Mouseion (Journal)
A journal of the Classical Association of Canada, Mouseion aims to be a distinctively comprehensive Canadian journal of Classical Studies, publishing articles and reviews in both French and English. One issue annually is normally devoted to archaeological topics, including field reports, finds analysis, and the history of art in antiquity. The other two issues welcome work in all areas of interest to scholars; this includes both traditional and innovative research in philology, history, philosophy, pedagogy, and reception studies, as well as original work in and translations into Greek and Latin.
Mouseion was founded as Échos du monde classique/ Classical News and Views (and then Classical Views) in 1957. For a history of the first four decades of the journal, please consult the Mouseion page on the AWOL website:
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This page is administered by Guy Chamberland (Department of Classical Studies, Thorneloe University at Laurentian University). He can be reached by email: [email protected], and via Twitter: @GuyChamberland
Mouseion was founded as Échos du monde classique/ Classical News and Views (and then Classical Views) in 1957. For a history of the first four decades of the journal, please consult the Mouseion page on the AWOL website:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2011/08/open-access-journal-mousaion.html
This page is administered by Guy Chamberland (Department of Classical Studies, Thorneloe University at Laurentian University). He can be reached by email: [email protected], and via Twitter: @GuyChamberland
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archaeological investigation, which includes survey, geophysical prospection, and
excavation, of the Roman villa site at San Felice. Evidence suggests that the site and
the nearby vicus site at Vagnari were part of a rather large imperial estate in the
Basentello River Valley that separated ancient Apulia from Lucania. This preliminary
report presents an interpretation of a variety of datasets that suggest that the site had
an important and prominent residential function until it became an imperial estate,
likely sometime in the early Julio-Claudian period, after which there appears to have
been an increase in productive activities within the structure. The architectural
remains, artefactual assemblage, and environmental evidence collected reveal the
local and regional connections and significance of this villa and the estate to which
it belonged.
Pour une huitième année consécutive, le directeur a profité de l’opportunité qui lui était faite de publier une version abrégée du rapport présenté au Congrès public annuel de l’Institut canadien en Grèce, afin de rendre accessibles, spécialement pour le public canadien, les travaux archéologiques menés sous les auspices de l’Institut en 2009. Les nombreuses activités de recherche de l’Institut incluent un chantier de fouilles (Kastro Kallithéa), un relevé pédestre (Karpathos et la Boétie orientale), un relevé géophysique et géomorphologique sous-marin (Kalamianos) et des saisons de fouilles (Argilos, Ayia Sotira et l’Eubée du sud).
Authors: Myles McCallum, Hans vanderLeest, Robyn Veal, Anthony Taylor, Liam Cooney, Lisa Brown, and Matthew Munro.
archaeological investigation, which includes survey, geophysical prospection, and
excavation, of the Roman villa site at San Felice. Evidence suggests that the site and
the nearby vicus site at Vagnari were part of a rather large imperial estate in the
Basentello River Valley that separated ancient Apulia from Lucania. This preliminary
report presents an interpretation of a variety of datasets that suggest that the site had
an important and prominent residential function until it became an imperial estate,
likely sometime in the early Julio-Claudian period, after which there appears to have
been an increase in productive activities within the structure. The architectural
remains, artefactual assemblage, and environmental evidence collected reveal the
local and regional connections and significance of this villa and the estate to which
it belonged.
Pour une huitième année consécutive, le directeur a profité de l’opportunité qui lui était faite de publier une version abrégée du rapport présenté au Congrès public annuel de l’Institut canadien en Grèce, afin de rendre accessibles, spécialement pour le public canadien, les travaux archéologiques menés sous les auspices de l’Institut en 2009. Les nombreuses activités de recherche de l’Institut incluent un chantier de fouilles (Kastro Kallithéa), un relevé pédestre (Karpathos et la Boétie orientale), un relevé géophysique et géomorphologique sous-marin (Kalamianos) et des saisons de fouilles (Argilos, Ayia Sotira et l’Eubée du sud).
Authors: Myles McCallum, Hans vanderLeest, Robyn Veal, Anthony Taylor, Liam Cooney, Lisa Brown, and Matthew Munro.
Chapter 1 on “New Media (and Old)” (7–27) falls outside the main body of the work divided into five parts. James J. O’Donnell provides thoughtful observations on the impact of the new media on our discipline (and one should be mindful of the fact that the printed book was at its inception a new medium with its critics). My discussion of the following 54 chapters is necessarily selective. I mostly focus on contributions which allow a compare-and-contrast approach. In this way I hope to bring out the strengths of this Handbook , but also some of its shortcomings.
