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Lucian's Hippias

July 2023
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Journal article
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Classical Quarterly
Lucian's Hippias or The Bath, traditionally considered to be a straight-faced encomium of a historical architect and real-life bath-house of the Antonine period, is now often judged to be a work of satire, though what exactly is being satirized has remained elusive. This article argues that the architect ‘Hippias’ is closely modelled on Plato's caricature of the sophist Hippias of Elis in the Hippias Minor, and that his bath-house is a comic extrapolation from the sophist's home-made oil-flask and strigil. Lucian's Hippias should be read as a parody of contemporary prose encomia of public buildings.
bath-houses, Hippias of Elis, encomia, Lucian, Plato

Lysimache and Lysistrata

December 2020
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Journal article
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Journal of Hellenic Studies
It has long been suspected that the eponymous heroine of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was intended to evoke the historical Lysimache, priestess of Athena Polias at the time of the play’s first production. But the reasons for this (partial) identification have been relatively little discussed. This paper argues that the Lysistrata engages more closely than has traditionally been assumed with urgent political issues at Athens in late 412 and early 411 BC, in particular with the decision in summer 412 BC to broach the ‘Iron Reserve’ of 1,000 talents set aside at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (Thuc. 8.15.1). A possible intervention of the historical Lysimache in the controversy over the appropriate use of the ‘Iron Reserve’ would help account for various otherwise surprising features of the Lysistrata.
Aristophanes, priestesses, Ionian War, Thucydides, Athens

An Ancient Dream Manual Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams

January 2020
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Book
In addition, its accessible exploration of the differences and similarities between ancient traditions of dream-analysis and modern psychoanalytic approaches will make this volume of interest to anybody with an interest in the history of ...
Dream interpretation

The silver coinage of Antioch on the Maeander

January 2020
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle

A new 'Lydian history' from Sardis

January 2020
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

An epigraphic doublet: I.Smyrna 388 = MAMA I 37

January 2020
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Philipp Niewöhner (ed.). The archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia: from the end of Late Antiquity until the coming of the Turks. 2017. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-061046-3 hardback £94.

February 2018
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Journal article
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Antiquity
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Close-kin marriage in Roman Anatolia

January 2017
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Journal article
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Cambridge Classical Journal
Many societies have a normative preference for close-kin marriage of one or another variety. Whether this was true of any part of the Roman world has been hotly debated in recent decades. Earlier scholarship suggests that marriage between close kin may have been considerably more common in some parts of the Roman world (e.g. Egypt) than in others (e.g. the Latin West). This paper assembles the evidence for close-kin marriage throughout the Asia Minor peninsula during the Roman imperial period, and concludes that close-kin marriage – particularly in the form of FBD first-cousin marriage – may have been unusually common and/or normatively desirable in Lykia and neighbouring regions.

A man, a plan: A canard

October 2016
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

Croesus and the Oracles

January 2016
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Conference paper
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies

Harry and Hecuba

March 2015
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

(R.) Parker Ed. Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia (Proceedings of the British Academy 191). Oxford: The British Academy and Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 243: illus. £50. 9780197265635.

January 2015
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Journal article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies

A hellenistic sale of a priesthood from Halikarnassos

January 2015
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources

January 2015
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Book

Heroic onomastics in Roman Anatolia

January 2015
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Journal article
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Historia
4301 Archaeology, 4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Pessinous and the attalids: A New royal letter

January 2015
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK AND ROMAN TROY

January 2015
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The calendar of the roman province of Asia

January 2015
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

The Martyrdom of Ariadne of Prymnessos and an Inscription from Perge

January 2015
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Journal article
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Chiron

Poets of the Axylon

November 2014
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Journal article
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Chiron
SBTMR

For all time

September 2014
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

Evidence of gold: Herodotus, the birth of history and the wrong croesus

August 2014
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

Buckets of blud

May 2014
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

BLOOD OF THE PROVINCES The Roman 'Auxilia' and the making of provincial society from Augustus to the Severans

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

EXCAVATIONS AT ZEUGMA Conducted by Oxford Archaeology

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT LINEN BODY ARMOR Unraveling the Linothorax mystery

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

ROMAN SIEGE WARFARE

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF WARFARE IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THUCYDIDES AND THE IDEA OF HISTORY

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THUCYDIDES ON POLITICS Back to the present

January 2014
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Gates of horn

December 2013
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

K. Harper, SLAVERY IN THE LATE ROMAN WORLD, AD 275–425. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiv + 611, illus. isbn 9780521198615. £85.00/US$140.00.

