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‘Slogans’ on Coins in Julius Caesar's Dictatorship Years (49–44 BC) Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Bruce Marshall
A number of coins issued during the years 49–44 had on them an additional legend, a trend which had been developing in the preceding fifty years, but which was used much more extensively by Caesar's moneyers. The legends (with two exceptions) all refer to recognised ‘qualities’, which had temples and cults established in the Roman community. The coin types, particularly in the opening years of the
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Panaetius, Scipio Aemilianus, and the Man of Great Soul Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Jonathan Barlow
In the second half of the second century BC, a single personality became ascendant in the Roman Republic. Scipio Aemilianus assumed the mantle of the first man in Rome from 146 BC until his death in 129 BC. Modern biographers of this leading statesman have drawn different conclusions about the influence of Greek ethics on the life of Scipio, either that he possessed a Hellenistic way of thinking or
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Remembering Someone Else's Past: The Social Psychology of Odysseus’ Fake Autobiographies (Od. 14 and 19) Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Luca Valle Salazar
This article discusses some social and psychological aspects involved in two of Odysseus’ lying tales (Od. 14.192–359 and 19.165–248). If one understands remembering as reconstructing the past, this reconstructive element leaves room for forgery and deception. Telling credible lies involves many of the same cognitive structures used in the sharing of authentic personal memories. Odysseus’ fake autobiographical
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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Eva Carrara
This article examines the historical creation of the legacy of Kyniska, the Spartan royal who was the first woman to win at the ancient Olympics in the early fourth century BCE, from her own lifetime to the modern era. By investigating the reception of her victory rather than her agency as historical actor, I demonstrate that the continuing relevance of her victory has depended on others’ literary
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Commemorating the Past and Performing Power: Parades of Ancestors on Caligula's Coinage Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Gwynaeth McIntyre
This article explores the interconnection between Caligula's rehabilitation of his family and the performance of imperial power through processions as presented on three of his coin types. It argues that Caligula used the depictions of processions in connection with coin types celebrating his father, mother, and brothers to create a ‘parade of ancestors’. These coins served as portable visual reminders
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‘Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep’: Uxorial Consolation in Ovid's Tristia Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Tegan Joy Gleeson
In the poetic epistles addressed to his unnamed wife, Ovid makes a number of recognisably consolatory exhortations that poignantly reframe her perception of grief. By depicting exile as a form of living death and his departure from Rome in Tristia 1.3 as a funeral, Ovid is able to cast his wife in the role of a mourning widow whom he consoles from his exilic grave. The moment of their separation becomes
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The Envy of Asinius Gallus Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Susan Satterfield
This paper explores the career and fall of Gaius Asinius Gallus. It argues that Gallus supported Tiberius and worked to increase the Senate's dignity, and that he mediated between the Senate and emperor. It explains Gallus’ downfall in light of his career: he resented Sejanus as a threat to the Senate, and he envied his role as Tiberius’ adiutor. His efforts to honour the prefect in 30 CE were not
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The Fama of the Theatre of Pompey between Antiquity and Antiquarianism Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Frances Muecke
This article shows how, from the time of its construction up until late antiquity and beyond, written sources reflected and perpetuated the fama of Pompey's theatre. Such was its reputation as the Roman theatre par excellence that, even after its absorption into the fabric of medieval Rome, in the earlier fifteenth century Italian proto-antiquarians were prompted by what they had read to attempt to
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Two Unnarrated Stories in Horace's Roman Odes (Carm. 3.2.1–12 and 3.6.21–32): Echoes of Vergil's Unfinished Aeneid and a Lowlife Epigram Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Shirley Werner
Within the rhetorical frameworks of exhortation and illustrative exemplum, Horace's second and sixth Roman Odes offer compressed, contrasting images of a young person's education and transformation, presenting these as stories about a puer and a virgo, respectively, in a lyric mode that does not narrate. In the first of these stories (Carm. 3.2.1–12), Horace slyly usurps characters from Vergil's unfinished
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Alexander the Great in Mesopotamia in 331 BCE Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Michał Marciak, Marcin Sobiech, Tomasz Pirowski
This paper presents a selected aspect of research conducted within the Gaugamela Project, which seeks to finally identify the location of the Battle of Gaugamela. Its particular aim is to analyse the strategic situation of the army of Alexander the Great in Mesopotamia in the summer of 331 BCE, with a special focus on the itinerary and chronology of the army's march. The paper critically reviews Classical
