Jeremy Mcinerney
Biographic Data
| ID | 515992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Mcinerney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcinerney |
| SIGNATURE | MCINERNEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Centaurs and Snake-Kings
Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these composite creatures arise from the entanglement of humans and animals. Overlaying such enmeshment is the rich cultural exchange experienced by Greeks across the Mediterranean. Hybrids, the author reveals, capture the anxiety of cross-cultural encounter, where similarity and incongruity were conjoined. Hybri…
The Lindian Chronicle and Local Identity
This chapter explores how the local and the general dimensions of ancient Greek religion come together on the Greek island of Rhodes in the south-eastern Aegean during the late Classical and Hellenistic periods. McInerney puts the focus squarely on the role of the Lindos Chronicle as a powerful tool to reassert older local identities within a new (pan-Rhodian) context. Through a careful study of the claims and assertions made in different section…
The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and be…
Food, Sex, and Greek Identity in the Hedypatheia of Archestratos
This paper is concerned with Archestratos’ Hedypatheia, a mid-fourth-century BCE text that stands at the head of a rich tradition of Greek gastronomic literature. The first section is concerned with changing definitions of Greek identity in the fourth century and argues that Archestratos’ work imagines a core Greek world extending from Sicily to the northern Aegean. This definition of a Greek world marked by taste should be seen as complementary …
Hephaistos Among the Satyrs
Satyrs occupy a particular place in Greek imagination: drunk and lustful they are cheerful, rambunctious figures who are also a part of the Greek rumination on male sexuality, notably the power incarnated in the erect phallos. Paradoxically, however, they rarely attain the object of their desire, and are just as frequently associated with frustration, sexual denial and the absurdity of the aroused but unsatisfied male. It is surprising, then, to …
Onomarchos (Onomarchus)
This entry provides an overview of the career of the Phokian general, Onomarchos, strategos autokrator during the Third Sacred War.
Interpreting Funerary Inscriptions from the City of Rome
The thousands of funerary inscriptions from the city of Rome published in CIL VI are a rich source of demographic data but are also the subject of serious debate regarding the epigraphic habit of the Romans. Do the inscriptions represent a cross-section of Roman society or are they largely the creation of the lower classes? Fixing the milieu from which the inscriptions come is difficult, because the exact status of more than 50 % of the commemora…
The Location of the Hephaisteion
This paper argues that the Hephaisteion was erected on Kolonos Agoraios as the spot identified in Athenian topographic myth with the place of Hephaistos’s pursuit of Athena that led to Erichthonios’s birth. The complex association of semen with pollution kept the location of the foundation story of Athens separate from the Acropolis, offering a visual and topographic counterpoint to Athena’s temple. Kolonos Agoraios also had powerful connections …
Phokis
Phokis is a region of central Greece in the shadow of Mt. Parnassos. The region is a good example of a regional federation, or koinon . Phokian ethnic identity was constructed from shared myths and religious practices, notably at the recently excavated site of Kalapodi. The region also had an uneven relationship with Delphi, which lies on the edge of Phokian territory but was independent of Phokis for most of its history.
Dexippos of Athens
An overview of the career and writings of Dexippos of Athens, an important witness to the Heruclian invasions of the mid‐third century ce . Four new folios recently discovered have added considerably to our knowledge of his Skythika.
Callimachus and the Poetics of the Diaspora
This chapter reads Callimachus as a poet of the Hellenistic diaspora. It argues not only that his poems reflect the experience of Greeks born outside Greece, for whom the cultural baggage of earlier centuries is a repository of myths and stories which can be manipulated and reshaped, but also that contemporary issues of patronage and Ptolemaic geopolitics influenced the poet’s treatment of older themes. Time and space are collapsed. Set against t…
Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity
‘Where am I?’. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape’ denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Lan…
Federalism in Greek Antiquity
The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisticated and varied experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creative response to the challenge of establishing regional unity, while at the same time preserving a degree of local autonomy. To reconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal states introduced, for example, the notion of propor…
Ethnicity
The study of ethnicity grows out of dissatisfaction with discredited notions of race and the fixity of biologically derived identities. Yet, as a substitute for race in contemporary discourse, ethnicity remains highly problematic. It pits emic perspectives against etic, and threatens to render concrete and bounded the very fluidity which is at its heart. Similarly, scientific studies of mitochondrial DNA pursue a hard approach to ethnicity–essent…
Dexippos of Athens
Born ca. 200–5 CE into a prominent Athenian family, P. Herennius Dexippos is an important source for the history of the mid‐third century.
