Classica et Mediaevalia

https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/issue/feed Classica et Mediaevalia 2024-12-21T18:05:47+01:00 Thomas Heine Nielsen heine@hum.ku.dk Open Journal Systems   https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152427 By way of Introduction – some Rhodian reflections from the age of the High Roman Empire 2024-12-21T17:28:27+01:00 Peter Fibiger Bang heine@hum.ku.dk

This introduction seeks to reflect on the contributions to this collection and the oeuvre of Vincent Gabrielsen through the prism of Dio Chrysostom’s speech to the Rhodians. The themes move from the moral economy of honour in the city-state, to the formation of a Greek aristocratic identity under Rome, before finally analysing the relationship between empire, taxation and the ancient economy.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152429 The economy of priestly perquisites in ancient Greek cult 2024-12-21T17:36:30+01:00 Anders Holm Rasmussen heine@hum.ku.dk

The remuneration of priestesses and priests was closely linked to the performance of rituals in ancient Greek cult. The aim of this article is twofold: Firstly, to get an overview of the priestly perquisites mentioned in inscribed cult regulations. Secondly, to try to explore the value of these perquisites. Did the perquisites received by the priestess/priest represent a firm income, or were they just a small extra with only limited economic impact on the life of these people? Following these questions the article specifically discusses the sanctuaries as suppliers of meat to society and the values of hides. The conclusion is that priestly perquisites perhaps did not make the receiver rich, but was most likely a firm income which could make the office of priestess/priest attractive. The article ends with a catalogue of all the registered perquisites.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152430 Hetaireiai: “Le degré zéro” of associations? 2024-12-21T17:40:27+01:00 Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou heine@hum.ku.dk

Aim of this contribution is to evaluate the nature of Athenian hetaireiai of the classical era on the basis of the essential criteria of private associations in Greco-Roman antiquity. This investigation demonstrates that hetaireiai display only a handful of the seven criteria and therefore should be regarded and treated not as fully-blown associations but as groups with a low degree of corporateness.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152431 The continuation of a civic obligation? The Athenian trierarchy in the late third century BCE 2024-12-21T17:44:31+01:00 Christian Ammitzbøll Thomsen heine@hum.ku.dk

While it is clear that third-century BCE Athens continued to maintain a fleet, albeit a much smaller one than in previous centuries, it is usually believed that the Athenian trierarchy had been abolished during the reign of Demetrios of Phaleron (318-308 BCE). However, an honorific decree (I.Rhamnous 31) from Rhamnous, voted for a trierarch by an association of sailors, gives evidence for the existence of a late-third-century BCE trierarchy, which preserved the basic features of its Classical predecessor. The Athenians continued to appoint trierarchs for year-long terms, expected them to serve in person and required them to pay for the maintenance of the ship in their care. The permanent assignment to the ship of a crew, which formed an association and acted as an agent of the Athenian state, represented an innovation.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152432 The perils of Rhodian chronology: The career of a notable Rhodian from Kamiros 2024-12-21T17:48:36+01:00 Stella Skaltsa heine@hum.ku.dk

As a tribute to the long and prolific career of Vincent Gabrielsen, this paper makes a small contribution to the intricacies of Rhodian chronology. By taking into consideration recent developments and advances in the field of Rhodian chronology, it proposes to further refine the chronological and historical context of the long career of Philokrates son of Philostephanos, a notable Rhodian from the Kamirian deme of Plarioi. On account of the decree passed in his honour by Kamiros sometime in the first quarter of the 2nd c. BC, Philokrates is one of the best documented Rhodians.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152433 A Hellenistic list of names in the Bodrum Museum: The Ptolemaic garrison at Halikarnassos or an errant list of proxenoi? 2024-12-21T17:51:57+01:00 Signe Isager heine@hum.ku.dk

This is the publication of a fragmentary list of men inscribed on a reused marble block now in the Bodrum Museum (inv. no. 6665; I. Halik. *291). From the letterforms a date in the first part of the 3rd century BC is suggested. Assessing the type of the inscription proves difficult. The varying letterforms, the ethnics of the men, and the syntax lead one to consider it a list of proxenoi. But, if that is correct, the text could not then originate from Halikarnassos, since it mentions one Halikarnasseus (a man who by definition could not obtain proxeny in his own city). Alternatively, the ethnics could reflect the composition of a group of mercenaries, perhaps as part of the Ptolemaic garrison stationed in Halikarnassos. The character of the fragmentary list remains open to interpretation.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152434 The structure of Ptolemaic administration in south-western Asia Minor: Caria, Caunos and Lycia 2024-12-21T17:57:27+01:00 Alain Bresson heine@hum.ku.dk

This paper addresses the question of the structure of Ptolemaic administration in south-western Asia Minor in the third century BCE. On the basis of the later command structure of Rhodes over the same regions, it demonstrates that there were not two, but three Ptolemaic stratēgoi, one being in charge of Caria, one of Caunos, and one of Lycia. The existence of a specific command over Caunos was justified by the fact that this city was separated from the rest of Caria by a curtain of Rhodian and Seleucid territories.

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152435 Onwards and upwards from HellEc I-III: A reply to our critics 2024-12-21T18:01:13+01:00 Zosia Archibald heine@hum.ku.dk John Davies heine@hum.ku.dk

This article reflects on the three volumes on Hellenistic Economies that the two authors published over more than decade together with Vincent Gabrielsen: How were they received and how do we respond and move forward?

2024-12-21T00:00:00+01:00 Copyright (c) 2024 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152436 Sparta: ancient Greece’s foremost slave state? 2024-12-21T18:05:47+01:00 Paul Cartledge heine@hum.ku.dk

I was deeply honoured to be invited to participate by delivering a paper in my dear friend Vincent’s 65th birthday symposium held at the Saxo-Institute, Copenhagen, on 30 November 2015. I first encountered our honorand on the page, as the author of important work on Athenian public finance, taxation and social relations in the Athenian democracy especially of the 4th century BCE, and was delighted to get to know him and his family well in the flesh later on during his tenure of a Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1988-89. Many thanks therefore to Peter Fibiger Bang both for co-organising the birthday symposium and for inviting me to take part in the published proceedings. For various reasons, however, including the publication of my Democracy book (2018), it did not prove possible for me to write up for this volume a version of my symposium talk, ‘Navy and Democracy/Democracy and Navy at Athens: A Democratic Life in Review’. Instead, therefore, by agreement with and indeed at the urging of Peter, I revisit here an old but still very lively scholarly battleground.