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Collins-Elliott, Stephen A., and Kim Bowes. "New evidence of the gens ciartia: An Etruscan tile stamp from Cinigiano (GR), loc. tombarelle." Etruscan Studies 19, no. 1 (2016): 149-54. https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2015-0023
Bowes, K., AM Mercuri, E. Rattighieri, R. Rinaldi, A. Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, M. Ghisleni, C. Grey, M. Mackinnon, and E. Vaccaro. "Palaeoenvironment and land use of roman peasant farmhouses in southern Tuscany. "Plant Biosystems 149, no. 1 (2015): 174-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2014.992997
Bowes, Kim. "Christians in the amphitheater? the « Christianization » of spectacle buildings and martyrial memory." Mélanges De l’École Française De Rome - Moyen Âge 126, no.1 (2014): online. http://journals.openedition.org/mefrm/1807
Bowes, Kim. "Villas, taxes and trade in fourth century hispania." Late Antique Archaeology 10, no.1 (2013): 191-226. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134522-12340032
Vaccaro, Emanuele, Mariaelena Ghisleni, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Cam Grey, Kim Bowes, Michael MacKinnon, Anna Maria Mercuri, Alessandra Pecci, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros, Eleonora Rattigheri, and Rossella Rinaldi. "EXCAVATING THE ROMAN PEASANT II: EXCAVATIONS AT CASE NUOVE, CINIGIANO (GR)." Papers of the British School at Rome 81 (2013): 129-413. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42706320.
Copeland, Rita. "Behind the 'lives of philosophers:' reading diogenes laertius in the western middle ages." Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures 3 (2016): 245-63. https://doi.org/10.13130/interfaces-7592
Copeland, Rita. "Pathos and Pastoralism: Aristotle's Rhetoric in Medieval England." Speculum 89, no. 1 (2014): 96-127. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0038713413003576
Bernard, Seth G., Cynthia Damon, and Campbell Grey. "Rhetorics of land and power in the polla inscription (CIL I2 638)." Mnemosyne 67, no. 6 (2014): 953-85.
Farrell, J. “The Harvard School(s) and Latin Poetry, 1977-91: A Bildungserinnerung.” The Classical world 111, no. 1 (2017): 62–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2017.0069
Grey, Cam. "HADRIAN THE TRAVELER: Motifs and Expressions of Roman Imperial Power in the Vita Hadriani." História (São Paulo) 35, e85 (2016): 1-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-436920160000000085
Grey, Cam, James R. Mathieu, Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Andrea Patacchini, and Mariaelena Ghisleni. "Familiarity, Repetition, and Quotidian Movement in Roman Tuscany." Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 28, no. 2 (2015): 195-219. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v28i2.29531
Grey, Cam. "Shock, Horror, or Same Old Same Old? Everyday Violence in Augustine's Africa." Journal of Late Antiquity 6, no. 2 (2013): 216. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2013.0020
Winston, Jessica, and James Ker. "A Note on Jasper Heywood’s “Free Compositions” in Troas (1559)." Modern Philology 110, no. 4 (2013): 564-75. https://doi.org/10.1086/670018
Jeremy McInerney. "The Gods of (Con)fusion: Athena Alea, Apollo Maleatas and Athena Aphaia." Classica et Mediaevalia 64 (2013) 49-80.

Murnaghan, Sheila. “Antigone 904-920 and the Institution of Marriage.” American Journal of Philology 107 (1986): 192–207.
The discordance in Antigone's words between love for her brother and calculating coldness toward a hypothetical husband and children expresses part of the drama's tension caused by rifts between social entities which should support each other.
Murnaghan, Sheila. “Body and Voice in Greek Tragedy.” Yale Journal of Criticism (1988): 23–43.
Tragedy inherits from epic a peculiar status as speech that represents the displacement of the body by speech. This displacement remains central to tragedy both formally and thematically throughout its history. Examples from Aeschylus (the Persians, Seven against Thebes, the Oresteia), Euripides (Hippolytus, Bacchae, Electra) and Sophocles (Oedipus at Colonus).
Murnaghan, Sheila. “How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man. The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and His Wife in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus.” Helios 15 (1988): 9–22.
Xenophon's thorough treatment of Ischomachus' wife is one step in his demonstration of the compatibility of virtue and οἰκονομία. The entire treatise is a stylized, idealized effort to eliminate the distinction between public and private interests.
