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Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC) 39/2 (2024)

Contents (abstracts below)

CHAO, XUETING / DONG, XIAOBO: 13 Ur III Cuneiform Texts in National Museums Scotland (127-153)

ZHAO, DAN: Emperors of Peace and War: A Comparative Analysis of the Res Gestae of Augustus and the Stelae Inscriptions of Qin Shi Huangdi (155-189)

LAFLI, ERGÜN / BUORA, MAURIZIO / HENIG, MARTIN: A Glass Phalera from Ankara (191-204)

WANG, ZHAOYU: When Did Chinese Silk Reach Rome? (205-247)

FORUM: HOW CLASSICS WAS AND IS SHAPED BY SCHOLARS

WALTER, UWE: Review of Welte, J. 2023. Helmut Berve und die Alte Geschichte. Eine deutsche Biographie. Basel: Schwabe-Verlag (249-256)

Abstracts

Xueting CHAO / Xiaobo DONG (IHAC, NENU, Changchun)

13 UR III CUNEIFORM TEXTS IN NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND (pp. 127–153)

doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.04.015

The thirteen cuneiform texts presented in this study are currently housed in the collection of National Museums Scotland. This article provides an edition of thirteen Neo-Sumerian administrative tablets from Puzriš-Dagān (modern Drehem), which was one of the most important royal tribute centers then and primarily concerned with the administrative and economic affairs of the central authority.

Keywords: cuneiform – Ur III period – Puzriš-Dagān – National Museums Scotland

Dan ZHAO (University of Cambridge)

EMPERORS OF PEACE AND WAR: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RES GESTAE OF AUGUSTUS AND THE STELAE INSCRIPTIONS OF QIN SHI HUANGDI (pp. 155–189)

doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.04.016

This paper comparatively examines the Res Gestae of Augustus (r. 27 BC – AD 14) and the stelae inscriptions of Qin Shi Huangdi (r. 221–210 BC), the first emperors of Rome and China respectively. It shows how the two emperors justified and consolidated their regimes by unifying the two antithetical themes of war and peace in their propagandistic self-portrayals. It argues that both emperors, due to the socio-political pressure of their milieus, depicted themselves predominantly as guardians of a peace that was constantly under threat by impious and immoral outside forces, against which only the emperors themselves could be victorious and sustain this new peace.

Keywords: Augustus – Qin Shi Huangdi – Res Gestae – propaganda – war – peace

Ergün LAFLI / Maurizio BUORA / Martin HENIG (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Izmir / Società Friulana di Archeologia, Udine / University of Oxford)

A GLASS PHALERA FROM ANKARA (pp. 191–204)

doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.04.017

The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara in Turkey exhibits a glass paste phalera, which seems so far to have largely escaped scholarly attention, being illustrated only in 1990 and given a brief mention in 2017. It is circular with smooth edges which depicts a bust probably of Emperor Claudius with his three children. This glass phalera stands out among the numerous militaria in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, which so far has not found adequate treatment. Typologically, it fits without difficulty into a series produced in the year AD 43 or shortly after that date.

Keywords: phalera – glass – Claudius – first century AD – Ankara, Turkey – Roman glyptics – Roman archaeology

Zhaoyu WANG (School of History and Culture, South China Normal University)

WHEN DID CHINESE SILK REACH ROME? (pp. 205–247)

doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.04.018

The silk commerce comprises a significant section of the classical economy, yet its initial nature and process along the various trade routes remain largely unexplored. Therefore, this paper endeavors to delineate the primary stage of long-distance silk trade, with the objective of revealing a vital interconnection between the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasties at opposite ends of the known world from a mercantile perspective. Starting from the discussion of the relation between the ethnic designation Seres and its alternative meaning of silk, this paper identifies the earliest references to silk in Greco-Roman literature. Subsequently, it demonstrates the evolution and dynamic transformations from the primary northern steppe silk routes to a southern maritime horizon. In addition to the fundamental Greek and Latin sources that offer insight into the condition of the silk trade in its western terminus, records in the Hanshu and the Houhanshu describe the eastern leg. 

Keywords: Seres – silk trade – Roman Empire – Han Dynasties – Hanshu – Juyan bamboo slips

FORUM: HOW CLASSICS WAS AND IS SHAPED BY SCHOLARS

The review of a recently published study on the controversial ancient historian Helmut Berve by Uwe Walter sheds light on what shaped, and also directed, the development of Classics in the 20th century and, arguably, beyond.

