Ancient History in a Modern University

by Hillard, T. W.; Kearsley, R. A.; Nixon, C. E. V.; Nobbs, A. M.

• ISBN13: 9780802838407
• ISBN10: 0802838405
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-17
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Volume I of Ancient History in a Modern University contains forty-four essays, produced in honor of historian Edwin Judge, that explore important facets of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome.

Table of Contents

Volume 1 The Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome
Preface
Part I The Study of Antiquity	1	(57)
(a) Various Approaches to Antiquity	1	(57)
A.B. Knapp
Which Ways(s) to the Past? Archaeology, Ancient History and Postmodernism	1	(13)
J.D. Muhly
Teaching Ancient History: The Problem of the Ancient Near East	14	(6)
D. Geagan
Ancient History in North America: A Report From Ontario	20	(10)
J.H. Jensen
A No-Foundation Course in Ancient History	30	(8)
P.T. Crocker
The Antiquities Collection at Ancient Times House, Melbourne	38	(9)
H. Bandler
Expertise in Water Resources Exploitation in Australian Prehistory	47	(11)
Part II The Archaeology and History of the Ancient Near East	58	(53)
(b) The People of Ancient Egypt	58	(30)
N. Kanawati
Excavations at El-Hagarsa, Upper Egypt	58	(8)
M. Ilich
A Study of Punishment Scenes in the Old Kingdom	66	(9)
M.J. Rowe et al.
Ancient History and Modern Biological Tools: Endoscopic Sampling and Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Ancient Tissue	75	(7)
C.W. Griggs et al.
Identities Revealed: Archaeological and Biological Evidences for a Christian Population in the Egyptian Fayum	82	(6)
(c) Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Syria/Palestine	88	(23)
A.G. Keen
Persian Karanoi and Their Relationship to the Satrapal System	88	(8)
J. Riley
An Investigation into the Sources Behind Pompeius Trogus' Assyrian Section of The Philippic Histories	96	(7)
S.J. Bourke
Urbanisation and State Control at Pella in Jordan	103	(8)
Part III Greek and Roman History	111	(291)
(d) Archaic and Classical Greece	111	(37)
N. Robertson
Phratries and Trittyes: The Early Organization of Attica	111	(10)
D.M. Pritchard
Thetes, Hoplites and the Athenian Imaginary	121	(7)
C.I. Wright
Plutarch, Kimon 17.1-2 and Peloponnesian Events of the 460s B.C.	128	(11)
V. Castellani
Melpomene Polias: Athenian Politics and Tragedy in the Later Fifth Century	139	(9)
(e) Alexander and Hellenism in Egypt	148	(30)
E.J. Baynham
Why Didn't Alexander Marry a Nice Macedonian Girl Before Leaving Home? Observations on Factional Politics at Alexander's Court in 336-334 B.C.	148	(8)
J.R. Melville-Jones
Alexander's Funeral Carriage	156	(4)
T.W. Hillard
The Agathos Daimon Abandons Alexandria: The Potter's Oracle and Possible Roman Allusions	160	(13)
V. Stone
Some Preliminary Remarks Concerning Empty Cartouches in the Graeco-Roman Period	173	(5)
(f) The Roman State and People	178	(52)
E.S. Gruen
Rome and the Myth of Alexander	178	(14)
R.A. Bauman
Roman Law and Nationalism in the XII Tables and in Justinian	192	(13)
U.W. Scholz
Annales or Historiae?	205	(5)
S.F. O'Hara
Patria Potestas: A Brief Re-Examination	210	(7)
E.J. Jory
The Pantomime Assistants	217	(5)
T. Crisafulli
Representations of the Feminine: The Prostitute in Roman Comedy	222	(8)
(g) Rome in the Mid-First Century B.C.	230	(39)
A.M. Stone
Was Sallust a Liar? A Problem in Modern History	230	(14)
K.E. Welch
Cicero and Brutus in 45	244	(13)
T.R. Stevenson
The `Divinity' of Caesar and the Title Parens Patriae	257	(12)
(h) The Age of the Caesars: Literature and Archaeology	269	(79)
R. Mayer
Augustus and Literature	269	(7)
W.K. Lacey
Returning to the City	276	(5)
G.R. Stanton
Tacitus' View of Augustus' Place in History	281	(18)
H.M. Lindsay
Characterisation in the Suetonian Life of Tiberius	299	(10)
R.A. Pitcher
Martial and Roman Sexuality	309	(7)
R.L. Hohlfelder
Romancing the Mud in the Harbour of Caesarea Maritima, Israel	316	(12)
V. Protopopescu
Who Burns Whom on Scene XLV of Trajan's Column?	328	(9)
R. Tracey
V(otum) S(olvit) L(ibens) A(nimo) B(ene) M(erenti). An Aspect of Romanisation in Syria	337	(11)
(i) The Classical Tradition	348	(54)
L. Boynton
Sir Richard Worsley and the Greek Revival	348	(8)
J.A.S. Evans
The Legacy of Edward Gibbon	356	(7)
B.F. Croke
Mommsen, Wilcken and the Invention of Papyrology	363	(9)
R.T. Ridley
Friedrich Munzer: Fifty Years Later	372	(8)
R.D. Milns
Bushranger, Scholar and Poet: James McPherson, 1841-1895	380	(8)
H.M. Finlay
The Polis: A Political Type for the Modern University?	388	(14)
Appendix 1: Conference Program	402	(5)
Appendix 2: Addresses for Correspondence	407	(6)
Plates to Volume 1	413