Classics and Ancient History
Recent Submissions
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Globalization versus the State? Macro and micro-perspectives on Roman economies
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) / Antiquity Publications, 2018)Book reviews of: ANDREW WILSON AND ALAN BOWMAN (eds.). 2018. Trade, Commerce and the State in the Roman World. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-879066-2; TYMON C. A. DE HAAS ... -
Polybios, the Laws of War, and Philip V of Macedon
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Book review: Nikos Miltsios / Melina Tamiolaki (eds.): Polybius and His Legacy
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Standards for Networking Ancient Person Data: Digital Approaches to Problems in Prosopographical Space
(Digital Classics Online, 2017-11-01)Prosopographies disambiguate names appearing in sources by creating lists of persons, but the progress of scholarship now makes these lists difficult to maintain. In a digital context unique stable identifiers can be ... -
Linked Data Annotation Without the Pointy Brackets: Introducing Recogito 2
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-05-11)Recogito 2 is an open source annotation tool currently under development by Pelagios, an international initiative aimed at facilitating better linkages between online resources documenting the past. With Recogito 2, we aim ... -
Optima tu proprii nominis auctor: The Semantics of Female Authorship in Ancient Rome, from Sulpicia to Proba
(Université de Lille, 2016-12-15)This paper explores evidence for female authorship terminology in extant poetic texts written in Latin by women. It begins by first considering male authorship in Latin literature, before moving on to three case studies ... -
‘There is another story’: writing after the Odyssey in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-12-14)In this article, I explore how Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) provides a retrospective vision of an Odyssey that has already happened — and, by so doing, opens up an extended investigation of what it means to ... -
In Her Own Words: The Semantics of Female Authorship in Ancient Greece, from Sappho to Nossis
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-12-28)What we call things is important—it reveals what we think about the world. What we call ourselves, however, is even more important. It reveals ideas and assumptions about identity, gender, community. It helps us to see ... -
Philip V of Macedon, 'Eromenos of the Greeks': A note and reassessment
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018-06-20)Polybios' famous description of Philip V of Macedon as "the darling of the Greeks" (ρώμενος ... τν λλήνων) comes about at a critical moment in the historian's narrative of the king's life: it appears at the end of a summary ... -
Dragonscapes and Dread
(Routledge, 2018-04-26)What impact did serpents of various sorts have on the world’s landscapes in Graeco-Roman eyes? Consideration is given to: the physical traces that the great dragons of myth, defeated by a god or a hero in the remote past, ... -
Telling stories with maps: digital experiments with Herodotean geography
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The Pleiades Gazetteer and the Pelagios Project
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Lucian’s Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder
(De Gruyter, 2018-04-30)This paper focuses on Lucian’s critique of the wonder-working of the second century CE prophet of Asclepius, Alexander of Abonouteichos, in Alexander or the False Prophet. It explores meta-literary depths of the essay which ... -
Linking early geospatial documents, one place at a time: annotation of geographic documents with recogito
(Professor Emer. Evangelos Livieratos, 2015)Recogito is an open source tool for the semi-automatic annotation of place references in maps and texts. It was developed as part of the Pelagios 3 research project, which aims to build up a comprehensive directory of ... -
Peripleo: a tool for exploring heterogenous data through the dimensions of space and time
(Code4Lib, 2016-01-28)This article introduces Peripleo, a prototype spatiotemporal search and visualization tool. Peripleo enables users to explore the geographic, temporal and thematic composition of distributed digital collections in their ... -
Medicalizing heresy: Doctors and patients in Epiphanius of Salamis
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Are Matter and Form Parts? Aristotle’s and Neo-Aristotelian Hylomorphism
(Quodlibet edizioni, 2018)The paper takes issue with Koslicki’s Neo-Aristotelian Mereology (NAM) and more particularly with her understanding of hylomorphism in mereological terms. NAM centres on two characteristic claims: (i) that Aristotle’s form ... -
Spatial Metaphors of Ambiguity in Roman Culture
(Paideia Institute, 2018)This chapter takes a somewhat different approach to the topic of ambiguity in Latin literature from the others in this volume. Taking as a given that Latin speakers were mindful of the capacity of some words, phrases, ... -
Comparativism then and now
(Brill, 2018-06-01)