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{"title":"Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley (review)","authors":"Prudence Jones","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a912765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a912765","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III</em> by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Prudence Jones </li> </ul> Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley. <em>Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III</em>. London and New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii, 275. $170.00. ISBN 978-1-1386-3509-8. <p>Despite the large number of books on Cleopatra VII, other Ptolemies have received relatively little attention from biographers. The tide may be turning, however, as Llewellyn-Jones and McAuley add their study of Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III to a growing corpus on earlier Ptolemies that includes works on Ptolemy I by Worthington, Berenice II by Clayman, and Arsinoë II by Carney.¹ As such, it is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Hellenistic world. The book tells the fascinating story of two women, who were born into extraordinary circumstances but also were architects of their own success in a way that will interest scholars and lay readers alike.</p> <p>While much of <em>Sister-Queens</em> presents a detailed account of the two Cleopatras' lives, Llewellyn-Jones and McAuley go beyond biography to consider broader aspects of queenship and to reframe the final century of Ptolemaic rule as the High Hellenistic Period. The authors argue that the High Hellenistic Period is deserving of rehabilitation just as Hellenistic art has come to be seen as more than \"Baroque.\"</p> <p>As the authors point out in their \"Introduction,\" these two Cleopatras themselves require some image rehabilitation. Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century accounts emphasize their cruelty to the point of casting them as psychopaths. Llewellyn-Jones and McAuley argue, however, that the women wielded dynastic power strategically and within the norms of the High Hellenistic Period, which they describe as \"a curious mix of tradition, innovation, and improvisation.\" (22).</p> <p>After an initial chapter (\"The Importance of Being Ptolemaic: Royal Women in Context\") that provides background on the public and private lives of women in Hellenistic dynasties and on the essential qualities of the Ptolemaic dynasty, the authors devote two chapters (\"Princesses to Queens\" and \"Mothers, Wives, Queens\") to the years 163–101 <small>bc</small>, which span the lives of Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III. In doing so, they also detail key periods of Cleopatra II's life.</p> <p>The fourth chapter, \"Queenship in Name; Queenship through Image; Queenship in Practice,\" departs from narrative biography to consider Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III as part of the administrative system that was Hellenistic monarchy. The authors aim to answer the questions \"What was the public image of these royal women? … and what can be said of the role o","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529116","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":"Women's Collective Action in Tacitus' Annals","authors":"Caitlin Gillespie","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a912764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a912764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes female collective action as embodied public performance in two episodes within Tacitus' <i>Annals</i>: the trial of Libo Drusus in 16 ce, and the trial of Aemilia Lepida four years later. Both defendants are accompanied by entourages of leading women, and their narratives provide vehicles for Tacitus' observations on the demise of the Roman elite and traditional republican institutions and customs. Reading the actions of the women as embodied performances opens new avenues for the interpretation of Tacitus' representations of women who claim space for themselves in public and voice their support of others during the reign of Tiberius.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510075","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 Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete by Günther Hölbl (review)","authors":"Brian S. Kunkel","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a912766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a912766","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete</em> by Günther Hölbl <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Brian S. Kunkel </li> </ul> Günther Hölbl. <em>The Shrine of Eileithyia: Minoan Goddess of Childbirth and Motherhood at the Inatos Cave in Southern Crete</em>. Volume I: the Egyptian-Type Artifacts. With contributions by Philip P. Betancourt and Konstantinos Chalikias. Edited by Philip P. Betancourt, Athanasia Kanta and Costis Davaras. Prehistory Monographs, 69. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2022. Pp. 156. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-931534-34-5. <p>Crete's central location in the Mediterranean was one of the most important factors in its development. In the Bronze Age, the island established vigorous trading contacts throughout the Aegean and with the more powerful kingdoms of Egypt and the Levant. With the collapse of palatial civilization around 1200 <small>bce</small>, many ideas and technologies were lost, but cultural memories persisted in the form of oral traditions and cult practices, some of which were performed in sacred caves with long histories of ritual use. In the centuries that followed, contacts with the Near East and Egypt were re-established resulting in a new era of cross-cultural interaction that would have a significant impact on Crete and the Aegean world.</p> <p>This volume by Günther Hölbl is a catalog of the Egyptian and Egyptian-type objects found in the Inatos Cave in southern Crete, which was an important cult <strong>[End Page 110]</strong> center for worship of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth. Hölbl's meticulous study and publication of this important material will undoubtedly add much to our knowledge of the cult practices of ancient Crete and the impact of intercultural relations, primarily in the Iron Age.</p> <p>The introductory chapter by Philip Betancourt begins with a synopsis of the rescue work conducted by the Greek Archaeological Service after the cave had been looted. This is followed by a publication history that includes several short articles by various authors as well as an edited volume published in 2011 by Athanasia Kanta and Kostis Davaras entitled Ελουθíα Χαριστήιον. Το ιερό σπήλαιο της Ειλειθυίας στον Τσούτσουρο. Betancourt explains how the latter, which highlighted many of the finest objects from the cave, became a springboard for a series of volumes intended to provide a more complete study and publication of the material. Because the Inatos Cave is one of the few cult places in the Aegean positively associated with Eileithyia, a brief discussion of her identity and cult are also included with a focus on her importance to the community of ancient Inatos.</p> <p>Later in the first chapter, Betancourt gives a detailed, day-by-day summary of the rescue excavation conducted by Nicolas Pla","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138529117","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":"Women Speaking Prophecy in Lucan's Civil War: An Ecofeminist Analysis","authors":"Laura Zientek","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a912763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a912763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through the lens of trans-corporeality, a theoretical approach associated with ecofeminism, this paper examines the depiction of women's prophetic visions and voices in Lucan's <i>Bellum Civile</i>. Analysis of a Roman <i>matrona</i>, the Pythia of Delphi, and the Thessalian <i>magos</i> Erictho demonstrates the significance of women's agency within the civil war narrative and highlights how Lucan framed greater female agency as a more significant threat to established civic and cosmic order.