Christopher Tuplin
Biographic Data
| ID | 444698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Tuplin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuplin |
| SIGNATURE | TUPLIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and themat…
Theches
This article deals with the location of Mount Theches, the vantage point from which Xenophon’s Ten Thousand famously got their first sight of the sea after a long and arduous march across eastern Anatolia. It discusses what the written sources can and cannot tell us about this iconic spot, comments on the currently favoured identification (stressing its dependence on an assumption about the route the army followed to and from the vantage point), …
Ch. 9. Poet and Historian
Published in Ivan Matijašić, ed., Herodotus - The Most Homeric Historian? (HISTOS Supplement 14), p. 287-374
Of Darics, Staters, and Disks
This article deals with three coins. The first is the gold daric, a "monument" of Darius' royal self-presentation (if not quite an imperial currency). The second is the Athenian tetradrachm (strictly speaking the currency of someone else's empire) and its impact, perhaps in counterfeit form, at the first cataract of the Nile and in a remote oasis in the Western Desert. The third is a Cilician issue associated with Tiribazus that deserves more att…
Mercenaries
Lords of Asia Minor
Lords of Asia Minor: An Introduction to the Lydians. By Annick Payne and Jorit Wintjes. Philippika, vol. 93. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. Pp. x + 144, illus. €29 .80 (paper
Xenophon, Isocrates and the Achaemenid Empire
Among surviving fourth century Athenian authors Xenophon and Isocrates stand out as the ones interested in Persia.1 Their degree of investment differs, and by one way of reckoning that Isocrates is not actually very large across his whole surviving corpus (nor is Xenophon's uniformly spread over his output), but Persia was part of what defined the environment of late classical Athens (and Greece) and any exercise in comparing and contrasting Isoc…
Dogs That Do Not (Always) Bark
The chapter collects and discusses the historical information provided by Herodotus about Egypt between the Persian conquest and his own time. Egypt attracts more post-conquest attention than Lydia or Babylonia, but it is still very modest: it mostly comes through histoire événementielle and lacunae ; lack of system abounds, allusions can be tantalizing, misrepresentation is not absent, and some of the omissions (notably the revolt of 522 or fate…
Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 185 of nomadic tribes who dwell on the farthest end of the inhabitable world, as a people who obey nomos phusikos (the adaptation of nomos to phusis). For Provencal, the lower axis of the Scythian-Egyptian polarity provides a cross-cultural foil for Herodotus’ most complex commonality between the Greek sophists and Persians in the Histories: they both champion ideologies that favour natural justice (nomos phuseōs, akin…
Xenophon and Athens
Second Athenian Confederacy
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Xenophon's Cyropaedia tells the story of a Persian whose moral and practical education in different environments provides the military and human resource skills to defeat a tyrannous empire and win a kingdom. This chapter explains some distinctive features of Cyropaedia . First, it is an investigation of leadership. Secondly, Cyropaedia covers Cyrus’ life from cradle to grave wholly unsystematically, since most of the narrative occupies a single …
Index of Names
Thematic Index
Preliminary Material
Xenophon
CONTENTS Preface ... iv Abbreviations... v Introduction... 1 Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin 1. 'Staying up late'. Plutarch's reading of Xenophon ...30 Philip Stadter 2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ...45 Noreen Humble 3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque ...72 Tim Rood 4. Strauss's Xenophon...99 David Johnson 5. Defending demokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of th…
Continuous Histories ( Hellenica )
Our ability to provide a continuous account of the political and military history of Greece – to achieve something that would not be possible if we only had archaeological, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence – depends upon direct or indirect access to the ancient authors who told parts of that story. The output of those authors (mostly only fragmentarily preserved) put on record memorable events from the past in various different ways in terms o…
Persian Responses
Sabine Anselm
Sabine Anselm: Struktur und Transparenz. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse der Feldherrnviten des Cornelius Nepos. Stuttgart: Steiner 2004. 204 S. (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben. 11.)