November 2013
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Journal article
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The Journal of Roman Studies
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Households and families in Roman Phrygia

August 2013
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Chapter
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Roman Phrygia
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies

Phrygia: an anarchist history, 950 BC–AD 100

August 2013
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Chapter
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Roman Phrygia
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies

Roman Phrygia

August 2013
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Book
The bleak steppe and rolling highlands of inner Anatolia were one of the most remote and underdeveloped parts of the Roman empire. Still today, for most historians of the Roman world, ancient Phrygia largely remains terra incognita. Yet thanks to a startling abundance of Greek and Latin inscriptions on stone, the cultural history of the villages and small towns of Roman Phrygia is known to us in vivid and unexpected detail. Few parts of the Mediterranean world offer so rich a body of evidence for rural society in the Roman Imperial and late antique periods, and for the flourishing of ancient Christianity within this landscape. The eleven essays in this book offer new perspectives on the remarkable culture, lifestyles, art and institutions of the Anatolian uplands in antiquity.

About round

July 2013
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

A time for meat

May 2013
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

Teeth and hair: The subjects of dreams - and what they tell us about the dreamers, ancient and modern

March 2013
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

Attalid Asia Minor: Money, International Relations, and the State

January 2013
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Book

CHEESE AND CULTURE A history of cheese and its place in Western civilization

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

CUISINE AND EMPIRE Cooking in world history

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

GREEK AND ROMAN ANIMAL SACRIFICE Ancient victims, modern observers

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

HOW ANCIENT EUROPEANS SAW THE WORLD Vision, patterns, and the shaping of the mind in prehistoric times

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua XI

January 2013
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Book

N. Mac Sweeney Community Identity and Archaeology. Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. viii + 266. $75. 9780472117864.

January 2013
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Journal article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies
4301 Archaeology, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

PREHISTORIC MATERIALITIES Becoming material in prehistoric Britain and Ireland

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Roman Phrygia

January 2013
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Book

SMOKE SIGNALS FOR THE GODS Ancient Greek sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman periods

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE ROMAN ECONOMY

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE IDEA OF ORDER The circular archetype in prehistoric Europe

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE MEANING OF MEAT AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE 'ODYSSEY'

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE ROMAN MARKET ECONOMY

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE THRONE OF ADULIS Red Sea wars on the eve of Islam

January 2013
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Alexander, Priene, and Naulochon

December 2012
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Chapter
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Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-classical Polis

Rise and fall

October 2012
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

A mother's dreams

September 2012
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Journal article
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement

A copy of Augustus' Res Gestae at Sardis

September 2012
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Journal article
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Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte
The present article identifies the fragmentary Greek inscription Sardis VII. I no. 201 as a fragment of a hitherto unknown copy of Augustus' Res Gestae. Unpublished correspondence between Sir William Ramsay and William Buckler from the late 1920s suggests that Buckler may already have suspected the identification. The Sardis fragment of the Res Gestae - the first to be recorded outside the province of Galatia - appears to contain a Greek translation of the Latin original which differs from that found in the better-preserved Galatian copies. © Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart.

