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TL;DR: The Prosopograhy of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Contribution of Prosopography: the Byzantium Empire, or why prosopography? A Question of Identity Exploring the Jungle: Hagiographical Literature Between Fact and Fiction.
Abstract: The Prosopograhy of the Later Roman Empire, Volume l: The Era of A.H.M. Jones The Prosopographia Imperii Romani and Prosopographical Method The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE): Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow The Contribution of Prosopography: the Byzantium Empire, or Why Prosopography? A Question of Identity Exploring the Jungle: Hagiographical Literature Between Fact and Fiction The Contribution of Papyri to the Prosopography of the Ancient World: Evaluation and Prospects Seals and the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Seventh Century: Prosopographical Observations on Monotheletism Romans and Foreigners Official Power and Non-Official Power Medieval Prosopography and the Prosopography pf Anglo-Saxon England

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TL;DR: Johnson as mentioned in this paper analyzed over 400 bookrolls to understand the production, use, and aesthetics of the ancient book and found some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice.
Abstract: Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other cultural artefacts, but instead yielded a huge random mass of everyday papyri, piled thirty feet deep, including private letters and shopping lists, government circulars, and copies of ancient literature. The surviving bookrolls - the papyrus rolls with literary texts - have provided a great deal of information on ancient books, ancient readers, and ancient reading. Examining only those texts that survive in full form in medieval manuscripts, William Johnson has analysed over 400 bookrolls to understand the production, use, and aesthetics of the ancient book. His close analysis of formal and conventional features of the bookrolls not only provides detailed information on the bookroll industry - manufacture, design, and format - but also, in turn, suggests some intriguing questions and provisional answers about the ways in which the use and function of the bookroll among ancient readers may differ from modern or medieval practice. Meticulously erudite, this work will be of great importance to all papyrologists, classicists, and literary scholars.

59 citations


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TL;DR: Quintilian's The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience as mentioned in this paper, which is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world.
Abstract: Quintilian, born in Spain about A.D. 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books, draws on his own rich experience. It is a work of enduring importance, not only for its insights on oratory, but for the picture it paints of education and social attitudes in the Roman world. Quintilian offers both general and specific advice. He gives guidelines for proper schooling (beginning with the young boy); analyses the structure of speeches; recommends devices that will engage listeners and appeal to their emotions; reviews a wide range of Greek and Latin authors of use to the orator; and counsels on memory, delivery, and gestures. Donald Russell's new five-volume Loeb Classical Library edition of The Orator's Education, which replaces an eighty-year-old translation by H. E. Butler, provides a text and facing translation fully up to date in light of current scholarship and well tuned to today's taste. Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes, which enable full appreciation of this central work in the history of rhetoric.

50 citations


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TL;DR: The Acharnians performed in its original Greek by students from the University of Pennsylvania as mentioned in this paper drew 3,000 people to the gaslit Academy that spring evening, including President Daniel Coit Gilman and Professor Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve of the Johns Hopkins University, Professors Charles Eliot Norton, William Watson Goodwin, John Williams White, and Louis Dyer of Harvard.
Abstract: Long before curtain time on the evening of May 14, 1886, carriages blocked the intersection of Broad and Locust Streets near the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Nearly 3,000 people streamed toward the gaslit Academy that spring evening, including President Daniel Coit Gilman and Professor Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve of the Johns Hopkins University, Professors Charles Eliot Norton, William Watson Goodwin, John Williams White, and Louis Dyer of Harvard,' and scores of other distinguished academicians and their students from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell Universities and from Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges. A large crowd of students from the University of Pennsylvania mingled easily with the social elite of Philadelphia. Although the curtain had been scheduled to rise at eight o'clock, the performance could not begin until half an hour later, after the eager throng had finally taken its seats. "Everybody is here of any note," one usher observed.2 This glittering, learned audience had gathered to see and hear Aristophanes' Acharnians performed in its original Greek by students from the University of Pennsylvania. They had chosen to attend this first performance of an ancient Greek comedy in North America rather than see Othello at the Arch Street Opera Company, Mrs. John Drew in Gilbert's comedy, Engaged, at the Arch Street Theatre, Arizona Joe in The Black Hawks at the Central Theatre, or any of the other competing entertainments in Philadelphia.3 The Acharnians ended its run of two performances in Philadelphia with a matinee at the Academy of Music the next afternoon. On November 19, 1886, it was reprised in New York City at the Academy of Music on Irving Place, where it drew, a headline proclaimed, "a Greater House than Patti."4 The proceeds of the New York performance were dedicated to the new building of The American School

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TL;DR: This book presents and discusses all the fragments and testimonies to Diocles' views and provides a commentary on the fragments as well as placing them in their intellectual context.
Abstract: Diocles of Carystus (4th century BCE), also known as \"the younger Hippocrates\", was one of the most prominent medical authorities in antiquity. He wrote extensively on a wide range of areas such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, therapeutics, embryology, gynaecology, dietetics, foods and poisons. In his writings, he betrays strong philosophical influence, and his views present striking connections with the Hippocratic Corpus, Plato, Aristotle and Theophrastus. The study of Diocles' ideas has long been hampered by the absence of a reliable collection of the remaining evidence. This book presents and discusses all the fragments and testimonies to Diocles' views. Following on from the first volume, which presented the Greek, Latin and Arabic sources with facing English translation, the second volume provides a commentary on the fragments and places them in their intellectual context.




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TL;DR: Konon's collection of fifty mythical narratives (Diegeseis) as mentioned in this paper, dedicated to King Archelaos Philopatris of Cappadocia (36 B.C.-A.D. 17), is one of the most interesting mythographical works, not least because of the great variety of the material.
Abstract: Konon's collection of fifty mythical Narratives (Diegeseis), which he dedicated to King Archelaos Philopatris of Cappadocia (36 B.C.-A.D. 17), is one of the most interesting mythographical works, not least because of the great variety of the material. It has also been one of the most neglected, in part because the work has not survived in its original form but in the summary of Photios, and also in part because it is the sole extant mythographic collection that was not organized around a particular theme, such as the better-known works of Parthenios and Antoninus Liberalis. Each narrative is set in a specific locality. Although several mythical categories are represented, foundation legends (ktiseis) and cult and local aetiologies predominate. Konon records versions of myths that depart from the standard tellings, as well as myths otherwise unattested.This edition, the first published commentary on Konon in over two centuries, provides a text and translation of and commentary on each of the fifty tales, and an overview of mythography and of the myth types favored by Konon."







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TL;DR: The most complete and up-to-date collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music can be found in the Denkmaler altgriechischer Musik.
Abstract: This uniquely complete and up-to-date collection of the surviving remains of ancient Greek music will serve as the standard work of reference for decades to come. Since its appearance in 1970, Egert Pohlmann's Denkmaler altgriechischer Musik has been the standard collection of the surviving fragments of ancient Greek music. But the publication of many further texts in recent years has put it in urgent need of updating. In this new English edition, prepared in collaboration with Martin West, the number of items has risen to 61, of which 23 are additions to the content of the 1970 book. They extend from the fifth century BC to the third or fourth AD, and afford a clearer perception than hitherto of how Greek music evolved over time. All the texts, new and old, have been carefully revised against the original documents or photographs, and many improved readings have been obtained as a result. Each item is given in diplomatic transcript with the ancient music notation, transcription into modern musical notation (except in the case of the smallest fragments), a double critical apparatus for the notation and the poetic text, and a commentary explaining the source and nature of the document, the history of its discovery and study, the musical scales used in it, and any other features of the music or its notation that call for comment. Good-quality photographs are provided for most items, exception being made for some items of which images are relatively easily accessible elsewhere, for example in the volumes of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. All who are interested in ancient Greek music, whether as an aspect of Hellenic culture or as a chapter of high importance in the early history of music generally, will welcome this comprehensive scholarly presentation of the source material by the two leading experts in the field.