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  • THE BRONZE HARVESTER: RAVAGING AND PLUNDERING IN GREEK WARFARE

  • Nicholas Lindberg
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 2 / December 2023
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    04 March 2024, pp. 532-540
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    December 2023
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  • This article argues that the purpose of ravaging in Greek warfare was not to goad the enemy into fighting or to cause systematic economic harm but to facilitate plundering. The cereal harvest was commonly chosen as a time for invasion, because it maximized the amount of plunder an invading force could expect to find in the enemy countryside. While ravagers were unlikely to cause permanent economic harm to a community as a whole, they could imperil the livelihoods of individual farmers, both directly through theft and destruction and indirectly by preventing farmers from processing the harvest in a timely fashion. This explains the consistent fear of plundering and ravaging present in our sources.

  • NEW LIGHT IN CHRISTODORUS: AN ACROSTIC AT ANTH. PAL. 2.72–6

  • Max Leventhal
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 2 / December 2023
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    01 March 2024, pp. 965-969
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    December 2023
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  • This note identifies a new acrostic in Christodorus’ sixth century c.e. Ekphrasis of the Baths of Zeuxippus (Anth. Pal. 2) and explains its significance.

  • EMENDATIONES TIBVLLIANAE I

  • Maxwell Hardy
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 2 / December 2023
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    26 February 2024, pp. 721-728
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    December 2023
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  • Conjectures are made on the text of three passages in Tibullus, Books 1–2: 1.4.26 hastam … suam for crines … suos, 2.1.56 membra for bache, 2.4.60 aliis rebus for alias herbas.

  • HELLENISTIC POETRY, MAGICAL GEMS AND ‘THE SWORD OF DARDANUS’ IN APULEIUS’ CUPID AND PSYCHE

  • Regine May
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 73 / Issue 2 / December 2023
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    01 February 2024, pp. 845-861
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    December 2023
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  • Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche is shown to feature detailed knowledge of ancient magic integrated into the plot, especially the magic of the so-called ‘Sword of Dardanus’ spell and of other papyri with Middle Platonic content. A recently published gemstone from Perugia testifies to the wide distribution of the ‘Sword’. Apuleius’ allusion to the erotic spell involves both Cupid and Venus torturing Psyche. Although Venus’ intentions are to prevent the bond between the lovers, her actions inadvertently echo those depicted in the ‘Sword’ and contribute to the couple's eternal union. Ancient magic is therefore shown to be potent and effective, despite Venus’ plans. This is a methodology Apuleius is known to use widely, for example in his obvious allusions to, and adaptations of, Hellenistic poetry in the story. Magic joins poetry and philosophy as a category of texts shown to be playfully integrated into Apuleius’ construction of the plot of Cupid and Psyche.

Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
  • Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back
  • Marchella Ward
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    30 November 2023
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    14 December 2023
  • The use of disability as a metaphor is ubiquitous in popular culture – nowhere more so than in the myths, stereotypes and tropes around blindness. To be 'blind' has never referred solely to the inability to see. Instead blindness has been used as shorthand for, among other things, a lack of understanding, immorality, closeness to death, special insight or second sight. Although these 'meanings' attached to blindness were established as early as antiquity, readers, receivers and spectators into the present have been implicated in the stereotypes, which persist because audiences can be relied on to perpetuate them. This book argues for a new way of seeing – and of understanding classical reception - by offering assemblage-thinking as an alternative to the presumed passivity of classical influence. And the theatre, which has been (incorrectly) assumed to be principally a visual medium, is the ideal space in which to investigate new ways of seeing.

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