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Publius Nigidius Figulus, renowned senator-scholar of the late Roman Republic, wrote numerous works on a wide variety of topics, of which only 130 fragments survive. This is the first collection of academic articles on this mysterious figure, who not only was famous for his learning, but also reportedly engaged in a number of divinatory practices and went down in history as a âPythagorean and magusâ (thus St. Jerome). A group of international scholars provide a variety perspectives on Nigidiusâ politics, philosophy, mythography, biology, religious studies, linguistic thought, divinatory activities, and reception, throwing new light on this fascinating Roman polymath.
Katharina Volk, Professor of Classics at Columbia University, has published widely on Latin literature and Roman intellectual history, including most recently The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar (2021).
Contributors are: Giulio Celotto, Alessandro Garcea, Phillip Sidney Horky, Duncan MacRae, Daniele F. Maras, Jay Reed, Philip Thibodeau, Fabio Tutrone.
Contributors are: Giulio Celotto, Alessandro Garcea, Phillip Sidney Horky, Duncan MacRae, Daniele F. Maras, Jay Reed, Philip Thibodeau, Fabio Tutrone.
classical scholars, Latinists, philosophers, historians of philosophy, ancient historians, historians of science, Etruscologists, historical linguists, intellectual historians