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Classical studies (general)the archimedes palimpsest publications1 the archimedes palimpsest publications The and wilson and tchernetska, noel, netz, reViel NetZ is Professor of classics and Professor of Philos- the Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine coNteNts ophy, by courtesy, at stanford university. his books from cambridge

Classical languages 4 T U O H N E D N A V university Press include The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Math- prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, introduction: the Archimedes Palimpsest Project Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the ematics: A Study in Cognitive History (1999, runciman Award), The Archimedes william noel including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second PArt 1 the mANuscriPts to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. sold at THE Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009). he is also the author of a multi-volume millennium BC. This exciting and accessible new introductory course, euchologion translation of and commentary on the works of Archimedes, also auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded Archimedes: treatises (codex c) with cambridge, the first volume of which, The Two Books On the PwhichA canlim be used in both trimesterP sestand semester systems, offers in hyperides: speeches Classical literatureSphere and the Cylinder, was published in 2004. his popular book project to conserve, image, and transcribe its texts. in6 this volume commentary on Aristotle’s Categories OF on the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, The Archimedes Codex (co- ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite hagiographical text Elements Hittite authored with William Noel, Neumann Prize), was published in 2007 the scientists, conservators, classicists, and historians involved in the P Commentary and Catalogue I: Volume Archimedes The Volume i menaion and has been translated into twenty languages. language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. unknown text y project discuss in full their techniques and their discoveries. these unknown text Z WilliAm Noel is curator of manuscripts and rare Books at the cAIt tincludesAlogue a separate ANsectiond of c paradigms,omme andN a tgrammaticalAry index as THEOVANDENHOUT Walters Art museum, and director of the Archimedes Palimpsest include new speeches by the classical Athenian orator hyperides, a PArt 2 history BLK well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary Project. his popular book, The Archimedes Codex (co-authored with E H T

lost commentary on Aristotle’s Categories from the second or third Y 1 the making of the euchologion Ancient historyreviel Netz, Neumann Prize), was published in 2007 and has been 11 can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the abigail quandt translated into twenty languages. he is a member of the faculty of

century ad, and substantial re-readings and reinterpretations of M the rare Book school, university of Virginia, and is Adjunct Profes- cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so 2 the strange and eventful history of the Archimedes Palimpsest Elements sor at Johns hopkins university. dr Noel received his Ph.d. from works by Archimedes. the book discusses the pioneering imaging C john lowden cambridge university in 1993 and has published widely on european and post-processing techniques used to reveal the texts, and desired. The introduction provides the necessary cultural and historical 3 Itinera Archimedea: on heiberg in constantinople and manuscript illumination from 800 to 1300, and on the Archimedes Archimedes in copenhagen Palimpsest. includes detailed codicological descriptions of all eight manu- background, with suggestions for further reading, and explains the erik petersen Classical art,NAtAlie tcherNetsk architectureA is a leading manuscript scholar 18 principles of the cuneiform writing system.

scripts that constitute the Palimpsest. it will be of interest to PPC Hittite PArt 3 coNserVAtioN specializing in greek palimpsests. educated in riga, st. Petersburg,

and geneva, she conducted research in rome and hamburg and manuscript scholars, conservators, classicists, and OF 4 conserving the Archimedes Palimpsest completed her Ph.d. in cambridge. in the late 1990s, she was one of THEO VAN DEN HOUT is Professor of Hittite and Anatolian abigail quandt the first manuscript scholars worldwide to venture into the field historians of science. PArt 4 the digitAl PAlimPsest of digital imaging. in 2002, it was she who discovered and identified Languages at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, and A fragments of two speeches of hyperides from the Archimedes Elements 5 imaging and image-Processing techniques

Palimpsest, the discovery that radically changed our view of the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) since 2000. william a. christens-barry, F O roger l. easton, jr., lim

Ancient philosophy 21 THE and keith t. knox survival of hyperides in Byzantium. Besides his work on the dictionary, his current personal interests focus 6 imaging with X-ray Fluorescence

