https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia <p><em>Danish Journal of Philology and History</em></p> Societas Danica Indagationie Antiqvitatis Et Medii Aevi en-US Classica et Mediaevalia 0106-5815 <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p> <ol> <li>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</a>&nbsp;that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li>Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see&nbsp;<a href="http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html">The Effect of Open Access</a>).</li> </ol> https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152393 <p>This article concerns a hitherto unknown 12th-century manuscript containing the <em>Historia Apostolica</em> of Arator, a 6th-century Christian poet. The codex was donated in 2018 to the Wrocław University Library, where it was given the shelf mark Akc. 2018/1. It came to the Library badly damaged and underwent conservation treatment in the Library’s Special Collections Conservation Workshop. This paper describes the physical condition of the manuscript before and after conservation, as well as presenting its content. The manuscript has not yet been cited at all in the literature on Arator, it is not included in the list of all his manuscripts, and has not been described in any catalogue. Neither its provenance nor its fate until the 19th century, when it found its way to the<br>book collection of professor Friedrich Haase from the University of Breslau, is known.</p> Michal Broda Copyright (c) 2024 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 2025-01-07 2025-01-07 74 1 16 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/152591 <p>This article investigates the cultural tendencies of the Gallic Empire (c. AD 260-274). The persistence of imperial institutions shows the Gallic emperors intended to convey an impression of continuity. Yet the numismatic record also shows the influence of a distinct cultural environment associated with the Batavian community and the Rhine army. Batavian forms of Hercules, originally developed through the transformation of the Roman Hercules to suit a local context, were elevated into Postumus’ (r. c. AD 260 to 269) imperial propaganda, confirming a long-held hypothesis in anthropology postulating a circular flow of cultural borrowing in agrarian societies between local and elite traditions.</p> Kristian Kanstrup Christensen Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 2025-01-07 2025-01-07 74 17 35 https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/156502 <p>Situated in the border area of several powerful neighbors, the polis territory of Ambrakia was exposed to numerous territorial claims from its early history onwards. A close reading of the story of the quarrel of the gods fighting over the possession of the city reveals that the passage must be understood as an illustration of those various interests in the city prior to the Roman conquest. Yet it was precisely when the domination of Greek states in the region came to an end that the Ambrakiots undertook a remarkable<br>border-management initiative including at least three boundary regulations dating to the 160s BC. This article asks for the reasons behind this initiative and emphasizes the political room for maneuver the Ambrakiots exploited after the Third Makedonian War.</p> Sebastian Scharff: Copyright (c) 2025 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 2025-04-01 2025-04-01 74 37 67