Table Of ContentAspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography
Impact of Empire
Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.–A.D. 476
Edited by
Olivier Hekster
(Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Editorial Board
Lukas de Blois
Angelos Chaniotis
Ségolène Demougin
Olivier Hekster
Gerda de Kleijn
Luuk de Ligt
Elio Lo Cascio
Michael Peachin
John Rich
Christian Witschel
VOLUME 19
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Aspects of Ancient Institutions
and Geography
Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert
Edited by
Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover Illustration: The Curia, the imperial period senate building in the Forum Romanum.
(photo by Lee L. Brice)
Page Illustration: Professor Robert John Alexander Talbert, on a visit to the site of Horaceʼs Villa.
(photo by Lee L. Brice).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aspects of ancient institutions and geography : studies in honor of Richard J.A. Talbert / edited by Lee L.
Brice and Danielle Slootjes.
pages cm. — (Impact of empire : Roman empire, c. 200 B.C.–A.D. 476, ISSN 1572-0500 ; volume 19)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-28371-8 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-28372-5 (e-book)
1. Rome—Civilization. 2. Rome—Politics and government. 3. Rome—Social conditions.
4. Associations, institutions, etc.—Rome—History. 5. Social structure—Rome—History. 6. Geography—
Rome—History. 7. Cartography—Rome—History. 8. Civilization, Ancient. 9. Geography, Ancient.
I. Brice, Lee L., editor of compilation, author. II. Slootjes, Daniëlle, editor of compilation, author.
III. Talbert, Richard J. A., 1947– honoree.
DG78.A765 2015
937—dc23
2014035192
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Figures and Maps x
List of Abbreviations xii
Notes on Contributors xiii
Part 1
Introduction
Chaps and Maps: Reflections on a Career with Institutional and
Cartographic History 3
Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes
Cumulative Bibliography of Works by Richard J.A. Talbert 12
Tom Elliott
Part 2
Roman Institutions
1 Plutarchan Prosopography: The Cursus Honorum 29
Philip A. Stadter
2 The Lex Julia de Senatu Habendo: A View from the 1930s 48
Jonathan Scott Perry
3 Tacitus on Trial(s) 65
Leanne Bablitz
4 Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate
House 84
Sarah E. Bond
5 Second Chance for Valor: Restoration of Order After Mutinies and
Indiscipline 103
Lee L. Brice
vi contents
6 Training Gladiators: Life in the Ludus 122
Garrett G. Fagan
7 Statuenehrungen als Zeugnis für den Einfluss römischer Amtsträger
im Leben einer Provinz 145
Werner Eck
8 Dio Chrysostom as a Local Politician: A Critical Reappraisal 161
Christopher J. Fuhrmann
9 Late Antique Administrative Structures: On the Meaning of Dioceses
and their Borders in the Fourth Century AD 177
Daniëlle Slootjes
Part 3
Geography and Cartographic History
10 The Geography of Thucydides 199
Cheryl L. Golden
11 An Anatolian Itinerary, 334–333 BC 216
Fred S. Naiden
12 Visualizing Empire in Imperial Rome 235
Mary T. Boatwright
13 The Provinces and Worldview of Velleius Paterculus 260
Brian Turner
14 Litterae Datae Blandenone: A Letter in Search of a Posting
Address 280
Jerzy Linderski
15 Using Sundials 298
George W. Houston
Contents vii
16 The Healing Springs of Latium and Etruria 314
John F. Donahue
17 The Shaping Hand of the Environment: Three Phases of Development
in Classical Antiquity 333
Michael Maas
Geographic Index 347
General Index 349
Acknowledgements
This is a volume brought together to honor Richard John Alexander Talbert.
Although two of us shepherded the project throughout the process of bringing
it together, it is the product of many contributions by a broad range of Richard
Talbert’s colleagues and former students. We recognize and appreciate the
efforts of a number of people who have helped bring this volume to fruition.
George Houston, Scott Perry, and especially Fred Naiden supported us with
lengthy chats about Talbert’s career while Sarah Bond shed unexpected light on
his early days at Cambridge. Jeff Becker, recent director of the Ancient World
Mapping Center at UNC, made superlative mapping possible, including the
generous donation by the AWMC of numerous maps for the volume. We thank
Irene Van Rossum and Jennifer Pavelko of Brill and Olivier Hekster, Editor of
the Impact of Empire series who have patiently seen the project through the
press. Randy Howarth and Cindy Nimchuk generously provided a place and
a convivial atmosphere in which Leanne, Garrett, and Lee could brainstorm
about the original idea of this volume. We thank the anonymous reviewers for
their helpful comments and suggestions. Of course, we wish to acknowledge
the support of our respective spouses, Georgia and Sander, whose suggestions,
sense of humor, and perspective was always helpful. We owe a special word
of thanks to Zandra Talbert, without whom the project could not have pro-
gressed at all. She provided the necessary auctoritas that moved the project off
the drawing board. Zandra also provided us with insights into her husband’s
early career, including his award winning Greek epigram from Cambridge.
Throughout his career at MacMaster and Chapel Hill when all the authors in
this volume worked with himself as colleagues and students, Zandra provided
unfailing support and a quick wit. Of course, the person to whom we owe the
greatest debt is himself. Rather than labor the point with piles of appreciation
and praise that will make him uncomfortable, it is sufficient to say on behalf of
all his students and colleagues, “Thank you, Richard.” We dedicate this volume
to him as a small token of all our gratitude and affection.
