It’s almost the start of the spring semester here in North Dakotaland and we’ve been greeted with spring time temperatures that have soared into mid-30 and might just kiss the big 4-0. Even as I revel in the warmth of an early summer, I can’t help but feel a little jealous of my colleagues in San Diego who are enjoying the balmy weather and collegial comradery of the annual Archaeological Institute of America meeting.

I suspect my friends and colleagues at the AIAs will be plenty busy with convivial pursuits, but for those of you enjoying the onset of spring elsewhere, here are some quick hits and varia:

• A guide to pitching your book at a conference.
• Unsolicited advice for junior people at a Classics Conference.
• Pseudo Archaeology and television.
• 2019 American School of Classical Studies publication catalogue.
• Two books on the Greek diaspora.
• Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean beyond the Syllabus.
• Midwestern History is on the Map!
• Territory Acknowledgement. 
• 50 best podcasts.
• Antihumanism in Larry Potter. 
• What I’m reading: … manuscripts for The Digital Press and North Dakota Quarterly … 
• What I’m listening to: Sun Ra, Lanquidity. 

SHANDONG PROVINCE, CHINA—China.org reports that one of 15 tombs dating back 2,000 years and discovered in eastern China’s city of Qingdao has yielded more than 40 painted pieces of pottery, including figurines depicting horses and people. “The figurines of attendants, chariots, and horses indicate that the tomb owner may have been an official in the ancient state in Shandong during the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220),” said Lin Yuhai of the Qingdao Institute of Cultural Relics, Preservation, and Archaeology. He explained that the horse statues were all positioned facing the southeast, toward the ancient capital of Jimo. To read about another recent discovery in China, go to “Underground Party.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Smithsonian Magazinereports that Nicole Smith-Guzmán of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and her colleagues examined 125 skulls from nine pre-Columbian burial sites in Panama, and found bony growths in the ear canals of seven men and one woman. Three of the men with the growths were buried together. The growths, known as external auditory exostoses, or surfers’ ear, are thought to form as a reaction to long exposure to cold wind and water. And although Panama is a tropical country, water temperatures in the Gulf of Panama drop between January and April, when trade winds from the north blow warm surface water out into the Pacific Ocean, and colder water rises to the surface. Smith-Guzmán suggested the growths could indicate that early Panamanians spent a lot of time in deep waters to retrieve thorny oysters, giant conch, and pearl oysters, rather than the occurrence of fungal or bacterial infections, since the condition appeared mostly in males. If the growths had been caused by illness, they would have appeared in both men and women at about the same rate, she reasoned. Further research will compare ancient and modern examples of surfers’ ear across the region, Smith-Guzmán added. For more, go to “Pirates of the Original Panama Canal.”

La collana si propone di accogliere l’edizione di testi su papiro dell’antichità greca, romana e bizantina, nonché volumi di studi e approfondimenti su tematiche particolari nel vasto campo della papirologia letteraria e documentaria. Le Edizioni dell’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli» intendono proseguire una più che secolare tradizione, iniziata dalla Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto (1908-1927) e proseguita poi dall’Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli». L’Istituto, costituito in seno all’Università di Firenze nel 1928, presenta dal 1939 nella sua denominazione ufficiale il nome di Girolamo Vitelli suo primo direttore e iniziatore degli studi papirologici in Italia.

---

Papiri della Società Italiana

Maltomini, Francesca; Russo, Simona; Stroppa, Marco

Antinoupolis III

Pintaudi, Rosario

I bandi liturgici nell’Egitto romano

Stroppa, Marco

Comunicazioni

Bastianini, Guido; Russo, Simona

Charisterion per Revel A. Coles

Bastianini, Guido; Gonis, Nikolaos; Russo, Simona

Antinoupolis II

Pintaudi, Rosario

I papiri di Eschilo e di Sofocle

Bastianini, Guido; Casanova, Angelo

Papiri della Società Italiana

Bastianini, Guido; Maltomini, Francesca; Messeri, Gabriella

Les noms des membres de la SIAC sont en gras. – I nomi dei membri della SIAC sono in grassetto. – Names of SIAC members are written with bold characters.