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The Translation of Greek Philosophical Terminology in Marius Victorinus’ Opera Theologica: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Christopher J. Dowson
The article collects and analyses philosophical terms formed in Latin by fourth-century rhetorician and philosopher Marius Victorinus (c. 285–360s C.E.) as a result of his translation from Greek sources. The study examines primarily his theological treatises: the Ad Candidum Arianum (De Generatione Divini Verbi) and the Adversus Arium. It undertakes a quantitative and qualitative examination of these
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Horse Insurance and the Katastasis in the Greek Cavalry: Two Separate Entities Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Anneka Mihajlov
The cavalry of classical Athens remains an enigmatic part of the polis’ military forces. Although often described by historians as an insignificant arm of the classical Athenian army, in the fifth century BCE it was financially supported in two ways: a supposed insurance scheme for each cavalryman's mount, and what is often called an ‘establishment loan’, the κατάστασις (katastasis), to assist with
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Roman Carthage – An Ethnic Conglomeration? A Study of the Anthroponymy of an African Metropolis Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Martyna Świerk
This article discusses nearly 1,200 names of individuals appearing in inscriptions from Roman Carthage. The aim of the study is to answer the question whether there are indications in the anthroponymic tradition that may support the thesis of the multiculturalism of the city. The analyses focus primarily on the cognomen, which constitutes the most individualized element of the Roman naming system.
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A Positive Doctrine of Tyranny? The Rule of Law Vs. The Rule of a Tyrant in Archaic and Classical Greece Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Christopher J. Joyce
The origins and definition of tyranny in ancient Greece have been debated in scholarship for well over three quarters of a century. Recently, it has been argued that tyranny as a political idea was not anathematised until late and that in the fifth century BCE and before, tyranny comported no negative judgment. While correct to point out that the distinction between ‘king’ and ‘tyrant’ in literature
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The Date of Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum and the Establishment of the Martyr Cult in Menouthis Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Mikhail A. Vedeshkin
The paper is a contribution to a discussion on the dating of Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum. Arguments are put forward that Eunapius’ remark on the necrolatry of the monks of Canopus reflects the establishment of a cult of Saints Cyrus and John. Since this event took place when the Church of Alexandria was headed by Cyril, we may consider the beginning of his archbishopric (October 18, 412 CE) as a reliable
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Decimatio: Myth, Discipline, and Death in the Roman Republic Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Michael J. Taylor
The military punishment of decimatio, the cudgelling by lot of one in ten men in a disgraced unit, often described as a cornerstone of Roman military discipline, was never practised during the third and second centuries BC. The punishment was possibly used as an extraordinary measure a couple of times in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It soon fell into total desuetude but was cultivated as a rhetorical
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Meno and the Slave Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 A. R. Nathan
This paper argues that the slave demonstration in Plato's Meno contains a carefully-wrought analogy of Meno's dialectic which can guide our understanding of the dialogue. This analogy exposes and diagnoses Meno's failings as a student who is unwilling to engage in the learning process but simply wants to be spoon-fed information. This, in turn, reveals the way Plato wants us to interact with his text:
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Pertinax and Plots in the Historia Augusta: A Dismissal in 170 and Two Conspiracies in 193 CE Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Paul Jarvis
This article examines two attempted senatorial coups against Pertinax during his brief reign in 193 CE. By examining literary and epigraphic evidence related to these coups, I argue that Pertinax's political opponents in 193 should be understood to come from a particular political and dynastic network, and that this network represents the final attempt of the connections of Lucius Verus to compete
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Philosophical Role-Playing in Cicero's Letters to Paetus, 46 bc Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Sean McConnell
In his letters to Lucius Papirius Paetus from 46 bc Cicero provides striking reports on his thoughts and activities as he seeks to accommodate himself to the new political realities following Caesar's decisive victory over the republican forces in Africa. In these letters Cicero also engages in a kind of performative role-playing: he casts himself variously as a teacher of oratory to two of Caesar's
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Reconsidering the Tartarean Geography of the Iliad: Traces of a Far-Away Tartarus and the Narrative Significance of Localisation Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Joel A. Gordon
This paper argues for a novel conception of Iliadic Tartarus as a fluid liminal space which includes a superterranean context alongside its (traditionally realised) subterranean localisation. A close reading of Iliad 8.477–81 reveals traces of superterranean imagery which, alongside the traditional subterranean reading of 8.13–6 and 14.198–311, allows for the identification of a fluid, dual-model of