Nigel WilsoN is a fellow of the British Academy and Fellow and Hittite uwe bergmann tutor (emeritus) at lincoln college, oxford. he has had long experi- on ancient record management and literacy in Hittite society. P ence of research on greek manuscripts and editing texts. his works 7 the Palimpsest data set include Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and ses He has over twenty years of experience teaching Hittite and other doug emery, alex lee, and michael b. toth Latin Literature (3rd ed. 1991, with l. d. reynolds) and Scholars of Anatolian languages at the universities of Amsterdam and Chicago. Byzantium (1996). PArt 5 the teXts

Byzantine studies 25 T 8 the Palimpsest in context

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VAN DEN HOUT: edited by Cover illustration: Hittite fragment 9 the Place of codex c in Archimedes scholarship (807/z) of a festival text with part of reviel netz reviel Netz, William Noel, the colophon and the name of the Appendix: concordance of Foliations scribe Anuwanza (photo provided by Bibliography Also of interestjacket illustration: the Archimedes Palimpsest, fol. 102r–98v. 25 Natalie tchernetska, and Nigel Wilson the author, courtesy of the Museum ofindex copyright: the owner of the Archimedes Palimpsest. licensed for use under Walters creative commons Attribution 3.0 unported Access rights. Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara). jacket design: sue watson printed in italy Classics for schools 25 The Walters Art Museum ➤ See page 2 Information on related ➤ See page 3, 4 journals Inside back cover ➤ See page 1

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Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle, Coulson 2. Ovid’s metempsychosis: The Greek East c. 1350 – c. 1440 (2004). His research on the reception of the Elizabeth Fisher Pliny’s Praise Hebrew University of Jerusalem classics has been supported by fellowships from the British 3. Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the school tradition of France, Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. He is a Fellow of the 1180–1400:the Texts, manuscript traditions traditions, manuscript of other poetic genres. royal Historical Society. settings Ovid Frank T. Coulson The Panegyricus in the Roman FrAnK T. COULSOn is Professor in the department of 4. recasting the Metamorphoses in fourteenth-century Ovid in Maren Niehoff provides a systematic Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University where he serves in the middle ages France:2012 The challenges of the Ovide 228 x 152 mm Moralisé 256pp BLK as director of Palaeography in the Center for Epigraphical Ana Pairet and Palaeographical Studies. He has published extensively the Y Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his 5. Gender and desire in medieval French translations World on the medieval and renaissance manuscript tradition of work has influenced writers throughout the world. This volume of Ovid’s amatory works M 978-1-107-00161-9 Hardback c. US$95.00 analysis of the critical and literary Ovid. His books include The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid’s Marilynn desmond presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception C Metamorphoses: The Creation Myth and the Story of Orpheus 6. Ovid in medieval italy across the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions

(1991) and (with Bruno roy) Incipitarium Ovidianum: A middle robert Black Edited by Paul Roche from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists Finding Guide for Texts in Latin related to the Medieval School 7. dante’sPublication Ovids June 2012 methods of Bible interpretation Tradition on Ovid (2000). in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and Warren Ginsberg JACKET extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions 8. Ovid from the pulpit University of Sydney K ATHryn L. McKinLEy is Associate Professor of English of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation Siegfriedwww.cambridge.org/9781107001619 Wenzel ages at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has and imitation. it also explores the intersecting cultural contexts 9. Ovid in the monasteries: The evidence from late developed by the Alexandrian Jews. published several studies on Ovid in medieval England of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and literate lay medieval England (both in manuscript contexts and in vernacular poetry). households. it elaborates the scale and scope of the enthusiasm James G. Clark Her publications include Reading the Ovidian Heroine: ages

middle 10. Gower and Chaucer: readings of Ovid in late medieval for Ovid in medieval Europe, following readers of the canon from Pliny’s Panegyricus is one of our best Metamorphoses Commentaries 1100–1618 (2001). She is England She argues that by creatively engaging currently at work on a study of Chaucer’s House of Fame. the Carolingian monasteries to the early schools of the Île de

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BLK California, Los Angeles. He has published on significant power in the Near East, together with the Arsacids and Y

ancient Iranian history and philology, has Roman Empire. This book undertakes a thorough 1. SasanianUniversity epigraphy of Oxford

