Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.016.17333
E. Dąbrowa
From the 1980s onwards, ancient historians turned close attention to the Seleukid Empire, publishing a series of studies that profoundly challenged previously held views on the empire’s place and role in the Hellenistic world, opening new research avenues. The growing scholarly interest in the Seleukids resulted in a number of subject-specific conferences, with one of them (‘Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids: An Interdisciplinary Approach’) held in Sydney on March 29–31, 2019. Papers presented at the event (by an international group of scholars) have been published as a volume, Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids: Unframing a Dynasty, edited by the conference convenors, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Stefan Pfeiffer. The volume does not strictly qualify as conference proceedings, since it includes texts authored by non-attendees who were invited to contribute due to their aligned research interests: in result, the collection encompasses a much broader variety of contributions on the conference’s topic. One must note that the volume editors decided to publish papers in their original languages, willing to reflect the diversity of research conducted on the Seleukids all over the world.1 The editors’ introduction (‘Introduction: Un-Framing Seleukid Ideology,’ pp. 1–20) express the aims behind the conference: (1) to shed light on the origins of the Seleukid Empire and the policies employed by its first rulers to win over different groups of their new subjects; (2) to represent the Seleukid political culture and their influence over their subjects; (3) to examine the Seleukid royal ideology (drawing on the example of Babylonia); and (4) to investigate relations between the Seleukids and neighbouring powers, such as Rome. The volume’s structure reflects the topical order presented above. The volume’s initial section (‘Representations and Perceptions: Ideology and the Beginnings of a Monarchy’) consists of five chapters that discuss how the first Seleukid rulers attempted to legitimise their rule.2 Their efforts focused on avoiding succession strife
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.017.17334
Edward Dąbrowa
Michael Blömer, Stefan Riedel, Miguel J. Versluys, Engelbert Winter (eds.), Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods: Commagene in its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context, (Oriens et Occidens – 34), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2021, pp. 598 + multiple figures + maps; ISBN 978-3-515-12925-1
Michael Blömer, Stefan Riedel, Miguel J. Versluys, Engelbert Winter(编)，《众神的共同居住地:地方，区域和全球希腊化背景下的Commagene》(Oriens et Occidens - 34)， Franz Steiner出版社，斯图加特2021年，第598页+多个数字+地图;ISBN 978-3-515-12925-1
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.001.17318
Micaela Canopoli
Dedication of Axios and Kapo to Artemis Nanaia and the Phosphorion of Piraeus Nanaia is a Babylonian deity who was associated with Artemis in Hellenistic times. She is identified as a moon goddess as well as a deity of love and war, and as a protector of the sovereign and the country. The reason behind the assimilation between this oriental deity and Artemis lay in the commonality of functions between the two. The presence of a goddess called Artemis Nanaia is attested in Attica by an inscription found at Piraeus which is the only testimony of the presence of this cult in Greece. Like the goddess Nanaia, Artemis was a moon goddess, identified as a protector of political order. This function in Attica is expressed by the adjective Boulaia and by the practice, widespread since the second century B.C., of offering a sacrifice to Artemis Boulaia and Artemis Phosphoros before political assemblies in the Athenian Agora. The aim of this paper is to put into perspective the characteristics of the cults of Artemis Nanaia as attested in two important sanctuaries in the Middle East, including the sanctuary of Nanaia at Susa and the sanctuary of Artemis Nanaia at Dura-Europos, with the testimonies related to the cult of Artemis attested at Piraeus. The testimonies, and the characteristics of the cult attested in these three areas will be analysed together in order to etter understand the reasons behind the dedication of Axios and Kapo and its original location.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.004.17321
S. Caneva
The history of Hellenistic Pergamon is deeply affected by the dual status of a polis that also functioned as a dynastic residence. This overlap between civic and royal institutions significantly impacted the political life of the city. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about honorific habits and the consolidation of the civic elite of Pergamon by focusing on the triangular interactions between the Attalids, their court, and the polis’ institutions in the period from Eumenes I to Attalos III. To do so, several dossiers concerning the priesthoods and religious liturgies of Attalid Pergamon will be reassessed by paying attention to their tenure, appointment, privileges, and the social groups that held these charges.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.021.17338
E. Dąbrowa
{"title":"Werner Eck, Gesellschaft und Administration im Römischen Reich. Aktualisierte Schriften in Auswahl, hrsg. von Anne Kolb, De Gruyter, Berlin–Boston 2022, pp. 572; ISBN 978-3-11-074665-5","authors":"E. Dąbrowa","doi":"10.4467/20800909el.23.021.17338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909el.23.021.17338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38045,"journal":{"name":"Electrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49437948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.015.17332
E. Dąbrowa
The image of the Achaemenid army that survives to this day has been shaped by testimo - nies of Greek authors writing on the Greco-Persian wars of the 5 th and 4 th c. BCE. From the 19 th c. onwards, the said testimonies and data found within capture the attention of scholars, constantly stir up major controversies and remain open to reinterpretation. New research methods in philology, history and archaeology challenge the scholarly consensus on the Achaemenid military history, open new research avenues and produce newer, exacter data. Although the voluminous research on the Persian army comprises scores of articles, treatises and monographs, the scholars continue to discuss its makeup, organisational structure and operation. One scholar who reinterprets the available evidence and questions commonly held beliefs is Sean Manning, whose monograph, Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects (an expanded version of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Innsbruck, 2018)
