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The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the D
The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Marion Woodrow Kruse, III Graduate Program in Greek and Latin The Ohio State University 2015 Dissertation Committee: Anthony Kaldellis, Advisor; Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; Nathan Rosenstein Copyright by Marion Woodrow Kruse, III 2015 ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the use of Roman historical memory from the late fifth century through the middle of the sixth century AD. The collapse of Roman government in the western Roman empire in the late fifth century inspired a crisis of identity and political messaging in the eastern Roman empire of the same period. I argue that the Romans of the eastern empire, in particular those who lived in Constantinople and worked in or around the imperial administration, responded to the challenge posed by the loss of Rome by rewriting the history of the Roman empire. The new historical narratives that arose during this period were initially concerned with Roman identity and fixated on urban space (in particular the cities of Rome and Constantinople) and Roman mythistory. By the sixth century, however, the debate over Roman history had begun to infuse all levels of Roman political discourse and became a major component of the emperor Justinian’s imperial messaging and propaganda, especially in his Novels. The imperial history proposed by the Novels was aggressivley challenged by other writers of the period, creating a clear historical and political conflict over the role and import of Roman history as a model or justification for Roman politics in the sixth century. -
A New Perspective on the Early Roman Dictatorship, 501-300 B.C
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE EARLY ROMAN DICTATORSHIP, 501-300 B.C. BY Jeffrey A. Easton Submitted to the graduate degree program in Classics and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts. Anthony Corbeill Chairperson Committee Members Tara Welch Carolyn Nelson Date defended: April 26, 2010 The Thesis Committee for Jeffrey A. Easton certifies that this is the approved Version of the following thesis: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE EARLY ROMAN DICTATORSHIP, 501-300 B.C. Committee: Anthony Corbeill Chairperson Tara Welch Carolyn Nelson Date approved: April 27, 2010 ii Page left intentionally blank. iii ABSTRACT According to sources writing during the late Republic, Roman dictators exercised supreme authority over all other magistrates in the Roman polity for the duration of their term. Modern scholars have followed this traditional paradigm. A close reading of narratives describing early dictatorships and an analysis of ancient epigraphic evidence, however, reveal inconsistencies in the traditional model. The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new model of the early Roman dictatorship that is based upon a reexamination of the evidence for the nature of dictatorial imperium and the relationship between consuls and dictators in the period 501-300 BC. Originally, dictators functioned as ad hoc magistrates, were equipped with standard consular imperium, and, above all, were intended to supplement consuls. Furthermore, I demonstrate that Sulla’s dictatorship, a new and genuinely absolute form of the office introduced in the 80s BC, inspired subsequent late Republican perceptions of an autocratic dictatorship. -
The Developmentof Early Imperial Dress from the Tetrachs to The
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Birmingham Research Archive, E-theses Repository University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. The Development of Early Imperial Dress from the Tetrarchs to the Herakleian Dynasty General Introduction The emperor, as head of state, was the most important and powerful individual in the land; his official portraits and to a lesser extent those of the empress were depicted throughout the realm. His image occurred most frequently on small items issued by government officials such as coins, market weights, seals, imperial standards, medallions displayed beside new consuls, and even on the inkwells of public officials. As a sign of their loyalty, his portrait sometimes appeared on the patches sown on his supporters’ garments, embossed on their shields and armour or even embellishing their jewelry. Among more expensive forms of art, the emperor’s portrait appeared in illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, and wall paintings such as murals and donor portraits. Several types of statues bore his likeness, including those worshiped as part of the imperial cult, examples erected by public 1 officials, and individual or family groupings placed in buildings, gardens and even harbours at the emperor’s personal expense. -
The Military Reforms of Gaius Marius in Their Social, Economic, and Political Context by Michael C. Gambino August, 2015 Directo