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Running in the Family: Inheritance and Family Resemblance in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Phoebe Garrett
The ancestry sections in Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars demonstrate the inheritance of character traits down the family line. The effectiveness of this as a rhetorical technique rests on an expectation of inheritance and resemblance along the family line. This study investigates the mechanism of that resemblance from the evidence available in Suetonius’ text—nature or nurture?—and then proposes that
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Lesbia's Controversial Bird: Testing the Cases for and against Passer as Sparrow Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Ashleigh Green
The identity of the passer in Catullus 2 and 3 has been a subject of controversy for hundreds of years.1 Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, the great authority on birds in the ancient world, sums it up best with his own musings: ‘Whatever Lesbia's “sparrow” may have been, I am pretty sure in my own mind […] that it was not Passer domesticus, the most intractable and least amiable of cage-birds.’2 Some
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Catullus’ Lament for Lesbia's Passer in the Context of Pet-Keeping Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Patricia Watson
In the last three lines of Catullus’ ‘dead sparrow’ poem (. . . o miselle passer! / tua nunc opera meae puellae / flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli, Catull. 3.16–18), the poet turns his attention from the fate of the passer to the effect that its death has on Lesbia. What is remarkable here is the accumulation of diminutives (miselle, puellae, turgiduli, ocelli), a feature which most translators fail
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Catullus’ Priapean Poem (c. 17) Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Lindsay Watson
Catullus 17 poses a host of interpretational difficulties. The thorniest of these concerns its unity. How can the initial lines on the rickety state of Colonia's ponticulus be reconciled with the real focus of the poem, the precipitation from the bridge of a husband who is blind to his bride's erotic needs, in the hope of bringing him to his senses? Many attempts have been made to resolve the problem
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Dismembering Cominius: Political Violence and Iambic Aggression in Catullus 108 Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Robert Cowan
Carmen 108 is one of the most neglected and unloved in the Catullan corpus. When it is mentioned in scholarship, it is either as a distastefully extreme instance of iambic invective or the object of a prosopographical exercise in identifying the addressee, Cominius. Gnilka alone has tried to situate it in the context of late Republican political violence, in particularly public lynching. Instead of
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Reading Catullus 113 as the Vilification of Pompey's Ex-Wife Mucia Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Tom Hillard
Written in 55 BCE, carmen 113 seemingly uses the first two consulships of Pompey to measure a decline in moral standards, with one unfortunate woman as the yardstick of sexual profligacy. It closes with a focus on marital infidelity. The epigram should be read as a savage attack upon Mucia, the one-time wife of Pompey. This paper affirms her identity by postulating a punning wordplay on Mucia and C(a)ecilia
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Egnatius the Epicurean: The Banalization of Philosophy in Catullus Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 James Uden
This article offers a new examination of the place of philosophy in Catullus’ Carmina. It focuses on Egnatius, the ‘smiling Spaniard’ of poems 37 and 39, and argues that Catullus’ attacks on this character make use of many standard invective tropes against Epicureans in the late Republic. More than merely an opportunity to show off his whitened teeth, Egnatius’ smile may well have been proof of his
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Conquering Ida: An Ecofeminist Reading of Catullus’ Poem 63 Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Leah O'Hearn
Many have recognised poem 63 as a study in contrasts – light versus darkness, masculine versus feminine, rationality versus madness, animal versus human, culture versus nature. Caught between these polarities is the figure of Attis, removed from everything bright, male, sane, human, and civilised by one impassioned act. The poem suggests that it is partly the nature of the place, its quasi-Hippocratic
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Catullus’ Fantastical Memories – Poem 68 and Writing Trauma Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Marguerite Johnson
In the many evocations of memory in the Catullan corpus, fantasy plays a significant, albeit discrete role. Fantasy embellishes memories in Catullus’ poems, not necessarily making them bearable but enabling them to be understood, in part. I argue that in poem 68 there are two different approaches to fantastical memories: the intense and vivid memories of his brother's death, and the memories of Lesbia
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Shameful Kisses: A History of the Reception – and Rejection – of Homoeroticism in Catullus Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Maxine Lewis, Christina Robertson
The history of Catullus’ reception has been one of exclusion as much as inclusion. Since the seventeenth century, many Anglophone writers have used Catullus as inspiration for their translations, poetic adaptations, and novels. A great deal of these works occluded the role that male homoeroticism played in the Latin poems, especially by omitting Catullus’ male love object, Juventius. Writers have employed