Part I is about “Tools” and includes 11 contributions: Transmission and Textual Criticism (Mario De Nonno, 31–48); Iconography (Charles Brian Rose, 49–76); Linguistics (Joshua T. Katz, 77–92); Archaeology (Henry Hurst, 93–106); Epigraphy (John Bodel, 107–122); Papyrology (Roger S. Bagnall, 123–134); Numismatics (William E. Metcalf, 135–145); Prosopography (Werner Eck, 146–159); Metre (Llewelyn Morgan, 160–175); Literary Criticism (Joseph Farrell, 176–187); and Translation (Susanna Braund, 188–200).
Many contributors in this part are clearly aware of the objectives of this Handbook , such as Morgan and Farrell, whose chapters are exemplary. Others are not so successful, but De Nonno’s contribution is, in my view, simply unreadable—and at all levels: subject matter, organization, grammar and style. The author seems to assume that the intended readership will be unfamiliar with the procedure of recensio, yet does not explain it (32). Every page is riddled with minutiae, such as the fact that one of the “ancient editions” (?) of Terence “is attested to in a priceless late-antique codex held by the Vatican Library and [scil . previously] owned by one of the leading intellectuals of the sixteenth century, the Italian Pietro Bembo” (36). The translation from De Nonno’s original Italian also needed better copyediting before appearing in print, but this would have in no way rescued the chapter.
It is perhaps not surprising that Hurst’s Roman society is much less literate than Bodel’s and Bagnall’s. Hopefully the juxtaposition of their chapters on archaeology, epigraphy, and papyrology will encourage more cooperation across disciplines in the study of ancient literacy. It is, however, quite baffling that a fine scholar such as Bodel believes the famous dedication of the Pantheon to go back to the 20s bc and Agrippa himself (107). There is virtually no doubt that the carving and probably even the text are Hadrianic.
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As is clear from the Introduction (1-26), Tarnopolsky situates her understanding of shame in Plato's Gorgias firmly in the middle of a larger framework of current discussion of shame in democratic life and politics - an approach which she recognizes will "strike some readers as odd" (9). And it would be a challenging project from the outset, if for no other reason than because the Gorgias has traditionally been read as Platoâs personal, blazing criticism of Athenian democracy. Nevertheless, Tarnopolsky is convinced that "their [Socrates' and Plato's] concerns about the corrupt forms of ... democratic ideals actually do have very direct relevance for our own current political situation" (15). [...]
In this book Pittenger offers two interdependent studies of the Roman triumph, examining triumphs and their representation in the AVC. The first part of the book consists of six chapters, which explore different aspects of triumph debates; the second part comprises eight case studies of triumph narratives in AVC 21-45. The second part clearly advances the discussion from J. E. Phillips' 1974 article, "Form and Language in Livy's Triumph Notices". The first chapter delineates the roles of the Senate and assemblies in granting triumphs, and the role of the general requesting one (25-53). To be sure, Pittenger does not --and cannot-- explore the triumph in the same detail as Mary Beard in her The Roman Triumph, which, Pittenger notes, appeared too late to be taken in account in this book. Pittenger's interest lies in the debate concerning a triumph request, not the triumph itself, which is Beard's primary focus. This book therefore should be seen as complementing, not competing with, Beard. [...]"
He has not always piqued scholarly interest, as Osgood shows in the preliminary chapter of this engaging and enlightening study. Mommsen reflected the essentially Suetonian view that Claudius' reign was of little importance and that he himself was hardly to be taken seriously. This attitude was not seriously challenged until 1924, when Harold Idris Bell published the papyrus copy of Claudius' famous Letter to the Alexandrians, which laid down the rules of conduct he expected between Greeks and Jews in the city. He emerges from this document as an engaged and strong-willed, even statesmanlike, ruler, an impression confirmed by Momigliano in 1932 in his landmark L'opera dell' imperatore Claudio (published in English as Claudius, The Emperor and his Achievement), which presented a determined emperor facing the insoluble dilemma of a system that embraced the spirit of the Roman republic but which was for practical purposes a monarchy. [...]
"Ancient Greek warfare has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past decade. Scholars like Peter Krentz, Hans van Wees, Louis Rawlings, John Lendon and Adrian Goldsworthy are all leading a new generation of thinking about ancient Greek fighting systems and reforging the ways we think about war in the Greek world. Before them, like him or not, Victor Davis Hanson set in motion many of the current great debates about the mechanics of hoplite warfare and its relationship to Greek society. Now Adam Schwartz draws fuel and argument from these and others and sets out to establish a new understanding of the hoplite and hoplite warfare."
