Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature

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by  Peter Liddel

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University Press Scholarship Online
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Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin
Literature
Peter Liddel and Polly Low
Print publication date: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001
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(p.i) Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
(p.ii) Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents
(p.iii) Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature
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Contents
Title Pages
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: The Reception of Ancient Inscriptions
Peter Liddel and Polly Low
Part I Literary Epigraphy and The Ancient Past
2 Cui vetustas fidem faciat: Inscriptions and Other Material Relics of the Past in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Andreas Hartmann
3 Herodotus and Temple Inventories
Elizabeth Kosmetatou
4 Illustrating, Documenting, Making-believe: The Use of psephismata in Hellenistic Biographies of
Philosophers
Matthias Haake
5 From Inscriptions to Literature (and Sometimes Back Again): Some Uses of the Epigraphic Sources in
the Ancient Literary Traditions on Delphi
Manuela Mari
6 Inscriptions as Literature in Pausanias’ Exegesis of Hellas
Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos
7 Archaic Latin Inscriptions and Greek and Roman Authors
David Langslow
8 Inscribed Epigrams in Orators and Epigrammatic Collections
Andrej Petrovic
Part II Literary Epigraphy: Complementarity and Competition
9 Epigraphic Literacy in Fifth-century Epinician and its Audiences
Joseph Day
10 Kleos Versus Stone? Lyric Poetry and Contexts for Memorialization
David Fearn
11 Inscriptions on the Attic Stage
Julia Lougovaya
12 Aristotle’s Hymn to Virtue and Funerary Inscriptions
Pauline LeVen
13 Speaking from the Tomb? The Disappearing Epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia Fr. 64 Pf.
A. D. Morrison
14 Inscriptional Intermediality in Latin Literature
Martin Dinter
15 Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the Poets, and the Inscriptions
Jocelyne Nelis-Clément and Damien Nelis
16 Epitome and Eternity: Some Epitaphs and Votive Inscriptions in the Latin Love Elegists
L. B. T. Houghton
17 Shuffling Surfaces: Epigraphy, Power, and Integrity in the Graeco-Roman Narratives
Alexei V. Zadorojnyi
Index of Sources: Inscriptions
Index of Sources: Literary Texts and Papyri
Index
Preface and Acknowledgements
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Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin
Literature
Peter Liddel and Polly Low
Print publication date: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001
(p.v) Preface and Acknowledgements
The conference from which this collection has developed was made
possible by a generous grant from the School of Arts, Histories and
Cultures, University of Manchester. The Society for the Promotion of
Hellenic Studies and the Classical Association provided further support
in the form of bursaries for graduate students attending the
conference: we (and the bursary recipients) are very grateful to them.
We are also indebted to all those who attended the conference (both
speakers and members of the audience) for their enthusiastic,
informed, and informative contributions, and to the Department of
Classics and Ancient History at Manchester for hosting the event. The
series editors and the anonymous readers for the Press provided very
helpful guidance in planning and completing the volume; Val Knight
undertook the daunting task of formatting, copy-editing, and indexing
the assembled papers. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to J. K. Davies
for his warm encouragement and for kindly sharing with us his
expertise on the subject of documents and inscriptions in ancient
literature over a number of years. Our introduction draws extensively
on his work, as did the conference upon which this collection is based.
We are greatly honoured by the willingness of Stathis Stavropoulos, the
prominent Greek political commentator and cartoonist,1 to create a
cover-illustration for this collection. He depicts a stele, set up in the
environs of a temple, inscribed with the definition of Ἐπιγραφαί which
appears in the 1888 archaeological Lexicon of the polymath and
epigraphical pioneer Alexandros Rizos Rangavis.2 Two ancient readers
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discuss the text; one of them carries a transcription (which appears,
notwithstanding the censure of his patron (or teacher, or master), to be
accurate). Stavropoulos raises, satirically, one means by which
knowledge of inscribed texts was transmitted, but invites us also to
consider and to call into question the sense and tenacity of a
nineteenth-century definition of the subject—which appears to be set in
stone.
Abbreviations of Greek and Latin authors and texts, epigraphic
publications, periodicals, and standard reference works generally
follow the conventions of (respectively) Liddell and Scott’s Greek–
English Lexicon and the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the Supplementum
Epigraphicum Graecum and L’Année Épigraphique, the Année
Philologique, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Significant exceptions
or additions to these conventions are listed in the bibliography
following the relevant chapter. Except where otherwise stated, all
website addresses were correct and active as of 31 August 2012.
P.P.L and P.A.L.
Manchester
Notes:
(1) For another example of epigraphical imagery in his work, see S.
Stavropoulos (2010). Τὰ Ἀνδρείκελα. Athens, 108.