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Foreword 1. Introduction: Greek Science in context 2. Words for sounds 3. Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science 4. Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity 5. The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy 6. Euctemon's parapegma 7. Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings 8. The Dioptra of Heron of Alexandria 9. The machine and the city: hero of Alexandria's Belopoecia 10. Ancient …
Pontus and the Outside World
This volume presents ten papers on the Greek and non-Greek world of the Black Sea in the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Five papers broach literary and historical topics. Four investigate material in Greek writers (Alcman, Aristeas of Proconnesus, Herodotus and Lucian) connected with Scythia and the North, while the fifth deals with the Bosporan Kingdom. Mediterranean Greek contact with, and reception of, the Pontic world play…
Spartan Society
Xenophon and His World
Often depicted as an amateur who practised many trades badly, Xenophon is increasingly seen by a new generation of scholars as an important and distinctive voice on the history, society and thought-world of the later classical and pre-hellenistic era. The 24 papers published here originate from a ground-breaking Liverpool conference held to celebrate and build upon this transformation. Aus dem Inhalt E. Badian: Xenophon the Athenian M. Dreher: De…
Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture
The Past as Text
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Xenophon
CONTENTS Preface ... iv Abbreviations... v Introduction... 1 Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin 1. 'Staying up late'. Plutarch's reading of Xenophon ...30 Philip Stadter 2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ...45 Noreen Humble 3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque ...72 Tim Rood 4. Strauss's Xenophon...99 David Johnson 5. Defending demokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of th…
Catullus 68
Catullus 68 has for generations been the site of hard-fought and inconclusive philological battles. This, it may be confidently predicted, will continue to be the case. The present contribution, therefore, can pretend to no more elaborate aim than the opening up of certain new fronts. It falls into two parts of unequal length: first (I) some general observations on the contents of the poem — or poems, for the Einheitsfrage cannot be evaded — and …
Pausanias and Plutarch's Epaminondas
The view that Pausanias 9. 13. 1–15. 6 is a simple epitome of Plutarch's lost Epaminondas , first advanced by Wilamowitz in 1874 and later elaborated by Wilamowitz himself and by Ludwig Peper, has commonly been accepted, with little or no further discussion, by students of Plutarch, Pausanias and fourth-century history. In a recent general reaffirmation of the thesis John Buckler does note that what Pausanias says about Mantinea is hard to square…
The Date of the Union of Corinth and Argos
Granted the acceptability of the argument in section B the only clear contradiction in the evidence about the union of Corinth and Argos is that between Xenophon and Diodorus. What I have said about the latter may seem arbitrary and wilful. But I suggest that it is no less arbitrary and wilful to regard Xenophon's account of the matter as utterly wrong or, worse still, almost utterly wrong but with tinges of truth, and that we are quite entitled …
Two Proper Names in the text of Diodorus, Book 15
Both patently incorrect readings and long-established emendations have a habit of retaining their places in texts of ancient authors with few or no questions asked. This paper considers two examples of this phenomenon (one of each type) in Book 15 of Diodorus' Bibliotheke
The Past as Text
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Second Athenian Confederacy
Cantores Euphorionis again
Why cantoribus ? The reference of the phrase cantores Euphorionis has been much discussed, by the author of this note among others. But what is the sense of cantores ? The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae , Lewis and Short, and the Oxford Latin Dictionary variously classify Tusc . 3.45 as an instance of cantor in the special sense of ‘supporter’, ‘imitator’, or ‘eulogist’. Recently, however, W. Allen suggested that this may be to read too much into the …
Sabine Anselm
Sabine Anselm: Struktur und Transparenz. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse der Feldherrnviten des Cornelius Nepos. Stuttgart: Steiner 2004. 204 S. (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben. 11.)
Thucydides 1.42.2 and the Megarian Decree
Is there or is there not a reference here to the Megarian Decree? Opinions have differed and no doubt will continue to do so. However, considerable authority has recently been thrown behind the proposition that the matter can be decided on purely linguistic grounds, that merely as a matter of use of Greek the passage cannot contain a reference to the Megarian Decree. This seems, on investigation, to be false, and since confusion appears to persis…
Two Proper Names in the text of Diodorus, Book 15
Both patently incorrect readings and long-established emendations have a habit of retaining their places in texts of ancient authors with few or no questions asked. This paper considers two examples of this phenomenon (one of each type) in Book 15 of Diodorus' Bibliotheke
Cantores Euphorionis again
Why cantoribus ? The reference of the phrase cantores Euphorionis has been much discussed, by the author of this note among others. But what is the sense of cantores ? The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae , Lewis and Short, and the Oxford Latin Dictionary variously classify Tusc . 3.45 as an instance of cantor in the special sense of ‘supporter’, ‘imitator’, or ‘eulogist’. Recently, however, W. Allen suggested that this may be to read too much into the …
Some Emendations to the Family Tree of Isokrates
