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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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 …
Remarks On Some Tebtunis Papyri In Sb Xviii, James G. Keenan
Remarks On Some Tebtunis Papyri In Sb Xviii, James G. Keenan
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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 …
Review: Lucan: Civil War, John F. Makowski
Review: Lucan: Civil War, John F. Makowski
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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
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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
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This is a book review of Bernhard Palme's " Das Amt des Apaitetes in Aegypten."
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 …
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 …