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{"title":"Juvenal’s Appia de numero Lamiarum (6.385–397)","authors":"Bernard Kavanagh","doi":"10.3138/MOUS.14.1-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/MOUS.14.1-05","url":null,"abstract":"Among the many women discussed in Juvenal’s Satire 6, the satirist’s tirade against the institution of marriage, one is a wife named Appia (6. 385–397), who is said to belong to the family of the (Aelii) Lamiae. Scholars have been divided as to who specifically the woman was, some believing that she was a member of the patrician Claudii of old, others that the reading Appia is corrupt. This article, while accepting the reading in the text as Appia, but not that she is not related to the ancient gens Claudia, argues instead that Juvenal’s Appia de numero Lamiarum was the daughter of L. Ceionius Commodus II, whose mother’s name was Appia Severa, and his wife *Plautia, who was the daughter of L. Aelius Lamia. Since Hadrian’s heir apparent, L. Aelius Caesar, was the son of that same couple, Appia must have been his sister, a fact not previously known.Résumé:Parmi les nombreuses femmes mentionnées dans la Satire VI de Juvénal, la tirade du satiriste contre l’institution du mariage, il se trouve une épouse nommée Appia (VI, 385-397), qui est dite appartenir à la famille des (Aelii) Lamiae. Les chercheurs étaient divisés quant à savoir qui était spécifiquement cette femme: certains croyaient qu’elle était un membre de la famille patricienne des anciens Claudii, d’autres que la lecture Appia était corrompue. Cet article, tout en acceptant la leçon Appia du texte, mais pas le fait qu’elle ne soit pas liée à l’ancienne gens Claudia, soutient plutôt que l’Appia de numero Lamiarum de Juvénal était la fille de L. Ceionus Commodus II, dont la mère était Appia Severa, et de sa femme *Plautia, qui était elle-même la fille de L. Aelius Lamia. Puisque l’héritier désigné d’Hadrien, L. Aelius Caesar, était le fils de ce même couple, Appia pourrait avoir été sa sœur, un fait inconnu jusqu’ici.","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125607512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gratiarum Actio","authors":"Alban Kale Baudou, Kale Coghlan","doi":"10.3138/mous.14.1-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/mous.14.1-07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115339169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prediction, Probability, and Pessimism in Thucydides","authors":"Nicholas R. Thorne","doi":"10.3138/MOUS.14.1-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/MOUS.14.1-02","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to improve our understanding of the place of prediction and the unpredictable in Thucydides. The argument begins with the position of those who have declared the unpredictable to be dominant and shows how their position is inadequate taken on its own terms. The key question is how we are to relate the predictable aspect of history to the unpredictable. If we too strongly stress the latter side, we must produce an incoherent Thucydides. It is possible to resolve this difficulty by understanding prediction for Thucydides to be focused on probabilities rather than on specific outcomes, and this brings us to the conclusion that the predictable aspect is the more significant focus of his analysis of history.Résumé:Cet article cherche à améliorer notre compréhension de la place réservée aux prédictions et à l’imprévisible chez Thucydide. La discussion s’ouvre avec la position de ceux qui ont déclaré que l’imprévisible était dominant, et montre comment leur position est inadéquate selon leurs propres termes. La question fondamentale est en fait de savoir comment relier l’aspect prévisible de l’histoire à celui imprévisible. Si nous insistons trop fortement sur ce dernier aspect, nous risquons de rendre Thucydide incohérent. Il est possible de résoudre cette difficulté en comprenant que la prédiction pour Thucydide repose davantage sur des probabilités que sur des résultats spécifiques, ce qui nous amène à la conclusion que l’aspect prévisible est le point le plus important de son analyse historique.","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122143301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Men, Women, and Wine: A Gender-Based Analysis of Lucanian Necropoleis","authors":"Chiara Albanesi, Ilaria Battiloro","doi":"10.3138/MOUS.14.1-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/MOUS.14.1-01","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper we provide a fresh perspective on how societies of ancient Lucania were structured, focusing especially on the role of high-ranking women. In particular, we explore the social implications of ritual banquet and sympotic practices that the Italic populations borrowed from the Greeks living in the coastal poleis, as demonstrated by the deposition of sympotic items in high-ranking burials as means of self-representation. Current literature on the Lucanian world asserts a clear-cut division of roles between male and female, men being the protagonists of social and political life, and women being confined within domestic boundaries. Our research addresses whether and to what extent this simplistic dichotomy is valid. Examining a group of sample tombs