Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica: Einleitung, Text und Kommentar zu den Saturnischen Versinschriften

Edition and commentary of the Latin verse inscription thought to be written in the so-called Saturnian verse

Die metrischen inschriften der römischen republik

Edited volume, containing a huge variety of cutting-edge contributions on the Roman verse inscriptions of the Republican period.

Burnt offerings and harpies at Nasidienus’ dinner-party (Horace, Satires 2.8)

Horace's last Satire describes a disastrous dinner party hosted by the gourmet Nasidienus, which is ruined by a collapsing tapestry. The food served afterwards is presented in a dismembered state. This chapter argues that several elements of the scene recall the greedy Harpies of Apollonius' Argonautica, and that Horace's friend Virgil shows the influence of this Satire in his own Harpy-scene in Aeneid 3. It also argues that the confusion in the middle of the dinner causes the food cooking in the kitchen to be neglected and burned. This explains the state of the subsequent courses, which Nasidienus has salvaged from a separate disaster backstage.