Josephine Crawley Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josephine Crawley Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josephine Crawley |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0325-4105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Greco-Roman Literature
The picture painted of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Greco-Roman literature is a paradoxical one. Distinct themes continue to characterize them from the archaic period to late antiquity, but their definition as a distinct group of people remains vague throughout. Military conflict with Greeks and Romans means that they are presented more positively by intellectuals than politicians, and more positively in the east than the west, but identi…
In Search of the Phoenicians
Translating Empire From Carthage To Rome
The Geoarchaeology of Utica, Tunisia: The Paleogeography of the Mejerda Delta and Hypotheses Concerning the Location of the Ancient Harbor
Although the ancient site of Utica has been studied since the 19th century, the location of its harbors remains unresolved as they were buried under sediments as the Mejerda delta prograded and left Utica 10 km inland. Using relief data and a coring survey with sedimentological analysis, we identify the dynamics of the delta's progradation, which produced a double system of alluvial fans. These show that the ancient bay of Utica silted up faster …
Rome, Polybius, and the East
This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power.
Polybius
This chapter presents a general account of the life and works of Polybius before placing him within the Greek historical tradition. It considers Polybius's historical account of the process whereby the Mediterranean world came to be conquered by Rome and how its several peoples (including the Romans) fared during the time of Roman rule. It also looks at Polybius's enumeration of Timaeus's defects as a historian, which reflects what he thought his…
Imperium, Imperial Space and Empire1
This chapter examines the Roman conception of empire in the 190s, with particular reference to the fundamental tension between Hellenistic Greece's notions of ‘imperial space’ and Rome's idea of imperium. It first provides an overview of the affairs of Greece between 196 and 192 before turning to Polybius's portrayal of the situation in Greece in relation to the defence of Philopoimen he offered to the Roman commissioners in 146/52. It then consi…
Polybios and the Embassy of Kallikrates
This chapter examines Polybius's account of the embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion, ambassador from the Achaian League to Rome. More specifically, it considers Polybius's argument that Kallikrates's embassy did not provide any real benefit for Rome and was the cause of the great misfortunes for all the Greeks. In 180 bc, Kallikrates advised the Roman Senate to intervene in local politics in the democratic states of Greece, a move for which he has…
Historical Explanation
This chapter focuses on one of the essential features of Polybius's approach to history: the need to find explanations. It begins with an overview of Greek historiography, focusing on the work of Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Hecataeus, before turning to Polybius. In particular, it examines Polybius's interpretation of the war between Antiochus and the Romans. Finally, it describes Greece under Rome's dominion.
Pharos and Rome
This chapter examines Louis Robert's texts about an inscription from Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar that bears evidence about the relations between Rome and the Greek city of Pharos. The texts suggest that Pharos had an alliance with Rome from some point in the third century bc. Apollonia and Corcyra and, to a lesser extent, Epidamnos, served regularly as landing and staging points during Rome's wars against Philip, Antiochus, and Pers…
The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule
The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings state-of-the-art international scholarship on Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from …
Augustine's Canaanites
There is a widespread idea that the people we call ‘Phoenician’ called themselves ‘Canaanite’. This article argues that the only positive evidence for this hypothesis, a single line in the standard editions of Augustine's unfinished commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans, where he claims that ‘if you ask our local peasants what they are, they answer ‘Canaanite’', is prima facie highly unreliable as historical evidence, and on closer inspection…
Imagining the Imperial Mediterranean1
Polybius' interweaving (symploke) of the history of different regions from his starting point in 220 BC is an ideological as well as a literary strategy. Benedict Anderson's work on how concepts of simultaneity across the progress of empty or homogeneous time can shape national identity, itself drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, offers valuable insight into simultaneity in Polybius, whose symploke draws the Mediterranean world into a histori…
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek histor…
Capitolia
Capitolia, temples to the triad of divinities Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Iuno Regina and Minerva Augusta, are often considered part of the standard urban ‘kit’ of Roman colonies. Their placement at one end of the forum is sometimes seen as schematizing and replicating in miniature the relationship between the Capitolium at Rome and the Forum Romanum below it. Reliably attested Capitolia are, however, rarer in the provinces than this widespread vie…
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
Magas
Magas (ca. 325–ca. 258/50 BCE ) was a ruler of Cyrenaica.
