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{"title":"News and the Family in Ancient Greece","authors":"Itamar Levin","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914588","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholarship on ancient Greek communication has most often covered military intelligence, diplomatic correspondence or news of public interest. In the present study, in contrast, I investigate the transmission of targeted information, news relevant to a circumscribed number of individuals, such as one household. I maintain that targeted reports were delivered thanks to an institution of informal reportage which was based on a quid pro quo between news-bringers and recipients. Unlike formal messengers, informal messengers voluntarily reported ex tempore alongside their other engagements in order to be compensated. This cultural environment enabled an efficient mechanism for reportage; it was likewise, however, a fertile ground for the circulation of misinformation.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"382 1","pages":"159 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138993754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ovationes Anni Salvtis Mmxxiii","authors":"Tom Keeline","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"391 5","pages":"240 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138991213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book 8: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Cristiano Castelletti et al. (review)","authors":"Kirsty Corrigan","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"46 5","pages":"249 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139016941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who Are We and Who Are You?: Images of Our Discipline in Popular Novels","authors":"Sophie Mills","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"1218 21","pages":"225 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imperial Nuptials at Pompeii: CIL IV.1261, an Obscene Take on the Marriage of Nero and Pythagoras","authors":"D. M. Possanza","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914589","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Among Pompeian wall inscriptions CIL IV.1261 is well known for its brisk obscenities and problems of text and interpretation. According to the text as it is currently printed, the graffito is generally understood to make a political statement of some kind about the mistreatment of the Roman citizen body; in what circumstances and by whom the collective of ciues Romani has been mistreated cannot be determined from the evidence of the graffito. In this paper, I present a revised text of the graffito, and I argue that the phrase ciuium Romanorum cunnus refers not to the Roman citizen body but to the emperor Nero and that the scene described in the text is the earliest extant testimony to an event that took place in 64 CE and was witnessed by persons unknown, Nero's marriage as bride to his freedman Pythagoras.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"306 ","pages":"189 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity by Georgia Frank (review)","authors":"Dennis Trout","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"86 4","pages":"246 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138988349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Simonides Lyricus: Essays on the 'Other' Classical Choral Lyric Poet ed. by Peter Agócs and Lucia Prauscello (review)","authors":"Ruth Scodel","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"170 ","pages":"243 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139012952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lycurgus' Extreme Wisdom: Competing Views of the Lawgiver in Plato and Xenophon","authors":"Susan O. Shapiro","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a914587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a914587","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As part of the ongoing reassessment of Xenophon's philosophical works, scholars have taken a renewed interest in the relationship between Xenophon and Plato, who occasionally criticize one another's works. Although ancient commentators assumed that the two men must have been rivals, a closer look at each one's comments on the other's work reveals that their criticisms were more philosophical than personal. After discussing two examples in which Plato and Xenophon criticize one another's works, in this paper I suggest that an unusual comment made by Xenophon about Lycurgus, the legendary Spartan lawgiver, is an oblique but critical reference to a statement in Plato's Symposium about Lycurgus' wisdom.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"227 19","pages":"127 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire by Jane Draycott (review)","authors":"Gabriel A. F. Silva","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a909270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a909270","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire by Jane Draycott Gabriel A. F. Silva Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire. By Jane Draycott. London, UK and New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xiv + 202. Hardback, $140.00. ISBN: 978–1-4724–3396–1. With this book, Jane Draycott offers, as the title makes clear, a concise, but very welcome analysis on Roman domestic medicine. Scholars of ancient medicine are used to a very generous bibliography regarding medical practices and theories, especially from Hippocrates and Galen, but Draycott’s monograph focuses on non-professional medicine, on the medical practices and knowledge which people would have at the