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Women & Property in Ancient Near Eastern & Mediterranean Societies: Contributors

Contributors Annalisa Azzoni is assistant professor of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University. Her main field of research is in Aramaic texts andlanguage. She is currently preparing for publication a book entitled The Private Life of Women in Persian Egypt. Betsy Bryan is Alexander Badawy Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the Johns Hopkins University. She has published widely on the history and art of the New Kingdom.She currently directs… Read more

Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies: Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements The editors wish to thank the Center for Hellenic Studies for its generous hospitality in hosting the conference from which this volume originated. We are grateful to all its staff for their kind assistance, and especially the director, Gregory Nagy, and Jennifer Reilly the programs officer.  We take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of three respondents to the papers given at the conference: Peggy Day (University of Winnipeg),… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Tim Whitmarsh

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Tim Whitmarsh, St. John’s College, Cambridge; now University of Exeter “The sincerest form of imitation: flattery and constancy” ‘Friendship’ (philia) was one of the most fundamental components of Greek society: from Homer through elegy, tragedy, Plato and beyond, it is repeatedly proposed as the glue that holds Greek culture together. But with this perceived centrality comes a self-aware reflexion upon the ambiguities of friendship. What… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Ruth Webb

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Ruth Webb, Princeton University “Fiction, Mimesis, and the Performance of the Greek Past in the Second Sophistic” What strikes the modern reader most forcibly about the practice of declamation, which lay at the heart of Philostratos’ conception of the ‘Second Sophistic’ is the apparent obsession with the Classical past. In this paper I argue that, despite its subject matter, historical declamation was very much a… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Greg Woolf

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Greg Woolf, University of St. Andrews “Playing Games with Greeks.” This paper took its departure from Pliny Epistulae 4.22 which begins by relating Pliny’s participation at the consilium of Trajan when it discussed an appeal from the city of Vienne against the decision of one of its chief magistrates to suppress a gymnicus agon funded by the will of a civic benefactor whom Pliny leaves… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Giusto Traina

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Giusto Traina, University of Lecce “Looking for Greekness in Ancient Iran and Armenia” Imperial interpretation of Hellenism, as we find it in the writers of the Second Sophistic, has strongly marked modern scholarship. But such witnesess are less than impartial: witness the analysis of Apollonius of Tyana’s Eastern travels, in Philostratus’ romanced biography. The classical concept of Hellenism implies a rigid opposition between East and… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Tony Spawforth

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Tony Spawforth, University of Newcastle “Pellan twilight? Greek identities and the Hellenistic past under the Roman principate.” In current research much emphasis is (rightly) placed on the centrality of Classical Greece in contemporary perceptions under Roman rule of what it was to be ‘Greek’. On this view, the Hellenistic age and its works were, with the signal exception of Alexander himself, somewhat sidelined in the… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Francesca Mestre

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Francesca Mestre, University of Barcelona “Heroes And Heroism As Patterns Of Greek Identity In The Roman Empire.” This paper focuses on one of the figures the Greeks used for this purpose, the traditional hero: what he is, what he represents, the ways in which the legend could be exploited, and what new functions the figure could take on inside this attempt to establish a Greek… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Simon Goldhill

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Simon Goldhill, King’s College, Cambridge “Polytheism and Identity in the Late Antique and the Case of Artemis.” This paper is interested in the following questions: How is Artemis represented in the Greek texts of the Roman empire? What implications does this representation have for the history of Greek religion – and, more specifically, how does this late material construct a very different model for the… Read more

Greeks on Greekness: Ineke Sluiter

Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Ineke Sluiter, Universiteit Leiden “Truth or Construction? Working with the Past in the Second Sophistic” The special significance attached to the past in the Second Sophistic makes it highly desirable for “the past” to possess a certain stability: it should be possible to get to “the truth”, and in fact, truth-claims abound in discourse about the past. Yet, at the same time, second-sophistic intellectuals realize… Read more