Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tcj.2023.a909262
Ábel Tamás
Abstract: In the first seven lines of his opening proem, where we notoriously find a Hymn to Venus, Lucretius compensates the Muses with an invocative Muse-telestich spelling MuSAS/MuSIS, which is signposted by caeli … labentia signa and thus connected to the Aratean tradition of both heavenly and written “signs”. Moreover, Lucretius’ telestich establishes a firm tradition including (so far) Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, who mark some of their most emphatic—predominantly, but not exclusively, proemial—passages with variants of the Lucretian Muse-telestich and adjust them to their respective poetic programs. The Muse-telestich thus became a textual device by which Latin poets watermarked their highest poetic aspirations in exceedingly creative ways.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tcj.2023.a909263
Joshua M. Paul
Abstract: I argue that Ovid depicts Rome as a Golden Age at the beginning of Book 1 of the Ars Amatoria, long before he makes the comparison explicit in Books 2 and 3. My approach is largely comparative, as I consider motifs common across various representations of the aurea aetas , such as commerce between gods and men and the absence of sailing. I then consider this new vision of paradise on earth in the context of the four long-recognized treatments of the Golden Age in the Ars Amatoria. Ovid’s sense of irony exposes faults in supposed Golden Ages and instead praises modernity for reasons completely counter to the moralizing of the Augustan regime.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tcj.2023.a909267
Peter Edwell
Reviewed by: Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East by Jason M. Schlude Peter Edwell Response to Everett L. Wheeler’s review of Jason M. Schlude, Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East (London and Routledge, 2020) (CJ 118.4). It is not my usual practice to engage with claims made in book reviews but the publication of a review by Everett Wheeler of J. Schlude, Rome, Parthia and the Politics of Peace (Routledge, 2020) in the Classical Journal in 2022 requires a response for a number of reasons. One could legitimately argue that the whole tone of Wheeler’s review is problematic with its inclusion of sarcastic statements designed to do little more than denigrate their target but most readers would agree that they reflect more on Wheeler than the book under review. An egregious claim in the review, however, must be refuted as it is not only insulting to Dr Schlude but has implications for my own reputation. Wheeler claims “Much of the work’s (Schlude’s) first half is recycled from published articles and a 2017 anthology (often touted) of dubious merit, whereas the second half relies on a revised 2005 Macquarie dissertation with its own problems.” The footnote in the review refers to the monograph I published in 2008, which was based on the PhD I completed at Macquarie University, Sydney in 2006; P.M. Edwell, Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra and the coming of Rome. There is no elaboration of [End Page 116] what the problems are that Wheeler identifies in my book but it is clear even from a cursory investigation of Dr Schlude’s book that the second half of it does not “rely” on my book and there is no reason why it would. If Wheeler had read my book in any detail he would know that. Between Rome and Persia is principally a regional study focussed on Palmyra and the Middle Euphrates (with a detailed analysis of Dura Europos) during Rome’s rivalry with the later Parthian rulers and the early Sasanians. The extent to which my book was of benefit to Dr Schlude’s much broader study of the political function of Rome’s rivalry with the Parthian Empire is accurately reflected in the endnotes to Dr Schlude’s book. There is one reference to my book in the Introduction and no other references to it until chapter 7 (of an 8 chapter book) and the most detailed reference only relates to the location of the Roman legions on the Upper Euphrates from Vespasian to the early 3rd century (Chapter 7, endnote 8, p. 152; see also chapter 8, endnote 1, p.177). In the last three chapters of Dr Schlude’s book there are some references to a chapter I published in the 2017 volume edited by Dr Schlude (with Dr Benjamin Rubin, Arsacids, Romans and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire) that similarly incensed Wheeler but these are not numerous. Wheeler’s claim regarding Dr Schlude’s reliance on my book is not only incorre
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Abstract:In this article I examine Philostratus’ engagement with the Indographic tradition in books 2 and 3 of the Vita Apollonii. A number of interconnected arguments are presented here. The main argument is that Philostratus carefully adapted details from the Indographic and paradoxographical traditions, allowing him to make witty allusions, both explicit and oblique, to them. This also allowed him to parody the critical doxographic habit of later commentators. Similarly, he sought to invert expectations when it came to the presentation of Alexander and the mythic heroes Dionysus and Heracles, as well as India more broadly. In doing so, Philostratus was able to present a utopian land of the Sophoi (within India) grounded in time and space that could ironically act as source of true Hellenism which Apollonius spread to the West (rather than Alexander spreading it to the East).
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{"title":"Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees in the Age of Demosthenes: Historical Essays by Stephen D. Lambert (review)","authors":"B. Cook","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86826579","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":"Between Kingdom and Koinon: Neapolis/Neoklaudiopolis and the Pontic Cities by Søren Lund Sørensen (review)","authors":"Eliza Gettel","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88939024","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":"Cicero’s Political Personae by Joanna Kenty","authors":"Jonathan P. Zarecki","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75807790","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":"Greek to Me: A Memoire of Academic Life by Richard Clogg (review)","authors":"Thomas J. Sienkewicz","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87101968","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":"Juno’s Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity by Joseph Farrell (review)","authors":"Tedd A. Wimperis","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2023.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81341015","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}
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