time under study. The study is divided into four chapters, dealing with different types of domestic medical practices and concepts. After the introduction (1–21), where Draycott states the main goals (10–13), and the structure of the book (16–17), highlighting the use of many kinds of sources, namely archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence, the first chapter (“Health in the Roman Republic and Principate,” 22–47) attempts to give a definition of health in the ancient world, based not only on Roman authors (Cato or Varro, for example), but also on Greek physicians, notably Hippocrates. The second chapter (“The Roman House and Garden,” 48–93) deals with the importance of the location of a Roman house for good health, taking as sources especially Roman technical prose writers; particular emphasis is given to the garden and its salutary meaning. The third chapter (“The Roman [End Page 123] Household,” 94–130) offers an insight on the different members of the household and their roles in protecting their own and others’ health, and on the relation between the household and its domestic gods. The last chapter (“The Transmission of Medical Knowledge,” 131–153) deals with the transmission of medical information through literature, namely that of encyclopedists like Celsus or Pliny the Elder, and potentially also through libraries, oral transmission and personal knowledge acquired throughout one’s life. Draycott’s study is of particular importance since it deals with ancient medicine and medical practices and theories not in the way we might be used to, since scholarship tends (understandably) to focus on the analysis of professional theories and ideas, taken from the writings of official medical writers, such as Hippocrates and Galen. Draycott directs her attention to writers (both prose and verse) whom readers would not necessarily associate with medicine or medical practices. Names like Cato, Varro, Vitruvius, Columella, Seneca and Pliny the Younger and their works appear throughout the book as conveyers of health and domestic medical knowledge, particularly relating to the concepts of “regimen” and “healthcare” (as explored in the first chapter). Another key feature of this book is th","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135759961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Αρχαίοι μύθοι στη νεοελληνική δραματουργία. Τρωικός κύκλος–Θηβαϊκός κύκλος by Athanasios Blessios (review)","authors":"Stella Alexiou","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.a909271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.a909271","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Αρχαίοι μύθοι στη νεοελληνική δραματουργία. Τρωικός κύκλος–Θηβαϊκός κύκλος by Athanasios Blessios Stella Alexiou Αρχαίοι μύθοι στη νεοελληνική δραματουργία. Τρωικός κύκλος–Θηβαϊκός κύκλος. By ATHANASIOS BLESSIOS. Athens, GR: Grigoris, 2020. Pp. 504. Hardback, € 28.00. ISBN: 978–960–612–311–5. For literature and theatre scholars, the book entitled Αρχαίοι μύθοι στη νεοελληνική δραματουργία. Τρωικός κύκλος–Θηβαϊκός κύκλος. Ο μύθος των Λαμβακιδών is a valuable guide to making full use of the myth as a decisive tool in modern Greek dramaturgy. The scientific activity of Athanasios Blessios, Professor of Theatre Studies, is well-known from his personal bibliography. He has published a great volume of articles on modern Greek dramaturgy, as well as various monographs in this specific field of research. In his latest scientific work, Athanasios Blessios uses strong narrative dynamics to map the perception of ancient Greek myths of epic and tragedy in modern Greek dramaturgy from the 19th to the 21st century. The book is well-structured and comprises meaningful and in-depth analysis. It is divided into two parts: the first part explores the Trojan cycle, namely the myth of Helen, of Achilles, of Philoctetes and of Odysseus, whereas the fifth chapter assesses the presence and use of the myth of other–primarily Trojan–heroes in Greek dramaturgy. The second part provides a comprehensive overview of the use of the Theban cycle, widely known through the myth of the Labdacids. More specifically, the first chapter comprises three categories of plays, where the predominant figure is that of Oedipus in relation to his father, Laius, and to other heroes, while the case of Chrysippus constitutes a distinct category, as this specific myth has been used by Dimitris Dimitriadis in his play Χρύσιππος (2008). The second chapter presents plays where the leading characters are Oedipus and Jocasta, while the third chapter focuses on Antigone, the most admired heroine in modern and contemporary dramaturgy compared to the other heroes and heroines of the Theban cycle, as implied by her predominance in the titles of relevant plays, but it is also reflected into other characters, namely Ismene, Creon and Haemon. The fourth chapter looks into the plays Αντιγόνη και Πολυνείκης (1977), by Costas Socratous, Πάροδος Θηβών (1994), by Iakovos Kambanelis, and Τειρεσίας (1964–1971), by Yannis Ritsos, that differ from the plays discussed in the other chapters due to their distinct theme, which is, however, essentially associated with the other thematic sections of the book. In this critical review, I would like to highlight the valuable and interesting inventory of plays (1870–2019) related to Odysseus’ return to Ithaca, a section that–as Blessios points out–is the most popular among the sections [End Page 125] of the Odysseus myth in modern Greek dramaturgy. As two of the above-mentioned works are plays by Cypriot writers, Blessios’ study incorporates texts from the Cyprio","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135760305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}