A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Onomarchos
Onomarchos was a powerful Phokian general during the early stages of the Third Sacred War (356–346 bce ).
Phokis
Phokis lies in central Greece and encompasses a broad swath of territory dominated by Mount Parnassos.
Philomelos
Philomelos, a powerful Phokian general, came to prominence in 357 bce , when the Delphic Amphictyony imposed a fine on the Phokians for cultivating portions of Apollo's sacred land.
Heraclides Criticus and the Problem of Taste
This chapter investigates the early periegetic text of Heraclides Criticus, entitled On the Cities of Greece . It analyzes a range of styles and concerns not previously prominent in Athenian literature. These styles and concerns include a dilettantish concern for good taste, a casual snobbishness that is amusing but is not based on any kind of coherent or developed aesthetic theory or philosophy, an inclination to pass judgment on the manners and…
Ethnicity
Orchomenos (2)
Phocians
The Cattle of the Sun
Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how…
A Trophy from the Battle of Chaironeia of 86 B.C
In this paper we report the discovery of the remains of a trophy commemorating the victory of the Roman general Sulla over the forces of Mithradates VI near Chaironeia in 86 B.C. These remains include an inscribed rectangular base with a thick torus molding and part of a smooth tapering shaft, all in whitish-gray marble. The inscription on the base corresponds closely to an inscription quoted by Plutarch and allows the monument to be securely ide…
Interpreting Funerary Inscriptions from the City of Rome
The thousands of funerary inscriptions from the city of Rome published in CIL VI are a rich source of demographic data but are also the subject of serious debate regarding the epigraphic habit of the Romans. Do the inscriptions represent a cross-section of Roman society or are they largely the creation of the lower classes? Fixing the milieu from which the inscriptions come is difficult, because the exact status of more than 50 % of the commemora…
The Location of the Hephaisteion
This paper argues that the Hephaisteion was erected on Kolonos Agoraios as the spot identified in Athenian topographic myth with the place of Hephaistos’s pursuit of Athena that led to Erichthonios’s birth. The complex association of semen with pollution kept the location of the foundation story of Athens separate from the Acropolis, offering a visual and topographic counterpoint to Athena’s temple. Kolonos Agoraios also had powerful connections …
An Athenian Dedication to Herakles at Panopeus
The Phokikon and the Hero Archegetes
A Trophy from the Battle of Chaironeia of 86 B.C
In this paper we report the discovery of the remains of a trophy commemorating the victory of the Roman general Sulla over the forces of Mithradates VI near Chaironeia in 86 B.C. These remains include an inscribed rectangular base with a thick torus molding and part of a smooth tapering shaft, all in whitish-gray marble. The inscription on the base corresponds closely to an inscription quoted by Plutarch and allows the monument to be securely ide…
An Athenian Dedication to Herakles at Panopeus
The Phokikon and the Hero Archegetes
Nereids, Colonies and the Origins of Isegoria
This book contains a diverse collection of essays on the notion of “Free Speech” in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as “freedom of speech,” “self-expression,” and “censorship,” in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives.
Arrian and the Greek Alexander Romance
This paper examines the Greek Alexander Romance from the point of view of narratology, looking at the motifs, patterns of storytelling, and ways that the Romance created the figure of Alexander. The same approach is applied to the work of Arrian, the most widely read and most reliable of the Alexander historians. What this analysis shows is that the boundaries between romance and history are less fixed than we usually suppose and that to read the…
The Cattle of the Sun
Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them. The Cattle of the Sun ranges over a wealth of sources, both textual and archaeological, to explore why these animals mattered to the Greeks, how…
Ethnicity
Orchomenos (2)
Phocians
Schedios
Abantes
Hyampolis
Parnassos
Epistrophos (3)
Pytho
Hyria
Panopeus (1)
Kyparissos
D aulis
Hyle
Boeotians
Locrians
Krisa
Delphi and Phokis
Delphi was at the centre of a network of relations that extended across the entire Greek world. Connections, however, with the neighbouring territory of Phokis, were weak. Phokis did not enjoy long-term control over the sanctuary, as Elis did at Olympia, and the Phokians had no standing at Delphi any different from any other Greek state. Instead, a second and alternative zone of religious influence and elite display emerged on the other side of P…
Onomarchos
Onomarchos was a powerful Phokian general during the early stages of the Third Sacred War (356–346 bce ).
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