{"title":"Sean Manning, Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects, (Oriens et Occidens –32), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2021, pp. 437; ISBN 978-3-515-12775-2","authors":"E. Dąbrowa","doi":"10.4467/20800909el.23.015.17332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909el.23.015.17332","url":null,"abstract":"The image of the Achaemenid army that survives to this day has been shaped by testimo - nies of Greek authors writing on the Greco-Persian wars of the 5 th and 4 th c. BCE. From the 19 th c. onwards, the said testimonies and data found within capture the attention of scholars, constantly stir up major controversies and remain open to reinterpretation. New research methods in philology, history and archaeology challenge the scholarly consensus on the Achaemenid military history, open new research avenues and produce newer, exacter data. Although the voluminous research on the Persian army comprises scores of articles, treatises and monographs, the scholars continue to discuss its makeup, organisational structure and operation. One scholar who reinterprets the available evidence and questions commonly held beliefs is Sean Manning, whose monograph, Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects (an expanded version of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Innsbruck, 2018)","PeriodicalId":38045,"journal":{"name":"Electrum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47339496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.018.17335
E. Dąbrowa
Every member of a historical organised community became a taxpayer as soon as the community’s leader or its elites were able to impose and levy charges. Although all ancient societies practiced some form of taxation, researchers often encounter problems when attempting to study ancient fiscal policies, types/rates of taxes and administrative structures responsible for revenue collection. The sources on ancient Greece, Rome and other ancient states often describe taxation systems but only rarely supply much details. Furthermore, the fragmentariness and incompleteness of surviving documents hamper attempts at constructing the full picture of any system. The tax system of ancient Israel stands out among other states due to the greater amount of surviving data: the voluminous Jewish literature, from the Bible to the Talmud, frequently refers to taxes and tithes. The majority of scholars studying taxes in ancient Israel focus on a single historical period or form of taxation. M. Girardin, a young scholar associated with Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, adopted a more comprehensive approach, researching the entirety of taxation systems in various periods of history of ancient Israel and their changes in time.1 Girardin’s most recent monograph describes and analyses fiscal systems in Hellenistic and Roman Judea. A thoroughly reedited and abbreviated version of Girard’s 2017 doctoral dissertation, the monograph focuses on an interval from 200 BCE to 135 CE. The investigated period begins with Judea’s incorporation into the Seleukid Empire, whereas it ends with the fall of the Bar Kokhba’s revolt and transformation of province Iudaea into Syria-Palaestina.2 The said period saw many a political upheaval, with Judea and neighbouring lands inhabited by the Jews governed by a number of actors: the Seleukids, the Hasmoneans, the Herodians and Rome. Every new governing polity brought new administrative policies and taxation systems. Accordingly, M. Girardin’s chief aim is to construct the comprehensive picture of Judea’s fiscal systems across its history. The monograph consists of three sections (I. L’Héritage, pp. 37–117; II. La Fracture (200 a.C. – 6 p.C.), pp. 123–289; III. La Crise (6–135 p.C.), pp. 295–470), dividing into ten chapters, an ‘Introduction générale’ (pp. 6–32), and concluding remarks (pp. 473–480).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.007.17324
A. Heller
Panegyriarchy in Civic Careers In ancient Greek cities, the organization of festivals generated its own institutional system, with various officials involved in various aspects of the celebration. One of these officials was the panegyriarch, in charge of the market that took place during the festival. On the basis of a systematic survey of the epigraphic documentation, this paper aims at defining the profile of the individuals attested as panegyriarchs. It presents the chronological and geographical distribution of the evidence, studies the offices associated with that of panegyriarch within civic careers and reflects on the level of prestige of this specific magistracy.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.010.17327
Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
The epigraphic record from Palmyra brings light on the organization of the temples: personnel, management of feasts, economy and on the ritual practices towards certain deities like Allat and Shai ‘al-Qaum. These texts were previously called in the research literature “sacred laws”and what the scholarly debate nowadays labels with the term “ritual norms.”The aim of this paper, divided on the temple economy and personnel, and ritual behavior, is to understand through the scraps of information the administration of the Palmyrene temples and processes which shaped the life in the places of worship.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.4467/20800909el.23.014.17331
Marco Vitale
The provincial imperial cult represents one of the most relevant expressions of multiform relationship between provincial communities and Roman authorities especially in the East. During the Roman Principate in Syria, we can enumerate seven administrative districts (eparchies) which occur in connection with this political and religious phenomenon. The complicated question of how the province-wide worship of the Imperial family was organised in Roman Levant must be analysed in different terms. Important aspects are the Roman territorial framework of administration, the creation of autonomous city-leagues (koiná) and their cultic functions, the rules of membership within these federal organizations and their self-representation in coinages and inscriptions. On the level of political and financial management, we are dealing with federal officials and the festivities organized by them. Our paper aims to give a detailed overview of the Syrian imperial cult related not only to one specific site, but in the context of a large and culturally complex area.
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