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Full-Text Articles in Classics
Roman Law And The Legal World Of The Romans, James G. Keenan
Roman Law And The Legal World Of The Romans, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review of Andrew. M Riggsby's book, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans.
Fiscalité Et Société En Égypte Byzantine, James G. Keenan
Fiscalité Et Société En Égypte Byzantine, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This large volume gathers a fraction of Jean Gascou's scholarly output, including only those papers concerned with the themes announced by its title.
Papyrology On The Threshold Of A New Millennium, James G. Keenan
Papyrology On The Threshold Of A New Millennium, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Papyrologists have met internationally as a group since 1930. Following various complications, including a meeting planned for Vienna for 1939 but never held and, of course, the devastating intrusion of World War II, a custom of triennial meetings was established. Recent meetings have been larger than the early ones, with more participants, more papers, and correspondingly bigger proceedings (cf. BASP 39 [2002] 213-227 on the 1998 congress in Florence). At Vienna in 2001 there were 281 registered participants. The program featured nine specially invited keynote speeches, 126 standard-length papers, and three workshops (with fourteen workshop presenters in all).
Egypt’S “Special Place”, James G. Keenan
Egypt’S “Special Place”, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Paper questioning scholarly views on Egypt's peculiarity in the Greco-Roman world.
The Athenian Calendar Of Sacrifices: A New Fragment From The Athenian Agora, Laura Gawlinski
The Athenian Calendar Of Sacrifices: A New Fragment From The Athenian Agora, Laura Gawlinski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Presented here is the editio princeps of a new fragment of the late-5th-century b.c. Athenian calendar of sacrifices. The fragment, Agora 17577, was discovered during excavations conducted in the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies. Inscribed on both faces (Face A: 403-399 b.c., Face B: 410-404 b.c.), it is associated with, but does not join, the group of fragments of Athenian legal inscriptions often referred to as the Law Code of Nikomachos. The text provides important additional evidence for the form of the calendar and the manner of its publication, and casts new light on broader issues …
Journey Of Theophanes: Travel, Business, And Daily Life In The Roman East, James G. Keenan
Journey Of Theophanes: Travel, Business, And Daily Life In The Roman East, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 1906 H. Bresslau published in APF 3 (pp. 168-172) a Strasbourg papyrus containing a letter of recommendation in Latin (now CPL 262) in favor of one Theophanes, a scholastikos from the city of Hermopolis in the Thebaid. Years later this letter found a much damaged twin in a papyrus housed in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, providing the essential link in what is now referred to as “the Theophanes archive.” The Rylands papyrus, P.Ryl. 4.623 (now CPL 263), was published in 1952 along with 34 other documents that make up the archive’s major portion (P.Ryl. 4.616-651; perhaps add 607). …
Landscape And Memory: Al-Nabulsi's Ta'rikh Al-Fayyum, James G. Keenan
Landscape And Memory: Al-Nabulsi's Ta'rikh Al-Fayyum, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Uthman b. Ibrahim al-Nabulsi composed his description of Egypt's Fayyum province in the 1240s A.D. His Ta'rikh al-Fayyum starts with nine summary chapters followed by a massive tenth chapter, a geographical gazetteer arranged alphabetically by villages. The text is predominately concerned with the author's present day, leaving no doubt the region's landscape had changed significantly since late antiquity. Almost all the village names were Arabic. The people had been Arabized—and Islamicized: only small Christian pockets remained. The sacred landscape had been correspondingly reconfigured. Additionally, the Fayyum, which had experienced a shrinkage of arable land and a loss of villages in …
The Wolf And The Lion: Synesius’ Egyptian Sources, Jacqueline Long
The Wolf And The Lion: Synesius’ Egyptian Sources, Jacqueline Long
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One of the few established facts of Synesius' early career is that he pursued the higher education available at Alexandria. The lifelong friendships he formed there suggest the importance this period always retained for him. Less attractively, perhaps, so does the intellectual smugness displayed in collegiate sniffs at rival Athens (Ep. 56[54].136) or in apt interpolations of the classics he read aloud to friends (Dion 62A-D ). It is no surprise that, as Cyrene's ambassador to the court of Arcadius, Synesius sought an intellectual approach to his city's practical advantage. He wooed one official, Paeonius, with the gift of a …
P.Lond. V 1876 Desc.: Which Landowner?, James G. Keenan
P.Lond. V 1876 Desc.: Which Landowner?, James G. Keenan
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H.I. Bell described P.Lond. V 1876 as follows: Inv. No. 1626 B. Acquired in 1906. Provenance unknown. 4 1/2 in. x 3 1/8 in. 5th (?) cent. In an upright cursive hand, along the fibers. Probably folded right to left. Fragment from the left side of a document of uncertain character, but probably a lease. One party was Φλ(αύιος) [sic] Άπι[, apparently a court official (1. 2, πᾳλατίνου, perhaps but not necessarily miswritten for παλατίου); and Υεουχοὖντι ἐν[αὗθα in l. 2 recalls the Fl. Apion documents from Oxhyrhynchus; but the hand suggests an earlier date than theirs, and in them …
