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Channels Of Imperishable Fire: The Christian Mystical Allegories Of Dioscorus Of Aphrodito, Clement A. Kuehn
Channels Of Imperishable Fire: The Christian Mystical Allegories Of Dioscorus Of Aphrodito, Clement A. Kuehn
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Herakleia Trachinia In The Archidamian War, Mychal P. Angelos
Herakleia Trachinia In The Archidamian War, Mychal P. Angelos
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Papyrology And Byzantine Historiography, James G. Keenan
Papyrology And Byzantine Historiography, James G. Keenan
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Egypt of late antiquity, often referred to as Byzantine Egypt, was for years the outcast of papyrological studies. It is only recently, partly in the wake of studies on the reign of Diocletian and his fourth-century successors, that the keen interest of papyrologists and historians in Egypt of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods has carried over into the later period. Perhaps responsible for the old indifference was, as Remondon suggested a generation ago, the scholar's prejudice against those periods that are judged decadent; or, to put the matter as Johan Huizinga did in the preface to his 1919 classic, The …
E. Fantham, Lucan. De Bello Civili (Cambridge 1992), John F. Makowski
E. Fantham, Lucan. De Bello Civili (Cambridge 1992), John F. Makowski
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This is a book review of Elaine Fantham's Lucan: De Bello Civili, II.
A Constantinople Loan, A.D. 541, James G. Keenan
A Constantinople Loan, A.D. 541, James G. Keenan
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Nearly all the Greek papyri from Egypt concern the people of upcountry villages and towns--Syene, Aphrodito, Hermopolis, Oxyrhynchus, to mention several of the most important late antique sites. Rarely do the papyri broach the "exchangist world" of Fernand Braudel or S. D. Goitein with their thriving cities, long-distance trade, and commerical banking.2 Alexandria finds relatively frequent mention in the papyri, but cities beyond Egypt are rarely mentioned, and in the late antique period even the imperial capital, Constantinople, comes into play only a handful of times. No doubt this is because the ancient economy, and Egypt's most especially, was founded …
Terms Of Literary Comment In The Epigrams Of Martial, Arthur L. Spisak
Terms Of Literary Comment In The Epigrams Of Martial, Arthur L. Spisak
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Dating An Ill-Fated Journey: Synesius, Ep. 5, Jacqueline Long
Dating An Ill-Fated Journey: Synesius, Ep. 5, Jacqueline Long
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Synesius passed his life as one of the most important men in Cyrene. He was born into a wealthy family that claimed descent from the founding Heraclids (e.g. Catast. 303A). On one occasion he was chosen as Cyrene's ambassador to the imperial court at Constantinople. During this period the revolts of Tribigild and Gamnas toppled Eutropius from seemingly absolute power behind Arcadius' throne; Synesius watched national politics unfold from a distinctive perspective, which he recorded in his De Regno and De Providentia. They are unquestionably important historical sources, but interpretation of them is complicated by the erudition and Neoplatonic philosophy …
Review: Senecan Drama And Stoic Cosmology, John F. Makowski
Review: Senecan Drama And Stoic Cosmology, John F. Makowski
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This is a difficult book, at times distracting in style and organization and at others brimming with original insights. The dust-cover announces a double goal: to explore stoic cosmology in the tragedies of Seneca and to relate these dramas to subsequent European theater. The book is in two parts. The first, perplexingly entitled "The Canon at Risk" (what canon? what risk?), reviews earlier studies of stoicism in the plays of Seneca, while the second analyzes in the tragedies themselves elements of stoic cosmology such as sumpatheia, krasis, and ekpyrosis. Rosenmeyer provides a needed balance to earlier studies that have focused …
Review: One Hundred Years Of Homosexuality: And Other Essays On Greek Love, John F. Makowski
Review: One Hundred Years Of Homosexuality: And Other Essays On Greek Love, John F. Makowski
