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The Coinage of Akragas C
ACTA UNIVERSITATIS UPSALIENSIS Studia Numismatica Upsaliensia 6:1 STUDIA NUMISMATICA UPSALIENSIA 6:1 The Coinage of Akragas c. 510–406 BC Text and Plates ULLA WESTERMARK I STUDIA NUMISMATICA UPSALIENSIA Editors: Harald Nilsson, Hendrik Mäkeler and Ragnar Hedlund 1. Uppsala University Coin Cabinet. Anglo-Saxon and later British Coins. By Elsa Lindberger. 2006. 2. Münzkabinett der Universität Uppsala. Deutsche Münzen der Wikingerzeit sowie des hohen und späten Mittelalters. By Peter Berghaus and Hendrik Mäkeler. 2006. 3. Uppsala universitets myntkabinett. Svenska vikingatida och medeltida mynt präglade på fastlandet. By Jonas Rundberg and Kjell Holmberg. 2008. 4. Opus mixtum. Uppsatser kring Uppsala universitets myntkabinett. 2009. 5. ”…achieved nothing worthy of memory”. Coinage and authority in the Roman empire c. AD 260–295. By Ragnar Hedlund. 2008. 6:1–2. The Coinage of Akragas c. 510–406 BC. By Ulla Westermark. 2018 7. Musik på medaljer, mynt och jetonger i Nils Uno Fornanders samling. By Eva Wiséhn. 2015. 8. Erik Wallers samling av medicinhistoriska medaljer. By Harald Nilsson. 2013. © Ulla Westermark, 2018 Database right Uppsala University ISSN 1652-7232 ISBN 978-91-513-0269-0 urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-345876 (http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-345876) Typeset in Times New Roman by Elin Klingstedt and Magnus Wijk, Uppsala Printed in Sweden on acid-free paper by DanagårdLiTHO AB, Ödeshög 2018 Distributor: Uppsala University Library, Box 510, SE-751 20 Uppsala www.uu.se, [email protected] The publication of this volume has been assisted by generous grants from Uppsala University, Uppsala Sven Svenssons stiftelse för numismatik, Stockholm Gunnar Ekströms stiftelse för numismatisk forskning, Stockholm Faith and Fred Sandstrom, Haverford, PA, USA CONTENTS FOREWORDS ......................................................................................... -
A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE Cornell University Library CJ 237.H64 A handbook of Greek and Roman coins. 3 1924 021 438 399 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924021438399 f^antilioofcs of glrcfjaeologj) anU Antiquities A HANDBOOK OF GREEK AND ROMAN COINS A HANDBOOK OF GREEK AND ROMAN COINS G. F. HILL, M.A. OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS IN' THE bRITISH MUSEUM WITH FIFTEEN COLLOTYPE PLATES Hon&on MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY l8 99 \_All rights reserved'] ©jcforb HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY PREFACE The attempt has often been made to condense into a small volume all that is necessary for a beginner in numismatics or a young collector of coins. But success has been less frequent, because the knowledge of coins is essentially a knowledge of details, and small treatises are apt to be un- readable when they contain too many references to particular coins, and unprofltably vague when such references are avoided. I cannot hope that I have passed safely between these two dangers ; indeed, my desire has been to avoid the second at all risk of encountering the former. At the same time it may be said that this book is not meant for the collector who desires only to identify the coins which he happens to possess, while caring little for the wider problems of history, art, mythology, and religion, to which coins sometimes furnish the only key. -
The World of Odysseus M
THE WORLD OF ODYSSEUS M. I. FINLEY INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD KNOX NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS CLASSICS THE WORLD OF ODYSSEUS M. I. FINLEY (1912–1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley’s best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus. BERNARD KNOX is director emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. -
The Copper Resources of Temesa Content 1
The Copper Resources of Temesa Content 1. Problems with the geographical location of Temesa / Terina ................................................................. 1 2. Maps of the geological environment ....................................................................................................... 3 3. Systematic containment of copper mineral outcrops ............................................................................. 6 4. Historical literature references to copper ores ....................................................................................... 9 Literature ................................................................................................................................................... 