(2) A. R. Rangavis (1888). Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Ἀρχαιολογίας μετὰ
πολλῶν εἰκόνων καὶ πινάκων. Athens, i. 281. Of his works, Antiquités
helléniques ou Répertoire d’inscriptions et d’autres antiquités. 2 vols.
Athens), 1842–55, is of great importance to epigraphers of Greece.
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List of Illustrations
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(p.ix) List of Illustrations
Fig. 6.1a. Inscription on the statue base of Ergoteles. Photo: Y.
Tzifopoulos, reprinted from Κρητικά Χρονικά; © Εταιρία
Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών and Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού &
Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών
Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και
Απαλλοτριώσεων. 157
Fig. 6.1b. Drawing of the inscription on the statue base of
Ergoteles. After E. Kunze, ‘Ein kretischer Periodonike’, Kretika
Chronika 7 (1953): 138–45; © Εταιρία Κρητικών Ιστορικών
Μελετών. 157
Fig. 6.2a. Gorgias’ inscribed statue base. Photo: Y. Tzifopoulos;
© Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία
Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο
Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων. 159
Fig. 6.2b. Drawing of Gorgias’ inscribed statue base. After IvO
293; © Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία
Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο
Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων. 159
Fig. 7.1. The ‘Forum inscription’: drawing from Carafa, Il comizio
di Roma dalle origini all’età di Augusto (Rome 1998) 129.
Reproduced from M. Cristofani, La Grande Roma dei Tarquini
(Rome 1990) by kind permission of Erik Pender and Roberto
Marcucci, L’Erma di Bretschneider. 170
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Fig. 15.1. Sion, canton du Valais (Switzerland) in reuse in the
entrance wall of the Hôtel de Ville: Dedication to Augustus from
the inhabitants of Sion, 8/7 BC (CIL XII 136 = ILS 6755 = RIS III
253). Photo: Fr. Wiblé. 322
Fig. 15.2. Gold coin; 20–19 BC. Left (obverse): head of Augustus,
laureate; right (reverse): rectangular altar, inscribed: FORT.RED/
CAES.AVG/S.P.Q.R. (RIC 1 53a, p. 45) © The Trustees of the
British Museum R.5986. 323
Fig. 15.3. Silver coin; L. Mescinius Rufus; 16 BC. Left (obverse):
head of Augustus, laureate; right (reverse): cippus or altar
inscribed referring to the Ludi Saeculares and a legend relating
to the emperor’s office of Quindecimir Sacris Faciundis (RIC 1
354, p. 68). © The Trustees of the British Museum R.
2002,0102.4968. 323
Fig. 15.4. Arles: Marble copy of the clipeus Virtutis, prob. 26 BC
(AE 1952, 165). Photo: M. Lacanaud; © Musée départemental
Arles antique. 328
Fig. 15.5. Rome, Museum of the Imperial Forums: fragment of
pedestal from the Forum of Augustus in Lunense marble with
inscription naming Aeneas (CIL VI 8.3 40931). Photo: J. Nelis-
Clément. 329
Fig. 15.6a. Fragment of the dedication on the Architrave of the
Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome, 12 May 2 BC (CIL VI 8.2 40311).
Photo: G. Alföldy; © Foto-Archiv CIL Inv.-Nr. PH0007032. 332
Fig. 15.6b. Reconstruction by G. Alföldy of the dedication on the
Architrave of the Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome, 12 May 2 BC.
Drawing: G. Alföldy; © Foto-Archiv CIL Inv.-Nr. PH0007033. 332
Fig. 15.7. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 7
December 2010. Photo: Alison Ford. 340
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Notes on Contributors
University Press Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online
Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin
Literature
Peter Liddel and Polly Low
Print publication date: 2013
Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001
(p.x) Notes on Contributors
Joseph Day
is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Wabash College, Indiana,
and a frequent Senior Associate Member at the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens. Since the mid-1980s,
he has written many articles on earlier inscribed Greek
epigram, and his Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication:
Representation and Reperformance appeared in 2010.
Martin Dinter,
Ph.D. (Cambridge), is Lecturer in Latin Literature and
Language at King’s College London. He is author of
Anatomizing Civil War— Four Studies in Lucan’s Epic Body
(2012) and co-editor of A Companion to the Age of Nero
(2012). He has published articles on Virgil, Horace, and
Lucan as well as Flavian Epic.
David Fearn
is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the University
of Warwick. His recent work includes Bacchylides: Politics,
Performance, Poetic Tradition (2007) and Aegina: Contexts
for Choral Lyric Poetry (edited, 2010), along with a number
of other contextual studies of Greek choral lyric poetry. He is
currently working on a book about choral lyric poetry, art,
and material culture.
Matthias Haake
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