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This, the most significant study of Greek homosexuality since the pioneering work of K. J. Dover, does not aim for an exhaustive or systematic treatment of Greek love but rather to formulate a theory of the erotics of male homosexuality and to apply it to a selected number of aspects in literature, philosophy, and Athenian social life. Accordingly, part one presents a lucid exposition of the two currently competing theories of homosexuality, essentialism and constructionism. Halperin is firmly in the camp of the latter and argues forcefully that homosexuality, and indeed all sexuality, is a social construct rather than an …
Review: Lucan's Civil War, John F. Makowski
Review: Lucan's Civil War, John F. Makowski
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On all counts this translation of the Pharsalia is a resounding success and will, one predicts, stand as the definitive English version. Readers discontented with Robert Graves' idiosyncratic and often misleading prose translation will welcome this verse edition by Widdows with its readability, accuracy, and, above all, its poetic sensibility. Lucan ardens and concitatus in the original is easy to make flat and ponderous in English, but in Widdows' hands he retains his fire and momentum. For one thing, Widdows' choice of meter, the English hexameter, works remarkably well at capturing the nuances of the original. For another, the translator's …
Iocosus Maecenas: Patron As Writer, John F. Makowski
Iocosus Maecenas: Patron As Writer, John F. Makowski
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Maecenas as discoverer and supporter of the literary luminaries of his day achieved a name virtually synonymous with patronage. Less well known, however, even to many students of Augustan literature is Maecenas, prose stylist and poet. Explicably, the obscurity of his reputation as a writer is due inlarge part to the failure of most of his writing to survive. but fortunately the handful of fragments still extant is enough to afford an intriguing glimpse into one of the most colorful and contradictory figures of the Augustan Age. Though scanty, the nine fragments of prose and eight of poetry provide a …
Études Sur La Correspondance De Synésios De Cyrène By Denis Roques, Jacqueline Long
Études Sur La Correspondance De Synésios De Cyrène By Denis Roques, Jacqueline Long
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Chronology is a science of minute questions and seemingly picayune distinctions, compared to the grander concerns of history, literature, or the personality of an ancient author. But as Roques emphasizes, interpretive problems should be addressed within a solid objective framework, such as chronology establishes (pp. 6, 235). This volume presents studies that R. carried out preliminary to his Syne'sios de Cyrene et la Cyrenaique du Bas-Empire (Paris, 1987). In fact Synesius' writings are not limited in significance to himself and Cyrenaica: they illuminate literary, philosophical, religious, political, and historical issues of the later Roman Empire as a whole. R.'s thorough, …
Evidence For The Byzantine Army In The Syene Papyri, James G. Keenan
Evidence For The Byzantine Army In The Syene Papyri, James G. Keenan
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For more than seventy-five years, the standard work on the Roman army in Byzantine Egypt has been Jean Maspero's Organisation militaire de l'Egypte byzantine. Maspero's book was published in 1912, when the contents of the Syene papyri were as yet imperfectly known. At that time, Maspero had available for study of the Syene papyri: one London facsimile; an edition and reduced facsimile of a second London piece; one fully edited Munich papyrus; Wenger's "preliminary report" (Vorbericht) and its Munich papyrus extracts; and some additional information about the London papyri through correspondence with their assigned editor, Harold Bell.
Georges Depeyrot, Le Bas-Empire Romain: Économie Et Numismatique (284-491), Collection Des Hesperides (Paris:Ditions Errance 1987), Jacqueline Long
Georges Depeyrot, Le Bas-Empire Romain: Économie Et Numismatique (284-491), Collection Des Hesperides (Paris:Ditions Errance 1987), Jacqueline Long
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This is a book review of Georges Depeyot's "Le Bas-Empire Romain. Economie et Nusmatique (284-491)."
Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan And His Heroes, John F. Makowski
Review: Momentary Monsters: Lucan And His Heroes, John F. Makowski
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Laughter in Lucan? Johnson takes the laughing matter of Lucan seriously, and with mordant wit and cynical humor presents an original and provocative reading of the Pharsalia as Lucan's black comedy-full of hilarity, farce, high camp, and cartoon-like caricature sardonic laughter at the dread seriousness of what Rome had become under Nero with its loss of freedom and pessimism unto despair.