The Military Reforms of Gaius Marius in their Social, Economic, and Political Context By Michael C. Gambino August, 2015 Director of Thesis: Dr. Frank Romer Major Department: History Abstract The goal of this thesis is, as the title affirms, to understand the military reforms of Gaius Marius in their broader societal context. In this thesis, after a brief introduction (Chap. I), Chap. II analyzes the Roman manipular army, its formation, policies, and armament. Chapter III examines Roman society, politics, and economics during the second century B.C.E., with emphasis on the concentration of power and wealth, the legislative programs of Ti. And C. Gracchus, and the Italian allies’ growing demand for citizenship. Chap. IV discusses Roman military expansion from the Second Punic War down to 100 B.C.E., focusing on Roman military and foreign policy blunders, missteps, and mistakes in Celtiberian Spain, along with Rome’s servile wars and the problem of the Cimbri and Teutones. Chap. V then contextualizes the life of Gaius Marius and his sense of military strategy, while Chap VI assesses Marius’s military reforms in his lifetime and their immediate aftermath in the time of Sulla. There are four appendices on the ancient literary sources (App. I), Marian consequences in the Late Republic (App. II), the significance of the legionary eagle standard as shown during the early principate (App. III), and a listing of the consular Caecilii Metelli in the second and early first centuries B.C.E. (App. IV). The Marian military reforms changed the army from a semi-professional citizen militia into a more professionalized army made up of extensively trained recruits who served for longer consecutive terms and were personally bound to their commanders. -
2007 Tsjcl Certamen Novice Division Round One
2007 TSJCL CERTAMEN NOVICE DIVISION ROUND ONE 1. The Latin abbreviation a.d. has several possible meanings. Give the Latin and English for one of those meanings. SEE BELOW B1: Name another ANTE DIEM - BEFORE THE DAY AURIS DEXTRA - RIGHT EAR ANNÆ DOMIN¦ - IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD B2: The Latin abbreviation n. has several possible meanings. Give the Latin and English for one of those meanings. N}TUS - BORN, NEUTER - NEUTER, or NOCTE - AT NIGHT 2. What type of building is described in the following sentences? The third of its type was built in Rome by Caligula and Nero. The second of its type was built by Gaius Flaminius. The first of its type lay between the Palatine and Aventine hills. A CIRCUS B1: What now occupies the space where the Circus of Caligula and Nero once stood? ST. PETER’S BASILICA / SQUARE B2: What part of a circus were the carcer‘s? STARTING STALLS/GATES 3. What name did the Greeks give to the goddess of home and hearth? HESTIA B1: Name two of Hestia’s brothers and sisters. SEE BELOW B2: Name three more. HERA, DEMETER, POSEIDON, HADES, ZEUS 4. Give the Ablative plural of the phrase dãrus mãrus. DâR¦S MâR¦S B1: Make the phrase ultimus cursus Genitive plural. ULTIMÆRUM CURSUUM B2: Make the phrase f‘l§x lupus Ablative singular. FL¦C¦ LUPÆ 5. Translate the following sentence into English: "post paucÇs m‘ns‘s, ali~s urb‘s vid‘re vol‘b~mus." AFTER A FEW MONTHS, WE WANTED TO SEE OTHER CITIES B1: Translate this sentence: 'c‘na quam coquus par~bat erat optima.' THE DINNER WHICH THE COOK WAS PREPARING WAS VERY GOOD B2: Translate this sentence: 'spect~culum vid‘re nÇlumus quod est pessimum.' WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE SHOW BECAUSE IT IS VERY BAD NOVICE ROUND 1 - PAGE 1 6. -
After Life in Roman Paganism
With the Compliments of YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY NEW HAVEN, CONN., U.S.A. AFTER LIFE IN ROMAN PAGANISM YALE UNIVERSITY MRS. HEPSA ELY SILLIMAN MEMORIAL LECTURES SILLIMAN MEMORIAL LECTURES PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS ELECTEICITY AND MATTEE. By JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON, D.Sc., LL.D., PH.D., F.E.S., Fellow of Trinity College and Cavendish Professor of Ex perimental Physics, Cambridge University. (Fourth printing.) THE INTEGEATIVE ACTION OF THE NEEVOUS SYSTEM. By CHARLES S. SHERRINGTON, D.Sc., M.D., HON. LL.D. TOR., F.E.S., Holt Professor of Physiology, University of Liverpool. (Sixth printing.) EADIOACTIVE TEANSFOEMATIONS. By ERNEST RUTHERFORD, D.Sc., LL.D., F.E.S., Macdonald Professor of Physics, McGill University. (Second printing.) EXPEEIMENTAL AND THEOEETICAL APPLICATIONS OF THEE- MODYNAMICS TO CHEMISTEY. By DR. WALTER NERNST, Professor and Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry in the University of Berlin. PEOBLEMS OF GENETICS. By WILLIAM BATESON, M.A., F.E.S., Director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton Park, Surrey, Eng land. (Second printing.) STELLAE MOTIONS. With Special Eeference to Motions Determined by Means of the Spectrograph. By WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL, Sc.D., LL.D., Director of the Lick Observatory, University of California. (Second printing.} THEOEIES OF SOLUTIONS. By SVANTE ARRHENIUS, PH.D., Sc.D., M.D., Director of the Physico-Chemical Department of the Nobel Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. (Third printing.) IEEITABILITY. A Physiological Analysis of the General Effect of Stimuli in Living Substances. By MAX VERWORN, M.D., PH.D., Professor at Bonn Physiological Institute. (Second printing.) PEOBLEMS OF AMEEICAN GEOLOGY. By WILLIAM NORTH RICE, FRANK D. -
