Edited by Katharina Volk and based on a 2022 CAM conference, this volume is the first collection of academic articles on Publius Nigidius Figulus, the mysterious senator, scholar, and alleged “Pythagorean and magus” of the late Roman Republic, offering perspectives on his politics, philosophy, mythography, biology, religious studies, linguistic thought, divinatory activities, and reception.
Contributors: Katharina Volk, Philip Thibodeau, Daniele F. Maras, Duncan E. MacRae, Jay Reed, Phillip Sidney Horky, Alessandro Garcea, Fabio Tutrone, and Giulio Celotto.
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 47, Leiden: Brill, 2024.