Thematic Index of Classics in JStor
dead, magic, burial, funeral, body, rites, magical, belief, divination, ritual, custom, tomb, buried, omen, corpse, power, omens, frazer, superstition, rite, cremation, bones, spirits, gods, practices, religious, deceased, lupercalia, funerary, romans, person, religion, taboo, iynx, evil, lucky, primitive, pyre, witches, grave, witchcraft, dreams, prophecy, luperci, folk-lore, corpses, orientation, folklore, customs, superstitious

1996

Ομηρον εξ Αισχυλου σαφηνιζειν: "Iliad" 7.332-338 and "Agamemnon" 433-455. David Shive. Phoenix. (Autumn - Winter, 1996), pp. 189-196 List themes Full text (180 theme words)
The Poet and the Procuress: The Lena in Latin Love Elegy. K. Sara Myers. Journal of Roman Studies. (1996), pp. 1-21 List themes Full text (141 theme words)
Structures of Care in the Iliad. K. Lynn-George. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 1-26 List themes Full text (118 theme words)
The Sirens and Cargo Cults. Mikal J. Aasved. The Classical World. (May - Jun., 1996), pp. 383-392 List themes Full text (114 theme words)
Vespasian and the Omens in Tacitus "Histories" 2.78. M. Gwyn Morgan. Phoenix. (Spring, 1996), pp. 41-55 List themes Full text (110 theme words)
Propertius 3.7.1-12. Alison Orlebeke. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 416-428 List themes Full text (89 theme words)
Constantine and the Ancient Cults of Rome: The Legal Evidence. John Curran. Greece & Rome. (Apr., 1996), pp. 68-80 List themes Full text (89 theme words)
Ovid, "Amores" 1.8: Whose Amatory Rhetoric?. Nicolas P. Gross. The Classical World. (Jan. - Feb., 1996), pp. 197-206 List themes Full text (84 theme words)
Nonverbal Behaviors in Ovid's Poetry, Primarily "Metamorphoses" 14. Donald Lateiner. Classical Journal. (Feb. - Mar., 1996), pp. 225-253 List themes Full text (83 theme words)
Seasons of Death: Aspects of Mortality in Imperial Rome. Brent D. Shaw. Journal of Roman Studies. (1996), pp. 100-138 List themes Full text (77 theme words)
The Urine and the Vine: Astyages' Dreams at Herodotus 1.107-8. Christopher Pelling. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 68-77 List themes Full text (64 theme words)
Image and Ritual: Reflections on the Religious Appreciation of Classical Art. John Elsner. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 515-531 List themes Full text (63 theme words)
The Dead and the Quick: Structural Correspondences and Thematic Relationships in Propertius 4.7 and 4.8. John Warden. Phoenix. (Summer, 1996), pp. 118-129 List themes Full text (57 theme words)
Nero's Masks. Niall W. Slater. The Classical World. (Sep. - Oct., 1996), pp. 33-40 List themes Full text (57 theme words)
The 97th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. American Journal of Archaeology. (Apr., 1996), pp. 337-407 List themes Full text (50 theme words)
Homer and Thucydides: Corcyra and Sicily. C. J. Mackie. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 103-113 List themes Full text (34 theme words)
Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay. James J. O'Hara. Classical Journal. (Feb. - Mar., 1996), pp. 255-276 List themes Full text (31 theme words)
Reconfiguring the Past: Thyrea, Thermopylae and Narrative Patterns in Herodotus. John Dillery. American Journal of Philology. (Summer, 1996), pp. 217-254 List themes Full text (29 theme words)
Structure and Fate in Suetonius' Life of Galba. D. Thomas Benediktson. Classical Journal. (Dec., 1996 - Jan., 1997), pp. 167-173 List themes Full text (24 theme words)
Oedipus and Triviality. Jeffrey Rusten. Classical Philology. (Apr., 1996), pp. 97-112 List themes Full text (24 theme words)
The Summoning of the Magna Mater to Rome (205 B.C.). Paul J. Burton. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. (1st Qtr., 1996), pp. 36-63 List themes Full text (23 theme words)
