SAH Commons | Noémie VILLACEQUE | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/villaceque/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Noémie VILLACEQUE is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 98882d783562cfefc1c2c50432067434 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898294/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 27f8a574c6c7dcbf0291158b025e5b29 Stephe Harrop deposited Greek Tragedy in the Drama Studio: Lecoq, Agonism, and the Politics of Choral Pedagogy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890994/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

]]> 0 27f8a574c6c7dcbf0291158b025e5b29 Stephe Harrop deposited Greek Tragedy in the Drama Studio: Lecoq, Agonism, and the Politics of Choral Pedagogy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890993/ Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This chapter considers the ways in which classics education takes place within the drama studio; the understandings of ancient theatre practice and its current meanings which are (explicitly or tacitly) promulgated within studio settings; and the implications of dominant training models and practices for wider cultural understandings and…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f1143779709ca076552f06cc8a7da8d James Robert Burns started the topic New Group: History of Slavery and Unfreedom in the discussion Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-greece-rome/forum/topic/new-group-history-of-slavery-and-unfreedom-2/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:07:01 -0400 Welcome to the ‘History of Slavery and Unfreedom’

So far as I am aware, this is the first and only Humanities Commons group dedicated to the study of slavery.*

The past decade has seen a large number of publications that address slavery in a range of historical societies (e.g., The Cambridge World History; The Palgrave Handbook; On Human…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fbd0124e8b56f051384020b58abc447 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Sappho’s Rose-Fingered Moon and Traditional Referentiality in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886477/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:07:38 -0400 This article reassesses Sappho’s description of the moon as βροδοδάκτυλος, “rose-fingered” (fr. 96.8 Voigt)—an epithet that is usually restricted to Dawn in archaic poetry. This apparent incongruity has prompted much perplexity among scholars, with various attempts to explain the adjective’s significance, or even to emend the epithet away. Here, I…[Read more]

]]> 0 06012a6c4ca70cd6833bd0feb05dad01 Meredith Warren deposited Bearing a “Jewish Weight”: A New Interpretation of a Greek Comedic Papyrus About Athletics (CPJ 3.519) in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884596/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:32 -0400 This article offers a new interpretation of the phrase “Jewish weight,” especially as it is used in the Greek papyrus known as CPJ 3.519. The Roman-era papyrus preserves part of a work of otherwise unknown fiction, probably a script of a comedic mime about an athletic contest in a gymnasium. Contrary to previous interpreters, a new reading of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ffa8ef5cf7332da062ca378c02488eb Adam Parker deposited Teething Problems: Pierced tooth amulets and sensing pain in the Roman archaeological record in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877895/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 747db96ae9f6b00aace7546889130d9e Elodie Paillard deposited Les ludi Graeci chez Cicéron in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868901/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:04 -0500 This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief s…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6f8be6018bf326eeb7e7f16338f8bcd Mark Beumer deposited From Mithras to Jesus. Ritual Dynamics of Christmas in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867642/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:00:11 -0500 At Christmas, Christians celebrate that Jesus was born on December 25 as the son of God andthe Virgin Mary. But this event is not unique. In this article, I show that the birth of Jesus hasseveral non-Christian predecessors, whereby various elements of the ritual dynamics have beenChristianized and implemented into the figure we know today as Jesus Christ.

]]> 0 be492bc40d05fe4489194aaef5e4d6a7 Elodie Paillard deposited 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862389/ Mon, 23 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 Elodie Paillard, ‘Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances’, in E. Csapo, H.R. Goette, J. R. Green, B. Le Guen, E. Paillard, J. Stoop, P. Wilson, Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, De Gruyter, 2022

]]> 0 89bf0b8f938302a1b223f04e9e4fc7c3 Elodie Paillard deposited The Stage and the City in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862211/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 03:00:03 -0400 This book explores the staging of non-élite characters in the seven extant tragedies of Sophocles and how they related to contemporary middling citizens. The structure of fifth-century Athenian society underwent deep changes between the early and late plays of Sophocles. The appearance and growing political importance of a middling…[Read more]