Murnaghan, Sheila. “Maternity and Mortality in Homeric Poetry.” Classical Antiquity 11 (1992): 242–264.
Homeric and Hesiodic poetry evince the widespread tendency in both the mythological tradition and subsequent Western cultural constructions of gender to identify human mortality with women (along with their life-granting role of giving birth). Mothers also serve a crucial role in perpetuating the order in which the power of the gods depends on the continued mortality of human beings, and the story of Penelope shows that their reward for their generative power is grief.
Murnaghan, Sheila. “The Survivors’ Song: The Drama of Mourning in Euripides' Alcestis.” Illinois Classical Studies (2000): 107–116.
Classical Athenian tragedy is often thought of as a genre of poetry about death but it is arguably as much about the experience of surviving others' deaths as it is about dying. Greek tragedy is notable for the indirect way in which it presents death and suffering. It keeps these experiences off-stage and informs us of them through the reports of witnesses, thus foregrounding the activities of observing, describing, and responding to the deaths of others. It is through the responses of survivors that the audience of tragedy knows death. The « Alcestis » presents a myth that especially foregrounds the nature of survival, replicating the duplicity of survivors who are its audience and its most numerous characters, and mixing the representation of death with the song of the living.
Nishimura-Jensen, Julie. “The Chorus of Argonauts in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica.” Phoenix 63.1 (2009): 1–23.
Apollonius characterizes the Argonauts as a chorus : sometimes they appear to be a tragic chorus surrounding Jason and contrasting with him, and at other times they absorb him to form a lyric chorus together.
Nishimura-Jensen, Julie. “The Poetics of Aethalides: Silence and Poikilia in Apollonius’ Argonautica,” Classical Quarterly 48.2 (1998) 456-69.
The story, language, and immediate context of the digressive account of Aethalides' Underworld experiences (1, 640-649) help to explain the digression, its abrupt ending, and the absence of a speech for the messenger. Through this episode, Apollonius offers a picture of a contemporary rendering of archaic ideas, reveals the discontinuity between past and present, and suggests that the new, abbreviated style of message-relaying reflects Hellenistic aesthetics. By limiting the appearances of heralds in the epic and then by undercutting their effectiveness, Apollonius himself, and not the messengers, controls the passage of messages.
Nishimura-Jensen, Julie. “Unstable Geographies: The Moving Landscape in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes,” TAPA 130 (2000) 287-317.
Apollonius and Callimachus inherited narratives in which islands moved and rocks wandered. While moving geographical formations may reflect a geological reality, they may also reflect a world view in which the chaotic nature of moving geographical features suggests a return to primordial disorganization. The Hellenistic treatment of mobile formations reflects a distrust of the physical world as well as a self-conscious relationship with the literary traditions that described that world. These two impulses, both arising from a sense of discontinuity between the ancient past and the Alexandrian present, combine to form a deep-seated sense of deracination. This metaphoric rootlessness is reflected in the literal lack of roots under Delos, other floating islands, and the Clashing Rocks.
Rose, Charles Brian, and Peter Jablonka. “Troy VI: a Trading Center and a Commercial City?” American Journal of Archaeology 108.4 (2004): 615–630.
Late Bronze Age Troy was a settlement consisting of a citadel and a fortified Lower City covering between 25 and 35 hectares ; it was by far the largest site in the Troad and may be termed the capital of a city-state that encompassed the Troad ; the finds, the unique geographical position of Troy, and the evidence for contact between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age, indicate that it played an important role in trade.
Rose, Charles Brian. “ Post-Bronze Age Research at Troia.” Studia Troica 10 (1999): 53–71.
Im Heiligtum wurde die Hauptterrassenwand westlich der Tempel A und B ausgegraben, sie datiert ebenso wie diese in die Mitte des 2. Jh. v. Chr. An der südwestlichen Seite der Agora-Badeanlage wurden Teile eines guterhaltenen Nymphäums entdeckt. Eines der drei Becken vor der Quellhöhle wurde wahrscheinlich im späten ersten Jh. n. Chr. gebaut, die beiden Fischbecken in der späten antoninischen Zeit ; sie wurden wohl während der gotischen Plünderung von 267 n. Chr. zerstört. Der Tumulus Besik-Sivritepe enthielt kein Grab, zur Zeit seines Ausbaus im 3. Jh. v. Chr. übte Troja die Kontrolle über das Gebiet aus.
