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Greek Religion And Epigraphic Corpora: What's Sacrae About Leges Sacrae?, Laura Gawlinski
Greek Religion And Epigraphic Corpora: What's Sacrae About Leges Sacrae?, Laura Gawlinski
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The Latin phrase leges sacrae and its various translations (sacred laws, lois
sacrées, heilige Gesetze) have been applied since at least the nineteenth cen-
tury to various collections of inscribed documents. It is a modern invention
born out of the German Wissenschaft ideology of systematic, scientific, com-
prehensive methods of inquiry. This rubric and the collecting of Greek inscrip-
tions under it have always been recognized as problematically subjective, and
in the last decade or so a flurry of scholarship has critiqued the corpora more
directly. Much of this analysis has focused on the leges half of leges sacrae:
whether …
Sensorial Intermedialities In Roman Letters: Cicero, Horace, And Ovid, Jonathan E. Mannering
Sensorial Intermedialities In Roman Letters: Cicero, Horace, And Ovid, Jonathan E. Mannering
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In recent years, much progress has been made towards elucidating the function of ekphrasis in Roman epistolography, especially with relation to the writings of Seneca and Pliny. Following on from these precedents, this article mines the epistles of three prominent Roman letter-writers, Cicero, Horace, and Ovid, for their intermedial elements. The motifs of oral quotations, handwriting, and human tear stains, which interweave the sources analysed, are shown not only to straddle the borders between distinct media, but also to engage with multiple senses as a result of their multiple medialities. Oral quotations integrate speech into written texts and thus necessitate …
Review: Oresteia, Adapted By Robert Icke, Laura Gawlinski
Review: Oresteia, Adapted By Robert Icke, Laura Gawlinski
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Robert Icke’s adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia twists the themes and conflicts of the three ancient Greek plays that make up its source material into fresh horror for the modern stage.1 Icke taps into the big-picture issues that are worked out through the mythology of Orestes and his family—the steep costs of war, the nature of justice, the marginalization of women, the role of religion in politics, and the irreconcilability of obligations to family and state—to create a work that feels both novel and timeless. First staged at London’s Almeida Theatre in 2015 as part of a season of Greek-based productions …
Trimalchio In The Windy City: The Next Concept Of Roman Dining, Mike Lippman, Laura Gawlinski
Trimalchio In The Windy City: The Next Concept Of Roman Dining, Mike Lippman, Laura Gawlinski
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An exploration of Roman Dining and its origins in literature. Authors Mike Lippman and Laura Gawlinski discuss a Chicago chef's methods for recapturing these ancient dishes.
At The Creation: Seven Letters From Grenfell, 1897, James G. Keenan
At The Creation: Seven Letters From Grenfell, 1897, James G. Keenan
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Probably the most famous single season for the excavation of papyri in Egypt was the one that took place in the winter of 1896-1897, under the direction of Bernard P. Grenfell (1869-1926) with the assistance of Arthur S. Hunt (1871-1934) at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, present-day al-Bahnasaų. The site fell within the geographical limits of the permit granted by the Antiquities Service to W.M.F. (Flinders) Petrie, but when it proved disappointing in its prehistoric and pharaonic remains, Petrie left it to Grenfell, who was there with Hunt in search of papyri, especially Christian and literary papyri in Greek1 . …
Review Of M. Lee, Body, Dress, And Identity In Ancient Greece, Laura Gawlinski
Review Of M. Lee, Body, Dress, And Identity In Ancient Greece, Laura Gawlinski
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The increased scholarly attention to clothing, textiles, and accessories is visible in a number of collected volumes, a research center in Copenhagen, and several dissertations in progress, but more than a century has passed since the publication of a monograph devoted specifically to Greek dress. Mireille Lee fills this lacuna with an inclusive study that explores Greek garments by contextualizing them in relationship to the bodies that wore them and the situations when they were worn. This approach places Greek dress into a contemporary theoretical framework, in dialogue with the wider field of dress scholarship across disciplines.
