Antony Spawforth
Biographic Data
| ID | 5625929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antony Spawforth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antony |
| FAMILY NAME | Spawforth |
| SIGNATURE | SPAWFORTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 394 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Claudius Atticus, father of Herodes, and the Spartan agōgē: New evidence
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A tale of two cities
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is part of a major reference publishing initiative from Oxford University Press to provide current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy research, read in 30 minutes or less, that better serves the changing needs of university-level digital research by acting as both a living repository and a timeless legacy. It evolves as the discipline evolves, constantly reflecting and inspiring new debates within the academic community. …
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Over 700 entriesFor over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of our lives—from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. Many of the roots of the way life is lived in the West today can be traced to the ancient civilizations, not only in politics, law, technology, philosophy, and science, but a…
The pamphleteer Ephippus of Olynthus, King Alexander, and the Persian Royal Hunt
This paper argues that Jacoby’s fragment 5 of Ephippus of Olynthus’ lost pamphlet on the deaths of Hephaestion and Alexander conceals a malevolently distorted and hitherto unrecognized reference to Alexander’s adoption in 324/323 BC of the traditional hunting style of the Assyrian and Achaemenid kings, namely, the use of a chariot and archery in pursuit of lions. The paper puts this startling development into the larger context of, firstly, Alexa…
Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece r…
The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies
Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This 2007 volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including thei…
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
The Oxford classical dictionary
A reference book containing an alphabetical list of terms and definitions associated with the classical period.
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's …
Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World
New imperial subscripts to the Spartans
A stone built into the church at Kokkinórachi near Sparta carries part of a first-century AD text containing one or more imperial rescripts to Sparta. The author of one section admonishes the Spartans after civil unrest, probably during the lifetime of the dynast Eurykles, his son Lakon, or his grandson Spartiatikos. Epigraphic parallels, and the text's appeal to historic traditions, suggest that the author is Claudius. The document may indicate …
Excavations at Sparta: The Roman stoa, 1988–91. The inscriptions
Nineteen Greek inscriptions from the recent excavations at the Roman stoa and Roman theatre at Sparta are published. They include two honorific inscriptions of imperial date, one for a previously unknown Octavia Agis, ‘descendant of the founder gods of the city Heracles and Lycurgus’, and at least four fragments from Romanperiod lists of civic magistrates. Two of these were found in situ and reveal that the proedria of the theatre, as well as the…
Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198
Antony J. S. Spawforth, Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 211-232
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Agonistic Festivals in Roman Greece
AGONISTIC FESTIVALS IN ROMAN GREECE Get access A. J. S. SPAWFORTH A. J. S. SPAWFORTH Dept. of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_55, January 1989, Pages 193–197, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb02070.x Published: 22 February 2011
A Severan Statue-Group and an Olympic Festival at Sparta
Two inscribed slabs in the Sparta Museum and the imperial statue base from which they came are restudied. It is demonstrated that it once supported statues of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta, Julia Domna, and Plautilla. A second part assembles evidence for a hitherto neglected Spartan festival, the Olympea Comodeia
The World of the Panhellenion II. Three Dorian Cities
The first part of this study (hereafter Panhellenion I) considered the nature of Hadrian's Panhellenion by looking at its known membership and activities and its social context, and reviewed the impact of the league's foundation on Athens, its capital city, and Eleusis, Attica's most prestigious sanctuary. Here we concentrate on three Dorian member-cities: Sparta and Argos in the province of Achaia, and Cyrene in Crete-and-Cyrene. In doing so we …
Families at Roman Sparta and Epidaurus: Some Prosopographical Notes
The purpose of this article is to correct and expand our understanding of an interrelated group of socially prominent families from Roman Sparta and Epidaurus. Part I publishes an inscription from Sparta, dating to about 240, which attests new members of the Spartan families of the Claudii and the Pomponii: respectively Claudia Tyrannis, a great-granddaughter of the senator Tib. Claudius Brasidas, and C. Pomponius Aristeas qui et Pericles, her hu…
The World of the Panhellenion I. Athens and Eleusis
In A.D. 131/2 the emperor Hadrian created a new organization of Greek cities, the Panhellenion. This paper is the first of two in which we explore, from a provincial perspective, the implications of this novel initiative by Rome in Greek affairs. The foundation of the Panhellenion belongs to a series of interventions by Hadrian in the Greek world, the others mostly in the form of acts of benefaction towards individual communities. Although Hadria…
Notes on the Third Century A.D. in Spartan Epigraphy
This article contains epigraphically based studies which aim to bring increased order to the chronology and prosopography of Roman Sparta. It is concluded that only one occurrence of the nomen Aurelius can be assigned with any confidence to the period before the Constitutio Antoniniana . A dedication for Septimius Severus and his family is discussed. Epigraphic evidence for M. Aurelius Aristocles of Taenarum and his family is presented. An epigra…
A New Document from the Isthmian Games
Sparta and the Family of Herodes Atticus: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
