{"title":"Hipparchus’ Didactic Journey: Poetry, Prose, and Catalogue Form in the Commentary on Aratus and Eudoxus","authors":"J. Lightfoot","doi":"10.17863/CAM.40840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.40840","url":null,"abstract":"Seeking to establish his didactic superiority to prior commentaries on the astronomers, Hipparchus hit upon the catalogue form as expressing his views in the most authoritative way.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2017-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85400622","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":"Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen’s Use of the Elephant’s Cardiac Anatomy against Cardiocentrists","authors":"L. Salas","doi":"10.1163/9789004443860_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004443860_006","url":null,"abstract":"Galen’s commitment to encephalocentrism and to a coherent theory of structural requirements led him to assert, even in a public experiment, the existence of a bone in the elephant heart where none exists.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2014-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74316426","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":"Dating the Homeric Hymn to Selene : Evidence and Implications","authors":"Alexander E. W. Hall","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1606827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1606827","url":null,"abstract":"Probable references to the hymn by Aristophanes and Empedocles point to an archaic date instead of Hellenistic or later; its focus on beauty rather than divine intercession gives the hymn more an aesthetic than a hymnic force.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80250604","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":"29. Regional Texts and the Circulation of Books: The Case of Homer","authors":"M. Finkelberg","doi":"10.1515/9783110671452-029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671452-029","url":null,"abstract":"Homer's several statements about the polar constellations prompted ancient critics both to emend the received text, in order to attribute to Homer advanced astronomical knowledge, and to defend it, by means of reinterpretation.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2006-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73166802","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":"28. ‘She Turns about in the Same Spot and Watches for Orion’: ancient criticism and exegesis of Od. 5.274 = Il. 18.488","authors":"M. Finkelberg","doi":"10.1515/9783110671452-028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671452-028","url":null,"abstract":"Homer's several statements about the polar constellations prompted ancient critics both to emend the received text, in order to attribute to Homer advanced astronomical knowledge, and to defend it, by means of reinterpretation.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2004-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72945600","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":"The Poet, the Bishop, and the Harlot","authors":"A. Cameron","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190268947.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190268947.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Nonnus composed both the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrase of John, and in that order; he is distinct from Nonnus of Edessa and from the Nonnus who appears in the Life of Pelagia the Harlot.","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2000-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81422236","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":"The Sixth Sybilline Oracle as a Literary Hymn","authors":"M. D. Usher","doi":"10.4324/9780203616901-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203616901-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78779625","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":"Watching a Lawsuit: A New Curse Tablet from Southern Russia","authors":"A. Chaniotis","doi":"10.11588/PROPYLAEUMDOK.00000100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11588/PROPYLAEUMDOK.00000100","url":null,"abstract":"D AVID R. JORDAN has recently published with ample commentary a curse tablet said to have been found in \"southern Russia.\"l In relation to a lawsuit an unknown person curses his opponents, as well as those who \"are their supporting speakers/advocates\" (acrol cruvTlYOpOVcrl aU'WlC;) and those who \"observe\" (nupu'tTlpoucrt). The defixio probably dates to the late fourth or early third century B.C. The expression acrol nupa'tTlPoucrl is unique in curse tablets mentioning lawsuits 2 and is moreover unknown in legal documents. The editor is cautious and rightly points out that a nupu'tTl PTl'tllC; \"was someone whose presence, like that of the opponent's cruvllYoP0C;, in a possibly fourthor early third-century lawcourt north of the Black Sea was thought to be worth cursing.\" This paper, drawing on some parallels for the role of the public at trials, aims to show that the nupu'tTl PTl'tu [ were persons brought by the litigant to the court in order to influence the judges with their reactions or merely with their presence. The word napu'tTl PTl'tllC; is not attested as a legal terminus tcchnicus, nor does it occur in court orations or legal documents to describe an institution, a magistrate, or the ordinary participants in a trial (i. e., /lap'tup£c;. cruvTnOpOt. cruClKOl. EVOPKOl. ClKUcr'tUi, KU'tllYOPOt. etc.). In the Attic orators nupuTllPElV preserves its literal meaning, i.e., \"watch, observe, look on\" (Sc. a lawsuit), without judicial implications.3 Aeschines, for instance, in the only attestation of the word in a","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"1992-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74357375","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":"Threatened wombs: aspects of ancient uterine magic.","authors":"J J Aubert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26525365","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":"Casualties in Hoplite Battles","authors":"Peter Krentz","doi":"10.4324/9781315241289-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315241289-16","url":null,"abstract":"OW MUCH RISK did a Greek hoplite run of losing his life in a set battle? The consensus of recent writers on Greek warfare is that casualties were light unless and until one side re treated. I \"Greek armour gave reasonably good protection,\" explains G. Cawkwell, \"hence the small number of casualties on the victori ous side in set battles-there were a mere 159 on the Greek side at Plataea in 479 B.C.\" Oswyn Murray finds the battle of Plataea illustra tive of hoplite battles in general: \"It is typical of the nature of hoplite warfare that in this greatest of hoplite battles the Greeks lost only 159 men.\" A. J. Holladay also cites Plataea, along with Mantinea, Delium, and Marathon-where 6,400 Persians died, but only 192 Athenians-to support his contention that \"the total casualties in hoplite battles where we have reliable figures are remarkably light.\" But Plataea and Marathon were not battles between two hoplite ar mies. Were their casualties typical or exceptional? An answer may lie in the casualty figures supplied by our sources for set hoplite battles in the classical period between Plataea and Leuctra (479-371).2 There are good grounds for taking these data se riously. For religious reasons, the Greeks regularly retrieved corpses and saw to their proper burial. In classical Athens the names of the dead were normally inscribed on stone; the custom is known in other Greek cities as well. Many fragments of these lists survive.3 They can","PeriodicalId":45978,"journal":{"name":"GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74419757","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}