Books by Shane Wallace
Classics Ireland 27, 2020
Classics Ireland is the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland (http://www.classicalasso... more Classics Ireland is the journal of the Classical Association of Ireland (http://www.classicalassociation.ie) It seeks to present the best of Irish and international scholarship on the ancient world and its reception throughout the ages, with a particular though not exclusive focus on its influence and reception in the Celtic world. Notes for Contributors Contributions are welcome on all aspects of the language, history, archaeology, and literature of Greek and Roman antiquity, especially if there is an Irish dimension. Contributions should be scholarly, but not technical. All Greek and Latin must be translated. Minimal footnotes are preferred. Articles should not normally exceed 5,000 words and will be independently refereed before formal acceptance for publication. Copyright remains with the author.
Journal Volumes Edited/Published by Shane Wallace
Classics Ireland, 2019
Contents for Classics Ireland volume 26 (2019)
Classics Ireland 25 (2018), 2018
Classics Ireland 23-24 (2016-2017), 2016
Classics Ireland 21-22 (2014-2015), 2015
Articles and Book Chapters by Shane Wallace
Ancient History Bulletin, 2022
The recent publication of a decree from Rhamnous (I.Rhamnous 404) sheds new light on the Athenian... more The recent publication of a decree from Rhamnous (I.Rhamnous 404) sheds new light on the Athenian revolt against the occupying forces of Demetrios Poliorketes and the expulsion of the king's garrison from the Mouseion Hill, an action that is usually dated to 287. The decree honors Aristeides of Lamptrai for his distinguished record in the period between the capture of the Mouseion, when he held the office of general epi ten paraskeuen, and his generalship of the coast at Rhamnous in the year of Menekles (267/6) when the decree was passed. Since we know from another source that Aristeides held a generalship in the archonship of Telokles (280/79), the decree has been cited as evidence that the expulsion of Demetrios' garrison should be downdated to Telokles' year. But I.Rhamnous 404 also credits Aristeides' brother Mnesidemos for his role in the capture of the Mouseion, and a richly detailed stratagem recorded by Polyainos demonstrates that Mnesidemos was killed in a botched attempt to evict another Macedonian garrison from Piraeus in 286. Thus, the decree for Aristeides confirms the traditional dating for the capture of the Mouseion and helps elucidate the other sources that document the Athenian revolt from Demetrios.
K. Trampedach and A. Meeus (eds.), The Legitimation of Conquest (Stuttgart), 2020
Hermathena, 2021
It is with much pleasure, and a dash of apologia, that I offer Brian McGing a paper on one of his... more It is with much pleasure, and a dash of apologia, that I offer Brian McGing a paper on one of his great dislikes, Alexander the Great. This paper examines the evidence for Greek awareness of Alexander's campaigns and conquests during the 330s and 320s, tracing in particular the means by which information moved east-west during Alexander's reign and the messages communicated by Alexander's court. Focus is placed on the movement of people, spoils of war, the importance of literary and cultural links, as well as personal political connections.
Meeus, A. (ed.), Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography, Histos Supplement 8, 2018
This chapter examines the issue of implied motivation in Diodorus’ narrative of the Successors, B... more This chapter examines the issue of implied motivation in Diodorus’ narrative of the Successors, Bibliotheke Books XVIII–XX. It focuses on the depiction of three individuals, Peukestas, Peithon, and Polyperchon, and argues that Diodorus preserves evidence of a sophisticated and layered narrative that combined historical narrative with a critical dissection of individuals’ thoughts and motives. The use of embedded focalisation within the text reveals an interest in a hermeneutic approach to history which, while likely not Diodorus’ own, was preserved by him because it fit the moral-didactic programme of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke.
