Ancient journeys : a festschrift in honor of Eugene Numa Lane
Ancient Journeys: A Festscrift in Honor of Eugene Numa Lane was edited by Cathy Callaway with the assistance of Pamela A. Draper and published on the Stoa in 2002 with the editorial oversight of Anne Mahoney and Ross Scaife (assisted by Mark Weber and Phillip Sauerbeck). --Stoa website (viewed October 18, 2019)
Contents
- Introduction / Cathy Callaway
- Biography
- The Iconography of Amor in Propertius / Paul Alessi
- Tapping Hooves: Small Bronze Figures of Dance-loving Pan / Jane Biers
- Horace. Odes 1.31 : The Construction of a Priamel / Victor Estevez
- The Character of Orestes in Sophocles' Electra / Dale Grote
- Athens and Pompey: A Political Relationship / Michael Hoff
- Challenging Otherness: A Reassessment of Early Greek Attitudes toward the Divine / James C. Hogan and David J. Schenker
- 'What? Me a poet?' Generic Modeling in Horace Sat. 1.4 / Dan Hooley
- Remedium Amoris: A Curse from Cumae in the British Museum / David Jordan
- Trial by Amazon: Thoughts on the First Amazons in Greek Art / Susan Langdon
- Chance Remarks on Dreams in Aelius Aristides / Victor A. Leucci
- Epitaphs and Tombstones of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus / Danielle A. Parks
- From Polytheism to Christianity in the Temples of Cyprus / Marcus Rautman
- The Anatolian Cult of Sabazios / Lynn Roller
- In Search of the Roman Frontier in Sardinia / Robert J. Rowland, Jr.
- Unfriendly Persuasion: Seduction and Magic in Tacitus' Annales / Francesca Santoro L'hoir
- Turning Again in Tibullus 1.5 / Charles Saylor
- Paidagogia pros to theion: Plutarch's Numa / Philip A. Stadter
- Flavius Josephus and the Archaeological Evidence for Caesarea Maritima / Farland Hart Stanley, Jr.
- The Baths of Trajan Decius -- or of Philip the Arab? / James Terry
- "Murderers of the Dead" in Antiphon 1 / Barbara P. Wallach
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"Murderers of the Dead" in Antiphon 1
(2002)The anonymous speaker of Antiphon 1 is prosecuting his stepmother for the murder of his father. Yet, in his prooemium and prokataskeue, he exerts more effort to discredit his stepmother's defenders (i.e., his half-brothers ... -
The baths of Trajan Decius, or of Philip the Arab?
(2002)In a recent publication Laetitia La Follette collected the evidence for the Baths of Trajan Decius, an important but little-known imperial monument of the mid-3rd c. in Rome. Bringing together the ancient literary and ... -
Turning again in Tibullus 1.5
(2002)Tibullus 1.5 has been much studied to date. Perhaps one of the best known studies treats the elegy as an example of Tibullus' style, a smooth surface with an underlying texture of cross referencing and emotional stresses. ... -
Epitaphs and tombstones of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
(2002)Tombstones and their epitaphs yield excellent evidence on the nature of the population of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus. Analysis of these monuments can reveal who the deceased were, their social classes, ethnic origins, ... -
The Anatolian Cult of Sabazios
(2002)In 1989 I published an article on examples of Attic vase painting which illustrate non-Greek divinities and cult rituals. Among the pieces I discussed was an Attic red figured krater from Spina, now in Ferrara, with a scene ... -
From Polytheism to Christianity in the temples of Cyprus
(2002)Over his career Eugene Lane has contributed much to our understanding of the religions of the late classical world, and in particular to clarifying the evolution of Christianity within the context of the Roman empire. The ... -
Chance remarks on dreams in Aelius Aristides
(2002)What are 'chance' remarks on dreams and how valuable are they? In his book Greeks on Dreams, Van Lieshout says: "It should be stated explicitly beforehand that those casual references to dreams and dreaming register a low ... -
Trial by Amazon : thoughts on the first Amazons in Greek art
(2002)To Heinrich Schliemann's stunning record of archaeological firsts can be added the discovery, among a handful of pictorial sherds excavated at Tiryns, of the earliest known Amazon in Greek art. Admittedly he did not recognize ... -
Remedium amoris : a curse from Cumae in the British Museum
(2002)One of the very first publications of lead curse tablets in modem times is that by Wilhelm Henzen, who presented, in 1846, along with a drawing of it made under the supervision of Theodor Mommsen himself, an example, of ... -
Horace, Odes 1.31 : the Construction of a priamel
(2002)In this essay I wish first briefly to review William H. Race's description of the priamel as a rhetorical device in Greek and Latin poetry and his assessment of Horace's usage in this regard, particularly Carm. 1.31 ; then ... -
Ancient journeys : contents
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Introduction
(2002)Introduction / Cathy Callaway -- Linguistics and lentil soup / Pamela A. Draper -- Eugene Lane and Ellis Library / Michael Muchow -- Gene Lane : Commitment to scholarship, teaching, and community / Robert A. Seelinger, Jr. ...