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510074","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":"Viper’s Mouth and Hound’s Howl: Discovery, Remedy and Polysemy at Nicander Theriaca 233 and 671","authors":"T. Coughlan","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a905240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a905240","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper examines the polysemy of οὐ̑λος (“deadly,” “repeated,” “whole/healthy”) in Nicander’s Theriaca as a window onto the poet’s interest in the process of discovery. The core of this article treats the use of the term to describe a hound’s howl in the aetiological narrative of Alcibius’ discovery of a curative herb. I argue that Nicander deploys οὐ̑λος to call attention to the polysemy of the adjective whose meaning shifts and overlaps as one reads the narrative of Alcibius’ discovery. The challenge of formulating a contextually appropriate meaning of οὐ̑λος reinforces the theme of aetiological discovery and is consonant with Nicander’s use of the term elsewhere in the Theriaca as well as his broader interest in rare words and philological research.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42021344","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":"Der Taucher von Paestum: Jugend, Eros und das Meer im antiken Griechenland by Tonio Hölscher (review)","authors":"Elise Markoff","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a905244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a905244","url":null,"abstract":"In October 2018, a conference was held in Paestum to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Tomb of the Diver, a one-of-a-kind funerary monument from the fifth century bce. The publication that followed included a brief contribution by Dr. Tonio Hölscher, who proposed a reading of the iconography of the tomb that diverged significantly from that of archeologist Marco Napoli, the discoverer of the tomb and supporter of an eschatological interpretation.1 The present book by Hölscher elaborates on his previous work; namely, he argues that the images in the tomb are not a metaphorical representation of the passage of the diver from an earthy plane to the afterlife but are instead evidence of social and cultural practices common to the youth of ancient Greece. Hölscher provides an evaluation of the iconography of the tomb in sociological and anthropological terms, reading the act of diving as a youthful activity in a period of transition from the free areas of the coast into the structured order of adult life in the polis. He has made the bold decision to avoid what he calls ‘academic arguments and theoretic jargon’ (‘akademische Argumentation und theoretischen Jargon’ [6]) opting for a general appendix instead of footnotes, which allows him to build his case in a concise but elegant manner that benefits the general reader and prompts the scholar to further inquiry. The volume also includes 42 images, most of which are examples of extant artwork and are reproduced in color with excellent detail. Given the length of the volume, each of its twelve chapters occupies only a few pages. Chapter 1 begins with a thorough description of the tomb and its iconography, including the gestures and actions of all participants in the symposium scene. Chapter 2 contrasts Napoli’s original interpretation of the images with Hölscher’s, which is developed throughout the rest of the book. Chapter 3 begins this exploration by comparing the iconography of the tomb with other surviving images of fishing and swimming, mainly in Etruscan tombs and on Greek skyphoi and kylixes. Chapter 4 explores the social importance of swimming and diving in Greek culture, focusing on the role of natural caves as liminal meeting places for young ephebes needing to prove their athletic abilities and gain access to the company of other youths in homoerotic encounters. Chapters 5 and 6 make some of the most exciting suggestions in the book. Here, Hölscher extends his thesis of the cultural relevance of swimming and diving to include women and explores the importance of the sea in the education and social life of girls. According to his thesis, representation on ancient amphorae of young girls swimming and diving should be interpreted as real depictions of","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46735074","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":"Impaired Consciousness, Madness and Mental Incapacitation in the Roman Law","authors":"A. Pelavski","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a905243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a905243","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper explores common ideas shared by doctors and jurists in the Roman Empire concerning conditions with mental compromise. Recent scholarship has been reluctant to see an ongoing debate between experts in these two disciplines. Conversely, I will argue that it is possible to unveil a fluent exchange of ideas and concepts between legal commentators and medical writers around issues of mental incapacity, if we frame those cases as impaired consciousness (and not mental illness). To prove this point I will draw on some examples from the Digest, which will be placed in dialogue with contemporary medical texts.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42739380","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":"Closing Ranks: Publius Salonius and the Early Roman Army","authors":"Jessica H. Clark","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a905241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a905241","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:A tangled tale of military resistance and reform (342 bce) includes a new rule that a man not be a centurion after being a military tribune, inspired, Livy notes, by soldiers’ dislike of P. Salonius, who moved between those ranks. This article examines this episode as evidence for the development of Rome’s military and the increasingly separate orientation of centurions and military tribunes therein. The framing of the story adds to our knowledge of the transmission of historical information at Rome, while its analysis allows us to view more critically the homogenizing representation of Roman soldiers as civic-minded agrarian small-holders.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42095260","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":"Allusions to Livia and Her Gentes in Vergil’s Aeneid","authors":"K. Fletcher, Sanjaya Thakur","doi":"10.1353/clw.2023.a905242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2023.a905242","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Vergil’s Aeneid contains more allusions to Augustus’ wife than scholars have previously recognized; because Livia was connected with both the Drusi and Claudii, Vergil’s references to those gentes and their ancestors allude to her (among other people). Vergil pays special attention to the Claudii, the gens of which Livia was a member, into which she had married, and to which her sons also belonged. These allusions fit both with Vergil’s treatment of contemporary women and Livia’s public presentation at the time. Like all references and allusions to Augustus’ marriage, however, these can be read in a positive or negative light.","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45141918","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":"Outlines of Classical Literature","authors":"H. Rose","doi":"10.2307/4344847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4344847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46369,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL WORLD","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4344847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47350804","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}