12 1. Problems with the geographical location of Temesa / Terina …sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of strange speech, on my way to Temese for copper; and I bear with me shining iron (Odyssey I.183, cited from www.perseus.tufts.edu). In my essay "Homer über dem Eisernen Steg in Frankfurt" (homersheimat.de) I had explained why that "Temesa" mentioned in the just cited Odyssey verse cannot be identified with the Cypriot Tamassos, but should be seen in a place located on the west coast of Calabria. This is supported by an interpretation of the context in which the quoted Homer verses are placed, as well as certain geological arguments, to which I will return in more detail, and by several references in the "Geographica" of the ancient Greek historian Strabon (63 B.C. to 23 A.D.). Strabon we owe the clearest statements of a historian to this place. But as already stated at a colloquium on that Temesa in Perugia and Trevi 1981, Strabon's apparently so concrete geographical indications are by no means suitable for reliably locating the historical place (Temesa e il suo Territorio, henceforth quoted as TEMESA 1982, p. 41). Strabon travelled and described an Italy whose 'boot foot' at the time of Homer was still marked by the great Greek colonization with the formation of "Magna Graeca". -
Greek Dialects of Ancient Apennine Peninsula
CLASSICA ATQUE MEDIAEVALIA JAROSLAO LUDVfKOVSKtf Brno OCTOGENARIO OBLATA 1976 Antonin Bartonek Brno GREEK DIALECTS OF ANCIENT APENNINE PENINSULA In the work entitled Greek Dialects of Archaic Sicily: Their Integration Tendencies, Graecolatina et Orientalia 5, Bratislava 1973, pp. 71—89, we have tried to deliniate the developmental tendencies which may be observed in the world of the ancient Greek dialects in Sicily, while in the present study we intend to deal with the same problems with respect to the Greek areas in the Apennine Peninsula. Our treatment of the subject will at first be analogical with that about Sicily, and occasionally we shall not be able to avoid repeating certain arguments and formulations; never theless, from the very beginning we shall be aware of one distinct difference between the two topics: in contrast to Sicily, in the Apennine Peninsula we encounter two clearly separate colonization areas, i.e. A) the area about the Gulf of Naples in the west and B) the area of the southern projection of the Peninsula. The course of the most important events in the history of the Greek colonization in Italy renders according to the ancient tradition roughly the following chronolo gical picture, which finds confirmation also in the results of the latest archaeological research:1 Colony2 Coloni Founded ca. Dialect (+ principal dependent zation by colonists from ... B. C. spoken settlements) area Pithekoussai3 A Chalkis (Buboia) 770? Ionic Eretria (Euboia) Kyme A Chalkis (Euboia) 757/6? Ionic Eretria (Euboia) Kyme (Aiolis) Pithekoussai 1 We have not taken here into account the Greek settlements, or trading stations, on the Adriatic coast of the Valley of Po (Adria, Spina)—as settlements situated outside the Apennine Peninsula, nor do we deal with the later colonization activity of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysios I on the Adriatic coast of Central Italy (Ankon). -
The Hellenistic Poets As Historians
The Hellenistic Poets as Historians Simon Hornblower Abstract: This article explores the ways in which Hellenistic poets handled lived events of the human past, and it argues that they functioned as in some sense what we would recognize as historians. They used four main devices to do so, which are examined in turn: Hellenistic historical epics (a genre whose very existence has been challenged); tragic messenger speeches („Ezekiel‟; Lykophron‟s Alexandra); aitia (Kallimachos); prophecy i.e. pseudo-prophecy or prophecy after the event (Ezekiel again; the Third Sibylline Oracle; Lykophron again. Apollonios usually refuses to make use of prophecy in this way). It is argued that Lykophron, who is here dated to the 190s BCE, shows awareness of the then recent trauma of the Hannibalic War. Finally, the poets are tested against ancient and modern definitions of „history‟ and „historian‟. Keywords: Hellenistic; poetry; historians; historical epics; aitia; prophecy; „Ezekiel‟; Apollonios; Lykophron; Alexandra; Sibylline Oracles; Hannibal; Polybius Introduction By my title I do not just mean such projects as „how to extract history of any sort from the Hellenistic poets‟, or „history and the Hellenistic poets‟.1 I give a few examples. To take the first (extracting history): if looking for social history, we might adduce some lines of Theokritos as evidence for the expectations of a mercenary in the time of Ptolemy II.2 Or we might be interested in excavating the poems for religious history. If so, we could examine the evidence for hero-cult in Apollonios, or for cults and festivals in Kallimachos.3 Or we could draw on Hellenistic epigraphy to illustrate the accuracy of the material about oracular incubation in Lykophron‟s Alexandra, where the poet deals with the Italian cult of the medical hero Podaleirios. -
The Italians in the Second Punic War: Local Conditions and the Failure of the Hannibalic Strategy in Italy
THE ITALIANS IN THE SECOND PUNIC WAR: LOCAL CONDITIONS AND THE FAILURE OF THE HANNIBALIC STRATEGY IN ITALY DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Michael P. Fronda, M.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 2003 Dissertation Committee: Approved By Dr. Nathan Rosenstein, Adviser Dr. Timothy Gregory ____________________________ Adviser Dr. Barry Strauss Department of History ABSTRACT Rome’s victory in the Second Punic War paved the way for its conquest of the Mediterranean. Yet that victory is bound up with Hannibal's failure in Italy, even though he brought Rome to its knees in the early stages of the war. Previous explanations for the failure of Hannibal's strategy have tended to stress either the hopelessness of this strategy, because of the loyalty of Rome's Italian allies and their willingness to be integrated into the Roman system, or the success of Rome's counter-strategy of attrition, aimed at limiting allied revolts while wearing down Hannibal's forces. Previous scholarship, however, neglects an important dimension of the question of the failure of Hannibal’s strategy; that is, Hannibal’s failure as a diplomat to win over large numbers of Rome’s Italian allies and thus overcome Rome’s long-term strategic advantages. This dissertation looks at the Second Punic War from the perspective of the Italian states in order to explain why Hannibal did not gain more Italian allies. The dissertation is divided into four regional case studies and brings to bear literary, archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic, and topographic evidence. -
The Heroic Athlete in Ancient Greece Author(S): David J
The Heroic Athlete in Ancient Greece Author(s): David J. Lunt Source: Journal of Sport History, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Fall 2009), pp. 375-392 Published by: University of Illinois Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26405220 Accessed: 01-03-2020 10:25 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms University of Illinois Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Sport History This content downloaded from 94.66.56.215 on Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:25:30 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The Heroic Athlete in Ancient Greece David T. Lunt4 Departments of History and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies The Pennsylvania State University In ancient Greece, powerful and successful athletes sought after and displayed might and arete (excellence) in the hope ofattaining a final component of di vinity—immortality. These athletes looked to the heroes of Greek myth as mod els for their own quests for glory and immortality. The most attractive heroic model for a powerful athlete was Herakles. Milo of Croton, a famed wrestler from antiquity, styled himself after Herakles and imitated him in battle. -
Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy
Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy Livia Tagliapietra St John’s College, Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy January 2018 Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy Livia Tagliapietra Summary This doctoral thesis investigates dialect contact, identity and change in the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the fourth and third centuries BC, as evidenced in the surviving epigraphic sources. South Italy is an area of the ancient Greek-speaking world in which a comprehensive investigation of the linguistic evidence has not previously been attempted. By considering linguistic questions within their broader socio-historical environment, I propose a radical redrawing of the dialect map of this area. I first present the historical context, the linguistic evidence and the methodological framework of my research in the introduction. In the first chapter I reject previous hypotheses about dialect contact in South Italy around 300 BC on the basis of both historical and linguistic arguments. I then propose a new and empirically better supported explanation for the development of the ‘severior’ long- vowel system in the dialect of the southern city of Locri, which previous studies have generally attributed to influence from the dialect of the important northern city of Taras and taken as evidence for Taras’ linguistic influence over the rest of Magna Graecia, and possibly also for the existence of a local Doric koina (i.e. a common dialect). In the second chapter I offer a new analysis of the inscriptional record from Locri and show that, in the absence of compelling evidence for influence from the dialect of Taras, a high level of prestige remained attributed to the traditional local dialect until at least the mid-third century. -
An Economic History of Rome Second Edition Revised
An Economic History of Rome Second Edition Revised Tenney Frank Batoche Books Kitchener 2004 Originally published in 1927. This edition published 2004 Batoche Books Limited [email protected] Contents Preface ...........................................................................................................................5 Chapter 1: Agriculture in Early Latium.........................................................................6 Chapter 2: The Early Trade of Latium and Etruria .....................................................14 Chapter 3: The Rise of the Peasantry ..........................................................................26 Chapter 4: New Lands For Old ...................................................................................34 Chapter 5: Roman Coinage .........................................................................................41 Chapter 6: The Establishment of the Plantation..........................................................52 Chapter 7: Industry and Commerce ............................................................................61 Chapter 8: The Gracchan Revolution..........................................................................71 Chapter 9: The New Provincial Policy........................................................................78 Chapter 10: Financial Interests in Politics ..................................................................90 Chapter 11: Public Finances......................................................................................101 -
Rape in Ancient Greece?
Rape and Rape Culture in the Ancient Greek Culture? Was rape “really” rape in Ancient Greece? Sotiria Koutsopetrou HIS 350 Master Thesis Department for Archaeology, History, Cultural studies and Religion UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN Spring 2019 Abstract In this master thesis I discuss how the ancient Greeks evaluated the rape of women, which sexual acts were punished as rape and whether their culture qualifies as rape culture. The topic is examined at five particular levels of inquiry. First, I take a closer look at the modern terms of rape and rape culture. Second, I analyze and compare the representations of rape in myth and art with the contemporary examples of rape culture. Then, I study the ancient Greek view of rape and the legal framework of the crime in ancient Athens and Gortyn on Crete. Finally, I examine the ancient literary pieces which deal with the female experience of rape and articulate the female suffering. My conclusion is that the ancient Greeks held a contradictory attitude on the matter. They did condemn the rape of their women, but also excused many forms of sexual violence against them. They used several verbal formulations for describing and “conceptually” connecting the act with the word bia (violence) or the word hybris (insult, outrage). From a legal perspective, an act of rape was understood as an insult against the property and the authority of the male kyrios (guardian) of the female victim and not against the victim herself. The female consent or point of view were immaterial. Raped women had access to the legal system only through their kyrioi, who decided according to their personal interests whether they would employ the available judicial or self-help remedies. -
Trading Gods. Greek Sanctuaries in the Mediterranean and Their Role As Emporia and 'Ports of Trade' (7Th–6Th Century BCE)
Trading Goods – Trading Gods. Greek Sanctuaries in the Mediterranean and their Role as emporia and 'Ports of Trade' (7th–6th Century BCE) Robinson Peter Krämer Abstract: Greek sanctuaries are well known primarily as places within the community to feast and worship the gods. Since the late 7th century BCE, certain sanctuaries, such as Gravisca, Pyrgi or Naukratis, were founded in frontier zones, where they provided access to other cultural groups and featured peculiar economic characteristics. Karl Polanyi defined these sanctuaries as ‘ports of trade’. Sanctuaries with the function as ‘ports of trade’ or ‘emporia’, typically do not consist of large set- tlement structures, but offer features for trade and exchange, a protecting neutrality, and function as a gateway between at least two parties. The archaeological record indicates an important Greek presence in ‘ports of trade’ situated in frontier zones. Additionally, administrative structures and ex- changed goods suggest a completely transformed trading strategy from the late 7th/early 6th century BCE onwards. This paper argues that ‘emporia’ were the key institution for the beginning of an in- tensive Mediterranean long distance trade in the Classical World. Introduction were established: ‘ports of trade’ or empo- Although Greek sanctuaries had different ria, located in frontier zones to other cultur- topographic, architectural, cultic and func- al groups and used primarily for trade. tional features, generally they were centrally located within a polis, which highlighted its emporia