M First full study of ancient Greek Textbook co-edited a volume on The Talmud in its investigation of the diverse range of written, numismatic,

C 2. Classical sources: Dio, Herodian, Ammianus

Iranian Context (2010), and is currently and archeological sources in order to reassess Sasanian Sasanians Marcellinus preparing a book on Aspects of Epic and political ideology and its sources and influences in democracy in the Classical period History in Ancient Iran (forthcoming). the ideologies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Political Ideology in Post-Hellenistic 3. Arsacids and Sasanians and

JACKET Drawing on hundreds of tombstones

Babylonian scholarship and prophecy, and Hellenistic and Late Antique Persia 4. Imitatio veternae Helladis and imitatio Ancient Empires Greek thought. It sheds fresh light on the political Alexandri in Rome outside Athens, which has three main complexities of early Arsacid and Sasanian history, Sasanians M. Rahim Shayegan from the Roman west, this book is Sasanians especially the situation in Babylon and Elymais, and on Conclusions From Mesopotamia to the Rise

and the Roman propaganda which penetrated, shaped, and Epilogue goals: to identify where and when determined Roman attitudes towards Sasanian Persia. essential for anyone interested in Appendices

Arsacids of Islam childhood or family studies. Assessing democratic governments established Eric H. Cline

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ANCIENT EMPIRES ERIC H. CLINE is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and

CLINE CLINE From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam Political Ideology in Post- Civilizations at George Washington University. e author of more than eighty articles, his most recent books include Edited by Claire Holleran freedom. Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (2009) and From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (2008).

MARK W. GRAHAM is Associate Professor in the Depart- & Hellenistic and Late Antique

GRAHAM University of Liverpool ment of History at Grove City College, Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and Contents: Introduction: what is an contributed chapters to several books, including Encyclope- dia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (2000) and Ency- Persia clopedia of the Empires of the World (2011). Most recently, he authored News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late and April Pudsey (ancient) empire?; 1. Prelude to the Age of Roman Empire (2006). M. Rahim Shayegan Birkbeck College, University of London Cover photo: Roman Civic Plan. Ancient Empires; 2. The rise of the Age of The VRoma Project (www.vroma.org) ERIC H. CLINE & MARK W. GRAHAM © Barbara McManus University of California, Los Angeles Cover design by pemastudio Provides a series of case studies which Ancient Empires; 3. Dealing with empires: Sasanian Persia was one of the great demonstrate the usefulness of taking varieties of responses; 4. Beyond the powers of late antiquity and the most a demographic approach to the social, Near East: the Neo-Babylonian and early significant power in the Near East, political and economic history of the Achaemenid Persian empires; 5. The crucible Robinson Democracy alongside the Roman Empire. This book of history: east meets west; 6. Democracy beyond Graeco-Roman world. The book will athens and empire between Athens and Alexander;

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7. ‘Spear-won’ empires: the Hellenistic in the Department of history, Indiana ancient Greece? an astonishing number of volumes have Introduction m and its sources in the ideologies of the University. he has published widely on ancient been devoted to the well-attested athenian case, while

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Democracies (1997), Ancient Greek Democracy: come by – has received only fleeting attention. nevertheless, (central Greece and the Peloponnese) synthesis; 8. The western Mediterranean et Readings and Sources (2003) and Oikistes: Studies there exists a scattered body of ancient material regarding Achaemenid Persian Empire, Babylonian 2. classical demokratiai in western and social scientists interested in ancient in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power democracy beyond athens, from ancient literary authors

