David Dusenbury

David Dusenbury

DAVID L. DUSENBURY (1979) is a visiting lecturer at Loyola University, Maryland, and the author, most recently, of Platonic Legislations: An Essay on Legal Critique in Ancient Greece (2017). He is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and is currently writing a book entitled The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (2019).

‘THE CAGE OF THE VISIBLE’: GYÖRGY SPIRÓ’S CAPTIVITY

“The cage of the visible”: György Spiró’s Captivity* Captivity’s captive is the son of a Jewish silk-importer in first-century Rome, and a freeborn Roman citizen. A petty bourgeois, in effect. His civil name is Gaius Theodorus, but he is known to intimates – and to us – by the Hebrew name