New publication by Dr. Dylan James!

Congratulations to HCMH’s post-doc, Dr. Dylan James, on his article titled “Translatio Fortunae: Curtius Rufus’ Alexander, Livy’s Hannibal, and Intertextuality”, forthcoming in the journal Classical Philology.
Livy’s influence on Curtius Rufus is long established, but this relationship has mostly escaped recent critical re-evaluation of intertextuality. This article aims to jumpstart renewed interest by exploring two allusions to Livy’s Book 21 in Curtius’ Book 7. I argue that these intertexts contribute to the characterisation of Alexander in terms of his clementia and fortuna by alluding to Hannibal’s different trajectories with respect to those virtues. I also suggest that, through his engagement with fortuna in Livy’s Third Decade, Curtius is responding to contemporary debates about the ancient notion of transference of fortuna between empires.