Rose, Charles Brian. “New Contributions to Roman Topography: The « Arch at Pavia » and the Einsiedeln 326 Manuscript.” American Journal of Archaeology 90 (1986): 189.
Les inscriptions relatives à la famille d'Auguste qui sont mentionnées dans le ms. Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibl. 326 à la rubrique « in porta Papia » ne permettent pas de conclure, comme on l'a fait, à l'existence à Ticinum (au Moyen Âge Papia) d'un arc de triomphe d'époque augustéenne. Dans le ms. Papia est une erreur de copie pour Appia. Il devait s'agir d'inscriptions réutilisées pour la reconstruction de la porta Appia à Rome.
Rose, Charles Brian. “Separating Fact from Fiction in the Aiolian Migration.” Hesperia 77.3 (2008): 399–430.
Iron Age settlements in the northeast Aegean are usually attributed to Aiolian colonists who journeyed across the Aegean from mainland Greece. Review of the literary accounts of the migration along with the relevant archaeological evidence, with a focus on new material from Troy, suggests that no one area played a dominant role in colonizing Aiolis, nor is such a widespread colonization supported by the archaeological record. But the aggressive promotion of migration accounts after the Persian Wars proved mutually beneficial on both sides of the Aegean and justified the composition of the Delian League.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1991 Post-bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 2 (1992): 43–60.
Zu den Ergebnissen der Ausgrabungen im griechischrömischen Ilion : Grosses Theater (Theater A), Bouleuterion (Theater B), erhaltene Blöcke vom Athena-Tempel, römisches Odeion (Theater C), Unterstadt mit spätromischer Glasfabrik. Die bisherigen Ausgrabungen belegen das Aufblühen der Stadt seit Alexander dem Grossen und ihre Erneuerung unter Augustus und seinen julisch-claudischen Nachfolgern.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1992 Post-bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 3 (1993): 97–116.
Zur Rekonstruktion des an der Südwestseite des Hügels ausgegrabenen Heiligtums, das wahrscheinlich Kybele gewidmet war. Im Nordteil dieses Komplexes wurde ein Gebäude freigelegt, das womöglich von C. Flavius Fimbria 85 v. Chr. zerstört wurde. Vorlage einer Caracalla-Münze der Münzstätte von Dardanos sowie eines spätbyzantinischen Bleisiegels. Grabungsergebnisse im Theater, Bouleuterion und der Unterstadt. Analyse des Stadtplans in griechischer und römischer Zeit.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1993 Post-bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 4 (1994): 75–104.
Zu Ausgrabungen im Nordgebäude des Heiligtums, am Bouleuterion und am Odeion, wo eine Panzerstatue des Kaisers Hadrian gefunden wurde. In der Unterstadt wurden zwei spätrömische Häuser mit Wandmalereien und Mosaikböden teilweise freigelegt. Einer der bedeutendsten Funde ist eine Bauinschrift mit Weihung an Kaiser Claudius, wahrscheinlich von König Mithridates VIII. von Bosporos.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1994 post-Bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 5 (1995): 81–105.
Die Ausgrabungen brachten Strata zutage, die fast das ganze 1. Jt. v. Chr. umfassen. Im Unteren Heiligtum war ein Kalksteinaltar, der jetzt sicher ins 6. Jh. v. Chr. datiert werden kann, von einer Vielfalt von Votivgaben umgeben. In hellenistischer Zeit wurde ein grösserer Altar daneben aufgestellt und ein grosses Gebäude mit Kieselmosaiken errichtet. Im Nordbereich des Heiligtums fand sich u. a. eine Säulenbasis und ein dazugehöriges äolisches Kapitell. Schnitte lieferten Hinweise auf hellenistische und römische Aktivitäten in der Unterstadt. In einem Brunnen fand sich u. a. eine Marmorstatuette der Kybele.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1995 post-Bronze Age Research and Excavation at Troia.” Studia Troica 6 (1996): 97–101.
Zum Stand der Fundbearbeitung und den aktuellen Funden aus protogeometrischer, hellenistischer und römischer Zeit.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1996 Post-Bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 7 (1997): 73–110.
Im Heiligtum zeigt ein Depot mit Votivgegenständen, dass der Bezirk am Ende des 8. Jh. v. Chr. als heilig angesehen wurde. Auch die anschliessenden Bauten des 7. und 6. Jh. wurden vermutlich zu religiösen Zwecken erbaut, für die hellenistische Zeit sind zwei Tempel sicher erkennbar. Die Stadtmauer ist durch Keramik (250-220 v. Chr.) zu datieren, Strabo muss sich bei der Beschreibung geirrt haben. Funde bei der Restaurierung des Odeions ergaben, dass die letzte Bauphase in die Regierungszeit Caracallas zu datieren ist. Weitere Untersuchungen wurden in der Unterstadt durchgeführt.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1997 Post-Bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 8 (1998): 71–113.
Im Heiligtum am Südwesthang des Hügels konnten Fragmente eines eisenzeitlichen Votivdepots sowie Pfostenlöcher, die in Verbindung mit dem archaischen Gebäude stehen, aufgedeckt werden. Ein frühhellenistischer Bau wurde auf dem spätarchaischen Tempel errichtet. Davor wurden dreizehn Formuntersätze für Bronzeguss sowie Amphorenhenkel, die diese stützten, gefunden (3. Jh. v. Chr.). Ein Mitte 3. Jh. errichtetes Gebäude diente vermutlich einem Mysterienkult, evtl. für die Götter von Samothrake. Im Odeion kamen ein Augustus-Porträt des Primaporta-Typs sowie Inschriften, darunter eine des Kaisers Macrinus, zutage. Die vorrömischen Reste lassen den Schluss zu, dass die hellenistische Agora grösser war als erwartet. Weitere Untersuchungen erbrachten u. a. eine Strasse, einen Keramikbrennofen des 3. Jh. n. Chr., Hinweise auf verschiedene Katastrophen sowie auf das Wasserversorgungssystem.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The 1998 Post-Bronze Age Excavations at Troia.” Studia Troica 9 (1999): 35–71.
Bei den Grabungen (vor allem auf der Südseite des Hügels und in einigen Bereichen der Unterstadt) konnten westlich des Odeions insgesamt sieben deutlich voneinander unterscheidbare Terrassenmauern (von früharchaischer bis in frührömische Zeit) nachgewiesen werden. Grabungen an der Ostseite des Bouleuterions, an Odeion und Theater erbrachten weitere Erkenntnisse zur Baugeschichte, unterhalb der römischen Insula in K/L 16/17 konnte erstmals hellenistische Architektur im Zentrum der Unterstadt nachgewiesen werden. Innerhalb der Insula wurden Umbauarbeiten in severischer Zeit beobachtet. Ins 3. Jh. datiert der Grabstein eines Gladiators mit lateinischer Versinschrift. Vor der Quellhöhle an der Südwestseite des Hügels waren drei Steinbecken installiert, die vermutlich der Fischzucht dienten. Die am Tumulus Sivritepe begonnenen Ausgrabungen machen wahrscheinlich, dass er in frühhellenistischer Zeit errichtet wurde.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The Parthians in Augustan Rome.” American Journal of Archaeology 109.1 (2005): 21–75.
The conception of foreigners as diagrammed in the triumphal imagery of Augustan Rome indicates that barbarians were portrayed as contributors to peace. Discussion includes the Parthian Arch in the Roman Forum, the Prima Porta Cuirass, the Basilica Aemilia, the Ara Pacis, and the altar from the Vicus Sandaliarius.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The Supposed Augustan Arch at Pavia (Ticinum) and the Einsiedeln 326 Manuscript.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 3 (1990): 163–168.
A careful reading of ms. Einsiedeln 326, fol. 77-79, clearly indicates that T. Mommsen's arguments (Ges. Schriften VIII, 64-93) are untenable, and that a triumphal arch at Pavia never existed.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The Temple of Athena at Ilion.” Studia Troica 13 (2003): 27–88.
Die Fundamentgräben wurden nicht vor 240-230 v. Chr. ausgehoben. Die Arbeit der Bildhauer am Tempel selbst war wahrscheinlich in der 1. Hälfte des 2. Jh. vollendet. Die Metopen ahmten wohl an allen vier Seiten die des Athener Parthenon nach. Für die Architektur und Skulptur des Bauwerks wurden die homerischen Bezüge des Standorts verwertet. Das Athenaion hat offenbar vergleichsweise wenig Schaden bei dem Angriff des Fimbria während der Mithridatischen Kriege genommen, und die augusteische Reparatur war nicht sehr umfangreich. Die Bronze-Inschrift am Architrav stammt vermutlich nicht von Augustus, sondern von Iulianus Apostata. Die archäologischen Belege sprechen für die Zuverlässigkeit der antiken Nachrichten über das hellenistische und römische Ilion.