Review of Aegean Prehistory V: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Northern Greece. Stelios Andreou, Michael Fotiadis, Kostas Kotsakis. American Journal of Archaeology. (Jul., 1996), pp. 537-597 List themes Full text (23 theme words)
From Narmouthis (Medinet Madi) to Kellis (Ismant El-Kharab): Manichaean Documents from Roman Egypt. I. M. F. Gardner, S. N. C. Lieu. Journal of Roman Studies. (1996), pp. 146-169 List themes Full text (22 theme words)
Monumental Writing and the Expansion of Roman Society in the Early Empire. Greg Woolf. Journal of Roman Studies. (1996), pp. 22-39 List themes Full text (22 theme words)
Clytemnestra's Binding Spell (Ag. 958-974). Laura McClure. Classical Journal. (Dec., 1996 - Jan., 1997), pp. 123-140 List themes Full text (17 theme words)
The Search for an "alter orbis" in Ovid's "Remedia Amoris". Mary H. T. Davisson. Phoenix. (Autumn - Winter, 1996), pp. 240-261 List themes Full text (16 theme words)
Heliodoros: Serious Intentions. Ken Dowden. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 267-285 List themes Full text (15 theme words)
Frankish Corinth: 1995. Charles K. Williams II, Orestes H. Zervos. Hesperia. (Jan. - Mar., 1996), pp. 1-55 List themes Full text (14 theme words)
'Amaze Your Friends!' Lucretius on Magnets. Richard Wallace. Greece & Rome. (Oct., 1996), pp. 178-187 List themes Full text (10 theme words)
Silent by Convention? Sophocles' Tekmessa. Kirk Ormand. American Journal of Philology. (Spring, 1996), pp. 37-64 List themes Full text (10 theme words)
Why Aristotle Needs Imagination. Victor Caston. Phronesis. (1996), pp. 20-55 List themes Full text (10 theme words)
The Non-Homeric Cypria. Jonathan S. Burgess. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974). (1996), pp. 77-99 List themes Full text (8 theme words)
Shaping the Rural Environment: Surveyors in Ancient Rome. Brian Campbell. Journal of Roman Studies. (1996), pp. 74-99 List themes Full text (8 theme words)
The Joint Role of Orality and Literacy in the Composition, Transmission, and Performance of the Homeric Texts: A Comparative View. Thérèse de Vet. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974). (1996), pp. 43-76 List themes Full text (7 theme words)
Demodocus, Odysseus, and the Trojan War in "Odyssey" 8. Clifford Broeniman. The Classical World. (Sep. - Oct., 1996), pp. 3-13 List themes Full text (7 theme words)
An Oscanism in Catullus 53. Michael Weiss. Classical Philology. (Oct., 1996), pp. 353-359 List themes Full text (7 theme words)
Macedonians and Mutiny: Discipline and Indiscipline in the Army of Philip and Alexander. Elizabeth Carney. Classical Philology. (Jan., 1996), pp. 19-44 List themes Full text (7 theme words)
Finances, Figures and Fiction. Walter Scheidel. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 222-238 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
How to Avoid Being a Komodoumenos. Alan H. Sommerstein. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 327-356 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
Sostratus Suppl. Hell. 733: A Lost, Possibly Catullan-Era Elegy on the Six Sex Changes of Tiresias. James J. O'Hara. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974). (1996), pp. 173-219 List themes Full text (6 theme words)
The "Missing Dimension" of C. Julius Caesar. Amiram Ezov. Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte. (1st Qtr., 1996), pp. 64-94 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
Virgil, Aeneid 5.835-6. David Sansone. Classical Quarterly. (1996), pp. 429-433 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
The ἐπελευστιϰὴ δύναμις in Aristo's Psychology of Action. George Boys-Stones. Phronesis. (1996), pp. 75-94 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
Shameless Interests: The Decent Scholarship of Indecency. Kenneth J. Reckford. American Journal of Philology. (Summer, 1996), pp. 311-314 List themes Full text (5 theme words)
Archaeology in Israel. Samuel R. Wolff. American Journal of Archaeology. (Oct., 1996), pp. 725-768 List themes Full text (5 theme words)