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Widowing the Streets of Troy (Il. 5.642): Notes on the Conceptual Basis of a Unique Metaphor in Homer'sIliad Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Fabian Horn
This article argues for an approach based on the cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual metaphors (CMT) by demonstrating its potential for the discussion and interpretation of Homeric metaphors. CMT provides a theoretical framework for analysing metaphors in a conceptual context, and even with unique, i.e. apparently non-formulaic, metaphors in Homeric poetry the possibility of a conceptual basis
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The Gift of Aphrodite in Iliad 24.30 Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Cristian Mancilla
In the famous story of Paris’ choice, he favoured the goddess who offered him ‘grievous lust’ (μαχλοσύνην ἀλɛγɛινήν). This is what Homer tells us in Il. 24.30. It has not often been noticed that Cratinus (5th cent. BC) and Lucian (2nd cent. AD) mention another gift – that Aphrodite's bribe was to make Paris irresistible to women. This alternative version happens to correspond to a high degree with
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Patronage, Poetic Lineage, and Wordplay: A New Dedicatory Acronym in Vergil's Sixth Eclogue Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Frances M. Bernstein
This article identifies and defends a previously unobserved dedicatory acronym to Maecenas in the second half of Ecl. 6.69 (MAEC- in reverse: Calamos, En Accipe, Musae) and contextualizes the specific linguistic choices and central themes of that acronym within a broader network of Vergilian word games. I argue that the dedicatory acronym in Ecl. 6.69 shares linguistic and thematic features with numerous
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The Man in the Background: The Search for Maecenas Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Ronald T. Ridley
Since the late sixteenth century parts of the ‘imperial frieze’ of the Ara Pacis have been known. The most striking figure in the background of the southern frieze is that long thought to be a portrait of Maecenas, the Etruscan prince and literary patron of the Augustan era. This article attempts three things: to discover1.Where and how this identification originated,2.What evidence there now is for
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A Brutal Hack: Tyranny, Rape, and the Barbarism of Bad Poetry in Ovid's Pyreneus Episode Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Robert Cowan
Poet-figures in Ovid'sMetamorphoseshave been the object of much study, especially those silenced by the powerful, but little attention has been given to Pyreneus. Immediately before the famous contest of the Muses and Pierides, the former briefly narrate their attempted rape by the usurping Thracian tyrant Pyreneus and his precipitous death while trying to fly after them. The few critics who have touched
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Women and Genre in Calpurnius Siculus’ Eclogues Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 George C. Paraskeviotis
This article aims to examine the ways in which the Calpurnian text converses with the earlier pastoral tradition focusing on the women identified in the collection. Leaving aside the mythical female figures who are also traced in the collection (e.g. Pales and Venus), this study focuses on all the female characters mentioned by male figures, trying to show that women in the Eclogues, among other elements
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Cherchez la femme? Fadia in Plutarch's Life of Antony Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 W. Jeffrey Tatum
In his Philippics Cicero more than once refers to Fadia, whom he depicts as Antony's wife, and to the children she bore him. He also discusses Fadia in his correspondence with Atticus. Plutarch was aware of the Philippics and much of Cicero's correspondence, and therefore of Fadia, and yet, in his Life of Antony, he says nothing about her. This paper examines three possible explanations for the biographer's
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A Dung Beetle's Victory: The Moral of theLife of Aesop(Vita G) Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Sonia Pertsinidis
TheLife of Aesopis an entertaining yet profound account of Aesop's life dating from the first to second centuriesad. Although it is widely agreed that theLife of Aesopmay be read as a ‘metafable’, there has been, in my view, a widespread and perversely negative interpretation of the supposed moral of this life story: that ‘pride comes before a fall’. This supposed moral is not borne out by the ending
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Life-Change and ‘Conversion’ in Antiquity: An Analysis of the Testimonies of Dion of Prousa and Aelius Aristeides Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Katherine Moignard
Our image of ‘conversion’ takes its form from well-known episodes in the lives of St Paul and St Augustine. Paul's life is turned around by a blinding vision of Jesus on the road to Damascus (Act. Ap. 9.1–22); Augustine is directed by an oracle to a scriptural passage that ends his hesitations and sets him on the course that he has long known he should take (August. Conf. 8.12). Very much in parallel
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The Generalship of P. Quinctilius Varus in the Clades Variana Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Daniel Morgan
The clades Variana was a major Roman defeat, occurring over three days of fighting in AD 9. Three Roman legions and several units of auxiliaries were destroyed, and their commander, Publius Quinctilius Varus, died at the climax of the fighting. Suetonius said that the army paid the price for its general's temeritas and neglegentia, and many other commentators, both ancient and modern, have condemned
