ABSTRACT
Building on some of the chapters in this volume, this part of the Afterthoughts charts the strategies through which each contributor dealt with Hesiod, Homer, Archilochus, Polybius, Lucan, Tacitus, and Luke. The aim of this section is twofold: on the one hand, exploring whether these historical figures can indeed be understood as Gramscian intellectuals; on the other, showing how the application of this category to the study of the ancient world may affect the way in which we understand the social function of the authors, thereby demonstrating that they also acted as educators, as mediators between the ruling classes and the subalterns, and indeed as interpreters of the social developments of their times.
