Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1017/S0017383521000267
G. Woolf
This article sets out to reconsider the history of curse tablets in the ancient Mediterranean world as the history of a technology, one marked by episodes of innovation and appropriation. Attempts to write a history in terms of diffusion or of the spread of classical ideas or of magic have failed to convince, and most recent studies focus on the particularities of specific tablets or groups of tablets. This article argues that, if human and object agency are taken into account, it is possible to explain both the discontinuities in the history of curse tablets and also the shape of their thousand-year history. Curse tablets emerge as a technology the affordances of which allowed it to be put to many uses in many different social locations formed by the complex and shifting cultural contours of antiquity.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1017/S0017383521000346
Rhiannon Easterbrook
While this issue's selection of books on classical reception is diverse in subject area and methodology, one theme they all share is a focus on place and space. The Classics in South America by Germán Campos Muñoz and Time and Antiquity in American Empire by Mark Storey are particularly focused on Classics and the spatiality of empire. South America's location beyond the extent of the world known to the Roman Empire provided an interesting point of departure for the classically inclined inhabitants of the continent as they considered continuities and disjunctures with the time and space of classical antiquity. Campos Muñoz's second and third case studies discuss an array of material and literary evidence in examining how both colonial and anti-imperial activities were framed with respect to ancient history and epic. We see how a sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman celebrated becoming Viceroy of Peru in a procession through a triumphal arch adorned with Latin hexameter and classical motifs. Similarly, Simón Bolívar, the revolutionary and subject of classical odes celebrating his liberation of South American territories, enjoyed classicizing triumphs and parades (140). These contrasting case studies show the ongoing significance of the Roman Empire to South America, even as its imperial status changed dramatically.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1017/S0017383521000255
F. Graf
This paper looks at our term ‘curse tablet’ in the light of the Greek distinction between ἀραί (‘curses’) and κατάδεσμοι (‘binding spells’). It analyses the role of cursing in Greek culture and sketches a short history of research that led German and Anglophone scholars to coin a modern terminology that disregards the ancient distinction.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-010
Vasileios Liotsakis
{"title":"Beloved of the Gods, Son of the Gods, Rival of the Gods: Alexander and the Rhetoric of Religion in Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus","authors":"Vasileios Liotsakis","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75609557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-005
Despina Keramida
{"title":"Performing the Rhetoric of Magic in Ovid’s Epistulae Heroidum and Metamorphoses 10","authors":"Despina Keramida","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78170036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-003
Jakub Filonik
{"title":"Speaking for the Gods: Greek Cultic Regulations and their Silent Informants","authors":"Jakub Filonik","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78422273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-007
Maik Patzelt
{"title":"Trends in the Rhetoric of Prayer: The Actio of Prayer and the Eloquentia Popularis","authors":"Maik Patzelt","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80875919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-002
E. Harris
{"title":"Religion and the Rule of Law in the Greek Polis","authors":"E. Harris","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80280367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110699623-013
K. Melidis
{"title":"Biblical Epics: Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion in Greek and Latin Hexametric Paraphrases of Psalm 136 (137)","authors":"K. Melidis","doi":"10.1515/9783110699623-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699623-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44977,"journal":{"name":"GREECE & ROME","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84963673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"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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