Quite confusing, however, is the publisher's claim that the text "will also serve as a useful reference for more advanced students and scholars." It is difficult to see how a non-referenced book that ends with a (briefly commented) reading list of 20 English titles (275-277) and an all too short and lacunose index (281-283) could achieve such an aim. This is not to say that scholars may not profit from reading this book. It may indeed be very helpful for those who look for some inspiration for their teaching, or for specialists of the neighbouring disciplines who would like to refresh their memory not of any particular detail, but rather of a more general picture of Roman legal matters. [...]
"What rituals were performed at the Roman wedding? Who took part in the ceremony? How did the conjugal couple dress? The answers that handbooks or general reference works provide to these questions are based, more often than not, on late 19 th and early 20 th-century inter-pretations. Karen Hersch challenges these conventional interpretations and poses additional thought provoking questions about the ritual components of the Roman wedding.
"Imperial Mines and Quarries in the Roman World is a revised version of Hirt's DPhil thesis, submitted to the University of Oxford in 2004. Hirt sets out to close some significant gaps in our understanding of the administration and organization of mines and quarries in imperial Rome. The task is daunting, as it strives to reveal the humans who directed the extraction and transport of metal and marble, their tasks, backgrounds, and hierarchies and to place them into the overall framework of imperial administration. The work deals, therefore, less with economics in the modern sense of the word but is rather a study of business administration in two specific branches of ancient Roman technology.
--A.F. Garvie, The Plays of Aeschylus (Bristol Classical Press 2010)
--R. Mitchell-Boyask, Aeschylus: Eumenides (Duckworth 2009)
--A. Kelly, Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (Duckworth 2009)
--E. Hall, Greek Tragedy: Suffering under the Sun (Oxford U Press 2010)"
--David Saunders, "Warriors’ Injuries on Red-Figure Vases";
--Victoria Pagán, "Forestalling Violence in Sallust and Vergil";
--Eric Dodson-Robinson, "Rending Others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca’s Thyestes".
It also includes a review article by George Kovacs, "Introducing Greek Tragedy", and 9 reviews."
→K.S. Christakis. Cretan Bronze Age Pithoi: Traditions and Trends in the Production and Consumption of Storage Containers in Bronze Age Crete;
→------. The Politics of Storage: Storage and Sociopolitical Complexity in Neopalatial Crete;
→Th. Kiely, ed. Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum. Essays in honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown;
→M. Trümper. Graeco-Roman Slave Markets: Fact or Fiction?
→M. Scott. Delphi and Olympia: The Spatial Politics of Panhellenism in the Archaic and Classical Periods;
→L.S. Nasrallah. Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church amid the Space of Empire;
→David Mattingly. Imperialism, Power and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire;
→W.V. Harris. Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity;
→W. Heckel & L.A. Tritle, Eds. Alexander the Great: A New History;
→J. Grethlein. The Greeks and their Past: Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE."
→Statius (Loeb Classical Library)
→A.-F. Christidis ed., "A History of Ancient Greek, from the beginnings to Late Antiquity"
→K.H. Kinzl ed., "A Companion to the Classical Greek World"
→D. Shanske, "Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History"
→P. Roche transl., "Aristophanes. The Complete Plays"
→D. Collins, "Magic in the Ancient Greek World"
→J. Warren, "Presocratics: Natural Philosophers before Socrates"
→S.P. Mattern, "Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing"
→D.G. Kyle, "Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World"
→M. Golden, "Greek Sports and Social Status"
→G.P. Schaus & S.R. Wenn eds., "Onwards to the Olympics. Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games"
→Ph.J. Smith, "The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Hellenistic and Roman Megaris, Greece" (BAR International Series)
You may also want to check issues 9.2 and 10.2 if you work in the field of archaeology!
→ M. Finkelberg, "Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition" (R. Bertolín Cebrián)
→ Bruce Louden, "The Iliad. Structure, Myth, and Meaning" (J. Burgess)
→ Justina Gregory, "A Companion to Greek Tragedy" (C.W. Marshall)
→ David Kovacs, "Euripidea Tertia" (M. Cropp)
→ Pierre Frölich, "Les cités grecques et le contrôle des magistrats (IVe–Ier siècle avant J.-C.)" (G. Thériault)
→ Joseph Roisman, "The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens" (V. Hunter)
→ Jason König, "Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire" (N.B. Crowther)
→ P.J. Heslin, "The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid (R. Nagel)
→ Jaclyn L. Maxwell, "Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch (D. Buck)
→ Werner Krenkel, "Naturalia non turpia. Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece and Rome." Schriften zur antiken Kultur- und Sexualwissenschaft (J. Jope)