]]> 0 e6ee4794da2811506ab3a73a731df70a Lloyd Graham deposited A life in the balance: Divine judgement by weighing in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859627/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:03:23 -0400 This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 51c4b00b2f67e54db75d4a5bddfe145d Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Some Aspects of Decorations on Early Christian Lamps from the Central Balkans, in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855371/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:09:10 -0400 This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

]]> 0 48c627c4408977b8e93aac69abc2836e Henry Colburn deposited A Brief Historiography of Parthian Art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847835/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:24:29 -0400 The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1ef5e0fcd60e705707eca5943fa1ea7 Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846899/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:25:43 -0400 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]

]]> 0 bd236189ca81233b944534ca8a576fb8 Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846893/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:25:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f73f81c80830a09eca68d868444c0b72 Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846887/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:24:06 -0400 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]

]]> 0 04081e62157f754426a6d45af5870996 Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839755/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 02:23:53 -0400 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]

]]> 0 52b5ff9a92e6a35357d825fe47564479 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835113/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 02:23:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 77f73f6404f7131aa2308f8c9bed4024 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834850/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 02:24:03 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e24fda2f56d9b9b59e5be94ac84be5d1 Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833858/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:27:59 -0500 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]

]]> 0 54f0db233885214df9a578b21281a56b Olivier Dufault deposited Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816080/ Sun, 02 Oct 2022 02:23:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 b09cc5698114124e4a615fd6daec8a1f Thomas J. Nelson deposited Iphigenia in the Iliad and the Architecture of Homeric Allusion in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793767/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:26:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c512da43c2fcec190bcb86c2eca890ac Thomas J. Nelson deposited Beating the Galatians: Ideologies, Analogies and Allegories in Hellenistic Literature and Art in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793766/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:26:18 -0400 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]

]]> 0 d50ace12320588f9bfab6270a2c1a0e2 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Intertextual Agōnes in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793765/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:25:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 fd42176f87c7dc9c91c4bf9537d4bc9d Thomas J. Nelson deposited Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and Homer’s Quivering Spear (fr. 196a.52 IEG2) in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793764/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:25:25 -0400 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]

]]> 0 101f75986a29864b836328ffc4b2f6c2 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Repeating the Unrepeated: Allusions to Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793763/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:24:59 -0400 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]

]]> 0 6d279bdc8c63d6ecd22969c216fd9c2b Thomas J. Nelson deposited Tragic Noise and Rhetorical Frigidity in Lycophron’s Alexandra in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793762/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:24:33 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2698089e1deec8909eb9cc01358b74a6 Thomas J. Nelson deposited The Coma Stratonices: Royal Hair Encomia and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry? in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793761/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:24:06 -0400 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]

]]> 0 35b38f830ed29e2ed8eca941cf827c95 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Achilles’ Heel: (Im)mortality in the Iliad in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793760/ Sun, 11 Sep 2022 02:23:39 -0400 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]

]]> 0 903dd8dd626a794857000e2dead68fb9 Sarah Bond deposited “Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791359/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:24:38 -0400 “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).

]]> 0 465b278ed2752fa651d37f941f8f8b45 Johannes Bernhardt deposited From Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790481/ Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:24:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 de922a1bcbd2b5a1f6da55a414c842a5 John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian's Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774709/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:26:17 -0400 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]

]]> 0 f9a10264d8c2708147d38cb69823df3f John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa's Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774705/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:25:30 -0400 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]

]]> 0 017ce03923e850ef6db0491c7ea21107 John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774701/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:24:51 -0400 Review of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World

]]> 0 3090949c51c14bf1448a898a34d6bef9 John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774696/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:24:02 -0400 Review of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)

]]> 0 803a1dca06fc7334b70c6726b3de4f49 Elodie Paillard deposited Looking for Sociolects in Classical Greek Tragedy: A Digital Tool for Measuring Linguistic/Discursive Complexity in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772794/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 02:23:38 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 33c23fe3caa0c35aaa86b4876ad7abf6 Travis Proctor deposited Hospitality, not Honors: Portraits and Patronage in the Acts of John in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772278/ Fri, 18 Feb 2022 02:23:38 -0500 In 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
analysis com…[Read more]

]]> 0 32d73de8687c4b42abe840e9c30a2fa4 Henry Colburn deposited King Darius' Red Sea Canal in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772056/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:24:09 -0500 The 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.