Pastoralism In Roman Egypt, James G. Keenan
Pastoralism In Roman Egypt, James G. Keenan
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The communications of the IX International Congress of Economic History were recently (1988) published in a volume entitled Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity.1 The volume's papers very much follow, or anticipate, Deborah Hobson's advice to papyrologists in her essay, "Towards a Broader Context for the Study of Greco-Roman Egypt," Echos du Monde Classique 32, n.s. 7 (1988) 353-63. They rely as far as they can on literary and archaeological evidence, but where this fails (and even where it doesn't), they turn to the riches of comparative history and ethnology. Works prominently cited with praise include A.M. Khazanov's brilliant study of …
Roman Criminal Law In A Berlin Papyrus Codex (Bgu Iv 1024–1027), James G. Keenan
Roman Criminal Law In A Berlin Papyrus Codex (Bgu Iv 1024–1027), James G. Keenan
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Of the statuary that has survived from Egypt's ancient dynasties, a familiar pose, whose prototype dates back to the Old Kingdom, is that of the scribe, sitting cross-legged with a papyrus roll spread open between his knees. Through Egypt's Ptolemaic and into its Roman period, although the scribe's position and posture may have changed, his use of the papyrus roll remained as before. But, beginning in the second century of Roman rule in Egypt, a new book form, the codex, identical in general design to the modern book, began to be developed and its use began to spread. Papyrus continued …
Review: Seneca: Moral Epistles, John F. Makowski
Review: Seneca: Moral Epistles, John F. Makowski
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Here is a handy selection of forty of Seneca's most important Epistulae Morales presented in an attractive format with running and end vocabularies, notes, and a brief introduction to the author's life, thought, and style. Designed as "a rapid reader", the volume is geared toward the college student and provides a well chosen sampling of letters illuminating Senecan epistolary technique, late Roman Stoicism, and the social history of the Neronian age. The book is very different in tone and purpose from Summers' edition of 1910 and does not mean to provide a commentary of either depth or sophistication. One will …
A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan
A Christian Letter From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan
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The papyrus edited below, P.Mich. inv. 3999, was purchased for the University of Michigan in 1925. It belongs to lot IV of the Nahman papyri, all of which come from Oxyrhynchus. The papyrus measures (roughly) 12 cm. (width) by 25 cm. (height). Margins are small at top (0.8 cm.) and (until line 19) at left (0.5 cm., discounting the vertical strip whose partial remains appear opposite lines 8-13). The prayer (lines 20-24) below the letter's body is indented at the left ca. 2.5 cm. inward from the mu of mhd°no!, the first word in line 19 (therefore ca. 3.0 cm. …
P. Cair. Masp. Ii 67135, James G. Keenan
P. Cair. Masp. Ii 67135, James G. Keenan
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The rent receipt, P.Cair.Masp. II 67135, was revised and re-edited by Gertrude Malz, Studi in onore diA. Calderini e R. Paribeni, II, pp. 351-52. The revision was based on parallel texts in P.Cair.Masp. III 67327 and PSI VIII 935 and facilitated by plate II at the back of P.Cair.Masp. II. Unfortunately, an important fragment of the papyrus as reproduced in the plate was positioned too high, see plate (a) below. It is of course possible visually to reposition the fragment when attempting to compare the text--as Malz did with good effect, and as I myself tried when proposing further revisions …
A New Solidus Of Julian Caesar, Jacqueline Long
A New Solidus Of Julian Caesar, Jacqueline Long
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This coin is the first Constantinopolitan issue in a precious metal for Julian as Caesar. As such, it poses certain questions: first its authenticity, then its date and significance.