The intention of this paper is to set out the evidence for the ties between the family of Herodes Atticus, the Athenian consul and sophist, and the city of Sparta. Its kernel is the re-edition in Part Two of a fragmentary inscription from Sparta, which contains — it will be argued — evidence for the marriage of a previously unknown sister of Herodes to a Spartan aristocrat. The context of this match was a long-standing association between Sparta …
Balbilla, the Euryclids and Memorials for a Greek Magnate
This paper, which is in two parts, re-employs published evidence to shed new light on the Spartan senator C. Iulius Eurycles Herculanus L. Vibullius Pius. The first part presents a re-edition of the dedication from the heröon of Herculanus, the improved text revealing evidence for a link of kinship between the later Euryclids of Sparta and the dynasty of Commagene. The second part restudies two inscriptions from Mantineia and Corinth which, it is…
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's …
The World of the Panhellenion I. Athens and Eleusis
In A.D. 131/2 the emperor Hadrian created a new organization of Greek cities, the Panhellenion. This paper is the first of two in which we explore, from a provincial perspective, the implications of this novel initiative by Rome in Greek affairs. The foundation of the Panhellenion belongs to a series of interventions by Hadrian in the Greek world, the others mostly in the form of acts of benefaction towards individual communities. Although Hadria…
The World of the Panhellenion II. Three Dorian Cities
The first part of this study (hereafter Panhellenion I) considered the nature of Hadrian's Panhellenion by looking at its known membership and activities and its social context, and reviewed the impact of the league's foundation on Athens, its capital city, and Eleusis, Attica's most prestigious sanctuary. Here we concentrate on three Dorian member-cities: Sparta and Argos in the province of Achaia, and Cyrene in Crete-and-Cyrene. In doing so we …
Balbilla, the Euryclids and Memorials for a Greek Magnate
This paper, which is in two parts, re-employs published evidence to shed new light on the Spartan senator C. Iulius Eurycles Herculanus L. Vibullius Pius. The first part presents a re-edition of the dedication from the heröon of Herculanus, the improved text revealing evidence for a link of kinship between the later Euryclids of Sparta and the dynasty of Commagene. The second part restudies two inscriptions from Mantineia and Corinth which, it is…
Sparta and the Family of Herodes Atticus: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
The intention of this paper is to set out the evidence for the ties between the family of Herodes Atticus, the Athenian consul and sophist, and the city of Sparta. Its kernel is the re-edition in Part Two of a fragmentary inscription from Sparta, which contains — it will be argued — evidence for the marriage of a previously unknown sister of Herodes to a Spartan aristocrat. The context of this match was a long-standing association between Sparta …
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
Agonistic Festivals in Roman Greece
AGONISTIC FESTIVALS IN ROMAN GREECE Get access A. J. S. SPAWFORTH A. J. S. SPAWFORTH Dept. of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_55, January 1989, Pages 193–197, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb02070.x Published: 22 February 2011
Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198
Antony J. S. Spawforth, Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 211-232
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Over 700 entriesFor over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of our lives—from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. Many of the roots of the way life is lived in the West today can be traced to the ancient civilizations, not only in politics, law, technology, philosophy, and science, but a…
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
The pamphleteer Ephippus of Olynthus, King Alexander, and the Persian Royal Hunt
This paper argues that Jacoby’s fragment 5 of Ephippus of Olynthus’ lost pamphlet on the deaths of Hephaestion and Alexander conceals a malevolently distorted and hitherto unrecognized reference to Alexander’s adoption in 324/323 BC of the traditional hunting style of the Assyrian and Achaemenid kings, namely, the use of a chariot and archery in pursuit of lions. The paper puts this startling development into the larger context of, firstly, Alexa…
Families at Roman Sparta and Epidaurus: Some Prosopographical Notes
The purpose of this article is to correct and expand our understanding of an interrelated group of socially prominent families from Roman Sparta and Epidaurus. Part I publishes an inscription from Sparta, dating to about 240, which attests new members of the Spartan families of the Claudii and the Pomponii: respectively Claudia Tyrannis, a great-granddaughter of the senator Tib. Claudius Brasidas, and C. Pomponius Aristeas qui et Pericles, her hu…
Fourmontiana. IG v 1 . 515: Another Forgery ‘from Amyklai’
The intention of this paper is to argue the rejection of IG v 1 . 515 as another forgery fabricated by the French antiquary Michel Fourmont (1690–1746), in collusion with his nephew, Claude-Louis Fourmont (1703–80). The text, known only from the five copies of it preserved among Fourmont's papers in the Département des Manuscrits at the Bibliothèque Nationale, was first published by Raoul-Rochette in 1819, and subsequently incorporated by Boeckh …
Balbilla, the Euryclids and Memorials for a Greek Magnate
This paper, which is in two parts, re-employs published evidence to shed new light on the Spartan senator C. Iulius Eurycles Herculanus L. Vibullius Pius. The first part presents a re-edition of the dedication from the heröon of Herculanus, the improved text revealing evidence for a link of kinship between the later Euryclids of Sparta and the dynasty of Commagene. The second part restudies two inscriptions from Mantineia and Corinth which, it is…
Sparta and the Family of Herodes Atticus: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
The intention of this paper is to set out the evidence for the ties between the family of Herodes Atticus, the Athenian consul and sophist, and the city of Sparta. Its kernel is the re-edition in Part Two of a fragmentary inscription from Sparta, which contains — it will be argued — evidence for the marriage of a previously unknown sister of Herodes to a Spartan aristocrat. The context of this match was a long-standing association between Sparta …