Payment Order For Cavalry Fodder: Sb Xiv 12116, James G. Keenan
Payment Order For Cavalry Fodder: Sb Xiv 12116, James G. Keenan
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This Catholic University of America papyrus (Hyvernat inv. 372 = ICOR 75.73) was first edited by Leslie S. B. MacCoull as “An Account of Fodder for Pack-Horses”, ZPE 25 (1977) 155–158 with Tafel IV. It was subsequently reprinted as SB XIV 12116. At the end of the ed.pr., one of the ZPE editors, D(ieter) H(agedorn), proposed a different reading for the former lines 16–17 (now 17–18; see below, line 1 note). This has been accepted as correct and incorporated in the Duke Databank version of the text. Nevertheless, re-examination of the original publication has suggested that other improvements can be …
In Memoriam Leslie S. B. Maccoull, James G. Keenan
In Memoriam Leslie S. B. Maccoull, James G. Keenan
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Dr. Leslie S.B. MacCoull, papyrologist, Byzantinist, and historian, died at her home in Tempe, Arizona, on August 26 at age 70. MacCoull was born in New London, Connecticut, on August 7, 1945, attended St. Mary’s School in Peekskill, New York, and received her A.B. in Classics from Vassar College in 1965, summa cum laude, as class salutatorian; she had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She received an M.A. in Classics in 1966 from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in Semitics in 1973 with a dissertation on Coptic papyri in …
P.Lund 4.13.1-2, James G. Keenan
P.Lund 4.13.1-2, James G. Keenan
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Attention was redirected to the first two lines of this piece by Klaas Worp’s note in BASP 51 (2014) 198. For easy access to the image I recommend proceeding through APIS into the Lund collection and entering the number 27. As confirmed by my attempt on 13 May 2015, this will bring up a link to Pap. Choix 25 (with image), one of the Lund papyrus’s subsequent editions; the other is SB 6.9349.
Gender, Democracy, And The Justice Of Athena’S Vote To Acquit Orestes, Jacqueline Long
Gender, Democracy, And The Justice Of Athena’S Vote To Acquit Orestes, Jacqueline Long
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This essay examines closely how Athena by chartering the Areopagus court resolves the succession of violence on which Aeschylus centered his Oresteia. Neither historical nor dramatic and poetic conventions determine whether Athena calls an odd or even number of human jurors, and does or does not vote with them to create their quitting tie. The interaction of :Orestes', the Erinyes', and Apollo's arguments," together with Athena's reactions, demonstrates that an even-numbered human jury splits equally over whether a human child owes duty more to father or mother. Athena's birth bars her from testing this question on her own sensibility and …
From The Ptolemies To The Romaris. Political And Economic Change In Egypt, James G. Keenan
From The Ptolemies To The Romaris. Political And Economic Change In Egypt, James G. Keenan
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In an address at the Twelfth International Congress of Papyrology in 1968, the late Naphtali Lewis famously rejected the terrn·”Greco-Roman", specifically as used in studies of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. To support his position, one based, so he claimed, on substance not mere linguistic fussiness, he presented arguments against the then prevailing orthodoxy that the Roman replacement of the Ptolemies was characterized by ,essential continuity". Instead, according to Lewis, the changes wrought by the Romans were themselves ,more fundamental and sweeping" than previously thought. He returned to the same theme fifteen years later in Naples in his presidential address to …
Hippokleides, 'The Dance,' And The Panathenaia, Brian M. Lavelle
Hippokleides, 'The Dance,' And The Panathenaia, Brian M. Lavelle
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The dance scene in Herodotus (6.126-130) is fictitious and reflects Alcmeonid propaganda against Philaid Hippocleides, intended to embarrass a prominent enemy who may have been founder of the Greater Panathenaia.
“Review Of R. Stroud, Corinth Volume Xviii. 6. The Sanctuary Of Demeter And Kore: The Inscriptions.”, Laura Gawlinski
“Review Of R. Stroud, Corinth Volume Xviii. 6. The Sanctuary Of Demeter And Kore: The Inscriptions.”, Laura Gawlinski
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This is a book review of Ronald Stroud's "Corinth Volume XVIII.6. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions."
Il Dossier Della “Domus Divina” In Egitto, James G. Keenan
Il Dossier Della “Domus Divina” In Egitto, James G. Keenan
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The book builds upon seventy references, certain (SR) or conjectural (12), to the domus divina in Egypt. There are three major parts, labeled A, B, and C. Part A (pp. 4-52) discusses the testimonia according to defined topics. Part 1\ (pp. 53-121) catalogues them in chronological order into what the author calls a '"dossier."' (Numbers and references to assured testimonia are in roman, those to conjectural ones are in italic type.) Part C. (pp. 122·133) provides concordances and indices to the dossier. There are four brief appendices (pp. 134·144). One(!), by T.M. Hickey, provides an edition of P.Giss. inv. 48 …
The Sacred Command Of The Lord My Brother The Emperor Should Have Come As Something Not To Neglect, Jacqueline Long
The Sacred Command Of The Lord My Brother The Emperor Should Have Come As Something Not To Neglect, Jacqueline Long
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Late Roman stereotypes assigned women certain powers.1 Thus for example, when the elder but not senior emperor Theodosius faced a choice between defending the interests of Valentinian II, his ineffective colleague from the previous dynasty, or acceding to the aggression of Magnus Maximus, his countryman, an unimpeachably orthodox Catholic, a proven effective general, and as an emperor one whose imperium Theodosius had recognized,2 Valentinian’s Arian mother Justina could be understood to have swayed Theodosius decisively by offering him her daughter Galla in marriage.3 This scenario enabled hostile interpreters to trivialize Theodosius’s decision as irresponsible appetite and to belittle its execution …
Review Of D. Ogden, Drakōn: Dragon Myth And Serpent Cult In The Greek And Roman Worlds, Laura Gawlinski
Review Of D. Ogden, Drakōn: Dragon Myth And Serpent Cult In The Greek And Roman Worlds, Laura Gawlinski
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Ogden’s latest book examines the serpents of myth and cult from Homer to hagiography. This is a wide-ranging investigation in which both the monster Typhon and the healing pareias snake of Asklepios find a place, as they and other drakontes are approached through literature, linguistics, and iconography. It is an ambitious project that sometimes falls short of that ambition: the separate threads don’t quite come together, and the nuances of important scholarly arguments are often glossed over in footnotes. It is more encyclopedic than interpretive, in Ogden’s words, a “descriptive handbook” (p. 1). As the first comprehensive work in English …
Undertaking Under Oath For A Military Recruit (P.Mich. Inv. 3470), James G. Keenan
Undertaking Under Oath For A Military Recruit (P.Mich. Inv. 3470), James G. Keenan
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This is an edition of P.Mich. inv. 3470, the lefthand side of a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus dating to AD 350. In it Aurelius Eulogius guarantees the appearance of a recruit named Isak, from the Oxyrhynchite village Episemou, at Alexandria or other required posting.
