PLINY, TRAJAN AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ISELASTICVM FOR VICTORIOUS ATHLETES

Christoph Begass
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In two letters, Pliny and Trajan discuss a petition sent to the governor by the guild of athletes concerning their rewards after winning contests (Plin. Ep. 10.118–19). In his request, Pliny refers to a regulation by which Trajan had settled the rights of the victorious athletes in regard to their home cities. In his response, Trajan repeats the case with slight variations. The two letters pose both philological and historical difficulties, which this article aims to solve. The relevant passage in Trajan's letter is corrupt. As scholarship has misunderstood the historical background of the letters, no satisfying solution for the restoration of the text has been found to date. The argumentation of this article is twofold. First, it offers a new reading of the corrupt passage in the emperor's letter which respects both the textual transmission and the historical situation. Second, it is argued that the two letters refer to a Trajanic law which settled the regulations of iselastic contests for the first time, but left some details undecided. In sum, this article proposes a new reading of a damaged passage in Plin. Ep. 10.119 as well as offering a historical commentary on agonistic activities in imperial Asia Minor.
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普林尼、特拉扬和为获胜运动员引入 Iselasticvm
在两封信中,普林尼和特拉扬讨论了运动员协会向总督提交的一份请愿书,内容涉及运动员在比赛获胜后的奖励问题(Plin.)普林尼在请愿书中提到了特拉扬解决获胜运动员在家乡城市权利的一项规定。特拉扬在回信中重复了这一规定,但略有不同。这两封信造成了语言学和历史学上的难题,本文旨在解决这些难题。特拉真信中的相关段落是腐朽的。由于学术界对这两封信的历史背景存在误解,迄今为止还没有找到令人满意的修复方案。本文的论点有两个方面。首先,本文对皇帝书信中的讹误段落进行了新的解读,既尊重了文本的传承,又考虑了历史背景。其次,本文认为这两封信提到了特拉真王朝的法律,该法律首次确定了等距竞赛的规定,但对一些细节未作决定。总之,本文对 Plin.Ep. 10.119 中一段被损坏的文字提出了新的解读,并对帝国时期小亚细亚的竞技活动进行了历史评述。
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