Classics

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 6 articles: Alessandro Barchiesi, 'Ovid the Censor', E. Badian, 'Which Metellus? A Footnote to Professor Barchiesi's Article', Marleen B. Flory, 'The Meaning of Augusta in the Julio-Claudian Period', Harold B. Mattingly, 'Review-Discussion: Robert Develin, Athenian Officials', Karl R. Muhlbauer und Theresa Miller, 'Spielzeug und Kult. Zur religiosen und kultischen Bedeutung von Kinderspielzeug in der griechischen Antike', A. Sh. Shahbazi, 'Irano-Hellenic Notes. 2. The 'King's Eyes' in Classical and Iranian Literature'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Robert E.A. Palmer, 'Bullae insignia ingenuitatis', D.R. Shackleton Bailey, 'Two Passages in Cicero's Letters', N.V. Sekunda, 'Itabelis and the Satrapy of Mysia'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Fritz Schachermeyr, 'Abbruch, Uberleben und Neuwerden am Beginn und am Ende der Antike', Ella Hermon, 'Les priscae latinae coloniae et la politique colonisatrice a Rome', Colin M. Wells, 'Celibate Soldiers: Augustus and the Army'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Richard Saller, 'Domitian and His Successors: Methodological Traps in Assessing Emperors', K.M. Coleman, 'Latin Literature After AD 96: Change or Continuity', T. Corey Brennan, 'Principes and Plebs: Nerva's Reign as Turning-point?', Mary T. Boatwright, 'Public Architecture in Rome and the Year AD 96'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: 'Review-Discussion: M.H. Crawford (ed.), Roman Statues': Volume I: Wolfgang Dieter Lebek; Volume II: Bernardo Santalucia, Robert J. Littman, 'Dor and the Athenian Empire', Christopher Ehrhardt, 'Athens, Egypt, Phoenicia, c. 459-444 BC'.

This volume examines the historical end of the Platonic tradition in relation to creation theories of the natural world through Neoplatonist philosopher Proclus (412-485) elaboration of an investigation of Plato’s theory of metaphysical archetypal Forms.

A collection of essays written in honour of S. Thomas Parker by his former students and colleagues. The essays focus on surveys, material and written culture, the economy, and the Roman military in the Near East.

This work is volume 2 of Boaz Cohen’s collected articles, with a new introduction by rabbinics scholar Natalie B. Dohrmann.

Our current knowledge of Roman aqueducts across the Empire is patchy and uneven. Even if the development of “aqueduct studies” (where engineering, archaeology, architecture, hydraulics, and other disciplines converge) in recent years has improved this situation, one of the aspects which has been generally left aside is the chronology of their late antique phases and of their abandonment. In the Iberian peninsula, there is to date, no general overview of the Roman aqueducts, and all the available information is distributed across various publications, which as expected, hardly mention the late phases. This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism.

Since the time of Eduard Schwartz, scholars have tended to treat ecclesiastical policy under the influence of Justinian as inconsistent and even capricious. This book argues that such an image of Justinian, although seeming to provide a coherent narrative concerning the emperor’s character, falls apart when the details are scrutinized.

The present volume describes the rich and complex world in which Ausonius (c. 310–395) lived and worked, from his humble beginnings as a schoolteacher in Bordeaux, to the heights of his influence as quaestor to the Emperor Gratian, at a time of unsettling social and religious change. As a teacher and poet Ausonius adhered to the traditions of classical paideia, standing in contrast to the Fathers of the Church, e.g., Jerome, Augustine, and Paulinus of Nola, who were emboldened by the legalization, then the imposition, of Christianity in the course of the fourth century. For this position he was labeled by the 20th-century scholar Henri-Irénée Marrou a symbol of decadence. Guided by Marrou’s critical insights to both his own time and place and that of Ausonius, this book proposes a hermeneutic for reading Ausonius as both a fourth-century poet and a fascinating mirror for his 20th-century counterparts.

This book attempts to answer the question: what are the essential features of Greek education? In so doing, it explores the extent to which the educational ideals and practices of paideia have displayed continuity from classical Athens until modern times. The views of Plato, Photios the Great (9th century) and Nicodemos the Athonite (18th century) are examined in particular, revealing significant stages of development. The book offers a presentation of what paideia holds up to be its own goal on its own terms. The proponents of the paideia tradition sought an answer to the age-old question, ‘What constitutes the human person?’ The response to that enigma determined everything else. Education took shape accordingly and led to a lifelong process of harmonising the respective functions of the soul and body. On account of its value on both a personal and communal level, paideia is of paramount significance for Plato and other exponents, such as Nicodemos. Their individual legacies stand like bookends on either side of some 22 centuries of Greek education that are appraised within these pages.

The first historical biography of Priscillian, a controversial figure of great importance for the history of the West, who until now has been considered by the different authors who have approached his figure as a heretic, reformer, apocryphal martyr or non-conformist Christian.