Core–periphery
Core‐periphery models attempt to explain inequalities between places.
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism could be seen as an anachronistic approach to the classical world, insofar as it is a reaction to the modern experience of colonialism: the process of the territorial occupation and domination of much of Asia, Africa, and the Americas by Europeans from about 1500, such that, by the 1930s, 85 percent of the world's land surface was composed of European colonies or excolonies.
Euesperides
Euesperides, now in an eastern suburb of Benghazi (Libya), lies at the western edge of the Cyrenaican seaboard, next to a chain of salt lagoons that must have attracted the Greek colonists who arrived ca. 600 BCE .
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
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Ralegh Radford Rome Scholarship: North African imperialisms
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In Search of the Phoenicians
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
The Geoarchaeology of Utica, Tunisia: The Paleogeography of the Mejerda Delta and Hypotheses Concerning the Location of the Ancient Harbor
Although the ancient site of Utica has been studied since the 19th century, the location of its harbors remains unresolved as they were buried under sediments as the Mejerda delta prograded and left Utica 10 km inland. Using relief data and a coring survey with sedimentological analysis, we identify the dynamics of the delta's progradation, which produced a double system of alluvial fans. These show that the ancient bay of Utica silted up faster …
Capitolia
Capitolia, temples to the triad of divinities Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Iuno Regina and Minerva Augusta, are often considered part of the standard urban ‘kit’ of Roman colonies. Their placement at one end of the forum is sometimes seen as schematizing and replicating in miniature the relationship between the Capitolium at Rome and the Forum Romanum below it. Reliably attested Capitolia are, however, rarer in the provinces than this widespread vie…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Translating Empire From Carthage To Rome
Augustine's Canaanites
There is a widespread idea that the people we call ‘Phoenician’ called themselves ‘Canaanite’. This article argues that the only positive evidence for this hypothesis, a single line in the standard editions of Augustine's unfinished commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans, where he claims that ‘if you ask our local peasants what they are, they answer ‘Canaanite’', is prima facie highly unreliable as historical evidence, and on closer inspection…
Ralegh Radford Rome Scholarship: North African imperialisms
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Utica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Magas
Magas (ca. 325–ca. 258/50 BCE ) was a ruler of Cyrenaica.
Core–periphery
Core‐periphery models attempt to explain inequalities between places.
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism could be seen as an anachronistic approach to the classical world, insofar as it is a reaction to the modern experience of colonialism: the process of the territorial occupation and domination of much of Asia, Africa, and the Americas by Europeans from about 1500, such that, by the 1930s, 85 percent of the world's land surface was composed of European colonies or excolonies.
Euesperides
Euesperides, now in an eastern suburb of Benghazi (Libya), lies at the western edge of the Cyrenaican seaboard, next to a chain of salt lagoons that must have attracted the Greek colonists who arrived ca. 600 BCE .
Imagining the Imperial Mediterranean1
Polybius' interweaving (symploke) of the history of different regions from his starting point in 220 BC is an ideological as well as a literary strategy. Benedict Anderson's work on how concepts of simultaneity across the progress of empty or homogeneous time can shape national identity, itself drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, offers valuable insight into simultaneity in Polybius, whose symploke draws the Mediterranean world into a histori…
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek histor…
Capitolia
Capitolia, temples to the triad of divinities Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, Iuno Regina and Minerva Augusta, are often considered part of the standard urban ‘kit’ of Roman colonies. Their placement at one end of the forum is sometimes seen as schematizing and replicating in miniature the relationship between the Capitolium at Rome and the Forum Romanum below it. Reliably attested Capitolia are, however, rarer in the provinces than this widespread vie…
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Phoenician bones of contention
Even if the foundation, rise and eventual demise of Carthage and its overseas territories in the West Mediterranean occurred in much the same space and time as the glory days of Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, there is no doubt that the Phoenicians and their Punic successors (to use the conventional terms) have rarely been regarded as fully signed-up members of the ancient world. Reduced to walk-on cameos as skilled silversmit…
Rome, Polybius, and the East
This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power.
