomqvisti
10. Ovid on Gozo. Metamorphoses as a source for the Tristia ex Melitogaudo. by Stephen J. Harrison
11. The Arabs in Malta. by Stanley Fiorini and Martin R. Zammit
12. Duriba bi-Malta. Minted in Malta. deciphering the Kufic legend on the Fatimid quarter dinar. by Martin R. Zammit
13. Through Western Eyes. Greek and Latin Sources for Byzantine-Iranian Relations. by David Frendo
14. The Cult of Hercules in Roman Malta. A discussion of the Evidence. by Anthony Bonanno
15. Magnis nota triumphis insula. Malta in the Liladamus of Jacques Mayre (1685). by Heinz Hofmann
16. The First Performance of a Greek Play in the Island’s History. Classical drama in Malta in the late 1940s. by Carmel Serracino
Melita Classica Volume 2
1. Notes on the Text of Juvenal. by Stephen J. Harrison
2. The Serpent, the Moon, the Underworld. by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
3. Economic Strategies of a Roman Landowner. by Levente Takacs
4. Truth Vindicated, Tristia ex Melitogaudo. by Stanley Fiorini and Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
5. Comparing History and Tragedy. by Nijole Juchneviciene
6. Grandmothers in Roman Antiquity. C. Laes. MC 2 (2015) by Christian Laes
7. Reflections on the Literary Sources on Byzantine Malta. by Biagio Vella
10. The Social Status of Roman Land Surveyors
12. Greek Civilization as seen in its Literature
Melita Classics Volume 1
1. The Archaeology of Petronius, Engaging a Social Science with Lieterature. by Anthony Bonanno
2. Myths-Some Greek and Oriental Types. by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella
3. Atticism and Attic Vernacular in second-Century Athens. (2014) by Jerker Blomqvist
4. Descent into Hades, Orpheus, Odysseus and Aeneas. by Peter Vassallo
5. The MUTAT TERRA VICES Inscription. V. Bonnici. MC 1 (2014) by Victor Vassallo
7. Il-Viżta Pastorali ta’ Mons. Dusina by Horatio Caesar Roger Vella