I. ACTIVITES DE LA SIAC / ATTIVITÀ DELLA SIAC / SIAC ACTIVITIES

1 – NOUVEAUX MEMBRES / NUOVI SOCI / NEW MEMBERS

• Serena Cammoranesi – Associate – Manchester – United Kingdom

II. CICERONIANA

1 – PUBLICATIONS / PUBBLICAZIONI / PUBLICATIONS

• Adiego, Ignasi X. & Alejandra de Riquer, Algunes observacions sobre la imprevisible actualitat del “Commentariolum petitionis” de Quint Tul·li Ciceró, “Anuari de Filologia. Antiqua et Mediaeualia”, 8, 2018, 22-33. LINK
• Atkins, Jed W., Non-domination and the libera res publica in Cicero’s Republicanism, “History of European Ideas”, 44, 6, 2018, 756-773. LINK
• Benz, Lore & Jochen Sauer, Rhetorik – Politik – Propaganda. Cicero und die Macht des Wortes, Speyer, Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2017. LINK
• Berti, Sara, Un altro testimone del volgarizzamento quattrocentesco della Pro Marcello di Cicerone: il ms. Vat. Ottob. lat. 3316, “Lettere italiane”, 68, 2, 2016, 335-358. LINK
• Bizer, Marc, Whose Mistake? The Errors of Friendship in Cicero, La Boétie and Montaigne, in Basil Dufallo (ed.), Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome’s Flaws, Oxford & New York, Oxford University Press, 2018, 37-52. LINK
• Bray, Nadia, La tradizione filosofica stoica nel Medioevo, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018. LINK
• Breuer, Johannes, Rez. zu Lothar Willms, Lateinische Stilübungen: Ein Arbeitsbuch mit Texten aus Cäsar und Cicero, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, “Forum Classicum”, 61, 2, 2018, 132-136. LINK
• Cairo, María Emilia, El debate en torno a libertas a fines de la República. Una lectura de De domo sua de Cicerón, “Phoînix”, 24, 2, 2018, 75-89. LINK
• Camplani, Alberto, Sulla multifunzionalità del tradurre in copto: note sparse su frammenti copti tardoantichi, Cicerone e moderne ipotesi di ricerca, in Franco Crevatin (a cura di), Egitto crocevia di traduzioni, Trieste, Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2018, 101-144. LINK
• Castagnoli, Luca, Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy, in Thomas Bénatouïl & Katerina Ierodiakonou (eds.), Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 168-217. LINK
• Cavallero, Fabio Giorgio, Ius publicum dedicandi (e consecrandi): il diritto di dedica a Roma, “Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité”, 130, 1, 2018, 219-249. LINK
• Craig, Christopher P., Divine and human in Cicero’s De provinciis consularibus, in Anne H. Groton (ed.), Ab omni parte beatus: Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May, Mundelein (IL), Bolchazy-Carducci, 2017. LINK
• Crawford, Jane W., Cicero’s correspondence with Caesar: two sides of the story, in Anne H. Groton (ed.), Ab omni parte beatus: Classical Essays in Honor of James M. May, Mundelein (IL), Bolchazy-Carducci, 2017. LINK
• Davie, John, Cicero the Professional Advocate, “Ad Familiares”, 01/08/2018. LINK
• de Jonge, Casper C., Demosthenes versus Cicero: Intercultural Competition in Ancient Literary Criticism, in Cynthia Damon & Christoph Pieper (eds.), Eris vs. Aemulatio. Valuing Competition in Classical Antiquity, Leiden, Brill, 2018, 300–323. LINK
• Del Rey Quesada, Santiago, El “De Senectute” de Cicerón en romance (ss. XIV-XVI). Un estudio sintáctico contrastivo, “Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística”, 8, 2018, 21-56. LINK
• De Paolis, Paolo, Le conseguenze dell’errore, “Rationes Rerum”, 10, 2017, 87-114. LINK
• Dighton, Aerynn, Mutatio Vestis: Clothing and Political Protest in the Late Roman Republic, “Phoenix”, 71, 3-4, 345-369. LINK
• DiLuzio, Joseph, The first triumvirate at home and abroad in Cicero’s Pro Flacco, “Greece & Rome”, 65, 2, 2018, 175-188. LINK

2 – A VENIR & INFORMATIONS / PROSSIME INIZIATIVE & INFORMAZIONI / FORTHCOMING & INFORMATION

• Call for Papers Assessing Cicero’s (in)constantia through the Ages, Leiden, 21-22 June 2019. From the organisers:
  

