{"title":"The Wondrous Journey of Cicero's Head to Sardis: Hellenic Identity and Biculturalism in a Greek Imperial Epigram","authors":"Regina Höschele","doi":"10.1353/ajp.2022.0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines an inscriptional epigram from Sardis (04/02/05 Merkelbach-Stauber), which was designed to accompany a bust of Cicero set up by a Greek named Polybios in the 2nd century c.e. The epigram, I argue, fuses Hellenistic poetological imagery with the echo of a Roman declamatory topos concerning Cicero's decapitation by playfully suggesting that Cicero's head had miraculously traveled from Rome to Sardis. Reflecting on the implications of this imaginary voyage, I explore the complex dynamics of Polybios' epigram, which is exceptional in expressing a Greek's admiration for a Roman figure, against the backdrop of the period's bicultural discourse.","PeriodicalId":46128,"journal":{"name":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2022.0001","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper examines an inscriptional epigram from Sardis (04/02/05 Merkelbach-Stauber), which was designed to accompany a bust of Cicero set up by a Greek named Polybios in the 2nd century c.e. The epigram, I argue, fuses Hellenistic poetological imagery with the echo of a Roman declamatory topos concerning Cicero's decapitation by playfully suggesting that Cicero's head had miraculously traveled from Rome to Sardis. Reflecting on the implications of this imaginary voyage, I explore the complex dynamics of Polybios' epigram, which is exceptional in expressing a Greek's admiration for a Roman figure, against the backdrop of the period's bicultural discourse.
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Founded in 1880, American Journal of Philology (AJP) has helped to shape American classical scholarship. Today, the Journal has achieved worldwide recognition as a forum for international exchange among classicists and philologists by publishing original research in classical literature, philology, linguistics, history, society, religion, philosophy, and cultural and material studies. Book review sections are featured in every issue. AJP is open to a wide variety of contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches, including literary interpretation and theory, historical investigation, and textual criticism.
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