Hanway’s Solitude in Imprisonment
With his book, Solitude in Imprisonment, Hanway made a large push for public attention with a much greater focus than his previous efforts.
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Hanway’s Rhetorical Learning
Hanway wrote with a keen sense for attracting public attention, and later, for influencing public policy.
Jonas Hanway, Pioneering Umbrella User
Jonas Hanway challenged oppressive gender norms and helped to break down the barriers against men using umbrellas.
Prisons As Schools of Crime
That prisons served as “seats,” “schools,” and “seminaries” of vice and crime was a central concern of prominent eighteenth-century English reformers.
Ancient Textual Sources for Evil-Communication Phrase
The Greek evil-communication phrase originated in classical Athens, was used by Greco-Roman authors and Paul of Tarsus, and analyzed by Latin patristic writers.
Menander’s Enduring Characters
Ovid, almost surely writing with knowledge and experience of the full corpus of Menander’s works, noted four enduring, common characters in Menander.
Economics of Sex in Ancient Greece
Sex in ancient Greece took a wide range of transactional forms.
The Evil-Communication Phrase in Menander’s Thais
Ancient para-textual material (Euthalian material) attribute the evil-communication phrase (1 Corinthians 15:33) to Menander’s play Thais.
Fragments of Menander’s Thais
Where to find English translations of surviving fragments of Menander’s Thais.
Thais Inspired Alexander and His Men to Burn Persepolis
According to a rhetorically and sexually sophisticated account in Diodorus of Sicily, Thais seduced Alexander and his men into burning Persepolis.