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Abstract: In Histories 1.133.2,1 unnamed Persians mock the Greek diet for its lack of food “worthy of account”: they claim that Greeks stop eating due to deprivation, not from any internal restraint or moderation. Then in 9.82.1–3, Pausanias openly laughs at the splendour of the meal that Mardonius’ cooks prepare, accusing the Persian commander of an appetite grown so immense off the “good things” of Persia and empire that he could not resist attacking Greece, poverty-stricken or not. These comments respond to one another: Persian enjoyment in eating (Book 1) becomes insatiability (Book 9) while the restraint taught by poverty (Book 9) is simply lack (Book 1). Histories 1.133.2 and 9.82.1–3 thus form a ring based on ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Interactions between animals and humans have recently become prominent in the study of ancient literature and art. This important and dynamic shift reconsiders the role that animals played in sharing the same environment as humans.1 Birds constitute a particularly promising group of animals to study because of their periodic interaction with, or adaptive integration into, an ecosystem. Some of them migrate, populating certain areas only for limited periods, and their arrival or disappearance marks the advent of a new season. For example, a swallow is greeted as the first sign of spring on a famous red-figure pelike associated with the Pioneer Group. This scene may also be a subtle allusion to the ancient—and ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: C’est, on le sait, une des propriétés très générales des champs que la lutte pour l’enjeu spécifique y dissimule la collusion objective à propos des principes du jeu ; et, plus précisément, que la lutte tend à produire et à reproduire continûment, et d’abord chez ceux qui s’y trouvent engagés, mais pas chez eux seulement, la croyance collective dans l’intérêt du jeu et dans la valeur des enjeux qui définit la reconnaissance de la légitimité. Qu’adviendrait-il en effet si l’on venait à disputer non pas de ce que vaut le style de tel ou tel auteur mais de ce que valent les disputes sur le style' C’en est fini d’un jeu lorsqu’on commence à se demander si le jeu vaut la chandelle. Et de fait, les crises sont toujours ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This is the first of two volumes in which Martin J. Cropp provides a comprehensive selection, with English translation and commentary, of testimonies and fragments relating to works by the Greek tragedians who are misleadingly denoted in the scholarship as “minor” in distinction to the canonical three (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides).1 This first volume is dedicated to the earlier tragic poets whose dramatic productions date from the last third of the sixth century to the end of the fifth century BCE. The material is preserved in mostly poor fragmentary remnants, quotations, and paraphrases by later ancient writers or in papyri.Whereas the lost plays of the canonical triad have increasingly commanded scholarly ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Alexander le Grand ou Alexandre III, né le 21 juillet 356 av. J.-C. à Pella et mort le 11 juin 323 av. J.-C. à Babylone, est un roi de Macédoine et un des personnages les plus emblématiques et imposants de l’Antiquité. Son origine divine, son éducation, sa jeunesse, ses expéditions, ses conquêtes, son règne et sa mort furent l’objet de diverses études, le plus souvent controversées, depuis l’époque romaine.Dans Soldier, Priest, and God. A Life of Alexander the Great, Fred S. Naiden tâche d’offrir une approche innovante du personnage d’Alexandre en mettant l’accent tant sur son génie militaire que sur son dévouement religieux.L’ouvrage comporte douze chapitres.Dans le premier chapitre, l’auteur procède à une ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Frank Holt’s books are always interesting and usually groundbreaking. Holt is the author of several books on Greek history, especially monetary history, with a particular emphasis on Bactria. His books approach their given subjects with both wit and wisdom. Holt also has a way with words whose flow carries the general reader along with little effort. This book is no exception. It is surely the distillation of decades’ worth of study of, and fascination with, ancient coins—witness the book’s 30 pages of endnotes and 16 pages of select bibliography—but Holt always wears his learning lightly. His didacticism is the easy, avuncular one of a raconteur like Herodotus and thoroughly enjoyable for it. For instance, the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-09-24T00:00:00-05:00
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