]]> 0 dc7e1c5fc3055b52fa61a4b23fe6039e Elodie Paillard deposited Greek to Latin and Back: Did Roman Theatre Change Greek Theatre? in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759754/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:25:22 -0500 Chapter on the interactions between Roman theatrical tradition and late dramatic production in Greek language.

]]> 0 d4c99f3a88dad4aa157bf76f161faf5b Elodie Paillard deposited "Theatre", "Paratheatre", "Metatheatre": What are we talking about? in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759750/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:24:50 -0500 Introductory chapter to the collective volume ‘Theatre and Metatheare: Definitions, Problems, Limits’

]]> 0 230610dad273716f13151d124eed7c08 Elodie Paillard deposited Theatre and Metatheatre: Definitions, Problems, Limits in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759746/ Fri, 26 Nov 2021 02:24:12 -0500 The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many differe…[Read more]

]]> 0 438b9acfee13665abd28360a3d217e16 Elton Barker deposited Pelagios – Connecting Histories of Place. Part I: Methods and Tools in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758312/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 02:23:38 -0500 This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

]]> 0 33dc31baad04fe6ac9f6fa7a94509105 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Attalid Aesthetics. The Pergamene ‘Baroque’ Reconsidered in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758218/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:24:28 -0500 In this paper, I explore the literary aesthetics of Attalid Pergamon, one of the Ptolemies’ fiercest cultural rivals in the Hellenistic period. Traditionally, scholars have reconstructed Pergamene poetry from the city’s grand and monumental sculptural programme, hypothesizing an underlying aesthetic dichotomy between the two kingdoms: Ale…[Read more]

]]> 0 3dd5dcbb5ddf0c8028d34f542d487478 Thomas J. Nelson deposited Metapoetic Manoeuvres Between Callimachus and Apollonius: A Response to Annette Harder in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758217/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 02:23:50 -0500 This article reconsiders a number of the metapoetic oppositions which Harder has identified between Callimachus and Apollonius (in the lead article of this volume of Aevum Antiquum, ‘Aspects of the Interaction between Apollonius Rhodius and Callimachus’) and subjects them to closer scrutiny. First, I explore two metapoetic motifs (talking birds…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2c94cfa43db8790d5841a17d37367fd Stephe Harrop deposited Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classicism, and The Small Back Room in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755622/ Sun, 17 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -0400 The film The Small Back Room was written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and released in 1949. It is the wartime tale of an injured and embittered back-room scientist, who is recruited to help combat a new kind of explosive device. Based on Nigel Balchin’s 1943 novel, the film significantly alters the story’s climactic seq…[Read more]

]]> 0 f52c0581bedc2a442e246b91e483e499 Elodie Paillard deposited The Structural Evolution of Fifth-Century Athenian Society: Archaeological Evidence and Literary Sources in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755343/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:23:39 -0400 The structure of fifth-century Athenian society remains largely unknown, as is the distribution of its citizens into different socio-political categories. Ancient literary sources mostly describe a society divided into élite and poor. However, the model of a society alternately dominated by
the élite and the ‘lower-class’ is to be recon…[Read more]

]]> 0 819819e374293fa81d7eef67fb326eca Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754499/ Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:23:51 -0400 This paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.

]]> 0 be369bd0a65b946faa0e2ed86335e123 Elodie Paillard deposited Secondary Characters' Rhetorical Skills in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1754195/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 02:23:38 -0400 This chapter examines the rhetorical skills displayed by secondary (low–status)
characters in the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. “Rhetorical
skills” are here broadly understood as the abilities required to have one’s voice heard and
one’s opinion taken into account. These speaking abilities contribute to the socio–pol…[Read more]

]]> 0 2967e630ffe66a0266399d1658f9c5f7 Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750077/ Thu, 26 Aug 2021 02:24:55 -0400 A short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.

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