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The Sublime Under Empire expands the range of classical authors, genres, and phenomena that can be analysed through the lens of the sublime. Building on recent scholarship that has demonstrated the concept’s dynamic versatility, the twelve essays that comprise the present volume locate the sublime in the context of empire, and explore, from a multiplicity of perspectives, the interconnectedness of sublimity and imperium. Focusing on Greek and Latin texts from the first century BCE to the second century CE, contributors examine how the sublime intersects with philosophy, politics, the study of nature, travel literature, and even comedy and satire. The volume concludes with meditations on the influence of this imperial discourse on later revivals of the sublime, especially at moments of political and/or cultural upheaval in the 18th–20th centuries.
Price: $151.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004763845
Format: Hardcover
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