  We invite proposals (for papers of 30 minutes) for a two-day workshop at Leiden University (The Netherlands) on the theme “Assessing Cicero’s (in)constantia through the Ages”. The workshop will be dedicated to the question how later authors reacted to the theme of philosophical, political and oratorical consistency, which was so prominent within Cicero’s oeuvre and his own life. To give just one example per category: (a) philosophy: in De officiis 1.125, Cicero affirms that nothing is more fitting than preserving consistency in every action and plan; (b) politics: long parts of the Pro Sulla are dedicated to Cicero’s self-defence from the charge of not showing political consistency compared to his behaviour as consul; (c) (forensic) oratory: in the Pro Cluentio, Cicero has to explain why his stance is completely opposite to his views during a previous court case involving Cluentius. Cicero’s (in)constantia has consistently triggered readers in antiquity and beyond. In antiquity, one can think of Velleius Paterculus’ praise that Cicero acted with exceptional constantia in handling the Catilinarian conspiracy and contrast this to the critical remark by Iunius Bassus in Seneca’s Controversiae that Cicero lacked constantia. Famous is Petrarch’s disappointment about the inconsistency between Cicero’s public and private behaviour after having rediscovered his Letters to Atticus or Theodor Mommsen’s biting characterisation of Cicero as a person without any moral compass and without any consistent behaviour. During the workshop, we would like to examine why the theme continued to interest readers through the ages. We are especially interested in the underlying moral expectations and evaluations with regard to Cicero’s (in)constantia. We especially welcome proposals that investigate the interrelatedness of two or even all three fields mentioned above: philosophy, rhetoric and politics. Keynote speaker: Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins University). The workshop will take place in Leiden on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June, 2019. Hotel costs of the participants will be covered (for two nights), but travel costs will be at personal expense. The workshop is organised as part of the Leiden research project “Mediated Cicero”, funded by the ‘Netherlands Organisations for Scientific Research’ (NWO), principle investigator Christoph Pieper. If you are interested in participating, please send your proposal of max. 300 words by February 10, 2019 to Christoph Pieper (c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl). For further information, please also contact the organiser.

• Call for Papers ΠΗΓΗ / FONS: Axiological confusion and its causes.
  

  The online peer-reviewed academic journal Pegé/Fons (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Instituto de Estudios Clásicos “Lucio Anneo Séneca”) invites scholars and researchers to submit manuscripts for the forthcoming issue (V – 2020). Pegé/Fons encourages for its next issue contributions about: “Axiological confusion and its causes” (editors: Ermanno Malaspina and Jula Wildberger). How can we know anything? While this question drives our Skeptic sources’ engagement with Hellenistic ‘dogmatic’ epistemology, for the Epicureans and Stoics themselves, who regarded all relevant knowledge as evident by nature, there was another conundrum waiting to be solved: How did we get confused in the first place? Both Epicureans and Stoics posit innate or naturally acquired and uniform true preconceptions and a cognitive mechanism by which occurrent facts can be known with evident certainty, in particular facts concerning the well-being of a human agent. Although instructed with unfailing sensors for what is good for them and what not, almost all humans undergo a cognitive development at the end of which they are no longer capable of discerning apparent from actual values reliably. Against these positions, and parallel to them, the skeptics, and then, separately, the academic tradition, placed instead at the center of their gnoseological setting precisely the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of attaining a faithful understanding of the world: therefore, they took a very critical look at the aforementioned dogmatic tenets, placing the essence of wisdom rather in the methodical doubt and in the suspension of judgment. Moreover, one can find all these different positions and the related controversies not only as they are in the texts of the philosophers, but also, in a much more faded way, in the so called ‘popular morality’ we find in other literary genres. In addition to the papers listed below, we would like to invite contributions that explore such theories and their reception from the perspective of different disciplines and with a range of methodologies. How exactly did different schools conceive axiological confusion, that state in which agents are no longer able to discern what is good and bad for them? How did they explain this cognitive impairment? Is this epistemological theory consistent with their overall world view? Was there disagreement within the school? What can we learn from literary representations of the phenomenon or, e.g., the implicit use of Epicurean or Stoic or ‘skeptical’ theories in the creation of a literary character? We also welcome close readings and philological elucidation of single source texts or studies of the lexicon and imagery of axiological confusion. Papers by scholars at the beginning of their career are very welcome. The double blind peer review, the open access journal systems and the electronic journal platform of the Carlos III University of Madrid (https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/) guarantee Pegé/Fons an extraordinary visibility and worldwide presence in important databases of scholarly research.

  • Please send a 200 words abstract with a title to ermanno.malaspina@unito.it and to jwildberger@aup.edu by February 10th, 2019.
  • Acceptance will be confirmed by February 28, 2019.
  • The deadline for final papers submissions is September 30, 2019.

  Confirmed contributors: Catalina Balmaceda (PUC Chile), The Year of the Four Emperors: Axiological Confusion in Tacitus’ Civil Wars; Francesca Romana Berno (La Sapienza Rome), Getting Nowhere – Confusion as Wandering in Seneca; Marcelo Diego Boeri (PUC Chile), Chrysippus and Galen on the origin of evil; René Brouwer (Utrecht), Diastrophe in the early Stoa: causes, consequences and remedies; Giuseppe Cambiano (SNS Pisa), Errori di valutazione in Polibio; David Konstan (Brown), The Epicurean notion of phantasia; Giuliana Repici (Turin), Errori di valutazione nell’etica epicurea; Emidio Spinelli (La Sapienza Rome), Lineamenti di etica scettica anti-dogmatica; Giovanni Zago (Florence), Virtù e corruzione morale nel pensiero di Posidonio. Per un riesame dei frammenti e delle testimonianze.