Tacitus, Roman Wills And Political Freedom, James G. Keenan
Tacitus, Roman Wills And Political Freedom, James G. Keenan
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In a well-known letter to his friend Rufinus (8.18), Pliny the Younger opens with, and then develops, a remark about the will of one Domitius Tullus. There seems to have been a popular belief (quod creditur vulgo), formulated as an aphorism, to the effect that "men's wills are a mirror of their characters" (testamenta hominum speculum esse morum). But Tullus, a man of low repute who had assembled his estate by shady practices and who had tempted the legacy hunters, turns out to have made a fine will, characterized by pietas toward his adopted daughter whom he named heir, by …
Confidential Business: P. Col. Inv. 316, Jacqueline Long
Confidential Business: P. Col. Inv. 316, Jacqueline Long
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The papyrus is a medium buff color. Almost complete, the page misses its lower right corner (approximately 7 x 3.5 cm. along the margins), and grows increasingly worn and gappy towards the bottom edge. It was folded twice vertically about 4 cm. In from the margins: the righthand fold is particularly worn. No horizontal fold is evident. The papyrus is written along the fibers on both sides, having been rotated 90° for the address on the back. The front looks neat and professional. The top margin measures 2cm., the left .5 cm. and the right 1 cm.; continuation-strokes keep the …
Review: Ancient Fiction: The Novel In The Graeco-Roman World, John F. Makowski
Review: Ancient Fiction: The Novel In The Graeco-Roman World, John F. Makowski
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In this book the author of Eros Sophistes hopes to afford laymen an introduction to the ancient novelist as serious artist, while to specialists he addresses technical discussions about the novel's origins and its relation to far older texts as well as about the impact of recently discovered papyri and cuneiform tablets upon our understanding of the genre's development. It is difficult to write a study which will speak simultaneously to both neophyte and scholar, doubly difficult when the subject matter until recently has been neglected even by the professional, who tended to assign Longus, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus to …
Georgic 3.41: A Vergilian Wordplay At The Expense Of Maecenas, John F. Makowski
Georgic 3.41: A Vergilian Wordplay At The Expense Of Maecenas, John F. Makowski
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Vergil mentions Maecenas by name in the opening lines of each book of the Georgics (1.2, 2.41, 3.41, and 4.2). While there may or may not be some special significance to the symmetrical positioning of the name, it seems likely that at least in one of the instances Vergil is making a word-play whose purpose it is to poke some good-natured fun at the personality of his dedicatee.
Persephone, Psyche, And The Mother-Maiden Archetype, John F. Makowski
Persephone, Psyche, And The Mother-Maiden Archetype, John F. Makowski
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While the figure of the Mother Goddess has always fascinated students of Greek myth and religion (Vernant, 1965, 102-31), the subject has in recent years generated an enormous amount of scholarly literature which has illuminated the goddess’ role from a number of perspectives (Harding, 1971).* This expanding interest is due in part to exciting new developments in the fields of psychology, anthropology, and women’s studies, whose findings underscore the prominence of the Great Mother in the psychic and cultural life of humanity. Among the schools of thought that have produced some of the most provocative though not unchallenged ideas about …
Notes On Absentee Landlordism At Aphrodito, James G. Keenan
Notes On Absentee Landlordism At Aphrodito, James G. Keenan
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In two recent articles, I tried to establish the existence in 6th-century Aphrodite of a cadre of local worthies who, in the system of village land management, while owners and acquirers in their own right, served also as middlemen for absentee landowners and for landowning churches and monasteries. One article centered on Aurelius Phoibammon, son of Triadelphus, the other, on Apollos, son of Dioscorus; but it was suggested in the second article that more than just these two Aphroditans filled this middleman role. A more limited case--because there is less evidence--might be made for Apollos' brother, Besarion; a stronger case, …
P.Laur. Iv 169: Fragmentary Constitution Of Constantine?, James G. Keenan
P.Laur. Iv 169: Fragmentary Constitution Of Constantine?, James G. Keenan
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The editor in introducing the text points out the interest of its consular dating (A.D. 326) and the difficulty of making much out of the first two lines. It appears that the fragment's third and fourth lines are being construed as the dating clause from an otherwise ordinary Arsinoite document (intro. with nn, to lines 3 and 4); but there are some oddities that suggest that this is not so, and, further, that there is more to the fragment than first meets the eye.
Ovid's Epyllia: Genres Within A Genre, Marilyn Pechillo
Ovid's Epyllia: Genres Within A Genre, Marilyn Pechillo
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Energeia In The Enneads Of Plotinus: A Reaction To Plato And Aristotle, Curtis L. Hancock
Energeia In The Enneads Of Plotinus: A Reaction To Plato And Aristotle, Curtis L. Hancock
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