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A Misclassified Sherd from the Archive of Theopemptos and Zacharias (Ashm. D. O. 810)

Wed, 8 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A Misclassified Sherd from the Archive of Theopemptos and Zacharias (Ashm. D. O. 810)

The earliest evidence of large animal fossil collecting in mainland Greece at Bronze Age Mycenae

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Fossils of large animals have long influenced social practices and ideologies in human societies, including the fantastic myths of giants, heroes, and gods in ancient Greece. It has been estimated that purposeful fossil collecting in Greece began in the Late Bronze Age. However, previous archaeological finds of fossils from mainland Greece were not well documented in secure contexts that dated this far back in time. Herein, we present a newly recognized fossilized astragalus bone recently found in the legacy collections of the archaeological site of Mycenae. It was originally recovered by excavations in the 1970s and recently reanalyzed at the Mycenae Museum. Our analysis explored the available evidence of the find location, the state of fossil preservation, and the species represented. The results suggest that a fossilized rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus) astragalus was collected in the past, possibly from afar. Evidence indicates it was brought to Mycenae, where it...

THE ALTARS OF REPUBLICAN ROME AND LATIUM: SACRIFICE AND THE MATERIALITY OF ROMAN RELIGION

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

THE ALTARS OF REPUBLICAN ROME AND LATIUM: SACRIFICE AND THE MATERIALITY OF ROMAN RELIGION

The Date of the Proem of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica : New Epigraphic Evidence from Naples

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Date of the Proem of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica : New Epigraphic Evidence from Naples

The Freedman's Story: an Accusation of Witchcraft in the Social World of Early Imperial Roman Italy (CIL 11.4639 = ILS 3001)

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This article proposes a new reading of a late first-century c.e. inscribed dedication from Todi (Umbria) as an accusation of witchcraft, a rhetorical text aimed at propagating a particular story among the local community. Historical and anthropological studies of witchcraft accusations in other societies have emphasised how they can reveal tensions and anxieties that are normally not visible to the observer. By drawing on these studies and close examination of the language and content of the inscription, this article analyses an historical agent's experience of the social structure of early imperial Italy. The accusation is read as a freedman's response to his ambiguous position in a slave society, the ambivalent power of writing in Roman culture and the religious claims of Flavian imperial discourse.

Reading the Roman-Jewish treaty in 1 Maccabees 8: narrative, documents, and Hellenistic historical culture

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Reading the Roman-Jewish treaty in 1 Maccabees 8: narrative, documents, and Hellenistic historical culture

The Predictions of P. Nigidius Figulus

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Predictions of P. Nigidius Figulus

‘THE LAWS OF THE RITES AND OF THE PRIESTS’: VARRO AND LATE REPUBLICAN ROMAN SACRAL JURISPRUDENCE

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract:: Starting from Cicero's famous panegyric on Varro's Antiquitates and attempting to look past the image of the book provided by Augustine, this article proposes a new reading of that work and its place in late Republican intellectual culture. Cicero's specific claim that Varro opened up ‘the laws of the rites and of the priests’ for his readers allows us to contextualize the Antiquitates within a contemporary jurisprudence. The rise of Roman legal studies in general in the first century bc extended to the laws of the priestly colleges: there are signs of lively debate over their nature and the production of texts on the details of these iura. By re-reading the fragments from the Antiquitates alongside the evidence for this sacral-legal turn, we can gain both a new appreciation for the place of law (ius) in Varro's textualization of Roman religion and a fuller understanding of Republican legal thinking.

JONATHAN J. PRICE and KATELL BERTHELOT (EDS), THE FUTURE OF ROME: ROMAN, GREEK, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN VISIONS. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp ix + 315. isbn 9781108494816. £75.00.

Fri, 4 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

JONATHAN J. PRICE and KATELL BERTHELOT (EDS), THE FUTURE OF ROME: ROMAN, GREEK, JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN VISIONS. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp ix + 315. isbn 9781108494816. £75.00.

Ludibrium Paulinae: Historiography, Anti-Pagan Polemic, and Aristocratic Marriage in De excidio Hierosolymitano 2.4

Fri, 4 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Ludibrium Paulinae: Historiography, Anti-Pagan Polemic, and Aristocratic Marriage in De excidio Hierosolymitano 2.4

Religion and family politics in Hellenistic Kalaureia. Three new inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents three unpublished Hellenistic inscriptions from the sanctuary of Poseidon in Kalaureia (modern Poros): two found during archaeological excavations on the site and one recorded in a letter that was once part of Ioannis Kapodistrias’ official correspondence. All three inscriptions were dedicatory and carved on bases supporting portrait statues. Interestingly, they were offered to Poseidon by members of a single family already known from other documents in the Kalaureian epigraphic corpus. Remarkably, eight out of the 18 inscriptions discovered in Kalaureia make repeated references to men and women of this very family, which appears to have materially dominated Poseidon’s temenos and its environs during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC through the careful placement of portraits of its members. Most of these statues were conspicuously placed by the entrance to the sanctuary, though at least one of them was erected inside of the god’s temple. In our article, we present...