Kenneth Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great (Leiden, 2018), 2018
Canevaro & Gray (eds.), The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought (Oxford, 2018), 2018
A. Erskine, L. Llewellyn-Jones, & S. Wallace (eds.), The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales), 2017
Phoenix 68 (2014), 235-46
The chronology of the years 323-311 has long been the subject of heated scholarly debate. 1 Tradi... more The chronology of the years 323-311 has long been the subject of heated scholarly debate. 1 Traditionally scholars have supported either the "High" chronology of Julius Beloch, 2 which dates the death of Perdikkas to 321, the Battle of Gabiene to winter 317/6, and the Battle of Gaza to spring 312, or the "Low" chronology of Eugenio Manni, which down-dates these events to 320, winter 316/5, and autumn 312. 3 Recently, however, both Panico Stylianou and Tom Boiy have argued for a "Mixed" chronology which follows the "Low" chronology for the events of 323-320 and the "High" chronology for 319-311, excluding the Battle of Gaza in autumn 312. 4 This "Mixed" chronology has started to find favour, 5 but as both Stylianou's and Boiy's chronologies differ slightly regarding the Third Diadoch War of 315-311, the dating of Polemaios' campaigns in Greece and Telesphoros' revolt are still debated. Proponents of the "High" chronology date Polemaios' campaigns in Greece to summer/autumn 313 and Telesphoros' revolt to spring/summer 312, 6 while proponents of the "Low" chronology date Polemaios' campaigns variously to spring, summer, or autumn 312 and Telesphoros' revolt to late 312 (Hauben) or early 311 (Errington, Billows, and Anson). 7 In a recent article, however, Alexander Meeus has offered a solution to the problem of the dating of the Third Diadoch War. 8 Expanding on the earlier argument of Leonard Smith and Hans Hauben, Meeus argues that Diodorus had difficulty synchronising the Athenian archon years, which he used as his major chronological marker, with the summer-winter campaigning seasons employed by his source for Books 18-20. In order to mitigate the increasing chronological confusion in his narrative, Diodorus simply equated
Hauben & Meeus (eds.), The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323-276 B.C.), 2014
This article looks in detail at the two Athenian honorary decrees for Euphron of Sikyon (IG II2 4... more This article looks in detail at the two Athenian honorary decrees for Euphron of Sikyon (IG II2 448). It attempts to place them in the political and ideological context of their time, the years 323–17. Since the first decree was passed in late 323, at the height of the Hellenic War, and the second in late 318, during the power struggle between Polyperchon and Kassandros, I analyse the ways in which the Hellenic War was viewed by the restored democracy of 318/7. I argue that in the honours voted Euphron in 318 the democracy re-interpreted the goals and meaning of the Hellenic War to suit its own needs at that time. This was conditioned by the promises of freedom and democracy brought by Polyperchon and the oligarchic threat posed by Kassandros’ garrison in Peiraieus. I suggest that Athens wished to present herself as the leader of the Greeks in the war against Kassandros at a time when Polyperchon’s leadership was failing, and that to do so she used the memory of the Hellenic War to assume in 318/7 the hegemony she held in 323/2.
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Books by Shane Wallace
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Articles and Book Chapters by Shane Wallace
Large sections of the charter of the ‘Hellenic League’ are preserved from Epidauros (Staatsverträge 446), while three inscriptions detail Adeimantos’ actions as League proedros: two decrees from Athens (Agora XVI 122) and Eretria (Knoepfler Décrets érétriens num.XIII), and from Delphi a letter from Adeimantos to Demetrios (CID IV 11). When analysed together, these epigraphic testimonia present a detailed description of the functions of a League proedros and Adeimantos’ specific fulfilment of them. A new interpretation of the Delphic Letter is offered, one that emphasises Adeimantos’ role liaising between city, League, and king and provides new insights into the dualities of his position as philos and proedros.
Compared with other Hellenistic philoi, the evidence for Adeimantos is abundant and contemporary; later literary references also survive (Athenaios 6.253a, 255c; Diogenes Laertios 5.57; Strabo 13.1.19). His career, therefore, offers a unique example of the functions and responsibilities of an early Hellenistic philos. His example is used as a specific case-study for the wider integration of the royal philos into civic structures seen throughout the early Hellenistic Period."
I am concerned throughout with tracing the physicality of remembrance. That is, the ways in which the addition or alteration of monuments exemplifies the shifting balance of memory, at once emphasising a Macedonian appropriation and later an Athenian one. Monuments such as the honorary decree for Glaukon, erected by the altar of Zeus Eleutherios and Homonoia, were integrated into a physical landscape that commemorated the Persian Wars and conveyed complicated and inter-reacting ideologies.
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