Acta ClassicaPub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.1353/acl.2021.0013
C. Ando
{"title":"Religious affiliation and political belonging from Cicero to Theodosius","authors":"C. Ando","doi":"10.1353/acl.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The essay analyzes the language used by Classical and Christian Romans to describe individual religious affiliation. It contends that the dominant language employed to describe membership in a cultic community was that of citizenship. The Romans' mapping of the one domain (religious affiliation) by means of their understanding of the other (citizenship) has substantial implications for histories of Roman religion. Most significantly, it implies a broad understanding that political belonging had significant and universal entailments in matters of cult. The essay then traces the continuity of this language across eras of considerable change, as regards both the meaning of citizenship but also the radical diminution in life and politics of Classical religion and the rise to prominence and power of Christianity.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"64 1","pages":"28 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41545266","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 : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0005
Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez
{"title":"Reutilización de fuentes en recetarios médicos de la antigüedad tardía: Teodoro Prisciano-Teraupetica-Tereoperica.","authors":"Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The Teraupetica (sic) and the so-called Tereoperica are medical recipe books roughly ascribed to Late Antiquity. Despite their similar titles and similar arguments in their prefaces, the relationship between these books has not been explored yet. The main source of the Teraupetica, in both the preface and the recipe chapters, is the first book of Theodorus Priscianus’ Euporista. Taking Priscianus’ work as a control tool, it can be proved that: (1) the Tereoperica’s preface is a re-writing of the opening statement of the Teraupetica; (2) a number of Tereoperica’s medical recipes have also been taken from the Teraupetica. In summary, the Teraupetica are earlier and one of the sources of the Tereoperica.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"1 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41629940","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 : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0010
J. Murray
{"title":"Further Notes on the First Classical Association of South Africa","authors":"J. Murray","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43597117","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 : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0008
J. Gatt
{"title":"Knowing with Oneself and Knowing with Others: The Use of ΣΥΝΕΙΔΕΝΑΙ in Antiphon's Speeches","authors":"J. Gatt","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The extant corpus of the Athenian logographer Antiphon is a richer source for the verb συνειδέναι than that of any other contemporary writer. Used self-reflexively in the expression ‘I share knowledge with myself’, συνειδέναι commonly marks an act of introspection of a guilty party. Sharing knowledge with another, on the other hand, is an activity that often distinguishes accomplices and co-conspirators. Both uses are to be found in Antiphon’s works. Though this is also the case with contemporary authors whose use of this verb has been more thoroughly investigated, Antiphon’s use of this verb is distinct in a number of ways. Antiphon more readily associates this verb with witnesses and this ‘shared knowledge’ is an obvious concern of the litigants. Moreover, the reflexive ‘guilty self-knowledge’ is characterized primarily as a dispositional attitude to be inferred from the observable actions of litigants. Both of these features, I argue, can be related to the rhetorical context of Antiphon’s speeches.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43975689","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 : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0009
H. Harissis
{"title":"The Linear B e-qe-ta: A Mycenaean ephebe","authors":"H. Harissis","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The word e-qe-ta is one of the most well-known Linear B words. It is transcribed as / h ekw etas/ (in alphabetic Greek ἑπέτας ‘follower’). It has been regarded as a title of important and powerful persons of ‘the royal court’ charged with military, religious and other functions. However, there are still unanswered questions about the morphology and the semantics of the word, permitting new interpretations. Here, the hypothesis is put forward that e-qe-ta can be transcribed as /h ēgw étas/ (in alphabetic Greek *ἡβέτας ‘ephebe’) and the one and only identity that must be attributed to him is that of a young soldier in the Mycenaean army, comparable in roles to the ephebe of Classical Greece.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41972648","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 : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0006
Tetsufumi Takeshita
{"title":"Symmetrical Wordplay in the First Book of Manilius' Astronomica","authors":"Tetsufumi Takeshita","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46680429","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 : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1353/ACL.0.0007
D. V. Schoor
{"title":"ΚΑΙ ΚΑΤΑΨΕΥΔΟΥ ΚΑΛΩΣ: Wagering on Divinity in Euripides' Bacchae","authors":"D. V. Schoor","doi":"10.1353/ACL.0.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ACL.0.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/ACL.0.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66757088","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 : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0002
Andrea F. Gatzke
{"title":"Heracles, Alexander, and Hellenistic Coinage","authors":"Andrea F. Gatzke","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The portrait of a young Heracles wearing the lion skin was a familiar sight on Hellenistic coins. Though this coin type is often interpreted as serving legitimizing purposes by connecting Hellenistic rulers to Alexander the Great, who popularized this type, such explanations are problematic for understanding the portrait’s appearance in places like Sparta and Carthage, who had less to gain from evoking the memory of Alexander. This article argues for the symbolic and economic value of Heracles’ portrait in its own right. The portrait’s popularity can be attributed to the hero’s own associations with royal authority, his widespread appeal, and his ability to blend with the regional and local traditions of Hellenistic subjects within and outside of the Greek world. Further, this particular representation of Heracles was especially popular among rulers striving to assert their claims to the throne, including usurpers, because of its familiarity. The coin type lent an element of political and economic reliability to the ruler and facilitated the hiring of mercenary forces, who had long been accustomed to receiving pay in coins of this type.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/acl.0.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49495692","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 : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0001
S. Burstein
{"title":"The African Encounter With Greece: The Case of Kush","authors":"S. Burstein","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Interaction between Greeks and non-Greek peoples is a central theme of contemporary Greek historiography. Most such studies, however, involve the peoples of the successor states of Alexander’s empire. Less well known were the encounters between Greeks and the independent peoples living beyond the frontiers of the Greek world. A noteworthy example of such an encounter is that between Ptolemaic Egypt and the kingdom of Kush in Nubia. Early interpretations of this encounter relied on the concept of Hellenization, arguing that objects of Mediterranean origin found in Nubia and examples of Greek influence observed in Kushite art were evidence of Hellenization. My purpose in this paper is to offer a new interpretation of the encounter of Kush with Ptolemaic Egypt, one that emphasizes the function of Greek culture in Kush and does not rely on the concept of Hellenization but highlights instead the agency of the Kushites in determining the extent and character of that influence.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/acl.0.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47761137","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 : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1353/acl.0.0000
J. Atkinson, R. Hendricks
{"title":"The Skull of Philip II of Macedon and the Mind of His Assassin","authors":"J. Atkinson, R. Hendricks","doi":"10.1353/acl.0.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/acl.0.0000","url":null,"abstract":"The forensic evidence of the skull found in the funerary cask in the Royal Tomb IIA at Vergina coheres with the record that Philip lost an eye from an arrow wound at Methone in 354 BC. A deviation of the mandible to the affected side from what might be expected from the right eye injury can be explained. It is argued that a ‘nice’ version of the reconstruction of the face might mislead and not do justice to the clear evidence of traumatic facial disfiguration. That and the limp caused by a separate leg injury may have made Philip more sensitive to comments and thus in a way more vulnerable. The second focus here is on Pausanias, the assassin, resisting the common assumption that an assassin will have been someone mentally unstable and/or someone set up by others to remove the victim on his own, and thus deflect attention from the conspirators. The prosopographical evidence, the context of the assassination, the uncertainty about what Philip intended in launching action against the Persians, doubts about its wisdom, and Philip’s campaign to bring the Greeks more into partnership suggest that Pausanias may have been moved to action by more than his personal grievance.","PeriodicalId":41891,"journal":{"name":"Acta Classica","volume":" ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/acl.0.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47722726","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}