Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0006
J. Meyer
{"title":"Arcessite divum matrem: The homecoming of the Great Mother to Rome","authors":"J. Meyer","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Was Cybele brought to Rome to expel Hannibal, as Cicero and Livy suggest, or was she brought to re-establish Rome's Trojan heritage, as Ovid and Herodian propose? Did her sacred stone come from Pessinus, Pergamum, or Mt Ida? In answering these questions this article argues, on the basis of a re-examination of the testimonies of Ovid and Herodian, that the Magna Mater did not come to drive out Hannibal but rather to reaffirm Rome's Trojan ancestry, and that Pergamum and Mt Ida are likely the origin of her sacred stone. In addition the article introduces a passage from Timotheus of Miletus, which locates the goddess in Ilium itself. This new literary evidence emphasizes the connection between the Magna Mater and Troy. By addressing these two questions fresh light will be shed on the Trojan background to the Magna Mater's Roman advent.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"113 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48662934","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0002
Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle
{"title":"Cicéron, Tite-Live et Tacite témoins de la Révolution française dans un centon de l'an VIII (1800)","authors":"Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The present contribution is devoted to the Essais sur l'histoire de la Révolution française, a cento published in 1800 and written by two young students of the École des mines, Antoine Héron de Villefosse and Charles-François Durozoir. It sums up its editorial history, presents its contents, studies its sources, and discusses various methods used to ensure the coherence of the narrative, to stigmatize the Revolution, and to exalt Bonaparte as First Consul, namely omissions in the Latin text or the French translation, additions, adaptations, transitions from the specific to the general or from the general to the specific, and distortions of meaning.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"12 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45562756","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-07-29DOI: 10.1353/acl.2022.0008
E. Pappa
{"title":"Herakles and the gorgon in Athenian Black-Figure vase-painting: Burlesque or Civic Theology?","authors":"E. Pappa","doi":"10.1353/acl.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The article revisits some Athenian Black-Figure vases that depict Herakles and a monster. While it is indebted to previous iconographic analyses, it adopts a broader, contextual methodology, firmly situating them within the socio-religious setting of Archaic Athens. Adducing relevant data, it opens new lines of investigation. The implications of visual humour for civic theology are explored in light of recent studies, rejecting a postulated derivation of these scenes from theatrical plays. Rather, it is proposed that the vases had a cultic function, with their imagery deployed as an allusion to the rites of the Panathenaia, referencing the aetiological myth of the festival.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"65 1","pages":"157 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49030922","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0013
Miron Wolny
{"title":"Βασιλεύς comme équivalent de špṭ puniques: problème du statut d’Hannibal après 201 av. J.-C.","authors":"Miron Wolny","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the issue of the political and legal status of Hannibal after 201 BC. It begins by examining whether the status of Hannibal changed during the Second Punic War, and concludes that the scope of Hannibal’s competence (as στρατηγός) remained unchanged at this time. It then argues that the next office occupied by Hannibal after the end of the war was a formal consequence of his career development. The main reason for the doubts that arose in the sources about the status of Hannibal was the result of them looking at this Carthaginian leader through the prism of Roman jurisprudence.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49372713","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0012
Matteo Rajola
{"title":"A Further Usage of the Word Homousios in Latin: Lexicographical Observations","authors":"Matteo Rajola","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"10 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66757148","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0011
E. Pappa
{"title":"Herakles and the Gorgon in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting: Burlesque or Civic Theology?","authors":"E. Pappa","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The article revisits some Athenian Black-Figure vases that depict Herakles and a monster. While it is indebted to previous iconographic analyses, it adopts a broader, contextual methodology, firmly situating them within the socio-religious setting of Archaic Athens. Adducing relevant data, it opens new lines of investigation. The implications of visual humour for civic theology are explored in light of recent studies, rejecting a postulated derivation of these scenes from theatrical plays. Rather, it is proposed that the vases had a cultic function, with their imagery deployed as an allusion to the rites of the Panathenaia, referencing the aetiological myth of the festival.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42908167","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0014
T. Hockings
{"title":"Conjectures on Ovid’s Love Poems","authors":"T. Hockings","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0014","url":null,"abstract":"The author offers conjectures on twenty-six passages in Ovid’s Amores, Medicamina faciei femineae, Ars amatoria, and Remedia amoris, some where the text has long been suspected and others in which the author raises new doubts.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45937366","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0016
A. Kallergi
{"title":"Larger Than Life: Intertextuality Between the Poetry of Callimachus and the Second Book of Horace’s Epistles","authors":"A. Kallergi","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0016","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to underline the intertextual ties of the second book of the Horatian Epistles with the poetry of Callimachus. Horace is markedly inspired by the Alexandrian way of writing, both in choosing the form of the collection and in the manner that he uses some of the common motifs found in the Epistles. In other words, most of the famous motifs of Callimachus, such as the ὀλιγοστιχία and the need for originality that Callimachus declares in the prologue of Aitia are firmly present, yet they undergo transformation in Horace’s poetry.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45889934","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}
Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.1353/acl.2021.0007
Jerneja Kavčič
{"title":"A corpus-based approach to the emergence of the verb ἐποῖκα in post-Classical epigraphic sources","authors":"Jerneja Kavčič","doi":"10.1353/acl.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Focusing on a corpus of Post-Classical non-literary texts, I examine contrasting views regarding the emergence of the κ-aorist of the verb ποιέω. I propose two different readings of the form ΕΠΟΙΚΑ found in ancient epigraphic sources. This evidence also sheds new light on the processes that led to the emergence of the verb form in question.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"64 1","pages":"153 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47194934","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}