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A Burton, Paul J...... 13 Democracy Beyond Athens...... 14 Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin...... 7 Demography and the Graeco-Roman Ademollo, Francesco...... 23 C World...... 14 Dey, Hendrik W...... 20 Aeschylus...... 26 Callimachus in Context...... 7 Dickey, Eleanor...... 4 Aeschylus: Agamemnon...... 26 Cambridge Companion to Ancient Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Affleck, Judith...... 26 Rome, The...... 17 Philosophers...... 24 Agócs, Peter...... 6 Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Divining the Etruscan World...... 12 Ahrensdorf, Peter J...... 1 Elegy, The...... 9 Donohue, A. A...... 20 Alexander the Great...... 27 Cambridge Companion to the Age of Dorandi, Tiziano...... 24 Allason-Jones, Lindsay...... 16 Constantine, The...... 13 Dueck, Daniela...... 18 Allmand, Christopher...... 1 Cambridge Companion to the Roman Dugdale, Eric...... 26, 27 Amenhotep III...... 13 Economy, The...... 17 Duplá, Antonio...... 14 Ancient Empires...... 14 Cambridge Handbook to Latin Dutta, Shomit...... 26 Ancient Forgiveness...... 22 Epigraphy, The...... 11 Dykes, Anthony...... 9 Ancient Jewish Magic...... 16 Cambridge Latin Course...... 25 Ancient Poetics...... 25 Cambridge School Classics Project...... 25 Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy Cambridge World History of Slavery, The.18 E and Poetry, The...... 23 Carey, Chris...... 6 Easterling, P. E...... 26 Andersen, Øivind...... 7 Carone, Gabriela Roxana...... 23 Eckhardt, Holly...... 26 Apuleius...... 5 Cartledge, Paul...... 18 Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism...... 15 Apuleius: Metamorphoses...... 5 Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad.8 Elements of Hittite, The...... 1 Archimedes Palimpsest, The...... 3, 4 Charalabopoulos, Nikos G...... 9 Emperor and the World, The...... 19 Architecture of the Sacred...... 19 Chaudhuri, Pramit...... 11 Environmental History of Ancient Greece Aristophanes: Clouds...... 26 Chemla, Karine...... 21 and Rome, An...... 18 Aristophanes: Frogs...... 26 Cheshire, Keyne...... 27 Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition...... 23 Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE..22 Children in the Roman Empire...... 16 Erdkamp, Paul...... 17 Aristotle on Desire...... 24 Chlup, Radek...... 21 Esmonde Cleary, Simon...... 15 Aristotle on Time...... 23 Christian Responses to Roman Art and Euripides...... 26 Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy...... 23 Architecture...... 19 Euripides: Bacchae...... 26 ‘Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics’...... 24 Cicero and the Roman Republic...... 27 Euripides: Hecuba...... 26 Arsacids and Sasanians...... 14 Cicero, Marcus Tullius...... 10 Euripides: Hippolytus...... 26 Art of Biography in Antiquity, The...... 1 Cicero: De Oratore Book III...... 10 Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis...... 26 Art of Building in the Classical World, City in the Roman West, c.250 BC–c.AD Euripides: Medea...... 