Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Byzantine and Modern Greek
'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 …
P.Laur. Iv 169: Fragmentary Constitution Of Constantine?, James G. Keenan
P.Laur. Iv 169: Fragmentary Constitution Of Constantine?, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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.
Two Byzantine Papyri From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan
Two Byzantine Papyri From The Michigan Collection, James G. Keenan
Classical Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Purchased in the Fayûm in 1925, this papyrus contains the top part of a petition addressed by one Philoxenus possibly (far from certainly) to the governor of the province of Arcadia; see line 3 note. Surviving are (in part) the address (lines 1-4); a short proem (lines 5-8), virtually complete; and the beginning of the narrative of events leading up to the petition (lines 8-13). On palaeographic grounds I should be inclined to assign this piece to the sixth century. The address is written in a large, grand, up right hand, which decreases in thickness by the beginning and apparently …