Deserted Villages: From The Ancient To The Medieval Fayyum, James G. Keenan
Deserted Villages: From The Ancient To The Medieval Fayyum, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article, originally delivered as a paper at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, is a development of twin papers given by Roger Bagnall and me at the xxe Congres International des Etudes Byzantines in Paris, 19-25 August 2001, as part of a "Table ronde" on villages in the Byzantine world. On that occasion, we were responsible for Egyptian villages, he for villages as evidenced (mainly) in the Greek papyri, I for the medieval period based on al-Nabulsi's description of Egypt's Fayyum Province, Ta 'rikh al-Fayyiim (c. 1245 A.D.). Thematically, we had agreed to explore such topics …
'Die Binnenwanderung’ In Byzantine Egypt, James G. Keenan
'Die Binnenwanderung’ In Byzantine Egypt, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
I first met John Oates in the fall semester 1966 at Yale. I was a second-year graduate student, he a junior faculty member just back from a year in England during which his projects included what was to become his famous article “A Rhodian Auction Sale of a Slave Girl” (JEA 55 [1969] 191–210). From the ancient history seminar that he conducted that semester came the ideas that would later be developed in the dissertation I wrote under Bradford Welles’ direction. Unless I am mistaken, and through no merit of my own, but sheer good fortune, I own the distinction …
Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski
Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David W. Maher, John F. Makowski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Roman arithmetic is a perennially troubling subject for both classicists and mathematicians. Scholars universally comment on the difficulty posed by Roman alphabetical notation both in expressing simple figures and in doing written calculations. For example, Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Weaver with exasperation ask, "How ... can anyone do any arithmetic with DCCCLXXXVIII, the Roman equivalent of 888?," and Florian Cajori concludes that the Romans must have resorted to the abacus in order to multiply a number like 723 (DCCXXIII) by 364 (CCCLXIV).' Yet our sources, literary and inscriptional, indicate that the Romans were capable of highly sophisticated calculations, and, of …
J. Henderson, Aristophanes Volumes I-Iii (Loeb Classical Library 2000), John F. Makowski
J. Henderson, Aristophanes Volumes I-Iii (Loeb Classical Library 2000), John F. Makowski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is a book review of Jeffrey Henderson's work on Aristophanes Volumes I-III.
The Mediterranean Before Modernity, James G. Keenan
The Mediterranean Before Modernity, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
"The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History" by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell is reviewed.
Review: Sexual Symmetry: Love In The Ancient Novel And Related Genres, John F. Makowski
Review: Sexual Symmetry: Love In The Ancient Novel And Related Genres, John F. Makowski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Of the many recent books generated by the revived interest in the ancient novel, Konstan's is the most ambitious and the most outstanding both for its scope and brilliance of insight. Often employing an anthropological approach and informed by the theories of Foucault, the book makes an important contribution to the cultural history of the ancient world.
Vaballathus And Zenobia (270-272 A.D.), Jacqueline Long
Vaballathus And Zenobia (270-272 A.D.), Jacqueline Long
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Palmyra was a trading community near the margin of the Roman and Persian empires. In A.D. 270-272, under the leadership of Zenobia, the dowager of its ruling house, and in the name of her young son Vaballathus, Palmyrene forces took control of Roman Egypt, Arabia, and parts of Asia Minor. Although the Palmyrenes' actions were not (we believe) originally seditious in intent, Aurelian regarded the "Palmyrene Revolt" as a serious threat to his sovereignty. He campaigned personally against the Palmyrenes, and he ranked his victory over them along with his recovery of the "Gallic Empire." He reversed the largest extent …
George Sphrantzes: A Brief Review, James G. Keenan
George Sphrantzes: A Brief Review, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
When in 1786 and 1787 at Lausanne, Switzerland, Edward Gibbon was composing the sixth and final volume of 1he History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he had at his disposal for the famous chapter on the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 a mere handful of sources. For the core of his narrative he drew upon three Greek works: Doukas' Turko-Byzantine History; Laonikos Chalkondylas' Turkish History; the larger of the two chronicles ascribed to the man now usually referred to as George Sphrantzes (Gibbon's Phranza); and upon the letter composed in Latin and addressed to Pope …
More From The Archive Of The Descendants Of Eulogius, Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan
More From The Archive Of The Descendants Of Eulogius, Todd M. Hickey, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In P. Oxy, published in 1924, Grenfell and Hunt included a series of documents that seemed to derive from a small archive preserved by the descendants of a palatine official (παλατἷνος) named Flavius Eulogius: P. Oxy. XVI 1876, 1891, 1958-62, and 1994. Grenfell and Hunt reported that all these texts (except 1961) were found together; the circumstances of the find were unfortunately not reported.