26 The...... 20 250, The...... 15 Explorations in Ancient and Modern Art of Caesar’s Bellum Civile Artefacts in Clark, James G...... 8 Philosophy...... 21, 22 Roman Britain...... 16 Class in Archaic Greece...... 12 Assmann, Jan...... 13 Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance F Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Painting...... 8 Facing the Gods...... 3 Imperial Rome, AD 271–855, The...... 20 Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition.....6 Fagan, Garrett G...... 17 Claughton, John...... 26, 27 Falcon, Andrea...... 22 Cline, Eric H...... 14 B Family in Roman Egypt, The...... 13 Coakley, Sarah...... 1 Baracchi, Claudia...... 23 Faraone, Christopher A...... 12 Composition of the Gospel of Thomas, Barbarians of Ancient Europe, The...... 15 Finglass, P. J...... 9 The...... 6 Bardill, Jonathan...... 19 Fish, Jeffrey...... 23 Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Barfield, Raymond...... 23 Fletcher, Judith...... 7 Christian Golden Age...... 19 Barney, Rachel...... 22 Forman, Mark...... 18 Constructing Communities in the Late Bartusis, Mark C...... 25 Formation of Papal Authority in Late Roman Countryside...... 14 Beale, Alan...... 27 Antique Italy, The...... 13 Consul at Rome, The...... 17 Beck, Hans...... 14 Forte, Helen...... 25 Consuls and Res Publica...... 14 Belfiore, Elizabeth S,...... 22 Franklin, David...... 26 Cooley, Alison E...... 11 Bell, Barbara...... 25 Freedman in Roman Art and Art History, Cosmology and the Polis...... 7 Boatwright, Mary T...... 2 The...... 19 Coulson, Frank T...... 8 Bohak, Gideon...... 16 Freedman, Luba...... 8 Cratylus of Plato, The...... 23 Bolgia, Claudia...... 2 Friendship and Empire...... 13 Crivelli, Paolo...... 22 Bonfante, Larissa...... 15 From Logos to Trinity...... 22 Crowley, Jason...... 12 Bos, Gerrit...... 24 From the Ptolemies to the Romans...... 13 Bosher, Kathryn...... 6 Cultural Memory and Early Civilization....13 Bowes, Kim...... 20 Cupid in Early Modern Literature and Bradley, Keith...... 18 Culture...... 9 G Bradley, Mark...... 11 Galen: On Problematical Movements...... 24 Brennan, Tad...... 22 D Gallia, Andrew B...... 13 Gathercole, Simon...... 6 Brittain, Charles...... 22 D’Angour, Armand...... 1 Gavrilyuk, Paul L...... 1 Broadie, Sarah...... 22 de Jong, Irene J. F...... 10 Geography in Classical Antiquity...... 18 Brockliss, William...... 11 de Ligt, Luuk...... 12 Gibson, Roy...... 7 Brodersen, Kai...... 18 de May, Philip...... 26, 27 Gowers, Emily...... 10 Bryan, Jenny...... 24 De Re Militari of Vegetius, The...... 1 Graham, Daniel W...... 24 Budin, Stephanie Lynn...... 15 Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Graham, Mark W...... 14 Burnand, Christopher...... 27 Rome...... 12 Greece and the Augustan Cultural Burnyeat, M. F...... 21, 22 Demetriou, Denise...... 11 Revolution...... 17 Index 29

Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice...... 12 Jones, Peter V...... 2, 4 N Greek Art...... 21 Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Naiden, F. S...... 12 Greek Athletics and the Olympic Games. 27 Antiquity...... 15 Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Sculpture...... 18 Junker, Klaus...... 1 Greek Novel...... 11 Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Nasrallah, Laura Salah...... 19 Description...... 20 K Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus....22 Greek Theatre in Context...... 27 Kapust, Daniel J...... 8 Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy...... 1 Katsari, Constantina...... 17 Mediterranean...... 11 Greek Tragic Style...... 6 Kingsley-Smith, Jane...... 9 Netz, Reviel...... 3, 4 Greeks and the New, The...... 1 Konstan, David...... 22 New Testament Greek...... 19 Grethlein, Jonas...... 12 Kozloff, Arielle P...... 13 Newlands, Carole E...... 10 Grey, Cam...... 14 Krebs, Christopher B...... 12 Niehoff, Maren R...... 8 Grillo, Luca...... 7 Künzl-Snodgrass, Annemarie...... 1 Noel, William...... 3, 4 Griswold, Charles L...... 22 Nooter, Sarah...... 8 Noreña, Carlos F...... 15 H L Nutton, Vivian...... 24 Laes, Christian...... 16 Hägg, Tomas...... 1 Land and Privilege in Byzantium...... 25 Haimson Lushkov, Ayelet...... 11 Late Roman Towns in Britain...... 15 O Hardie, Philip...... 9 Launaro, Alessandro...... 17 O’Sullivan, Timothy M...... 2 Harloe, Katherine...... 1 Laurence, Ray...... 15 Osborne, John...... 2 Harper, Kyle...... 15 Leach, Eleanor Winsor...... 20 Osborne, Robin...... 18 Harrison, John...... 26 Lenski, Noel...... 13 Ousterhout, Robert G...... 19 Harrison, Stephen...... 1 Letchford, Clive...... 26 Ovid in the Middle Ages...... 8 Hatzimichali, Myrto...... 23 Lianeri, Alexandra...... 16 Haug, Dag T. T...... 7 Likeness and Likelihood in the Heath, Malcolm...... 25 P Presocratics and Plato...... 24 Herodotus and the Persian Wars...... 27 Pearson, Giles...... 24 Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Hillar, Marian...... 22 Peasants and Slaves...... 17 Athens...... 16 History of Mathematical Proof in Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers...... 12 Looking at Greek Art...... 21 Ancient Traditions, The...... 21 Peirano, Irene...... 6 Lott, J. Bert...... 12 History Written on the Classical Greek Peña, J. Theodore...... 2 Lucretius...... 27 Body, The...... 18 Peoples of the Roman World...... 2 Lure of the Arena, The...... 17 Holleran, Claire...... 14 Performing Greek Comedy...... 7 Homer...... 10 Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Homer: Iliad Book 22...... 10 M Drama...... 7 Homer’s Odyssey...... 27 Maclennan, Keith...... 27 Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD Homer’s Trojan Theater...... 9 Maeander Valley, The...... 17 200...... 23 Horace...... 9, 10 Mander, Jason...... 14 Petersen, Lauren Hackworth...... 19 Horace: Odes Book I...... 9 Mankin, David...... 10 Peterson, Sandra...... 23 Horace: A Poet for a New Age...... 27 Manuwald, Gesine...... 8 Philosophy of Antiochus, The...... 22 Horace: Odes IV and Carmen Saeculare..10 Marconi, Clemente...... 20 Pina Polo, Francisco...... 14, 17 Horace: Satires Book I...... 10 Martindale, Charles...... 9 Plato...... 10 Hübner, Sabine...... 13 Mayer, Roland...... 9 Plato and the Divided Self...... 22 Hughes, Alan...... 7 McAuslan, Ian...... 26 Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Humphreys, Colin J...... 16 McKinley, Kathryn L...... 8 Literature...... 7 Hunter, Richard...... 7, 10 McKitterick, Rosamond...... 2 Plato: Phaedrus...... 10 McLean, B. H...... 19 Plato’s Account of Falsehood...... 22 I Miller, Jon...... 24 Plato’s Charmides...... 22 Minimus...... 25 Plato’s Cosmology and its Ethical Images of Woman and Child from the Minimus Secundus...... 25 Dimensions...... 23 Bronze Age...... 15 Missiou, Anna...... 16 Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception.9 Imperial Ideals in the Roman West...... 15 Mobile Pastoralism and the Formation Platt, Verity...... 3 Independent Study Guide to Reading of Near Eastern Civilizations...... 12 Pliny’s Praise...... 8 Greek, An...... 5 Monson, Andrew...... 13 Plutarch...... 10 Independent Study Guide to Reading Moore, Timothy J...... 7, 27 Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De Latin, An...... 4 Morello, Ruth...... 7 audiendis poetis)...... 10 Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths....1 Morley, Neville...... 1 Polis and Revolution...... 16 Introduction to Greek Tragedy, An...... 2 Morwood, James...... 27 Politics of Inheritance in Romans, The...... 18 Moyer, Ian S...... 15 Porter, Anne...... 12 J Mullen, Alex...... 4 Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary James, Patrick...... 4 Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Monuments...... 14 Jehne, Martin...... 14 Worlds...... 4 Potamo of Alexandria and the Jewish Exegesis and Homeric Munteanu, Dana LaCourse...... 7 Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Scholarship in Alexandria...... 8 Murgatroyd, Paul...... 5 Hellenistic Philosophy...... 23 Johnson, David M...... 27 Murrell, John...... 27 Private Worship, Public Values, and Joint Association of Classical Teachers..... Music in Roman Comedy...... 7 Religious Change in Late Antiquity...... 20 3, 5, 6 Mystery of the Last Supper, The...... 16 Proclus...... 21 Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Ps.-Dositheus: The Colloquia...... 4 Greek Course...... 5 Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite, The..12 Jones, Peter...... 5, 10 Pudsey, April...... 14