A Labor Contract For A Pronoetes (P.Lond. Inv. )*, James G. Keenan
A Labor Contract For A Pronoetes (P.Lond. Inv. )*, James G. Keenan
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The document, the fourth of its kind to be published, is what the editors of the first and still most complete specimen (P.Oxy. I 136 = W.Chr. 383) called a “contract of a farm steward.”
Fragmentary List Of Fayyum, James G. Keenan
Fragmentary List Of Fayyum, James G. Keenan
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The papyrus is after all a bit taller than described. There is a kollesis about cm 3,2 in from the left edge. Margins survive at the left, bottom, and right, but the papyrus is torn at the top where the ragged edge shows traces of a damaged first line not accounted for among the seven mentioned in the description.
P.Mich.Inv. 3272: Receipt For Embole From Aphrodito, James G. Keenan
P.Mich.Inv. 3272: Receipt For Embole From Aphrodito, James G. Keenan
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Edition of P.Mich. inv. 3272, a nearly complete sixth-century receipt for embo/e from Aphrodito.
Petronius’ Giton: Gender And Genre In The Satyrica, John F. Makowski
Petronius’ Giton: Gender And Genre In The Satyrica, John F. Makowski
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Encolpius, the narrator of the novel, exhibits an obsession with literature that impels him to interpret his world though the lens of earlier classics. Thus, Giton embodies analogues to both the heroes and the heroines of epic and tragedy often in the context of the picaresque. The fluidity of his gender roles mirrors the novel's fluctuation among the genres of literature. As backdrop to the Satyrica's play with gender and genre stands Nero's art of performing in both masculine and feminine roles on the Roman stage.
Federico Morelli, L’ Archivio Di Senouthios Anystes E Testi Connessi. Lettere E Documenti Per La Costruzione Di Una Capitale, James G. Keenan
Federico Morelli, L’ Archivio Di Senouthios Anystes E Testi Connessi. Lettere E Documenti Per La Costruzione Di Una Capitale, James G. Keenan
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This is the first of two projected volumes whose purpose is to gather together, reassemble, select, and present Greek documents from the GreekCoptic archive of the notarios Senouthios, anystes of the northern skelos of the Hermopolite nome just after the Arab conquest. Most of the 32 documents in this volume are assigned by prosopographical associations, subject matter, and so on (“diversi elementi”) to ca. 643/4, based on a pivotal second indiction (see Introduzione, pp. 22-27), in other words, on the very cusp of the new Arab administration. The papyri are all Viennese. They are also all Hermopolite in provenance, but …
P.Got. 9: The Subscription, James G. Keenan
P.Got. 9: The Subscription, James G. Keenan
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P.Got. 9 was published in 1929. It was subject to an immediate run of corrections proposed by distinguished reviewers (Bell, Schmidt, Schubart, and Zucker; see BL 2.2:69), but not until 1966 did it receive detailed re-examination. This was by R. Rémondon, “Papyrologica …,” CÉ 41 (1966) at 173-178 (emendations recorded in BL 5:36) in a discussion praised by Jean Gascou (Fiscalité et société en Égypte byzantine, Paris 2008, 47, n. 23: “son brillant commentaire de P.Goth. 9”), who himself offered a close analysis of the text and some of its difficulties (ibid. 177-178; original discussion dating to 1985).
Roman Law And The Legal World Of The Romans, James G. Keenan
Roman Law And The Legal World Of The Romans, James G. Keenan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …