ISSN 007S4358 JOURNAL of ROMAN STUDIES Volume LXXXIII 1993
JOYCE REYNOLDS XI
ARTICLES FERGUS MILLAR Ovid and the Dotnus Augusta: Rome Seen from Tomoi 1 ANDREW LAIRD Sounding out Ecphrasis: Art and Text in Catullus 64 18 MATTHEW FOX History and Rhetoric in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 31 K. M. COLEMAN Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire 48 TESSA RAJAK AND DAVID NOY Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the Greco-Jewish Synagogue 75 HANNAH COTTON The Guardianship of Jesus Son of Babatha: Roman and Local Law in the Province of Arabia 94 M. P. SPEIDEL Commodus the God-Emperor and the Army 109 POLYMNIA ATHANASSIADI Dreams, Theurgy and Freelance Divination: the Testimony of Iamblichus 115
SURVEY ARTICLES RICHARD GORDON, MARY BEARD, JOYCE REYNOLDS AND CHARLOTTE ROUECHE Roman Inscriptions 1986-90 131 E. L. BOWIE AND S. J. HARRISON The Romance of the Novel 159
REVIEWS I. GENERAL 179 II. THE REPUBLIC 187 III. THE EMPIRE 199 IV. THE LATE EMPIRE 257 V. CLASSICAL TRADITION 266
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The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies CONTENTS PAGE JOYCE REYNOLDS ...... xi
ARTICLES FERGUS MILLAR, Ovid and the Domus Augusta: Rome Seen from Tomoi . . i ANDREW LAIRD, Sounding out Ecphrasis: Art and Text in Catullus 64 . . . 18 MATTHEW Fox, History and Rhetoric in Dionysius of Halicarnassus . . . 31 K. M. COLEMAN, Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire . 48 TESSA RAJAK and DAVID NOY, Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the Greco-Jewish Synagogue ...... 75 HANNAH COTTON, The Guardianship of Jesus Son of Babatha: Roman and Local Law in the Province of Arabia ...... 94 M. P. SPEIDEL, Commodus the God-Emperor and the Army ..... 109 POLYMNIA ATHANASSIADI, Dreams, Theurgy and Freelance Divination: the Testimony of Iamblichus ...... 115
SURVEY ARTICLES RICHARD GORDON, MARY BEARD, JOYCE REYNOLDS and CHARLOTTE ROUECHE, Roman Inscriptions 1986-90 ...... 131 E. L. BOWIE and S.J. HARRISON, The Romance of the Novel . . . . . 159
REVIEWS (in alphabetical order) Achard, G., La Communication a.Rome (by S. Lewis) . . . . . 184 Alarcao, ]., etal.,Les Villas romainesde Sao Cucufate (Portugal) (byS.Keay) . . 234 Alonso-Nunez, J. M., La Historia universal de Pompeyo Trogo: Coordenadas espacialesy temporales (by F.W. Walbank) ...... 217 Andre, ].,LeVocabulairelatindel'anatomie (by D. R. Langslow) .... 222 Arthur, P., Romans in Northern Campania. Settlement and Land Use around the Massicoand the GariglianoBasin (by K. Lomas) ...... 226 Barker, G., and J. Lloyd (Eds), Roman Landscapes —Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Region (by S. Hill) ...... 232 Beacham, R. C, TheRoman Theatre and its Audience (by N. J. Lowe) . . . 195 Blagg, T., and M. Millett (Eds), The Early Roman Empire in the West (by S. Hill) . 233 Bourgeois, A., and F. Mayet,Belo:FouillesdeBelo, 6.LesSigillees (by S. Keay) . 234 Boyce, B., The Language of the Freedmen in Petronius' Cena Trimalchionis (by D. R. Langslow) ...... 220 Brouquier-Redde, V., Templesetcultesde Tripolitaine (by J. B. Rives) . . . 253 Brown, P. R. L., Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (by R. A. Markus) 258 Buraselis, K., ©eia &a)Qea. MeXexec; Jtava) ornv JTOXITIXT] trig 5uvacn:eiag xa)v 2.E$r\Quyvxcu,Tr\\ConstitutioAntoniniana (by A. J. S. Spawforth) . . . 254 Burnett, A., M. Amandry and P. P. Ripolles, Roman Provincial Coinage 1. From the Death of Caesar to the Death of Vitellius (44 B.c.-A.D.6g) (byC. Howgego) . 199 Cameron, Averil, Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire: The Development of Christian Discourse (by G.Woolf) ...... 257 Camodeca, G. (Ed.),Puteoli. StudidistoriaanticaXI-XIH(by M. Pobjoy) . . 194 Ciceron, Correspondance, TotneX. Ed. J. Beaujeu(byM. M. Willcock) . . 197 Clarke, J. R., The Houses of Roman Italy 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration (by R. Laurence) ...... 227 VI Coleman, R. (Ed.), New Studies in Latin Linguistics, Selected Papers from the 4th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Cambridge, April ig8y (by J. H. W. Penney) ...... 186 Collingwood, R. G., and R. P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Volume II. Instrumentum Domesticum (Personal Belongings and the Like). Fascicles 1—4 (by A. R. Birley) 237 Cornelia, A., and G. Stefani, Materiali votivi del Santuario di campetti a Veio: Scavi 194761969 (by T. F. C. Blagg) 188 Compatangelo, R., Un Cadastre depierre: Le Salento romain: Paysage et structures agraires (by J. R. Patterson) ...... 189 Cotton, H. M., and J. Geiger, Masada 2. The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-^65: Final Reports. The Latin and Greek Documents (by G. D.B.Jones) . . . 241 Curtis, R. I., Garum and Salsamenta: Production and Commerce in Materia Medica (byS.Keay) ...... 234 D'Andria, F., Archeologia dei Messapi: Catalogo delta mostra Lecce, Museo Pro- vinciale 'Sigismondo Castromediano', 7 ottobre 1990-7 gennaio iggi (by J. R. Patterson) ...... 189 Davis, G., Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse (by H. P. Syndikus) 214 Dejuliis, E. M.,L'ipogeodeiViminidiCanosa (by J. R. Patterson) . . . 189 Delia, D., Alexandrian Citizenship during the Roman Principate (by J. Rowlandson) 250 DeMartino, F., Wirtschaftsgeschichte des altenRom (by N. Purcell) . . . 181 D'Ercole, M. C, La stipe votiva del Belvedere a Lucera (byT. F. C. Blagg) . . 188 Dorcey, P.F., The Cult of Silvanus. A Study in Roman Folk Religion (by J. B. Rives) . 231 Dyson, S. L., Community and Society in Roman Italy (by K. Lomas) . . . 226 Eck, W., and H. Galsterer (Eds), Die Stadt in Oberitalien undin den nordwestlichen Provinzen des romischen Reiches (by L. F.Pitts) ...... 239 Edmunds, L., From a Sabinejar: Reading Horace, Odes I. 9 (by H. P. Syndikus) . 216 Franklin, J. L., Pompeii: The 'Casa del Marinaio' and its History (by R. Laurence) . 227 French, D. H., and C. S. Lightfoot (Eds), The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Proceedings of a Colloquium held at Ankara in September ig88 (by G. D.B.Jones) 241 Frischer, B., Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica (by F. Muecke) ...... 213 Gabba, E., and K. Christ (Eds), Romische Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte in der deutschen und italienischen Altertumswissenschaft wdhrend des ig. und 20. Jahrhunderts (by B.MeiBner) 267 Gazda, E. K. (Ed.), Roman Art in the Private Sphere: New Perspectives on the Architecture and Decorofthe Domus, Villa and Insula (by R.Laurence) . . 227 Giovannini, A. (Ed.), Nourrir la plebe: Actes du colloque tenu a Geneve les 28 et 29 ix. 1 g8g en hommage a Denis van Berchem (by M. Griffin) .... 225 Ginestet, P., Les Organisations de lajeunesse dans Voccident romain (by S. Currie) . 223 Goffart, W., Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (by P. Heather) ...... 261 Heather, P. ]., Goths and Romans, 33 2-489 (by J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz) . . 259 Heather, P. J., and J. Matthews, The Goths in the Fourth Century (by J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz) ...... 259 Holloway, R. Ross (Ed.), Rome's Alpine Frontier (by L. F. Pitts) .... 239 Horace, Epistles Book II and Epistle to the Pisones ('Ars Poetica'). Ed. N. Rudd (by F. Muecke) ...... 213 Horbury, W., and D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (byC.Roueche) 248 Humphrey, J. H. (Ed.), Literacy in the Roman World (byj. Bodel) . . . . 183 Isaac, B. H., The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (byG. D. B.Jones) . 241 Jenkyns, R. (Ed.), The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal (by D. West) . . 266 Kennedy, D., andD. Riley, Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air (byG. D. B.Jones) . 241 Kilpatrick, R. S., The Poetry of Criticism: Horace. Epistles II and Ars Poetica (by F. Muecke) ...... 213 VII Kleijwegt, M., Ancient Youth: the Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society (by S. Currie) ...... 223 Kraemer, R. S., Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (by J. Sherwood) .... 249 Kriiger, J., Oxyrhynchos in der Kaiserzeit: Studien zur Topographie und Literaturrezeption (by D. Montserrat) ...... 251 Lambrechts, R., et al., La Civita di Artena: Scavi belgi igjg-ig8g (by J. R. Patterson) ...... 189 Lavency, M., and D. Longree (Eds), Actes du V colloque de linguistique latine, Louvain-la-Neuve/Borzeej 1 mars-4avrihg8g (by J.H.W. Penney) . . 186 Lefevre, E., E. Stark and G. Vogt-Spira, Plautus Barbarus: Sechs Kapitel zur Originalitdt des Plautus (by J. C. B. Lowe) ...... 196 Lieu, J., J. North and T. Rajak (Eds), The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (by C. Roueche) ...... 