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R Shakespeare and the Classics...... 9 Thorsen, Thea Selliaas...... 9 Radical Platonism in Byzantium...... 24 Sharples, R. W...... 23 Thucydides and the Modern World...... 1 Rawles, Richard...... 6 Shaw, Ben...... 26 Time and Narrative in Ancient Reading Greek...... 5, 6 Shaw, Brent D...... 14 Historiography...... 12 Reading Greek: Teacher’s Notes...... 5 Shayegan, M. Rahim...... 14 Tragic Pathos...... 7 Reading Latin...... 4 Shear, Julia L...... 16 Trimble, Jennifer...... 21 Reading Latin: Text...... 4 Sidwell, Keith...... 4 Tuozzo, Thomas M...... 22 Reading Medieval Latin...... 4 Sidwell, Keith C...... 2, 4 Turfa, Jean MacIntosh...... 12 Reading Ovid...... 5 Simile and Identity in Ovid’s Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation Reading Roman Friendship...... 11 Metamorphoses...... 7 of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Reading Sin in the World...... 9 Siniossoglou, Niketas...... 24 Italy, The...... 25 Reading the Letters of Pliny the Younger...7 Sivertsev, Alexei M...... 15 Reading the Victory Ode...... 6 Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD U 275–425...... 15 Reading Virgil...... 10 Under Divine Auspices...... 12 Ready, Jonathan L...... 8 Snell, Daniel C...... 2 Reception and the Classics...... 11 Snodgrass, Anthony...... 1 Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome V Poetry...... 7 and on the Bay of Naples, The...... 20 Van Dam, Raymond...... 15 Religions of the Ancient Near East...... 2 Socrates and Athens...... 27 van den Hout, Theo...... 1 Remembering Constantine at the Socrates and Philosophy in the van Nuffelen, Peter...... 11 Milvian Bridge...... 15 Dialogues of Plato...... 23 Virgil, A Poet in Augustan Rome...... 27 Remembering the Roman Republic...... 13 Socrates’ Daimonic Art...... 22 von Glinski, Marie Louise...... 7 Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Sophocles...... 9, 26 Political Thought...... 8 Sophocles: Ajax...... 9, 26 W Rethinking the Gods...... 11 Sophocles: Antigone...... 26 Sophocles: Electra...... 26 Walker, Alicia...... 19 Rhetoric of the Roman Fake, The...... 6 Walking in Roman Culture...... 2 Roark, Tony...... 23 Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus...... 26 Sophocles: Philoctetes...... 26 Ware, Catherine...... 6 Robinson, Eric W...... 14 Wasdin, Katherine...... 11 Roche, Paul...... 8 Sparkes, Brian A...... 21 Spawforth, A. J. S...... 17 Weiss, Charles...... 27 Rogers, Adam...... 15 Wescoat, Bonna D...... 19 Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity..18 Speaking Greek...... 5 Spencer, Diana...... 18 Western Time of Ancient History, The...... 16 Roman Monetary System, The...... 17 When Heroes Sing...... 8 Roman Pottery in the Archaeological Spiritual Senses, The...... 1 Spivey, Nigel...... 18 Whitmarsh, Tim...... 11 Record...... 2 Williams, Craig A...... 11 Roman Republican Theatre...... 8 Stansbury-O’Donnell, Mark D...... 21 Statius...... 10 Wilson, Nigel...... 3, 4 Roman Theatre...... 27 Witt, Ronald G...... 25 Rome Across Time and Space...... 2 Statius: Silvae Book II...... 10 Stephens, Susan A...... 7 Women and Visual Replication in Rome, Pollution and Propriety...... 11 Roman Imperial Art and Culture...... 21 Rose, Peter W...... 12 Stoicism...... 23 Stow, Kenneth...... 11 World of Athens, The...... 3 Rowan, Clare...... 12 World of Rome, The...... 2 Rumour and Renown...... 9 Strange, Steven K...... 23 Russell, Donald...... 10 Strauss Clay, Jenny...... 9 Rutherford, R. B...... 6 Y T Yunis, Harvey...... 10 S Tacitus and the Principate...... 27 Sacred Violence...... 14 Taylor, A. B...... 9 Z Sanders, Kirk R...... 23 Tchernetska, Natalie...... 3, 4 Zupko, Jack...... 23 Scheidel, Walter...... 17 Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity Scodel, Ruth...... 2 in the Archaic Greek World...... 20 Seaford, Richard...... 7 Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, The...... 24 Sears, Gareth...... 15 Theater Outside Athens...... 6 Sedley, David...... 22 Thomas, Richard F...... 10 Senseney, John R...... 20 Thommen, Lukas...... 18 Sessa, Kristina...... 13 Thonemann, Peter...... 17 Notes 31

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