Uwe Walter: Review of Welte, J. 2023. Helmut Berve und die Alte Geschichte. Eine deutsche Biographie. Antike nach der Antike 3. Basel: Schwabe-Verlag; 393 pages; ISBN: 978-3-7965-4850-5; € 70.00. (pp. 249–256)

doi: 10.16758/j.cnki.1004-9371.2024.04.019

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Fake News in Ancient Greece: Why Does It Matter?
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Ancient Philosophical Discussions on Truth, Falsehood, Opinion, and ‘Half-Truths’

The Seventh Division of Plato’s Sophist as a Guide to Understanding the Nature of Fake News
Benedikt Strobel   27
   
Alethes Logos and Eikos Mythos: Thoughts on Plato’s Distinction in the Timaeus     47  
Diego De Brasi  

Lies as pharmaka in Plato’s Political Philosophy  
Pia De Simone    65    

Fake News in Ancient Greek Fictional Texts    

Fake News in Euripidean Drama
Aikaterini Koroli   81

‘Fake News’ in the Novels of Chariton and Achilles Tatius
Nikoletta Kanavou  99

Persuasion and Manipulation in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Semele
Katerina Carvounis  115

Fake News in Ancient Greek Science

Fake News and Pandemics in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Athena Bazou  131

Aristotle and Myths about Animals
Oliver Hellmann  149

Fake News in Paradoxography of Imperial Times: The Case of Phlegon’s Book of Marvels
Marianna Thoma  169

Fake News in Ancient Greek Historiography

Fake News from the Eastern Front: Herodotus and the Trojan War
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Fake News and Misinformation During War or Civil Conflict: Some Case Studies from Greek Historiography
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‘Fake News’ as a Moralising Context: Rumours, Slanders and the Unmaking of a Political Career in Plutarch’s Kimon
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Forged Letters in Greek and Roman History and Historiography: Fake News as Stratagem
Frank Daubner  241

Marcus Aurelius is Dead: Reflections on False News and on the Usurpation of Avidius Cassius
Patrick Reinard  251

#notmyemperor: Theodosios (III), the Son of Maurice, and a Heraclian Disinformation Effort
Christian Rollinger  269

Ancient Greek Fake News and its Socio-Political Implications

Fake News in the Public Discourse of Fourth- Century Athens
Rosalia Hatzilambrou  305

As in a Game of Minesweeper: Fakeness, Imprecision, and Truth about the Body in Attic Oratory
Andreas Serafim  321

ʻFake Newsʼ in Documentary Papyri from the Greco-Roman Period of Egypt: The Case of Calumny
Spyridoula Bounta  343

Condemnation of Memory in the Greek Documentary Papyri: State-Sponsored Distribution of “Fake News”
Amphilochios Papathomas  353

Fake News in Libanius’ Imperial Speeches: The Battle at Singara
Grammatiki Karla  373

Fake News as a Literary Topos: The Case of Biblical and Hagiographical Texts
Anastasia Petropoulou  389

Index  401

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Travelling Matters across the Mediterranean: Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects (10th–20th centuries), eds. Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste (Brepols, November 2024)

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In the last two decades, objects have become increasingly relevant to historical studies as the primary focus of research discussing cross-cultural relations. Objects are produced, used, modified, preserved, and destroyed according to historically specific political and cultural settings, thus providing researchers with information and insights about their original background. However, they can also throw light on a large array of cross-cultural encounters when their mobility is put to the fore. Objects can move by being bought, gifted, bartered, and sold, borrowed or stolen, collected and dispersed, just as they can be modified, repaired, reshaped, repurposed, and destroyed in the process.

The Mediterranean, as a barrier and as a meeting place for different polities and communities, and as the setting of conflicted experiences of cultural, political, economic, and social transformation, easily lends itself to this kind of historical analysis. Featuring articles on Byzantine imperial silks and bronze doors from southern Italy, eastern luxuries in Istanbul and African bolsas from the Canary Islands, Arabic geographies and Hebrew religious texts travelling from shore to shore and from manuscript to the press, and the ‘dead’ bodies of holy women and men, this volume intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways: focusing on the ‘second-handedness’ of displaced objects across the Mediterranean, the volume intersects different chronologies — from antiquity to the present-day — and varying scales, from the individual objects to the much larger one of the histories of their reinterpretation and repurposing.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: Rereading, Reshaping, Repurposing Objects in Motion across the Mediterranean -- Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste

(Re)using Byzantine Textiles: Adapting and Reinventing Material Identities through the Connected Mediterranean, Seventh–Twelfth Centuries -- Anna Kelley

Travelling Doors: Medieval Bronze Doors in the Mediterranean -- Judith Utz

Arabic Geography and Sixteenth-Century Cartography: Guillaume Postel and the History of Abū al-Fidāʾ’s Manuscript -- Maria Vittoria Comacchi

From Africa to the Canary Islands: The Double Lives of Objects (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries) -- Claudia Geremia

Manuscripts from Western Europe, Printer from the Land of Israel: Movement between Cultural Spaces in Hebrew Printing in the Eighteenth Century -- Oded Cohen

Dazzling Objects and Ottoman Enthusiasts: Travelling Luxuries Across the Mediterranean and Beyond -- Tülay Artan

‘A stone called pourcellaine’: Chinese Porcelain and Early Modern Natural History -- Matthew Martin

Life and Afterlife of Religious Bodies: From Organic Matters to Devotional Objects. Corpses on Display in Late Modern Italy (c. 1800–1950) -- Leonardo Rossi

The Journey of Prehistoric Remains: Re-reading the Case of Scoglio del Tonno, Taranto (1899–1950s) -- Fedra Pizzato