from a few cemetery sites reveals a far more nuanced and intricate picture. High-ranking female burials display grave goods that imply the practice of sacrifice-banquet, which also involved wine consumption. What does the presence of these objects in female tombs mean? Do they testify to women’s participation in convivial practices that, in the Greek world, were considered exclusively male? If so, what are the social implications? To address these questions, we look at the recurrence of sympotic objects and banquet tools in female burials; at the association of grave goods of different types within the same tomb; and finally, at the socio-economic role of the deceased.Résumé:Dans cet article, nous apportons une nouvelle perspective sur la façon dont la société de l’ancienne Lucanie était structurée, surtout en ce qui concerne le rôle des femmes de la classe dominante. Nous explorons en particulier les implications sociales du banquet rituel et des pratiques sympotiques que les populations italiques avaient empruntées aux Grecs vivant dans les poleis côtières, implications démontrées par le dépôt d’items sympotiques dans les tombes de personnes de haut rang, comme moyens d’autoreprésentation. La littérature actuelle sur le monde lucanien pose une claire division entre le rôle des hommes et celui des femmes: les hommes seraient les protagonistes de la vie sociale et politique, tandis que les femmes resteraient confinées à la sphère domestique. Notre recherche cherche à savoir si, et dans quelle mesure, cette dichotomie simpliste est valide. L’examen d’un groupe de sépultures choisies parmi quelques sites funéraires dresse un tableau beaucoup plus nuancé et complexe. Les tombes des femmes de haut rang montrent des biens funéraires impliquant la pratique de banquets sacrificiels dans lesquels il y a consommation de vin. Que signifie la présence de ces objets dans ces tombes féminines? Est-ce qu’ils attestent la participation des femmes à des pratiques conviviales qui, dans le monde grec, sont considérées strictement masculines? Si oui, quels en sont les implications sociales? Pour répondre à ces questions, nous considérons la récurrence des objets sympotiques et des outils de banquet da","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121448875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Allusive Syme","authors":"K. Bradley","doi":"10.3138/mous.14.1-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/mous.14.1-06","url":null,"abstract":"A brief study that draws attention to the wide variety of literary quotations and allusions on display in Ronald Syme’s polemical work, The Historia Augusta: A Call of Clarity (1971).Résumé:Une brève étude qui met en lumière la grande variété des citations et allusions littéraires déployées par Ronald Syme dans son ouvrage polémique, The Historia Augusta: A Call of Clarity (1971).","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"6 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132340128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Into Bride Ritual as an Element of Urbanization: Iconographic Studies of Objects from the Timpone Della Motta, Francavilla Marittima","authors":"M. Kleibrink","doi":"10.3138/MOU.13.2.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/MOU.13.2.235","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The excavation campaigns at Francavilla Marittima (1991–2004) by Groningen University revealed that a fifth building could be added to the four buildings/temples of the Athenaion on the Timpone della Motta, known since the 1960s. Or, to be exact, they revealed that a fifth complex could be added because the complicated stratigraphy shows that in the southwest corner of the Timpone’s “acropolis” at least five successive buildings have been constructed in the same place. This study examines the bronze and terracotta figurines of hierogamy couples and/or their mortal substitutes associated with the apsidal building Vb (which was in existence during the first three quarters of the eighth century bc), ritual scenes on the painted lid of a monumental vase, associated with building Vc (in 730/720–650 bc), together with the terracotta plaques from the Vd phase (650–600 bc), which have all been interpreted as referring to marriage rituals and attesting to the importance of this originally native Oenotrian complex. The Levantine-Oenotrian roots of the hierogamy motif, which is repeated at S. Biagio and Metapontum, in combination with the fact that the first cult buildings at those sites were emblazoned with “Francavilla Marittima” motives shows not only that wedding rituals must have been an important element in the urbanization process but also that they contained old native Oenotrian elements.Résumé:Les campagnes de fouilles à Francavilla Marittima (1991-2004) menées par les archéologues de Groningen ont révélé qu’aux quatre édifices ou temples de l’Athénaion sur le Timpone della Motta, connus depuis les années 1960, un cinquième pouvait être ajouté, ou plutôt un cinquième ensemble, puisque la stratigraphie complexe a montré que, dans le coin sud-ouest de l’« acropole » de Timpone, de nouveaux édifices ont été construits en au moins cinq occasions. Cette étude a pour objet les figurines en bronze et en terre cuite de couples hiérogames, associées à