PSENKEBKIS, SON OF PAKEBKIS: NEW AND OLD DOCUMENTS FROM THE CENTER FOR THE TEBTUNIS PAPYRI*

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

PSENKEBKIS, SON OF PAKEBKIS: NEW AND OLD DOCUMENTS FROM THE CENTER FOR THE TEBTUNIS PAPYRI*

A New Greek Grammar for Students and Teachers

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This article reviews The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek, a major resource for learners and teachers that incorporates many insights from modern linguistics. While not a full replacement for older reference grammars of ancient Greek, it is particularly valuable for its up-to-date approach to topics such as verbal aspect and the tenses, particles, and word order.

Pompeii Artifact Life History Project: 2019 Field Season

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The 2019 season was the second of the second phase of the project, projected as a series of five study seasons (to be carried out 2018-2022) in which the team will focus on the documentation of the sets of artifacts recovered in the excavation of eight houses of small to medium size that occupy one specific block in the city of Pompeii - Regio I, Insula 11 (I.11) - with a view to elucidating patterns of household consumption in the middle and lower ranges of the socio-economic scale in the final period of the town’s occupation. (figs. 2-3) This block was excavated in its entirety under Vittorio Spinazzola during the period 1912-1913 and Amedeo Maiuri during the years 1952-1962, with most of the artifacts recovered in this work remaining unstudied and unpublished.

Two New Epigrams from Thebes

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Two New Epigrams from Thebes

From Document to History: Introduction

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From Document to History: Introduction

Text and Transmission

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The modern reader may encounter the Greek text of Euripides' surviving plays in many forms: in print either in complete editions or in separate editions of single plays published with translations or commentaries or both, and in digital form at well-known sites on the internet. When Euripides composed his plays, he is most likely to have written on a papyrus roll, although for rough drafts of small sections he could have used wax tablets, loose papyrus sheets, or pottery sherds. Although the papyrus rolls and early codices give us intriguing glimpses of the text of the Euripides plays up the seventh century CE, the surviving complete plays depend on the medieval textual tradition. For Euripides as for Aeschylus and Sophocles, Alexandrian scholars collected texts of as many plays as they could, comparing their titles to those known from the didascalic records. About seventy plays of Euripides never reached the medieval manuscript tradition.

Investigating Food Preparation Strategies Within the Pompeian Home in the First Century CE

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Between July and September of 2019, I conducted dissertation research supported by a grant from the Stahl Endowment of the Archaeological Research Facility investigating how the inhabitants of 1st-century CE Pompeii (Italy) prepared their daily meals and what factors influenced their choice of cooking techniques. Through an examination of the frequencies of particular types of vessels (bronze and ceramic) and utensils used for food and drink preparation recovered in the course of earlier excavations from a series of properties in Pompeii, my research reconsiders what constituted the standard batterie de cuisine within the Pompeian kitchen and how this could be modified according to the needs and preferences of the one stocking the shelves. I also attempt to reconstruct the various cooking methods employed and preferences exhibited by the cooks who used these cookwares through an analysis of use alterations (e.g. sooting/fire blackening, scratching, denting, etc.) exhibited by...

Late Antiquity and the Antiquarian

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Arnaldo Momigliano, the most influential modern student of antiquarianism, advanced the view that there was a late antique antiquarianism, but also lamented the absence of study of the history of antiquarianism in this period. Part of the challenge, however, has been to define the object of such a study. Rather than "finding" antiquarianism in late antiquity as Momigliano did, this article argues that a history that offers explicit analogies between late antique evidence and the avowed antiquarianism of early modern Europe allows a more self-conscious and critical history of late antique engagement with the past. The article offers three examples of this form of analysis, comparing practices of statue collecting in Renaissance Rome and the late RomanWest, learned treatises on the Roman army by Vegetius and Justus Lipsius, and feelings of attachment to a local past as a modern antiquarian stereotype and in a pair of letters to and from Augustine of Hippo.