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The Physical Parameters of Athenian Democracy Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 David M. Pritchard
This article investigates the physical parameters of Athenian democracy. It explores the collective-action problems that these parameters caused and settles debates about them that R. G. Osborne famously provoked. Classical Athens was ten times larger than an average Greek state. Fourth-century Athenians were ten times more numerous. These parameters significantly contributed to the success of Athenian
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Rhythm of Love: Patterns of Perception and the Classical Profession of the Hetaira Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 David Hullinger
For a long time, the classical profession of the hetaira, or paid female companion, has eluded definition. The hetaira has often been described as a ‘courtesan’ and her work as a ‘form of prostitution’, yet these appellatives often conflict with depictions of the hetaira by classical authors. Accordingly, in this article I will argue that the hetaira was perceived by the Greeks as an elite entertainer
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Empedocles the Sorcerer and his Hexametrical Pharmaka Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Christopher Faraone
In one of his fragments, Empedocles addresses his protégé Pausanias, predicting or promising that he will learn pharmaka, a word that is usually understood to mean herbal ‘drugs' or ‘remedies’ for disease, an interpretation that in turn seems to have been encouraged by a modern understanding that Empedocles was an empirically minded medical doctor. An alternate interpretation is suggested, however
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The Nurse's Tale: Other Worlds and Parallel Worlds in the Exposition of Euripides’Hypsipyle Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 James H. K. O. Chong-Gossard
This article analyses Euripides’ mythopoetics in what survives of the first quarter of his fragmentaryHypsipyle:prologue, parodos, and first episode. It examines Euripides’ innovation in joining two myths (the Seven Against Thebes and the story of Hypsipyle and the Argonauts) into one, and the representation of Hypsipyle herself. In her private moments, the thoughts that preoccupy her mind are focused
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Seafaring Practice and Narratives in Homer'sOdyssey Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Rupert Mann
It is intrinsically plausible that theOdyssey, which freely uses realistic details of many aspects of life on and beside the sea, was informed by real seafaring experience. This paper corroborates that hypothesis. The first part catalogues parallels between details of Odyssean and real-world seafaring. Odyssean type-scenes in particular echo real practice. The second part argues that three larger episodes
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Carausius and His Brothers: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Imperial Image in the Late Third Century AD Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2019-12-12 Caillan Davenport
This article examines the public image of the emperor Carausius, a Roman army officer who claimed authority over Britain and parts of Gaul between 286 and 293, in opposition to Diocletian and his Tetrarchic colleagues. Carausius’ coinage celebrated his fleet, his naval prowess, and his divine support from Neptune and Oceanus. These designs were created as part of a strategy to refashion Carausius’
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Vitalis or Vitalinis? A Roman Grave-Marker for an Eight-Year-Old Girl Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Janette McWilliam
This paper introduces a Latin funerary stele, now in the R. D. Milns Antiquities Museum at the University of Queensland, which does not appear in any of the major epigraphic collections or data bases. In doing so, this paper addresses questions pertaining to its date of manufacture and the name form of the deceased child commemorated on the tombstone. This study suggests that the date originally proposed
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The Power of Space and Memory: The Honorific Statuescape of Delphi Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Dominika Grzesik
This article discusses the evolution and main characteristics of Delphi’s statuary landscape, focussing on the process of prestige spatialisation via erection of honorific portraits within the Delphic territory. My goal is to present trends and tendencies in placing honorific portraits at Delphi from the mid-fifth centuryb.c.to the late fourth centurya.d.The article focusses on issues surrounding the
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CIL6.16019 Rediscovered Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Alan H. Cadwallader
The inscriptionCIL6.16019 has remained substantially dependent on an 1881 publication that has provided the fullest description of the inscription and a relief on a separate panel reported as found with it. Even though more recent analyses have adopted different lines of interpretation, there has been no new encounter with the actual panels. No photograph has been published and the inscription and
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Lucretius on the Nature of Parental Love Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Sean McConnell
This paper outlines the full details of Lucretius’ treatment of parental love. It shows that Lucretius is faithful to Epicurus’ notorious claim that parental love is not natural: in addition to orthodox Epicurean hedonist concerns, Lucretius asserts that children do not ‘belong to’ their parents by nature; as such, even though parental love is now ubiquitous and indeed a cultural norm, there is no