l’édifice à abside Vb (trois premiers quarts du VIIIe siècle avant notre ère), le couvercle peint d’un vase monumental, associé à l’édifice Vc (730/20-650 avant notre ère), et des plaques en terre cuite provenant de la phase Vd (650-660 avant notre ère). Tous ces objets sont interprétés en lien avec le rituel du mariage et témoignent de l’importance de celui-ci dans ce complexe œnotrien d’origine locale. Les racines levantines et œnotriennes du motif hiérogamique, qui se retrouve aussi à San Biagio et à Métaponte, en association avec le fait que les premiers édifices cultuels sur ces sites étaient marqués de motifs « Francavilla Marittima », montrent non seulement que le rituel du mariage devait être un élément important dans le processus d’urbanisation, mais aussi qu’il présentait d’anciens éléments indigènes œnotriens.","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"516 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130138096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Comedian as Critic: Greek Old Comedy and Poetics by Matthew Wright (review)","authors":"K. Sidwell","doi":"10.5040/9781472555793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472555793","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133022809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient Historians: A Student Handbook by Susan Sorek (review)","authors":"Sandra J. Bingham","doi":"10.1353/mou.2012.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mou.2012.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127372042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily: Results of the 2013 Season","authors":"R.J.A. Wilson","doi":"10.1353/mou.2012.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mou.2012.0032","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes results from UBC excavations at the Roman villa of Gerace, Sicily, in 2013. Geophysical survey in 2012 demonstrated that some half a dozen further structures once existed here, in addition to the small villa-like building partially investigated by others in 1994 and 2007. In 2013 excavation concentrated on rooms 1 and 2 of the latter residence. The former, provided with a bench, a work-top and an earth floor, may have been a kitchen. Room 2 had a white mortar floor and plastered walls. A small portion of mosaic-paved corridor outside these rooms was also investigated. The building was erected not before ca. ad 370 and perished in a fire in the second half of the fifth century. Immediately to the east a building suggested by geophysics to have been some 50 m long was trial-trenched. The part excavated was paved with an intact floor of stone flags. The paving extended up to 2.20 m beyond the structure’s east and west exterior walls, possibly to ensure it was kept dry. It may have been the estate granary or storebuilding. Probably built in the first half of the fourth century, replacing an earlier structure below, it had a short life: it collapsed dramatically, perhaps in the earthquake of ad 361/363, and was never rebuilt. A heated room, possibly belonging to a bath-suite in the villa-like building, was found in the west end of the trench; part of the granary’s roof collapse and west wall were removed to provide space for the later structure’s stoke-hole. Among the finds were 99 stamps on roof tiles from the villa-like building. Ten dies were recorded, eight of them varieties of the name Philippianus, who may have been the owner of the Gerace estate in the later fourth century. Cet article présente les résultats des fouilles menées en 2013 par l’UBC à la villa romaine de Gerace en Sicile. Une prospection géophysique avait révélé en 2012 l’existence de près d’une demi-douzaine de structures, en plus du petit bâtiment de style villa, par ailleurs déjà partiellement exploré en 1994 et 2007. En 2013, les fouilles de ce bâtiment se sont concentrées sur les chambres 1 et 2. La première, munie d’un banc, d’un plan de travail et d’un plancher en terre battue, pourrait avoir été une cuisine. La deuxième possédait un plancher en mortier blanc et des murs recouverts de plâtre. Une portion du corridor pavé de mosaïques à l’extérieur des chambres a également été examinée. L’édifice fut construit au plus tôt en 370 après J. C. et détruit par les flammes durant la seconde moitié du Ve siècle. Immédiatement à l’est, une structure, évaluée à 50 m de long selon l’examen géophysique, a fait l’objet d’un sondage par tranchée, qui a révélé un pavement intact de dalles en pierre. Ce pavement se prolongeait jusqu’à 2,2 m au-delà des murs extérieurs à l’ouest et à l’est du bâtiment, dans un but probable de régulation de l’humidité. Il pourrait s’agir du grenier à grain ou de l’entrepôt du domaine. Construit vraisemblablement durant la première moiti","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128281622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Actio Gratiarum: (Classical Association of Canada conference, 2013)","authors":"L. Migeotte","doi":"10.1353/mou.2012.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mou.2012.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":148727,"journal":{"name":"Echos du monde classique: Classical news and views","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127754485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}