Romans and Greeks in Early Imperial Lydia and Phrygia
November 2024
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Journal article
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Gephyra
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
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.
Plato, encomia, bath-houses, Hippias of Elis, Lucian
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.
Athens, Thucydides, priestesses, Ionian War, Aristophanes
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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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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Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREEK AND ROMAN TROY
January 2015
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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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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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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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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
Abercius of Hierapolis
March 2012
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Chapter
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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World
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.
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.
(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