Abercius of Hierapolis

March 2012
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Chapter
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

FACING THE GODS Epiphany and representation in Graeco-Roman art, literature and religion

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

PERPETUA'S PASSIONS Multidisciplinary approaches to the "Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis"

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE ARCHIMEDES PALIMPSEST Volume One: Catalogue and Commentary Volume Two: Images and Transcriptions

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE HISTORY WRITTEN ON THE CLASSICAL GREEK BODY

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE HOMERIC HYMNS Interpretative essays

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY

January 2012
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Journal article
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TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The Maeander Valley

October 2011
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Book
History

Amphilochius of Iconium and Lycaonian asceticism

October 2011
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
Non-orthodox Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity is known to us largely through the distorting lens of orthodox heresiology. This paper aims to reassess the character of the ascetic communities of rural Lycaonia in the fourth century A.D. in the light of the surviving funerary and ecclesiastical epigraphy, including three inscriptions published here for the first time. We are fortunate to be able to read these texts in the light of a neglected work of orthodox polemic, Amphilochius' Against False Asceticism, the work of an embattled orthodox bishop at Iconium in the late 370s A.D. This treatise formed part of a successful campaign to stigmatize the Lycaonian ascetics as heretics, a position which was enshrined in Theodosius' anti-heretical legislation of A.D. 381-3. © The Author(s) 2011.

The Maeander Valley

September 2011
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Book
This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley. Both a large-scale regional history and a profound meditation on the role played by geography in human history, this book is an essential contribution to the history of the Eastern Mediterranean in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the Byzantine Middle Ages.

Sea shells.

January 2011
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Journal article
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TLS

Splashing out.

January 2011
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Journal article
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TLS

The women of Akmoneia

December 2010
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Journal article
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Journal of Roman Studies
This article is the first publication of a Greek inscription from Akmoneia in Phrygia, dated to A.D. 6/7. The monument is an honorific stele for a priestess by the name of Tatia, and was voted by a body of 'Greek and Roman women'. As a document of collective political activity by a female corporate group, the inscription has no real parallels in either the Greek or Roman world. The monument is set in the context of the Roman mercantile presence in central Phrygia in the late Republican and early Imperial periods, and some proposals are offered concerning the identity and significance of the honouring body. © The Author(s) 2010.

The birth of classical Europe

April 2010
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Book
History

Estates and the land in early Hellenistic Asia Minor: The estate of Krateuas

December 2009
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Journal article
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Chiron
This study is primarily concerned with an inscription from Gambreion in Mysia, dated to the eleventh regnal year of Alexander III of Macedon (Syll. 3 302). The inscription records the conveyance of a small estate in the Kaïkos plain from a Macedonian named Krateuas to a certain Aristomenes. The tenure-conditions implicit in the terms of the conveyance, and the fiscal dues payable on the estate's agricultural produce, are analysed in detail. The inscription is set in the context of earlier royal grants of land, both Macedonian and Achaemenid, with a view to determining the institutional models followed by Alexander in his granting of land in western Asia Minor. The author concludes by proposing a new hypothesis concerning the methods of tribute assessment and tribute collection in early Hellenistic Asia Minor.

Asia Minor

May 2009
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Chapter
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A companion to ancient history
History

Lycia, Athens and Amorges

January 2009
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Chapter
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Interpreting the Athenian Empire

A ptolemaic decree from Kourion

December 2008
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Journal article
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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik

Cistophoric geography: Toriaion and Kormasa

December 2008
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Journal article
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Numismatic Chronicle

Athens and Kydonia: Agora I 7602

January 2008
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Journal article
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Hesperia
A Hellenistic inscription from the Athenian Agora (Agora 17602) concerning syngeneia between Athens and Kydonia in western Crete is reedited here with full commentary. The history of Athenian relations with Kydonia is briefly reviewed.The authors propose a reconstruction of the Kydonians' arguments for mythological kinship between the two cities. Agora 17602 appears to be the earliest firm attestation of mutually accepted syngeneia between Athens and a non-Ionian city. Indeed, it is the first known inscription recording kinship between Athens and another city on grounds other than the latter's status as a colony, at least before the Roman period. © The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

(L.-D.) Loukopoulou, (M.-G.) Parissaki, (S.) Psoma, (A.) Zournatzi. Inscriptiones antiquae partis Thraciae quae ad ora maris Aegaei sita est (Praefecturae Xanthes, Rhodopes et Hebri). Ediderunt et commentariis sermone grae...

October 2006
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Journal article
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The Classical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

IG2: THE IONIAN ISLANDS

April 2004
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Journal article
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The Classical Review
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology