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  • Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Massachusetts
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    The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's <I>Brutus</I>
    Published online:
    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023, pp iv-iv
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  • Chapter 3 - Theorizing the World

  • Courtney Ann Roby, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
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    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023, pp 74-139

  • Summary

    Hero’s concern for systematization within and between the texts of his corpus, his emphasis on organizing his works to facilitate their legibility and utility, and his respect for the differences between the parts of his complex disciplinary superstructure reflect a belief that the reader should be able to take his works into the world and do things with them. These “things” include building new (and possibly improved) artifacts, measuring or otherwise defining natural and artificial objects, and finding appropriate analytical regimes (mathematical, physical, mechanical, etc.) for further analyzing and describing those objects. It would not be going too far to say that Hero intends that the textual and disciplinary structures discussed in the previous chapter should help his reader learn to see the world in a new way. Just how that process is meant to work is the question that drives this chapter.

  • Chapter 5 - Beginning (and) Literary History

  • Christopher S. van den Berg, Amherst College, Massachusetts
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    The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's <I>Brutus</I>
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    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023, pp 135-164
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    Chapter 5 takes up the work’s beginnings: why did Cicero choose Marcus Cornelius Cethegus as the first Roman orator? Appius Claudius Caecus made much more sense, and Cicero’s reasons for excluding Caecus from his canon tellingly reveal his literary-historical principles. The literary history presented ultimately justifies his own role as a literary historian and confirms his prejudices about the past, present, and future of oratory. His manicuring of the past emerges prominently in the perplexing “double history” of Greek oratory (26–51), which is a methodological template for Roman oratorical history, and in Ennius’ special place as a literary historian (57–9).

  • Chapter 2 - Systems of Explanation

  • Courtney Ann Roby, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
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    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023, pp 20-73

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    Strabo portrays the geographer at work, sitting at the nexus of innumerable pathways of information. He collects the data to be inscribed on his pinax from an assortment of witnesses, who have seen the far corners of the Earth and bring their information to him for synthesis.1 Strabo compares these voyagers to sensory organs, each with its own subset of information about an object (he offers an apple by way of example) and each presenting its own part of the story to the understanding (dianoia), which then synthesizes them into a single schēma.2 So eyewitnesses transmit their knowledge to those who want to learn it (οἱ φιλομαθεῖς ἄνδρες), who take responsibility for collecting a world’s worth of information and synthesizing it into a single synoptic diagramma.

Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters, Book 2
  • Text, Translation and Commentary
  • Judith Hindermann
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    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    14 July 2023
    Print publication:
    31 October 2022
  • The works of Sidonius Apollinaris, poet, politician and bishop, have long been the subject of interest in historical and theological studies, as he documents the life of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy and church in a time of social and political upheaval. The literary qualities of Sidonius' letters, however, have only recently become the focus of research. This book places this aspect centre stage, considering Sidonius' rich intertextuality with other authors, especially Pliny the Younger.

    This critical edition comprises a newly edited Latin text of the second book of Sidonius Apollinaris' Epistulae, a modern English translation and a literary, linguistic and historical commentary on the fourteen letters. The detailed commentary focuses on the literary Sidonius and his broad education and offers a narratological analysis of the text, highlighting its role as a book of leisure in the overarching collection of letters. The introduction focuses on the latest research on the second book of the Epistulae and shows how it is carefully anchored within the wider nine-book collection of letters.

Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
  • Edited by Maria Gerolemou, George Kazantzidis
  • Published online:
    13 July 2023
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    27 July 2023
  • This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and the diseased in the ancient world. The volume examines the pre-history of what develops, at a later stage, and more specifically during the early modern period, into the full science of iatromechanics in the context of which the human body was treated as a machine and medical treatments were devised accordingly. The volume facilitates future dialogue between scholars working on different areas, from classics, history and archaeology to history of science, philosophy and technology.

The Making of Modern Property
  • Reinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950
  • Anna di Robilant
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    13 July 2023
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    27 July 2023
  • In this original intellectual history, Anna di Robilant traces the history of one of the most influential legal, political, and intellectual projects of modernity: the appropriation of Roman property law by liberal nineteenth-century jurists to fit the purposes of modern Europe. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, many of which have never been translated into English, di Robilant outlines how a broad network of European jurists reinvented the classical Roman concept of property to support the process of modernisation. By placing this intellectual project within its historical context, she shows how changing class relations, economic policies and developing ideologies converged to produce the basis of modern property law. Bringing these developments to the twentieth century, this book demonstrates how this largely fabricated version of Roman property law shaped and continues to shape debates concerning economic growth, sustainability, and democratic participation.

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
  • Exploring Economic and Political Networks through Data Modelling
  • Michael Loy
  • Published online:
    13 July 2023
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    03 August 2023
  • This is a new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological data from over 100 years of 'Big Dig' excavation in Greece, employing experimental data analysis techniques from the digital humanities to identify new patterns about Archaic Greece. By modelling trade routes, political alliances, and the formation of personal- and state-networks, the book sheds new light on how exactly the early communities of the Aegean basin were plugged into one another. Returning to the long-debated question of 'what is a polis?', this study also challenges Classical Archaeology more generally: that the discipline has at its fingertips significant datasets that can contribute to substantive historical debate -and that what can be done for the next generation of scholarship is to re-engage with old material in a new way.

The Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I
  • 2nd edition
  • Edited and translated by Maria Brosius
  • Published online:
    12 July 2023
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    10 August 2023
  • This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of texts on the Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I (c.600-424 BC), with accompanying map, illustrations, glossary and introductory notes giving crucial background information. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions, many of these otherwise being difficult for students to access.

Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power
  • Constantine, Julian, and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire
  • Lea Niccolai
  • Published online:
    07 July 2023
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    01 June 2023
  • This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the rise and consolidation of a Christian politics of interpretation that relied on exegesis as a self-legitimising device to secure control over Roman history via claims to Christianity's control of paideia. This reconstruction infuses Julian's reaction with contextual significance. His literary and political project emerges as a response to contemporary reconfigurations of Christian hermeneutics as controlling the meaning of Rome's culture and history. At the same time, understanding Julian as a participant in a larger debate re-qualifies all fourth-century political and episcopal discourse as a long knock-on effect reacting to the imperial mobilisation of Christian debates over the link between power and culture.

The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
  • The Invention of Literary History
  • Christopher S. van den Berg
  • Published online:
    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023
  • Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book studies the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
  • Courtney Ann Roby
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    06 July 2023
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    20 July 2023
  • Hero of Alexandria was a figure of great importance not only for ancient technology but also for the medieval and early modern traditions that drew on his work. In this book Courtney Roby presents Hero's key strategies for developing, solving, and contextualizing technical problems, not only in his own lifetime but as an influential tradition of creating accessible technical treatises spanning multiple disciplines. While Hero's historical biography is all but impossible to reconstruct, she examines “Hero” as a corpus, a textual tradition of technical problem-solving capable of incorporating textual transformations like interpolation, epitomization, and translation, as well as intermedial transformation from text to artifact. Key themes include ancient and early modern technical readerships, the relationship between mathematics and mechanics, the materiality of manuscript and printed texts, and the shifting cultural contexts for scientific and technical literature.

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