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  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp iv-iv
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  • Chapter 7 - In the Hands of Frauds

  • from Part III - Faking the Gods
  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
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    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 217-237
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    The mechanical miracle was always man-made, but manufacturing the marvellous always exceeded epistemological boundaries and thus attested to divine interference and presence. The delicate balance between these elements was not always easy to maintain, and the relation between technology and the gods came under critical examination, especially in the intense religious choice and competition of the Imperial period. The issue of religious forgery through technological means is central to Lucian’s Alexander and forms the focus of Chapter 7. The Alexander demonstrates the various ways that technical knowledge is integral to the act of miracle-making. turning the text, in spite of its satiric self, into a manual for these very same purposes. A comparison with Hippolytus’ Refutation of All Heresies not only attests to the broader use of technological miracles in ancient contexts, but also exemplifies how technology could be configured differently within a religion’s theological truths.

  • Chapter 8 - Theomimesis – Theomachy

  • from Part III - Faking the Gods
  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
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    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
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    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 238-257
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    Chapter 8 explores how technologies can be used to imitate and challenge the gods. Lucian’s Icaromenippus is analysed first in terms of how the text reimagines divine and human realms as mechanically bridgeable, and then for the possible theomachic implications of the protagonist’s flight. Lucian’s Icaromenippus demonstrates that technologies are integral to navigating the junction between human and divine, but there are also hints that this can be manipulated in ways that pose threats to the existing divine order. The suggestion that Menippus’ actions mark him out as a pseudo or fake god provides a useful entry point for discussion of the issue of technology as a tool for theomachy more generally in the Greek cultural imagination including in figures like Salmoneus.

  • A REASSESSMENT OF THE GALLI AND THE ARCHIGALLI OF MAGNA MATER, THEIR DIFFERENCES AND THEIR CITIZEN STATUS IN ROME

  • Christopher Cavanagh
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly , First View
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    22 July 2025, pp. 1-17

  • Scholars have regularly debated the question of how the Galli, priests of Magna Mater/Cybele, fit into the Roman social milieu. Several have argued (citing Domitian’s legislation) that membership of the Galli was restricted to foreign citizens, whilst others have argued that the chief priests—the Archigalli—were Roman citizens, while the ‘lower’ Galli were non-citizens, thus separating the Galli and the Archigalli within the Cybele cult. These views remain prevalent in modern discussions on the cult, and have not undergone significant scrutiny or analysis. By assessing these views as well as the existing material and literary evidence for the Galli, this article argues that the Archigalli and the Galli were indistinct in terms of behaviour and affiliation. Moreover, this article uses archaeological and literary evidence to suggest that the Galli most likely included Roman citizens among their members, contrasting with the prevailing view of them as foreign residents in Rome.

  • NOTES ON THE TEXT AND INTERPRETATION OF CICERO, DE HARVSPICVM RESPONSIS

  • Andrew R. Dyck
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly , First View
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    22 July 2025, pp. 1-3
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  • This note examines five passages of Cicero, De haruspicum responsis in light of the commented edition of A. Corbeill. New conjectures are offered on §§29 and 50; the transmitted text of §46 is defended; and a different interpretation of the text is offered at §§37 and 61.

Myth, Ritual, and Society in Mycenaean Anatolia
  • Identifying Asian Influences
  • Roger D. Woodard
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    18 July 2025
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    07 August 2025
  • Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society that the Linear B documents reveal. Roger Woodard here explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, together with processes of the transfer of knowledge between Anatolia and European Hellas. Bringing together evidence from Mycenaean culture with mythic and cult traditions of Iron Age Greek culture and Indo-Iranian sources, he reveals the close parallels between Mycenaean and Vedic ritual structures and practices, these being particular expressions of Mycenaean Asianism. He also demonstrates how features inspired from Indo-Iranian sources are present in Aeolian Greek epic traditions that emerged during the Iron Age, notably the Argonautic search for the Golden fleece.

  • DISABILITY IN ANTIQUITY

  • Debby Sneed, Kyle Lewis Jordan, Cecily Bateman
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
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    01 July 2025, pp. 324-330
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    October 2025
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  • IDEAS EXCHANGED: CONNECTIVITY, IDENTITY, AND HOW WE WRITE HISTORIES OF PRE-ROMAN ITALY

  • Jessica McKenzie
  • Journal:
    The Classical Review / Volume 75 / Issue 2 / October 2025
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    30 June 2025, pp. 367-375
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    October 2025
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