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  • 8 - Rural Sanctuaries

  • Peter Thonemann, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Lives of Ancient Villages
    Published online:
    28 October 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 241-283

  • Summary

    This chapter reconstructs the typical physical form of the rural sanctuaries of Roman Hieradoumia, as well as their landholdings and distinctive labour regimes. The exiguous evidence from excavations and surveys is set alongside a lengthy inscription from a sanctuary of Apollo Kisauloddenos that describes the sacred buildings and their associated furniture. The mechanisms by which these sanctuaries accumulated their large landholdings are discussed, with a focus on the evidence for semi-compulsory ‘tithes’ on secular land-transactions. Sacred woodlands and groves were a standard feature of sanctuaries’ landholdings, and poaching from these woodlands was very widespread. Although these sanctuaries had a small permanent staff of sacred officials, much of the rural labour on their estates was provided through the Hieradoumian institution of ‘sacred slavery’, under which villagers were expected to offer their labour as hierodouloi for a fixed term of service. Low-level resistance to this compulsory labour service was endemic, illustrating the structural tensions that existed between Hieradoumian villagers and the powerful sanctuaries of the region.

Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity
  • The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity
  • Nathan D. Howard
  • Published online:
    10 November 2022
    Print publication:
    24 November 2022
  • In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.

  • CVIVS MENSAE SACRA? A TEXTUAL PROBLEM IN VALERIUS MAXIMUS (VAL. MAX. 4.2.3)

  • Heiko Westphal
  • Journal:
    The Classical Quarterly / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / December 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 November 2022, pp. 949-951
    Print publication:
    December 2022
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  • This note proposes to emend the problematic preserved reading ad cuius mensae sacra (Val. Max. 4.2.3) to ad Iouis mensae sacra.

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