Rose, Charles Brian. “The Theater of Ilion.” Studia Troica 1 (1991): 69–77.
Im erneut freigelegten Theater A lassen sich drei Bauphasen unterscheiden. Es stand wohl in Zusammenhang mit dem Tempel der Athena Ilias und diente vom 3.Jh. v. bis zum 3. Jh. n. Chr. für die Feier der Panathenaeen. Eine Restaurierung unter Augustus hängt wohl mit der Genealogie der Familie zusammen.
Rose, Charles Brian. “Troy and the Historical Imagination.” Classical World 91.5 (1998): 405–413.
On perceptions of Troy from Homer to the present. Troy was not just an ancient city, but rather a concept that could be molded according to time and place throughout history.
Rose, Charles Brian. “« Princes » and Barbarians on the Ara Pacis.” American Journal of Archaeology 94 (1990): 453–467.
The two children in foreign dress on the Ara Pacis, usually identified as Gaius and Lucius Caesar, are barbarians from eastern and western regions of the Empire who were brought to Rome in 13 B.C. ; they functioned as illustrations of the Pax Augusta brought about through the combined efforts of Augustus and Agrippa. Two youths on the north frieze are identifiable as Gaius and Lucius.
Rosen, Ralph M, and Pablo C Diaz. “The Death of Thersites and the Sympotic Performance of Iambic Mockery.” Pallas 61 (2003): 121–136.
Analyse de plusieurs passages poétiques, mis en rapport avec des décors de vases attiques.
Rosen, Ralph M. “A Poetic Initiation Scene in Hipponax?” American Journal of Philology 109 (1988): 174–179.
Choeroboscus, in a note in Hephaistion Alex. III,1, may preserve the vestige of an actual Hipponactean narrative in which the poet encountered the mythical Iambe in a scene of poetic initiation.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Acontius, Milanion, and Gallus. Vergil. Ecl. 10.52-61.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 116 (1986): 241–254.
Support of D. O. Ross's argument (cf. APh XLVI p. 374) that Gallus used Acontius and Milanion as erotic exempla in the Amores, and argument that specific sources for both Gallan exempla can be identified in the poetry of Callimachus. The Gallan allusions in Eclogue 10 are intended not only to honor Gallus but to call attention to his Callimachean doctrina.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Aristophanes’ « Frogs » and the « Contest of Homer and Hesiod ».” Transactions of the American Philological Association 134.2 (2004): 295–322.
Dionysus' unexpected decision at the end of Aristophanes' « Frogs » (1466ff.) is generally thought to reveal the notion that poets such as Aeschylus and Euripides had practical moral advice to offer their audiences and to promote an « Aeschylean » over a « Euripidean » approach to life. However, consideration of the relationship between « Frogs » and the « Contest of Homer and Hesiod », another text that featured a high-profile poetic contest, suggests that this ending offers a combination of aesthetic insight and intertextual playfulness that ultimately relieves the Aristophanic Aeschylus and Euripides of this moralizing burden.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Comedy and Confusion in Callias’ « Letter Tragedy ».” Classical Philology 94.2 (1999): 147–167.
It is likely that the use of the description of letters as a device in tragedy predates Callias' paratragic use in his « Letter tragedy », that Athenaeus' attribution of primacy to Callias reflects a similar claim within Callias' play of being the πρῶτος εὑρέτης and serves as a riddle whose solution depends on being able to grasp the concept of retroactive influence. Evidence from Athenaeus Deipnosophistae 276 A ; 448 A ; 453 C-454f..
Rosen, Ralph M. “Euboulos’ Ankylion and the Game of Kottabos.” Classical Quarterly 39 (1989): 355–359.
The context in which the fragments of Euboulos' play are embedded in Athenaeus suggests that Ankylion is a comic name formation derived from one of the technical terms of the kottabus. As such, the character probably was a « wily slave » type, probably one involved in orchestrating sympotic, and perhaps unruly, festivities.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Hipponax and His Enemies in Ovid’s Ibis.” Classical Quarterly 38 (1988): 291–296.
Ibis 447-448 and 523-524 show that Hipponax could attack his enemies with formalized curse as well as direct taunt and provocation. (Cf. N° 3682).
Rosen, Ralph M. “Hipponax and the Homeric Odysseus.” Eikasmos 1 (1990): 11–25.