248 Maas, M., John Lydus and the Roman Past: Antiquarianism and Politics in the Age of Justinian (by M. Whitby) ...... 264 MacMullen, R., Corruption and the Decline of Rome (by B. Ward-Perkins) . . 264 Marinovic, L. P., et al., Die Sklaverei in den ostlichen Provinzen des romischen Reiches im 1. -j.Jahrhundert (by J.F.Gardner) ...... 244 Masters, ]., Poetry and Civil War in Lucan's Bellum Civile (by M. Leigh) . . 219 Michel, D., CasadeiCei:(I,6,15) (by R. Laurence) ...... 227 Miller, J. F., Ovid's Elegaic Festivals: Studies in the 'Fasti'(byC Robert Phillips, III) 218 Montanari, F. (Ed.),LaProsaLatina (by S. J. Harrison) ...... 184 Montanari, F. (Ed.),LaPoesiaLatina (by S.J. Harrison) ..... 184 Morris, I., Death-ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (by P. Rahtz) . . 180 O\ide, LesFastes. Tomel.Livresi-j. Ed. R. Schilling (by C. Robert Phillips, III) . 218 Parkin, T.G., Demography and Roman Society (by I. Morris) ..... 179 Pedley, J. G.,Paestum: Greeks and Romans in Southern Italy (byj. R. Patterson) . 189 Peyras, J., Le Tell nord-est Tunisien dans I'antiquite: Essai de monographic regionale (by H.R. Hurst) 252 Pinkster, Yi.,Latin Syntax and Semantics (by J. H.W. Penney). .... 186 Ponsich, M., Implantation rurale antique surleBas-Guadalquivirj and4 (by S. Keay). 234 Powell, A. (Ed.), Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus (by A. Sharrock) 206 Rathbone, D., Economic Rationalism and Rural Society in Third-century A.D. Egypt. TheHeroninos Archive and the Appianus Estate (by R. S. Bagnall) . . . 254 Robinson, O. F., Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration (by S. D. Martin) . 224 Rogers, G. M., The Sacred Identity of Ephesos: Foundation Myths of a Roman City (by R. van Bremen) ...... 245 Sinn, F., Katalog der Skulpturen; Vatikanische Museen, Museo Gregoriano Profano ex Lateranense. 1.1.DieGrabdenkmdler:Reliefs,Altdre, Urnen (byG. Davies) . 230 Small, A. M. (Ed.), An Iron Age and Roman Republican Settlement of Botromagno, Gravina diPuglia. Excavations of ig6$-igj 4 (by K. Lomas) .... 187 Solin, H., and M. Kajava (Eds), Roman Eastern Policy and other Studies in Roman History (byG. D.B.Jones) ...... 241 Stefanelli, L. Pirzio Biroli, L'orodeiRomani: Gioellidietd imperiale (by M. Henig) . 321 Strocka, V.M.,CasadelLabirinto (n, 11,8-10) (by R. Laurence) .... 227 Sullivan, J. P., Martial: The Unexpected Classic. A Literary and Historical Study (by K. Coleman) ...... 221 Tacio,M., Todi:Formaeurbanistica(byJ. R.Patterson) ...... 189 Trier, B. (Ed.), Die romische Okkupation nb'rdlich des Alpen zur Zeit des Augustus. Kolloquium Bergkamen ig8g: Vortrdge (byX.F.Pitts) ..... 239 Trillmich, W., and P. Zanker (Eds), Stadtbild und Ideologie: Die Monumentalisierung hispanischerStddtezwischenRepublik und Kaiserzeit (by S. Keay) . . . 234 Todd,M., The Early Germans (by L.F.Pitts) 240 Virgil, Georgics. Ed. R. A. B.Mynors(byR. O. A. M. Lyne) .... 203 Virgil, Aeneidio. Ed. S.J. Harrison (byG. B. Conte) 208 Virgil, AeneidBook xi. Ed. K.W. Gransden (by P. Hardie) 212 Vlll Volpe, G., La Daunia nell'etd delta romanizzazione: Paesaggio agrario, produzione, scambi (by J. R. Patterson) 189 Walker, S., Corpus signorum ImperiiRomani. Great Britain. Vol. 2. Fasc. 2. Catalogue of Roman Sarcophagi in the British Museum (by G. Davies) . .... 230 Whitman, J. Q., The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision andLegal Change (byT.Weir) ...... 268 Wiles, D., The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance (byN. J. Lowe) ...... 195 Wilkes, J., TheIllyrians (by L.F.Pitts) 240 Zimmermann, M., Untersuchungen zur historischen Landeskunde Zentrallykiens (byN.P. Milner) 247
List of Works Received ...... 270
Proceedings of the Society ...... 278
Index ...... 279 LIST OF PLATES M. P. Speidel, Commodus the God-Emperor and the Army Plate i Altar with Latin Inscription from the Palmyrene Gate, Dura-Europos
LIST OF FIGURES IN TEXT K. M. Coleman, Launching into History: Aquatic Displays in the Early Empire Fig. i Plan of Trastevere showing hypothetical site of Stagnum Augusti. 52 Fig. 2 Stagnum Augusti: schematized diagram. 54 Fig. 3 Amphitheatre at Merida: arena with basin 58 Fig. 4 Flavian amphitheatre: existing hypogeum. 59 SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ROMAN STUDIES OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1993-94
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