Introduction

Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Ὁ οἶκος τοῦ τριηράρχου Ἀρχεδήμου καὶ ὁ δῆμος τῶν Αὐριδῶν: παρατηρήσεις σὲ ἕνα νέο ἀττικὸ ἐπιτύμβιο μνημεῖο

Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2007, a very tall funerary stele with a palmette and two rosettes in relief was discovered near the cemetery of Schistos, within the confines of the modern municipality of Perama. The inscribed stele was published in the Archaiologikon Deltion of 2009 by Mrs. Petritaki, who did not put forward any prosopographical identifications. Upon restoring the demotic of the two deceased as [Α]ὐρίδης, I tentatively submit that the stele commemorated two members of an Athenian propertied family of the 4th cent. B.C. and that the first deceased, Archedemos son of Archippos of Auridai, should be identified as the trierarch Archedemos of IG II2 1609. Besides I suggest, very hesitantly, that the new stele can be used to place the tiny deme of Auridai, whose location has been hitherto unknown, in the area of Perama, across Salamis. My tentative identification tallies well with the extant scholarly consensus that Auridai belonged to the coastal trittys of the tribe Hippothontis and receives...

TAPHOS. Tombs of Aidonia Preservation, Heritage, and explOration Synergasia

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

TAPHOS. Tombs of Aidonia Preservation, Heritage, and explOration Synergasia

The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project: 2013 Field Season

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Pompeii Artifact Life History Project: 2013 Field Season

Assimilation or Destruction: The Christianization of Late Antique Statuary

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Abstract

The recent destruction of Palmyra sent shockwaves across the globe, as the days of religious fanaticism and outbursts of iconoclasm had largely been forgotten by the collective memory. Yet, such acts of destruction have long been a point of discussion (and contention) among scholars. In the centuries following the conversion from paganism to Christianity the fate of the pagan statuary was left in the hands of a newly Christian society, and to the processes of Christianization. Processes which acted either to assimilate the statue into the newly Christian cultural milieu or destroy the statue for its pagan nature. This paper will present an overview of the various attitudes, and responses, towards pagan statuary in late antiquity, and the ways in which recent scholarship has interpreted the processes of Christianization with renewed enthusiasm. Using the Hearst Herakles as a case study for the practice of Christianization, this paper will...

The Prehistoric Origins and Early Historic Development of The Pan-Hellenic Sanctuary of Zeus:Excavation of Ancient Nemea, 2014 Season

Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Prehistoric Origins and Early Historic Development of The Pan-Hellenic Sanctuary of Zeus:Excavation of Ancient Nemea, 2014 Season

Epigraphy in Early Modern Greece

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In this paper, I study the emergence and advancement of epigraphic studies in roughly the first forty years following the foundation of the modern Greek state. The main protagonists - most of whom remain unknown outside Greece - are introduced, and their epigraphic output in its multiple manifestations is examined: the recording and analysis of inscriptions, the publication of articles and monographs, and the creation and protection of epigraphic collections. My study is contextualized by examining contemporary issues of ethnic identity and state-institution formation, as well as questions of interface amongst the Greek intellectuals themselves on the one hand, and between them and their European counterparts on the other. Ultimately, however, an attempt is made to understand the form and content that early epigraphic studies acquired in the Greek-speaking world, and the extent to which Greek scholarship contributed to the emerging field of epigraphy as it materialized with the...

The Würzburg Scholia on Euripides’ Phoenissae. A new edition of P.Würzb. 1 with translation and commentary

Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Restudy and re-edition of P.Würzburg 1, containing scholia on Euripides' Phoenissae (6th cent. CE), based on autopsy and new digital imaging (and collation of medieval scholia on the same passages). Contains sections as follows: Introduction; Acquisition and Imaging, Transcription (diplomatic transcription with papyrological apparatus, and interpreted transcription with apparatus criticus and translation); Commentary; Codex or loose sheet?; The nature of the P.Würzb. 1 Scholia.

Review of Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes by M. C. J. Putnam

Mon, 3 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes by M. C. J. Putnam

Review of Poets and Critics Read Vergil by S. Spence

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Review of Poets and Critics Read Vergil by S. Spence

Medieval Articulations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: From Lactantian Segmentation to Arnulfian Allegory

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Medieval Articulations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: From Lactantian Segmentation to Arnulfian Allegory

Review Article: Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide by F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Review Article: Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide by F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg

The Allegari of Pierre Bersuire: Interpretation and the Reductorium morale

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Allegari of Pierre Bersuire: Interpretation and the Reductorium morale

Review of The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems by J. Ziolkowski

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Review of The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems by J. Ziolkowski

The Metamorphosis of Sodom: The Ps-Cyprian 'De Sodoma' as an Ovidian Episode

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Metamorphosis of Sodom: The Ps-Cyprian 'De Sodoma' as an Ovidian Episode

What Was The Trojan Horse Made Of?: Interpreting Virgil’s Aeneid

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What Was The Trojan Horse Made Of?: Interpreting Virgil’s Aeneid

From the Medieval Historiography of Latin Literature to the Historiography of Medieval Latin Literature

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

From the Medieval Historiography of Latin Literature to the Historiography of Medieval Latin Literature

Poetic Reclamation and Goethe’s Venetian Epigrams

Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Poetic Reclamation and Goethe’s Venetian Epigrams

Review of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer by Ch. Baswell