2016 Advanced Certamen Round 1
2016 TSJCL Certamen Advanced Round 1 TU 1: Upon hearing whose literary description of her son Marcellus did Octavia faint? VERGIL’S B1: In what book of the Aeneid did this description appear? SIXTH B2: What was Anchises doing for Aeneas when the two of them saw Marcellus? SHOWING AENEAS HIS FAMOUS FUTURE DESCENDANTS (THE ROMANS) TU 2: To what ongoing work of literature did Aulus Hirtius add an eighth book? CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC WAR B1: Who decided to add a third book to his Ars Amatoria, providing advice to women on how to romance men? OVID B2: Who added three more books to his fifteen-book Annales to extend their coverage beyond the year 187 BC? ENNIUS TU 3: Name the Roman admiral who lost the 249 BC battle at Drepana. (P.) CLAUDIUS PULCHER B1: Who was the victorious Carthaginian general? ADHERBAL B2: What omen warned Clodius not to fight the battle? THE SACRED CHICKENS WOULDN'T EAT // HE THREW THE SACRED CHIKENS IN THE WATER TU 4: Name the wooden statue of Athena which safeguarded the city of Troy. THE PALLADIUM B1: What two Greeks stole the Palladium during the Trojan war? ODYSSEUS AND DIOMEDES B2: What seer suggested this strategy? HELENUS TU 5: Who predicted that Cronus would be overthrown by one of his own children? GAEA B1: Who served Cronus the potion to make him spew up his swallowed children? METIS / ZEUS B2: In some sources Zeus himself serves the potion. In what disguise did he do it? CUP-BEARER TU 6: Translate the following sentence into English: Rm discessimus ad pulchrs fmins inveniends. -
New Latin Grammar
NEW LATIN GRAMMAR BY CHARLES E. BENNETT Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin in Cornell University Quicquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta Percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat. —HORACE, Ars Poetica. COPYRIGHT, 1895; 1908; 1918 BY CHARLES E. BENNETT PREFACE. The present work is a revision of that published in 1908. No radical alterations have been introduced, although a number of minor changes will be noted. I have added an Introduction on the origin and development of the Latin language, which it is hoped will prove interesting and instructive to the more ambitious pupil. At the end of the book will be found an Index to the Sources of the Illustrative Examples cited in the Syntax. C.E.B. ITHACA, NEW YORK, May 4, 1918 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The present book is a revision of my Latin Grammar originally published in 1895. Wherever greater accuracy or precision of statement seemed possible, I have endeavored to secure this. The rules for syllable division have been changed and made to conform to the prevailing practice of the Romans themselves. In the Perfect Subjunctive Active, the endings -īs, -īmus, -ītis are now marked long. The theory of vowel length before the suffixes -gnus, -gna, -gnum, and also before j, has been discarded. In the Syntax I have recognized a special category of Ablative of Association, and have abandoned the original doctrine as to the force of tenses in the Prohibitive. Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have been introduced. In its main lines the work remains unchanged. -
Nulla Poena Sine Lege
THE YALE LAW JOURNAL VOLuME 47 DECEMBER, 1937 NUzaER 2 NULLA POENA SINE LEGE By JEROME HALL f NULLA poena sine lege has several meanings.' In a narrower con- notation of that specific formula it concerns the treatment-consequence element of penal laws: no person shall be punished except in pur- suance of a statute which fixes a penalty for criminal behavior. Em- ployed as nullum crimen sine lege, the prohibition is that no conduct shall be held criminal unless it is specifically described in the behavior- circumstance element of a penal statute. In addition, tudla poena sine lege has been understood to include the rule that penal statutes must be strictly construed. A final, important signification of the rule is that penal laws shall not be given retroactive effect. Obviously, it is necessary to keep each of the above meanings distinct. I. OIuGIs The view one finds most frequently expressed is that the rule, despite its Latinity, is not of Roman origin 2 but was born in eighteenth century Liberalism. The matter is not so simple. A few threads persist to per- plex; they refute an all-too-facile history, even though they may not establish a clear, unbroken line of development.' True it is that the "extraordinary" offenses of Roman jurisprudence suggest almost unlimited discretion in the judiciary. But side by side with eztraordinariajudicia may be found insistence upon pre-definition of offense and penalty. As regards first malefactors, magisterial discre- tion probably joined appeal to the populace to provide specific decisions, which, in course of time, defined "ordinary" offenses governed by pre- -Professor of Law, Louisiana State University Law School The author vishes 'to acknowledge his indebtedness to Virginia L. -
