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  1. A cruel and pointless trick? False non-closure in Horace’s Odes

    Article • Dictynna, December 2023, OpenEdition

    Dr Robert Cowan

  2. Fractured Echoes

    Article • Museum Helveticum, January 2023, Schwabe AG

    Dr Robert Cowan

  3. THE THIRD LIFECYCLE OF PHILOKLEON IN ARISTOPHANES’ WASPS

    Article • Ramus, December 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  4. 13 Fault on Both Sides: Constructive Destruction in Varius’ Thyestes

    Article • October 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  5. The Phantom Senex

    Article • Mnemosyne, July 2022, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  6. The Last Shall Be First: πανύστατος in Apollonios and Homer

    Article • Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic Online, November 2021, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  7. A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO VERONA - (C.B.) Polt Catullus and Roman Comedy. Theatricality and Personal Drama in the Late Republic. Pp. xii + 215. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Cased, £75, US$99.99. ISBN: 978-1-108-83981-5.

    Article • The Classical Review, October 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  8. SINCE ORPHEUS WAS IN SHORT PANTS: REASSESSING OEAGRUS AT ARISTOPHANES, WASPS 579–80

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  9. Aias’ Critical Day

    Article • Symbolae Osloenses, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Robert Cowan

  10. Dismembering Cominius: Political Violence and Iambic Aggression in Catullus 108

    Article • Antichthon, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  11. AN UGLY COW WITH BIG FEET: SEX, METRE AND GENRE IN GEORGICS 3

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  12. Glossing theGeorgics: Valerius Flaccus onlabor improbus

    Article • Classical Philology, October 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  13. When Mothers Turn Bad

    Article • June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  14. A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode

    Article • Antichthon, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  15. Don’t Panic at this Hispanic: Politics and Palindromes in Georgics 3

    Article • Mnemosyne, March 2019, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  16. Sideshadowing Actium: Counterfactual History in Lollius’Naumachia(Horace,Epistles1.18)

    Article • Antichthon, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  17. You Too: The Narratology of Apostrophe and Second-Person Narrative in Virgil’s Georgics

    Article • Arethusa, January 2018, Project Muse

    Dr Robert Cowan

  18. BLOATED BUSKINS: SENECA AND THE SATIRIC IDEA OF TRAGEDY

    Article • Ramus, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  19. OVID, VIRGIL AND THE ECHOING ROCKS OF THE TWO SCYLLAS

    Article • The Cambridge Classical Journal, March 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  20. HOW'S YOUR FATHER? A RECURRENT BILINGUAL WORDPLAY IN MARTIAL

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, September 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  21. 240 bce and All That: The Romanness of Republican Tragedy

    Article • January 2015, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  22. PURCHASING PRIAM: BILINGUAL WORDPLAY AT PLAUTUSBACCHIDES976–7

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, November 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  23. THE SMELL OF SOPHOKLES' SALMONEUS: TECHNOLOGY, SCATOLOGY, METATHEATRE

    Article • Ramus, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  24. Fingering Cestos: Martial’s Catullus’ Callimachus

    Article • January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  25. 13 My Family and Other Enemies: Argonautic Antagonists and Valerian Villains

    Article • January 2014, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  26. Cinna’s Trouser Snake – or the Biter Bit? Alternative Interpretations of Cinna fr. 12FRP

    Article • Antichthon, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  27. SHADOW OF A DOUBT: A PHANTOM CAESURA IN HORACE <em>ODES</em> 4.14

    Article • The Classical Journal, January 2014, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc (CAMWS)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  28. OF GODS, MEN AND STOUT FELLOWS: CICERO ON SALLUSTIUS'EMPEDOCLEA(Q. FR.2.10[9].3)

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  29. Back Out of Hell

    Article • May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  30. Fear and Loathing in Lucretius: Latent Tragedy and Anti-Allusion in DRN 3

    Article • March 2013, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  31. Haven’t I Seen You before Somewhere? Optical Allusions in Republican Tragedy

    Article • January 2013, Brill

    Dr Robert Cowan

  32. Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Robert Cowan

  33. Statius, Publius Papinius

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Robert Cowan

  34. Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, Gaius

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Robert Cowan

  35. Lucan (Annaeus Lucanus, Marcus)

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Dr Robert Cowan

  36. Alas, Poor Io! Bilingual Wordplay in Horace Epode 11

    Article • Mnemosyne, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  37. Oxford World's Classics: Horace: Satires and Epistles

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  38. Satires

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  39. Epistles

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  40. Book 2

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  41. Book 1

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  42. Book 1

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  43. Book 2

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  44. 1

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  45. 2

    Article • April 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  46. Passing Over Cephisos' Grandson: Literal Praeteritio and the Rhetoric of Obscurity in Ovid Met. 7.350-93

    Article • Ramus, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  47. Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides’ Bacchae

    Article • September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Cowan

  48. Virtual Epic: Counterfactuals, Sideshadowing, and the Poetics of Contingency in the Pvnica

    Article • January 2010, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  49. VIRGIL'S CUCUMBER AGAIN: COLUMELLA 10.378–92

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  50. THRASYMENNUS' WANTON WEDDING: ETYMOLOGY, GENRE, AND VIRTUS IN SILIUS ITALICUS, PUNICA

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  51. Starring Nero as Nero: Poetry, Role-Playing and Identity in Juvenal 8.215-21

    Article • Mnemosyne, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan

  52. NOTHING TO DO WITH PHAEDRA? ARISTOPHANES, THESMOPHORIAZUSAE 497–501

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, April 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  53. THE LAND OF KING MANE. A PUN AT HORACE, ODES1.22.15

    Article • The Classical Quarterly, May 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Robert Cowan

  54. Absurdly Scythian Spaniards: Silius, Horace and the Concani

    Article • Mnemosyne, January 2006, De Gruyter

    Dr Robert Cowan