THE JOURNAL OF ROMAN STUDIES
VOLUME 100 (2010)
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
CHRISTOPHER STRAY, ‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–
2010, 1–31
IRENE PEIRANO, Hellenized Romans and Barbarized Greeks. Reading the End of
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 32–53
PETER HESLIN, Virgil’s Georgics and the Dating of Propertius’ First Book, 54–68
EMILY GOWERS, Augustus and ‘Syracuse’, 69–87
LUKE ROMAN, Martial and the City of Rome, 88–117
C. L. WHITTON, Pliny, Epistles 8.14: Senate, Slavery and the Agricola, 118–139
TRISTAN J. POWER, Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius, 140–162
PETER THONEMANN, The Women of Akmoneia, 163–178
KEVIN W. WILKINSON, Palladas and the Foundation of Constantinople, 179–194
DOUGLAS RYAN BOIN, Late Antique Ostia and a Campaign for Pious Tourism: Epitaphs
for Bishop Cyriacus and Monica, Mother of Augustine, 195–209
SURVEY ARTICLE
JOHN R. PATTERSON, The City of Rome Revisited: From Mid-Republic to Mid-Empire,
210–232
REVIEW ARTICLE
ROBIN OSBORNE and CAROLINE VOUT, A Revolution in Roman History? (A. WallaceHadrill, Rome’s Cultural Revolution), 233–245
REVIEWS
(in alphabetical order)
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254
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(By Bob Cowan), 305
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Symposions ‘Laokoon in Literatur und Kunst’ vom 30.11.2006, Universität Bonn (By
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GUNDERSON, E., Nox Philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Roman Library
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HIRSCH-LUIPOLD, R., H. GÖRGEMANNS and M. VON ALBRECHT (Eds), Religiöse
Philosophie und philosophische Religion der frühen Kaiserzeit: Literaturgeschichtliche
Perspektiven (By Lee M. Jefferson), 351
HOPE, V., Roman Death: Dying and the Dead in Ancient Rome (By Emma-Jayne Graham),
267
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Tradition (By John Henderson), 289
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JRS 2010 ABSTRACTS
Christopher Stray: ‘Patriots and Professors’: A Century of Roman Studies, 1910–2010
This essay offers a survey of the history of the Roman Society during the 100 years since its
foundation in 1910. It discusses relations with other classical bodies, especially the Hellenic
Society and the Classical Association; the Society’s fragile finances until the 1950s; and the
key role played over several decades by its Secretary, Margerie Taylor. Separate sections deal
with the Society’s library; its journals, the Journal of Roman Studies (1911) and Britannia
(1980); membership and finance; and relations with schools, amateur archaeologists and the
University of London, whose Institute of Classical Studies has housed the Society’s office
and library since 1958.
Irene Peirano:
Hellenized Romans and Barbarized Greeks. Reading the End of
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae
In the Antiquitates Romanae, Dionysius of Halicarnassus presents the Romans as a nation of
Greeks. Throughout his narrative, Dionysius shows how the Romans have surpassed other
Greek nations in the quintessentially Greek areas of morality and conduct. However, this
assessment of Rome’s cultural and ethnic identity proves to be much more nuanced when
read side by side with the narrative of the concluding books of the Ant. Rom., a largely
unexplored section of the work dealing with the war between the Romans and Pyrrhus. The
culturally-based definition of Roman ‘Greekness’ is accompanied particularly in the last
portion of the narrative by a troubling awareness of its inherent instability as the Romans
increasingly display the same tendencies which eventually caused the ‘barbarization’ of
Greece.
Peter Heslin: Virgil’s Georgics and the Dating of Propertius’ First Book
This article re-examines a passage in the first book of Propertius which has generally been
interpreted as establishing that the collection was published after Actium. In fact, those lines
do not necessarily allude to Antony’s defeat, but fit even better with the situation in the years
leading up to the battle. Once that has been established, the balance of evidence supports a
considerably earlier date for Propertius’ first book. This prompts a re-evaluation of the
direction of influence between it and Virgil’s Georgics. Contrary to traditional assumptions,
Virgil can be seen to have reacted strongly to the elegist’s brilliant debut.
Emily Gowers: Augustus and ‘Syracuse’
Suetonius (Aug. 72.2) records among the habits of Augustus his inclination to retreat from
time to time to a place he called ‘Syracuse’ or his ‘technophuon’ (workshop). These names
have been variously explained, without agreement. The paper argues that ‘Syracuse’ evokes a
complex of associations beyond the obvious connection with Archimedes and his inventions.
By recalling other well-known figures, such as Marcellus and Dionysius, as well as
Augustus’ own experiences in Syracuse, the name of his ‘den’ effectively encapsulates the
courses of action available to the emperor as ruler and as private citizen.
Luke Roman: Martial and the City of Rome
This essay examines the representation of the city of Rome in Martial’s Epigrams, and
specifically, his highly explicit and detailed references to urban topography. The city is an
insistent and vivid presence in Martial’s Epigrams to a degree unparalleled in Roman poetry.
He fashions a Rome that is more relentlessly sordid, irregular and jagged in texture, and
overtly dissonant in its juxtapositions than the literary cities of his poetic predecessors. This
new urban emphasis is not only a game of literary one-upmanship. Martial’s urban poetics
takes shape in the context of renewed attention to the city and monumental building under the
Flavians.
C. L. Whitton: Pliny, Epistles 8.14: Senate, Slavery and the Agricola
Epistles 8.14, one of Pliny’s longest letters, has been widely dismissed as a clumsy
combination of two ill-fitting stretches of prose. This article demonstrates a significant chain
of allusions in the letter’s opening to Tacitus’ Agricola, as well as to Cicero, Ovid and
Seneca; it shows how Pliny prompts such a reading in the surrounding Epistles 8.13 and 8.15;
and, through consideration of the diptych form and the theme of slavery, it demonstrates the
letter’s pivotal role as centrepiece to Book 8.
Tristan J. Power: Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius
This paper establishes a new date for the publication of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men through
allusions to Suetonius’ Virgil in Pliny, Letters 5.10. These allusions are part of a much wider
network of allusions, both within this particular letter and more generally in Pliny’s Book 5,
that revolves around the theme of unpublished writings. It is a partial or full publication of
the Illustrious Men that probably led to Suetonius’ award of the ius trium liberorum in A.D.
110, and he may now have published all of the Caesars before his dismissal by Hadrian in
A.D.
122.
Peter Thonemann: The Women of Akmoneia
This article is the first publication of a Greek inscription from Akmoneia in Phrygia, dated to
A.D.
6/7. The monument is an honorific stele for a priestess by the name of Tatia, and was
voted by a body of ‘Greek and Roman women’. As a document of collective political activity
by a female corporate group, the inscription has no real parallels in either the Greek or
Roman world. The monument is set in the context of the Roman mercantile presence in
central Phrygia in the late Republican and early Imperial periods, and some proposals are
offered concerning the identity and significance of the honouring body.
Kevin W. Wilkinson: Palladas and the Foundation of Constantinople
The recent adjustment to Palladas’ dates necessitates a fresh look at an old question: Should
Constantinople be considered the proper setting for some of his epigrams? Allusions in a few
poems to statuary and to buildings, and one ekphrasis of a coin, suggest not only that he was
in Constantinople at some point during his life (as many others have thought), but also that he
was there quite close to the time of the city’s foundation. These epigrams yield precious (if
also enigmatic) clues to a murky period in the history of the Eastern capital.
Douglas Ryan Boin: Late Antique Ostia and a Campaign for Pious Tourism: Epitaphs
for Bishop Cyriacus and Monica, Mother of Augustine
Ever since Augustine narrated an account of his mother’s death at Ostia, social historians
have tried to adduce the identity of the person who erected Monica’s tombstone, a copy of
which is preserved in a ninth-century codex. Three members of the gens Anicii, all of whom
were Augustine’s contemporaries, have become usual suspects in the secondary literature.
Throughout these debates the epitaph itself, a fragment of which was found in 1945, is
frequently cited but rarely treated as a primary text. This article presents a new study of that
epigraph and proposes that it was erected much later than previously suspected.
John R. Patterson: The City of Rome Revisited: From Mid-Republic to Mid-Empire
The article provides a survey of research relating to the City of Rome in antiquity published
since the author’s previous survey article on the subject appeared in JRS 82 (1992). It reviews
both recent archaeological discoveries and more general historical writing relating to the city.
New resources for the study of ancient Rome are outlined, and topics and sites discussed
include the Forum Romanum, the Campus Martius, aristocratic and other housing, the
imperial residences on the Palatine, the Imperial Fora, and gladiatorial spectacles. The
conclusion highlights the increased scholarly focus in recent years on the history of the
Roman plebs.