In creating his abusive, iambographic persona, especially in the narratives which dealt with his quarrel with Bupalus, Hipponax looked to the Homeric Odysseus as a model for his own self-presentation.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Hipponax Fr. 48 Dg. and the Eleusinian Κυκεών.” American Journal of Philology 108 (1987): 416–426.
The barley drink is an element in the ritual of Eleusinian initiation, while it is also a drug in a medicinal sense and a food to ward off hunger.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Hipponax, Boupalos, and the Conventions of the Psogos.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 118 (1988): 29–41.
Although it is hard to deny that Boupalos was a real person, it is likely that Hipponax chose him as a poetic ἐχθρός because of the humourous possibilities in his name.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Mixing of Genres and Literary Program in Herodas 8.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 95 (1992): 205–216.
By proclaiming that he will attain fame from his allegiance to Hipponax, the poet not only underscores the iambic quality of his genre, but also, with his dream alluding to an original dramatic element of mime, creates an apologia for the bold combination of the dramatic and the iambographic that he incorporates into a new genre, the mimiamb.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Performance and Textuality in Aristophanes’ Clouds.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 10.2 (1997): 397–421.
On Aristophanes' commentary, both direct and oblique, on the evolution of his Clouds from performed work to revised text, especially in relation to the question of how texts were conceptualized both as material artifacts and as metaphysical abstractions in 5th-cent. Athens. The manner in which Aristophanes speaks of both an « original » performance moment and a process of revision that was almost certainly « textual » reveals in the poet simultanous, but conflicting, concerns for performance and dissemination, and offers an unusual perspective on the evolution of Classical Athens from a highly oral to an increasingly literate culture.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Poetry and Sailing in Hesiod’s Works and Days.” Classical Antiquity 9 (1990): 99–113.
The diction of the Nautilia passage at 618-694 and its surrounding passages suggest that Hesiod turned the account into an αἴνιγμα that compares the poetics of Works and Days to the poetics of the Homeric epic. Thus, in addition to offering advice on sailing, the passage functions as a declarative program about poetry.
Rosen, Ralph M. “The Ionian at Aristophanes Peace 46.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 25 (1984): 389–396.
Aristophanes was conscious of the Ionian literary provenance of the scatological jokes concerned with the dung beetle, and consequently, it is easy to understand why an Ionian is chosen to engage in this sort of humor at line 46.
Rosen, Ralph M. “Trouble in the Early Career of Plato Comicus. Another Look at P. Oxy. 2737.44-51 (PCG III 2, 590).” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989): 223–228.
Die Bewerbung Platons für die Lenäen erfolgte nicht aufgrund einer Qualifikationsregel, sondern eher als Reaktion auf eine abschlägige Entscheidung des für die Schauspiele verantwortlichen Archon hinsichtlich der Dionysien.
Struck, Peter. “Pagan and Christian Theurgies : Iamblichus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Religion and Magic in Late Antiquity.” The Ancient World 32.1 (2001): 25–38.
Throughout their œuvres both Iamblichus and Pseudo-Dionysius understood θεουργία to mean divinely initiated, sanctioned, or revealed actions in which humans can participate as a way of bringing the material world into line with the divine. Though Dionysius introduced modifications in Iamblichus' theurgic program, the thinkers are similar in that, far from creating systems of coercive magic, both embed theurgy in expansive notions of Neoplatonic ontology.
Tartaron, Thomas. “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey : Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape.” Hesperia 75.4 (2006): 453–523.
On the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS), which from 1997 to 2003 investigated a 350-km2 region east of the ancient city of Corinth, focusing primarily on the northern Corinthian plain. EKAS developed an interdisciplinary methodology that emphasizes novel applications of geological science, computer-based knowledge systems, and strategies for fieldwork and collaboration among experts. Presents the research philosophies and methods of the survey and illustrates their application with results from the survey. The historical development of one settlement, Kromna in the northern Corinthian plain, is examined in detail to demonstrate the interpretive potential of data collected by these methods.
Peter J Cobb. "CAAM's Virtual Lab." Expedition. , 2017, Vol.59(2) p.49
Computers are integral to everything we do in archaeology today. In Fall 2016, the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials reached completion with the addition of the Kowalski Teaching Specialist in Digital Archaeology. Over the course of the academic year, two new digital research methods classes were introduced into the curriculum to help Penn students remain at the forefront of the field.

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