Polybius
This chapter presents a general account of the life and works of Polybius before placing him within the Greek historical tradition. It considers Polybius's historical account of the process whereby the Mediterranean world came to be conquered by Rome and how its several peoples (including the Romans) fared during the time of Roman rule. It also looks at Polybius's enumeration of Timaeus's defects as a historian, which reflects what he thought his…
Imperium, Imperial Space and Empire1
This chapter examines the Roman conception of empire in the 190s, with particular reference to the fundamental tension between Hellenistic Greece's notions of ‘imperial space’ and Rome's idea of imperium. It first provides an overview of the affairs of Greece between 196 and 192 before turning to Polybius's portrayal of the situation in Greece in relation to the defence of Philopoimen he offered to the Roman commissioners in 146/52. It then consi…
Polybios and the Embassy of Kallikrates
This chapter examines Polybius's account of the embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion, ambassador from the Achaian League to Rome. More specifically, it considers Polybius's argument that Kallikrates's embassy did not provide any real benefit for Rome and was the cause of the great misfortunes for all the Greeks. In 180 bc, Kallikrates advised the Roman Senate to intervene in local politics in the democratic states of Greece, a move for which he has…
Historical Explanation
This chapter focuses on one of the essential features of Polybius's approach to history: the need to find explanations. It begins with an overview of Greek historiography, focusing on the work of Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Hecataeus, before turning to Polybius. In particular, it examines Polybius's interpretation of the war between Antiochus and the Romans. Finally, it describes Greece under Rome's dominion.
Pharos and Rome
This chapter examines Louis Robert's texts about an inscription from Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar that bears evidence about the relations between Rome and the Greek city of Pharos. The texts suggest that Pharos had an alliance with Rome from some point in the third century bc. Apollonia and Corcyra and, to a lesser extent, Epidamnos, served regularly as landing and staging points during Rome's wars against Philip, Antiochus, and Pers…
The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule
The role of the Phoenicians in the economy, culture and politics of the ancient Mediterranean was as large as that of the Greeks and Romans, and deeply interconnected with that 'classical' world, but their lack of literature and their oriental associations mean that they are much less well-known. This book brings state-of-the-art international scholarship on Phoenician and Punic studies to an English-speaking audience, collecting new papers from …
Augustine's Canaanites
There is a widespread idea that the people we call ‘Phoenician’ called themselves ‘Canaanite’. This article argues that the only positive evidence for this hypothesis, a single line in the standard editions of Augustine's unfinished commentary on Paul's letter to the Romans, where he claims that ‘if you ask our local peasants what they are, they answer ‘Canaanite’', is prima facie highly unreliable as historical evidence, and on closer inspection…
The Geoarchaeology of Utica, Tunisia: The Paleogeography of the Mejerda Delta and Hypotheses Concerning the Location of the Ancient Harbor
Although the ancient site of Utica has been studied since the 19th century, the location of its harbors remains unresolved as they were buried under sediments as the Mejerda delta prograded and left Utica 10 km inland. Using relief data and a coring survey with sedimentological analysis, we identify the dynamics of the delta's progradation, which produced a double system of alluvial fans. These show that the ancient bay of Utica silted up faster …
Translating Empire From Carthage To Rome
In Search of the Phoenicians
Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Greco-Roman Literature
The picture painted of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Greco-Roman literature is a paradoxical one. Distinct themes continue to characterize them from the archaic period to late antiquity, but their definition as a distinct group of people remains vague throughout. Military conflict with Greeks and Romans means that they are presented more positively by intellectuals than politicians, and more positively in the east than the west, but identi…
History (15 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (13 works) · Ancient history (9 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Classics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 works)