• Society for Classical Studies. 2019 Annual Meeting, San Diego, 3-6 January 2019. James Uden (Boston University), Ventriloquizing the Classics: Cicero and Early American Gothic; Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado Boulder), Cicero, Brutus 63-9 and the History of Cato’s Origines; Christopher van den Berg (Amherst College), Statuary Analogies and Cicero’s Judgment of Caesar’s Style (Brutus 262); Cynthia Bannon (Indiana University), Legal Humor and Republican Political Culture (Cic. De Orat. 2.284); Caitlin Marley (University of Iowa), Analyzing Ciceronian Networks with Gephi; Matthew Gorey (Washington University), The Politics of Atomism in Cicero; Marsha McCoy (Southern Methodist University), Roman Republicanism, Memory, and Identity: Cicero’s De Re Publica; Peter Osorio (Cornell University), Academic Ends of Interpretation: Plato the Sceptic in Cic. Luc. 74; Matthew Watton (University of Toronto), Socrates and Plato’s Socrates in Cicero’s Academica; Ashley Simone (Columbia University), Duels, Dualities, and Double Suns: Natural Philosophy and Politics in Cicero’s De Re Publica. LINK
• Journée d’études Philosophie et rhétorique dans l’Antiquité: Le De republica de Cicéron (deuxième année), Villeneuve d’Ascq, 27 février 2019. Jean-Baptiste Guillaumin (Sorbonne Univ.), Deux lectures tardo-antiques du Songe de Scipion: Favonius Eulogius et Macrobe. LIEN

III. ACTIVITES DES MEMBRES / ATTIVITÀ DEI MEMBRI / MEMBERS’ ACTIVITIES

1 – PUBLICATIONS / PUBBLICAZIONI / PUBLICATIONS

• Alesse, Francesca, La rappresentazione catalettica nella Stoa post-crisippea, “Lexicon Philosophicum”, Special Issue, 2018, 145-167. LINK
• Berno, Francesca Romana, Il tredicesimo libro dei Dialoghi di Seneca: le lettere 58-66. Con un’analisi del modello platonico sotteso alla lettera 58, “Pan”, 7, 2018, 59-78. LINK
• Cattaneo, Gianmario, In margine a una recente edizione degli opuscoli di Giuliano Imperatore, “Medioevo Greco”, 18, 2018, 285-297. LINK
• Torre, Chiara, Le ‘altre’ consolationes di Seneca: le epistole 63, 93, 99, “Pan”, 7, 2018, 79-93. LINK

[Last updated on January 4th, 2019.]

AsiAnA is an international journal of ancient Near Eastern studies founded and edited by scholars of different disciplines and approaches (philology, linguistics, history, archaeology), and cooperating in common researches and field projects based on an interdisciplinary perspective.

Laura Albiero et Isabelle Draelants (dir.), Sciences du quadrivium au Mont-Cassin : regards croisés sur le manuscrit 318, Turnhout, 2018.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Bibliologia, 51
494 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-57828-6
95 €

Le célèbre codex 318 de l'Archivio dell'Abbazia du Mont-Cassin est un recueil de traités musicaux copiés d'une main bénéventaine dans le troisième quart du XIe siècle.
Le volume rassemble des études sur tous les aspects du manuscrit, ainsi que des éditions critiques de parties du texte (les deux tonaires, les gloses, les citations de Martianus Capella et Isidore de Séville, une mappemonde et le texte qui l'accompagne, un chapitre du "Liber Nemroth" sur les eaux et les abysses, etc). Une attention particulière est portée à l'organisation matérielle du codex et au "projet éditorial", aux arguments en faveur d'une attribution cassinienne, au compilateur, à l'auteur et au scribe, à l'origine et aux sources des textes rassemblés, à la portée chronologique des contenus, aux doctrines qu'ils véhiculent et à la caractérisation du contexte culturel et intellectuel de la production du codex. L'attention est mise également sur sa place dans la tradition textuelle, en examinant l'histoire des collections de livres dans lesquelles il est inclus (M. Dell'Omo), ses caractéristiques matérielles (L. Albiero) et les gloses lexicographiques qui couvrent son texte (A. Grondeux). Son rôle dans l'histoire du Quadrivium est bien illustré par l'examen des chapitres cosmologiques (I. Draelants) et des extraits de Martianus Capella, Cassiodore et Isidore de Séville (J. B. Guillaumin). Les traités de théorie musicale, y compris les œuvres de Guido d'Arezzo (A. Rusconi), sont caractérisés par rapport à la production régionale italienne et européenne (C. Meyer). Les pièces distinctives contenues dans les deux tonaires, comme les chants de la messe (A. Planchart, L. Nardini) et les incipits des hymnes (B. Vergine) font l'objet de contributions spéciales, tout comme l'étude de la notation neumatique (M. Peattie).

Source : Brepols