All aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and their continuing presence in modernity
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Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 days, 3 hours ago
This article examines the Greek goddess Hygieia by looking at her identity, cult status in the ancient world and subsequent scholarly reception. Should she be viewed as a goddess or a personification? By studying Hygieia primarily as a concept of health within ancient medicine, as well as a personification and a goddess, it will be argued that…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 days, 3 hours ago
In this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 days, 3 hours ago
The present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Sometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Ermanno Malaspina deposited For a Pre-history and Post-history of the Corpus Leidense With a List of the Manuscripts of De natura deorum in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The present article examines the Corpus Leidense, the group of eight Ciceronian treatises among which the De natura deorum was also transmitted, focusing on its archetype. The second and longer section contains the first complete list of the 174 identified manuscripts of De natura deorum, with 57 new items added to the 117 already listed by Pease…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago
New evidence on scholarly patronage under the Roman empire can be garnered by analyzing the descriptions of learned magoi in several texts from the second to the fourth century CE. Since a common use of the term magos connoted flatterer-like figures (kolakes), it is likely that the figures of “learned sorcerers” found in texts such as Luc…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this paper, I argue that the traditional narrative of Iphigenia’s sacrifice lies allusively behind the opening scenes of the Iliad (1.8–487). Scholars have long suspected that this episode is evoked in Agamemnon’s scathing rebuke of Calchas (1.105–8), but I contend that this is only one moment in a far more sustained allusive dialogue: both th…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Beating the Galatians: Ideologies, Analogies and Allegories in Hellenistic Literature and Art in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Hellenistic literature and art commemorated victories over the Galatians through a variety of analogies and allegories, ranging from the historical Persian Wars to the cosmic Gigantomachy: each individual victory was incorporated into a larger sequence in which order constantly quelled the forces of chaos. This paper explores this analogical…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Intertextual Agōnes in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Archaic Greek epic exhibits a pervasive eristic intertextuality, repeatedly positioning its heroes and itself against pre-existing traditions. Here I focus on a specific case study from the Odyssey: Homer’s agonistic relationship with the Catalogue of Women tradition. Hesiodic-style Catalogue poetry has long been recognized as an important i…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Homer’s Quivering Spear (fr. 196a.52 IEG2) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this note, I highlight a hitherto unrecognized literary resonance in the climactic final verses of Archilochus’ First Cologne Epode: Archilochus parodically and subversively reworks the Homeric description of a quivering spear. This Homeric resonance caps the poem’s ongoing clash between the generic conventions of epic and iambus, while also…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this paper, I investigate the repetition of Homeric hapax legomena in archaic and classical Greek poetry. Scholars frequently assume that fine-grained engagement with Homeric rarities is a distinctive feature of the Hellenistic period, but I reveal the significant precedent for this phenomenon in earlier poetry. Proceeding through comedy,…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Tragic Noise and Rhetorical Frigidity in Lycophron’s Alexandra in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper seeks to shed fresh light on the aesthetic and stylistic affiliations of Lycophron’s Alexandra, approaching the poem from two distinct but complementary angles. First, it explores what can be gained by reading Lycophron’s poem against the backdrop of Callimachus’ poetry. It contends that the Alexandra presents a radical and polem…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited The Coma Stratonices: Royal Hair Encomia and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry? in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this paper, I investigate how Ptolemaic poets’ presentation of their queens compares with and relates to the practice of their major rivals, the Seleucids. No poetic celebration of a Seleucid queen survives extant, but an anecdote preserved by Lucian sheds intriguing light on Seleucid poetic practice (Pro Imaginibus 5): queen Stratonice, bald…[Read more]
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Thomas J. Nelson deposited Achilles’ Heel: (Im)mortality in the Iliad in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles’ heel and Homer’s likely suppression of the myth in the Iliad. Homer’s Iliad appears to acknowledge, but simultaneously reject, an alternative tradition in which Achilles was more than mortal, part of a broader downplaying of heroic invulnerability and…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond deposited “Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 9 months, 1 week ago
“Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana: Religion and Society in Transition, edited by Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, and Daniel N. Schowalter (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
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Johannes Bernhardt deposited From Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
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