At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion

Papers in Memory of Carin M. C. Green

Sinclair W. Bell, Lora L. Holland, Sinclair W. Bell, Lora L. Holland

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781789690132
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789690149
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion' brings together recent research from a range of upcoming and well-established scholars to demonstrate the richness of the cross-cultural exchange of ideas around the ancient Mediterranean along with the reception of and continuing dialogues with these ideas in the medieval and modern worlds. The crossroads theme both honours the memory of our late colleague and friend Carin M. C. Green, who published an important book on the cult of Diana—one of whose aspects was Trivia, the goddess of crossroads—and emphasizes how each encounter of new topic or genre forces the reader to pause and think before proceeding down the new path. The contents are arranged accordingly under three headings: (1) Greek philosophy, history, and historiography; (2) Latin literature, history, and historiography; and (3) Greco-Roman material culture, religion, and literature. These papers also coincide in myriad ways across the three headings, tracing themes such as friendship, leadership, and the reception of ideas in the arenas of philosophy, historiography, manuscript studies, poetry, medicine, art, and war. Within this delimited framework, the volume's diversity of topics and approaches to a range of genres in the Greco- Roman world is intended both to appeal to the general scholar with varied interests and to offer students a wide scope through which to consider those genres.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Carin M. C. Green (30 March 1948–2 July 2015).
• Contributors
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography of Works by Carin M. C. Green
• Introduction
• Herakles’ Thirteenth Labor
• Thucydides’ Verdict on Nicias (7.86.5) and the Paradigm of Tragedy
• “Men, Friends”
• (Pre)historiography and Periegesis
• Catullus and the Personal Empire
• Ex opportunitate loci
• Sallust’s Allobrogian Envoys
• Horace, Satires 1.7 and the urbanissimus iocus
• Ovid among the Barbarians: Tristia 5.7a and 5.7b
• Figure 9.1. Structure of Tristia 5.7a
• Figure 9.2. Ring structure of lines 25–42 of Tristia 5.7b
• Figure 9.3. Ring structure of lines 43–68 of Tristia 5.7b
• 9.4. Ring structure framing the central section of Tristia 5.7b
• The Introduction of Characters in Petronius
• Playing the Victor: Triumphal Anxiety in Neronian Satire
• Theocritus’ First Idyll and Vergil’s First Eclogue: Two New Translations
• The Popularity of Hercules in Pre-Roman Central Italy
• Figure 13.1a–c. Hercules in assault. After Campanelli et al. 1997, 144, figs. 7–9.
• Figure 13.2. Hercules with stylized lion skin. After Colonna 1970, fig. 386.
• Figure 13.3. Votive statuette of Hellenized Hercules. After Campanelli et al. 1997, 147, fig. 20.
• Figure 13.4. Lion skin and Hercules. After Colonna 1970, fig. 374.
• Figure 13.5. Hercules in repose. After Campanelli et al. 1997, 147, fig. 14.
• Figure 13.6. Hercules of Cafeo. After Bonacasa 2013, 69 [fig. 37].
• 13.7. Votive statuette of Hercules Farnese type. After Moreno 1989, pl. VI.
• 13.8. Hercules with attributes of Dionysus. After Colonna 1970, fig. 476.
• Spolia as Strategy in the Early Roman Empire
• Ovid and the Legend of Capella (Fasti 5.111–128)
• Figure 15.1. Fountain frieze, marble, second century CE. Musei Vaticani inv. 9510. Photo: Vatican Museums, published with permission.
• Galen and the Culture of Dissection
• Warts and All: The Paratexts in the Iowa Lucan
• Three Editions of Lucan’s Bellum Civile