All aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and their continuing presence in modernity
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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 4 days, 23 hours agoNew 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoHellenistic 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoArchaic 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoThis 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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 3 weeks, 4 days agoIn 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 1 month, 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 1 month, 3 weeks agoThe 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 6 months, 3 weeks agoCyprian’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 6 months, 3 weeks agoHumankind, 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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John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoReview of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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Elodie Paillard deposited Looking for Sociolects in Classical Greek Tragedy: A Digital Tool for Measuring Linguistic/Discursive Complexity in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoThis paper re-examines the question of the presence of distinct sociolects in Classical Athenian tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides). While the general idea is that all characters in tragedy spoke a similar language, without much distinction between sociolects that could have marked their socio-political status, some recent research has…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Hospitality, not Honors: Portraits and Patronage in the Acts of John in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoIn this article, I examine how the apocryphal Acts of John depicts wealthy Christian
converts as part of the “Christianization” of Ephesus. I note how the Acts of John
uses its portrayal of leading citizens not only to critique, but to preserve and
adapt prevailing expectations surrounding Greco-Roman cultic patronage. My
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Henry Colburn deposited King Darius’ Red Sea Canal in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThe Persian King Darius I (reigned 522-486 BCE) constructed a canal connecting the Nile to the Red Sea – an ancient precursor to the Suez Canal that made it possible to sail from Egypt to Persia, and to places in between.
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Elodie Paillard deposited Greek to Latin and Back: Did Roman Theatre Change Greek Theatre? in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoChapter on the interactions between Roman theatrical tradition and late dramatic production in Greek language.
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Elodie Paillard deposited “Theatre”, “Paratheatre”, “Metatheatre”: What are we talking about? in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoIntroductory chapter to the collective volume ‘Theatre and Metatheare: Definitions, Problems, Limits’
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