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Maxentius, the Dioscuri, and the Legitimisation of Imperial Power Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Gwynaeth McIntyre
Mythological twin brothers played key roles in the establishment and preservation of the city of Rome. This article examines the use of one particular set of brothers, Castor and Pollux, by rival forms of government in the early fourth century ce. In his work on the representations of the Dioscuri on Roman coinage, Gricourt argues that the Dioscuri symbolise the same ideas on Maxentius’ coins as on
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Merchant’s Road Toward the Utopia in Heliodorus’Aethiopica Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Juan Pablo Sanchez Hernandez
Heliodorus’Aethiopicanarrates the adventurous journey of a couple through Egypt to the kingdom of Meroe in Ethiopia where they get married. To increase the plausibility of this story Heliodorus uses his knowledge of Rome’s trade activities in the East and he even introduces some characters involved in trade ventures in those regions (e.g. Nausicles) at crucial moments of its development. On the other
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Rome, Carthage, and Numidia: Diplomatic Favouritism before the Third Punic War Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Colin Bailey
This article examines Rome’s diplomatic relations with Carthage and Numidia in the period between the Second and Third Punic Wars. Polybius’ suggestion that Rome consistently decided against Carthage in territorial disputes with Numidia in the aftermath of the Second Punic War (Polyb. 31.21.5-6) has often been taken up in explanations of the origins of the Third Punic War. Many ancient and modern accounts
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Invocations of the Muse in Homer and Hesiod: A Cognitive Approach Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Juraj Franek
In this paper, I offer a cognitive analysis of the invocations of the Muse in earliest Greek epic poetry that is based on recent advances in cognitive science in general and the cognitive science of religion in particular. I argue that the Muse-concept most likely originated in a feeling of dependence on an external source of information to provide the singer with the subject matter of their song.
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Sideshadowing Actium: Counterfactual History in Lollius’Naumachia(Horace,Epistles1.18) Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2018-11-12 Robert Cowan
Among the personal hobbies which Horace recommends his young friend Lollius conduct at a discreet distance from hispotens amicusis the re-enactment of the battle of Actium, which should only be undertaken in the privacy of his father’s estate. Critics have noted that the potential offence in this seemingly affirmative celebration of the ‘miracle of Actium’ lies in the casting of Lollius’ brother as
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The Roman Nobility, the Early ConsularFasti, and the Consular Tribunate Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-10-26 J. H. Richardson
While the general absence of Rome’s nobility from the traditions of the regal period has often been noted, the nobility’s prompt appearance at the beginning of the republican period has elicited little comment. This paper argues that the nobility’s appearance is more significant than its earlier absence, precisely on account of its very promptness and also because the nobility appears primarily with
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Politics, Power, and the Divine: TheRex Sacrorumand the Transition from Monarchy to Republic at Rome Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-10-26 Fay Glinister
Whether the result of internal revolution or external factors, in the late sixth centuryBCRome underwent regime change. A king, or at least a sole ruler of some sort, was replaced by a governmental system in which power was distributed amongst a wider aristocratic group. Just what that elite group comprised at that point in time remains open to question, and the institutional reality is certainly more
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Lars Porsenna and the Early Roman Republic Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-10-26 Ronald T. Ridley
A dominant and fascinating figure at the very beginning of the Republic is Porsenna, king of Clusium. He has been a focus of attention since the Renaissance and for the following seven centuries. Fashions in interpretation have come and gone. This essay surveys those interpretations, and attempts to sum up the complexities of contemporary scholarship.
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Plebeian Tribunes and the Government of Early Rome Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-10-26 Fred K. Drogula
Many modern scholars have argued that the consulship was not created at the foundation of the Republic as Roman tradition maintained, and that the government of the early Republic went through several stages of development before it reached the familiar ‘classical constitution.’ Building on this work, this article considers what the early civilian government of Rome may have looked like. It is argued
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Thegensand Intestate Inheritance in the Early Republic Antichthon (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2017-10-26 Charles Bartlett
This paper attempts to gauge the ability of thegensto influence the affairs of its members by tracing the development of the rules governing intestate inheritance. It will argue that, although the power of thegensin this area of the law did eventually give way to a more centralised and stronger state, a development which has been documented in other areas of Roman society as well, thegenswas nonetheless