Contributions To Columbia Papyri X, Jacqueline Long
Contributions To Columbia Papyri X, Jacqueline Long
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This urgent, secretive letter evidently refers to a planned financial coup. It is the first document to evidence a precautionary approach to the idios logos. The agitated writer's vocabulary, and a few rhetorical flourishes, also deserve notice.
The De Ira: Seneca's Satire Of Roman Law, William E. Wycislo
The De Ira: Seneca's Satire Of Roman Law, William E. Wycislo
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Dramatic Prologue Of Plato's Symposium As Introduction To The Dialogue's Philosophy, James Allen Kellerman
The Dramatic Prologue Of Plato's Symposium As Introduction To The Dialogue's Philosophy, James Allen Kellerman
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Aphrodito Murder Mystery: A Return To The Scene Of The Crimes, James G. Keenan
The Aphrodito Murder Mystery: A Return To The Scene Of The Crimes, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Early in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (Chapter III), Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, M.D., who have only recently met and begun to cohabit, find themselves in what becomes their familiar mode of conveyance, a hansom cab, "driving furiously for the Brixton Road" and thence to the scene of an apparent crime at 3 Lauriston Gardens. Watson recalls a morning whose glumness matched his own dismal mood, an edgy mood that was further exasperated by a Sherlock Holmes who, "in the best of spirits," ... "prattled away" about fiddles and violins: "You don't seem to give much thought …
Literary Allusion And Myth In The Five Canonical Ancient Greek Novels, Edmund P. Cueva
Literary Allusion And Myth In The Five Canonical Ancient Greek Novels, Edmund P. Cueva
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Remarks On Some Tebtunis Papyri In Sb Xviii, James G. Keenan
Remarks On Some Tebtunis Papyri In Sb Xviii, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Twelve Tebtunis papyri from the University of California collection were included in Elbert Wall's 1983 Duke dissertation, New Texts in the Economy of Tebtynis. Previously accessible as P. Tebt. Wall on CD Rom 6 of the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, the texts were recently printed in hard copy in SB XVIII under numbers 1382-1393. I first saw the SB texts during a visit to Leuven in March 1995 and realized that they included some papyri that I had worked on during my years in Berkeley, 1968-1974. They were to be part of a lukewarmly projected fifth volume of Tebtunis …
The Poetics Of Thucydides' Excursus On Stasis: Iii. 82-84, Philip S. Peek
The Poetics Of Thucydides' Excursus On Stasis: Iii. 82-84, Philip S. Peek
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Review: Lucan: Civil War, John F. Makowski
Review: Lucan: Civil War, John F. Makowski
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is the second major translation of Lucan to appear in the English-speaking world, following the publication in 1988 of P. F. Widdows' verse rendition by Indiana University Press. At the time this reviewer, like others, acclaimed Widdows' Lucan as excellent, but now here is Braund's version, also in verse and also of high quality. Comparison of Widdows and Braund is inevitable and indeed imperative, especially for the purchaser with an eye to economy who will have to decide whether to spend $47.50 for Widdows or the astonishing sum of almost twice that much for Braund.
The Will Of Gaius Longinus Castor, James G. Keenan
The Will Of Gaius Longinus Castor, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The document under discussion has recently been called "one of the very few examples of pure Roman law found in Egypt." It is the will of Gaius Longinus Castor, resident of the Egyptian village of Karanis, veteran of the praetorian fleet of Misenum, who died in the year 194. The will itself provides a freeze frame, a still point in time in Longinus Castor's life; but it also allows for some imaginative extension in space and time. The results are a brief, outline biography of the testator with some speculation on his career and family, and on the special objectives …
Review Of Das Amt Des Apaitetes In Aegypten, James G. Keenan
Review Of Das Amt Des Apaitetes In Aegypten, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is a book review of Bernhard Palme's " Das Amt des Apaitetes in Aegypten."
Socratic Elenchos And Maieusis In Euripides' Medea, Laurie K. Haight
Socratic Elenchos And Maieusis In Euripides' Medea, Laurie K. Haight
Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Roman Criminal Law And Legal Narrative In The Neronian Books Of The Annals Of Tacitus, John Warren Thomas
Roman Criminal Law And Legal Narrative In The Neronian Books Of The Annals Of Tacitus, John Warren Thomas
Dissertations
No abstract provided.