Monstrous Crowns and the New Furies of Roman Epic.Pdf
Monstrous Crowns and the New Furies of Roman Epic CAMWS, April 10, 2021 Rachael Cullick [email protected] 1. Emblems of the Underworld a) in the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice (Met. 10.45-46):1 tum primum lacrimis uictarum carmine fama est Eumenidum maduisse genas; … The story is that the cheeks of the Eumenides, conquered by his song, were then wet with tears for the first time; … b) in the tale of Althaea and Meleager (Il. 9.569-72): κικλήσκουσ᾽ Ἀΐδην καὶ ἐπαινὴν Περσεφόνειαν, πρόχνυ καθεζοµένη, δεύοντο δὲ δάκρυσι κόλποι, παιδὶ δόµεν θάνατον· τῆς δ᾽ἠεροφοῖτις Ἐρινὺς ἔκλυεν ἐξ Ἐρέβεσφιν, ἀµείλιχον ἦτορ ἔχουσα. … kneeling with her robe wet with tears, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone to grant death to her son; an Erinys who walks in mist with an implacable heart heard her from Erebus. 2. Underworld administration a) Ministers of Hades (Theb. 4. 525-7): ipsum pallentem solio circumque ministras funestorum operum Eumenidas Stygiaeque seueros Iunonis thalamos et torua cubilia cerno. I see pale Hades himself on his throne, and around him the Eumenides, assistants in his deadly tasks, and the grim chamber and fierce bed of Stygian Juno. 1 The texts used are Tarrant 2004 for the Metamorphoses, Munro & Allen 1920 for the Iliad, and Hill 1983 for the Thebaid; all translations are my own. 1 b) Furies and Fates, working together (Theb. 8.9-13, 24-26): necdum illum aut trunca lustrauerat obuia taxo Eumenis, aut furuo Proserpina poste notarat coetibus adsumptum functis; quin comminus ipsa Fatorum deprensa colus, uisoque pauentes augure tunc demum rumpebant stamina Parcae. -
NOTE on GREEK ANTHOLOGY XIV 24 Greek Anthology XIV 24. Thou Seest Me ... Dionysus. a Double Womb Bore Me, and My Father Presides
NOTE ON GREEK ANTHOLOGY XIV 24 Greek Anthology XIV 24. Thou seest me ... Dionysus. A double womb bore me, and my father presides over memory. He first generated me, a merciless creature carrying a beast, and having slain the dear son of my sister the fawn, I no longer carry a beast, but the sky, and sea, and earth, and the holy company of the gods ever imperishable. I Paton remarks that the riddle is obscure, but that the last lines evidently refer to a panther, which on losing its last syllable (ther-beast) becomes pan (the universe). I should like to suggest two alterations, one in the Greek, the other in the English translation above. For .. gcov I should suggest I and instead of Paton's words 'having slain the dear son of my sister the fawn', I should submit 'Having slain the dear son of my sister's fawn'. May not the answer to the riddle be 'MAN'? Man is A16vuaoq - the human Dionysus-in that, like the god, he has two mothers; for Dio- nysus is 'Bimatris' (Ovid. Met. 4, 1 2 ) an epithet ridiculed by Martial (5, 72 ) . Prometheus, according to one legend, produced man out of water and earth (Ovid ?Vlet. i, 80). If Prometheus is man's father, water and earth are man's two mothers. Prometheus (Hor. Odes I 16, 13) gave man some of the qualities of every beast. Hence in a riddle man may be playfully termed 'Pan-ther'. Prometheus has claims to be one who presides over memory. He himself says, in Aeschylus, that he invented for men 'the combining of letters where- with to hold all things in memory' (P. -
A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Religion
2018 A READER IN COMPARATIVE INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION Ranko Matasović Zagreb 2018 © This publication is intended primarily for the use of students of the University of Zagreb. It should not be copied or otherwise reproduced without a permission from the author. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations........................................................................................................................ Foreword............................................................................................................................... PART 1: Elements of the Proto-Indo-European religion...................................................... 1. Reconstruction of PIE religious vocabulary and phraseology................................... 2. Basic Religious terminology of PIE.......................................................................... 3. Elements of PIE mythology....................................................................................... PART II: A selection of texts Hittite....................................................................................................................................... Vedic........................................................................................................................................ Iranian....................................................................................................................................... Greek.......................................................................................................................................