The Sublime Under Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004763845)

Patrick Glauthier is Associate Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on Latin literature of the Republic and early Empire, with a particular interest in the study of nature and the sublime. He is the author of The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna (Oxford University Press, 2025). In addition, he has published on a wide variety of Greek and Latin texts and authors, from Prometheus Bound and Aratus to Ennius, Vergil, Phaedrus, and the Flavian epicists.

Jeffrey P. Ulrich is Associate Professor of Classics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is the author of The Shadow of an Ass: Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (University of Michigan Press, 2024). In addition, he is the co-editor (with Kate Gilhuly) of Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature (Routledge, 2023) as well as a volume (with Carlo Caruso and Luca Graverini) called Ancient Narrative and Reader Response (Barkhuis, 2026). He is currently working on a separate book project on the co-evolution of genre and technologies for measuring time in Roman literature.

Contributors are: Sioban Chomse, Lauren Curtis, Maryam Forghani, Myrto Garani, Patrick Glauthier, Philip Hardie, Victoria Hodges, David Konstan, James I. Porter, Ralph Rosen, Jeffrey P. Ulrich, Gareth D. Williams