There is no hint in either work that any of the information contained in this reconstruction of family relationships might be open to serious question. It is the purpose of this note to suggest that this is none the less the case. The problem concerns the supposed wives and children of Isokratesü adoptive son Aphareus. The information presented on this subject depends on two passages of the pseudo-Plutarchan Vitae Decem Oratorum . The first (838B…
Catullus 68
Catullus 68 has for generations been the site of hard-fought and inconclusive philological battles. This, it may be confidently predicted, will continue to be the case. The present contribution, therefore, can pretend to no more elaborate aim than the opening up of certain new fronts. It falls into two parts of unequal length: first (I) some general observations on the contents of the poem — or poems, for the Einheitsfrage cannot be evaded — and …
The Date of the Union of Corinth and Argos
Granted the acceptability of the argument in section B the only clear contradiction in the evidence about the union of Corinth and Argos is that between Xenophon and Diodorus. What I have said about the latter may seem arbitrary and wilful. But I suggest that it is no less arbitrary and wilful to regard Xenophon's account of the matter as utterly wrong or, worse still, almost utterly wrong but with tinges of truth, and that we are quite entitled …
Pausanias and Plutarch's Epaminondas
The view that Pausanias 9. 13. 1–15. 6 is a simple epitome of Plutarch's lost Epaminondas , first advanced by Wilamowitz in 1874 and later elaborated by Wilamowitz himself and by Ludwig Peper, has commonly been accepted, with little or no further discussion, by students of Plutarch, Pausanias and fourth-century history. In a recent general reaffirmation of the thesis John Buckler does note that what Pausanias says about Mantinea is hard to square…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access CHRISTOPHER TUPLIN CHRISTOPHER TUPLIN University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue 423, April 1992, Pages 422–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.423.422 Published: 01 April 1992
The Past as Text
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Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture
Pontus and the Outside World
This volume presents ten papers on the Greek and non-Greek world of the Black Sea in the archaic, classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Five papers broach literary and historical topics. Four investigate material in Greek writers (Alcman, Aristeas of Proconnesus, Herodotus and Lucian) connected with Scythia and the North, while the fifth deals with the Bosporan Kingdom. Mediterranean Greek contact with, and reception of, the Pontic world play…
Spartan Society
Xenophon and His World
Often depicted as an amateur who practised many trades badly, Xenophon is increasingly seen by a new generation of scholars as an important and distinctive voice on the history, society and thought-world of the later classical and pre-hellenistic era. The 24 papers published here originate from a ground-breaking Liverpool conference held to celebrate and build upon this transformation. Aus dem Inhalt E. Badian: Xenophon the Athenian M. Dreher: De…
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Foreword 1. Introduction: Greek Science in context 2. Words for sounds 3. Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science 4. Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity 5. The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy 6. Euctemon's parapegma 7. Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings 8. The Dioptra of Heron of Alexandria 9. The machine and the city: hero of Alexandria's Belopoecia 10. Ancient …
Sabine Anselm
Sabine Anselm: Struktur und Transparenz. Eine literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse der Feldherrnviten des Cornelius Nepos. Stuttgart: Steiner 2004. 204 S. (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben. 11.)
Continuous Histories ( Hellenica )
Our ability to provide a continuous account of the political and military history of Greece – to achieve something that would not be possible if we only had archaeological, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence – depends upon direct or indirect access to the ancient authors who told parts of that story. The output of those authors (mostly only fragmentarily preserved) put on record memorable events from the past in various different ways in terms o…
Persian Responses
Index of Names
Thematic Index
Preliminary Material
Xenophon
CONTENTS Preface ... iv Abbreviations... v Introduction... 1 Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin 1. 'Staying up late'. Plutarch's reading of Xenophon ...30 Philip Stadter 2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ...45 Noreen Humble 3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque ...72 Tim Rood 4. Strauss's Xenophon...99 David Johnson 5. Defending demokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of th…
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Xenophon's Cyropaedia tells the story of a Persian whose moral and practical education in different environments provides the military and human resource skills to defeat a tyrannous empire and win a kingdom. This chapter explains some distinctive features of Cyropaedia . First, it is an investigation of leadership. Secondly, Cyropaedia covers Cyrus’ life from cradle to grave wholly unsystematically, since most of the narrative occupies a single …
Xenophon and Athens
Second Athenian Confederacy
Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 185 of nomadic tribes who dwell on the farthest end of the inhabitable world, as a people who obey nomos phusikos (the adaptation of nomos to phusis). For Provencal, the lower axis of the Scythian-Egyptian polarity provides a cross-cultural foil for Herodotus’ most complex commonality between the Greek sophists and Persians in the Histories: they both champion ideologies that favour natural justice (nomos phuseōs, akin…
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