A New Document from the Isthmian Games
Notes on the Third Century A.D. in Spartan Epigraphy
This article contains epigraphically based studies which aim to bring increased order to the chronology and prosopography of Roman Sparta. It is concluded that only one occurrence of the nomen Aurelius can be assigned with any confidence to the period before the Constitutio Antoniniana . A dedication for Septimius Severus and his family is discussed. Epigraphic evidence for M. Aurelius Aristocles of Taenarum and his family is presented. An epigra…
Families at Roman Sparta and Epidaurus: Some Prosopographical Notes
The purpose of this article is to correct and expand our understanding of an interrelated group of socially prominent families from Roman Sparta and Epidaurus. Part I publishes an inscription from Sparta, dating to about 240, which attests new members of the Spartan families of the Claudii and the Pomponii: respectively Claudia Tyrannis, a great-granddaughter of the senator Tib. Claudius Brasidas, and C. Pomponius Aristeas qui et Pericles, her hu…
The World of the Panhellenion I. Athens and Eleusis
In A.D. 131/2 the emperor Hadrian created a new organization of Greek cities, the Panhellenion. This paper is the first of two in which we explore, from a provincial perspective, the implications of this novel initiative by Rome in Greek affairs. The foundation of the Panhellenion belongs to a series of interventions by Hadrian in the Greek world, the others mostly in the form of acts of benefaction towards individual communities. Although Hadria…
A Severan Statue-Group and an Olympic Festival at Sparta
Two inscribed slabs in the Sparta Museum and the imperial statue base from which they came are restudied. It is demonstrated that it once supported statues of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta, Julia Domna, and Plautilla. A second part assembles evidence for a hitherto neglected Spartan festival, the Olympea Comodeia
The World of the Panhellenion II. Three Dorian Cities
The first part of this study (hereafter Panhellenion I) considered the nature of Hadrian's Panhellenion by looking at its known membership and activities and its social context, and reviewed the impact of the league's foundation on Athens, its capital city, and Eleusis, Attica's most prestigious sanctuary. Here we concentrate on three Dorian member-cities: Sparta and Argos in the province of Achaia, and Cyrene in Crete-and-Cyrene. In doing so we …
Agonistic Festivals in Roman Greece
AGONISTIC FESTIVALS IN ROMAN GREECE Get access A. J. S. SPAWFORTH A. J. S. SPAWFORTH Dept. of Classics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_55, January 1989, Pages 193–197, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1989.tb02070.x Published: 22 February 2011
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Excavations at Sparta: The Roman stoa, 1988–91. The inscriptions
Nineteen Greek inscriptions from the recent excavations at the Roman stoa and Roman theatre at Sparta are published. They include two honorific inscriptions of imperial date, one for a previously unknown Octavia Agis, ‘descendant of the founder gods of the city Heracles and Lycurgus’, and at least four fragments from Romanperiod lists of civic magistrates. Two of these were found in situ and reveal that the proedria of the theatre, as well as the…
Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198
Antony J. S. Spawforth, Corinth, Argos, and the Imperial Cult: Pseudo-Julian, Letters 198, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1994), pp. 211-232
New imperial subscripts to the Spartans
A stone built into the church at Kokkinórachi near Sparta carries part of a first-century AD text containing one or more imperial rescripts to Sparta. The author of one section admonishes the Spartans after civil unrest, probably during the lifetime of the dynast Eurykles, his son Lakon, or his grandson Spartiatikos. Epigraphic parallels, and the text's appeal to historic traditions, suggest that the author is Claudius. The document may indicate …
Kinship Diplomacy in the Ancient World
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's …
The Oxford classical dictionary
A reference book containing an alphabetical list of terms and definitions associated with the classical period.
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies
Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This 2007 volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including thei…
Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece r…
The pamphleteer Ephippus of Olynthus, King Alexander, and the Persian Royal Hunt
This paper argues that Jacoby’s fragment 5 of Ephippus of Olynthus’ lost pamphlet on the deaths of Hephaestion and Alexander conceals a malevolently distorted and hitherto unrecognized reference to Alexander’s adoption in 324/323 BC of the traditional hunting style of the Assyrian and Achaemenid kings, namely, the use of a chariot and archery in pursuit of lions. The paper puts this startling development into the larger context of, firstly, Alexa…
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Over 700 entriesFor over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for so many aspects of our lives—from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. Many of the roots of the way life is lived in the West today can be traced to the ancient civilizations, not only in politics, law, technology, philosophy, and science, but a…
Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is part of a major reference publishing initiative from Oxford University Press to provide current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy research, read in 30 minutes or less, that better serves the changing needs of university-level digital research by acting as both a living repository and a timeless legacy. It evolves as the discipline evolves, constantly reflecting and inspiring new debates within the academic community. …
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A tale of two cities
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community.This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on th…
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
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