Peter Kruschwitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Kruschwitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kruschwitz |
| SIGNATURE | KRUSCHWITZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8427-1056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
With Her Back to the Wall
Revisiting the arrangement, textual design, and spread of information of the four inscribed parts of the well-known funerary altar of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Aconia Fabia Paulina, the author argues that the inscription at the altar’s otherwise undecorated rear, the poem of Paulina, was deliberately designed to preserve private information about the couple and their religious beliefs, but to be hidden from the public eye – arguably by pla…
Poetic Baggage
Each unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the fighting men who formed their core and purpose. While camp followers are depicted in literary sources especially as an hindrance to war operations, inscriptions provide a different picture of the world that gravitated around the military forts and fortresses. In the military settlements that guarded the limes, the presence of paramilitary and non-mili…
Imaginations of Barbarians and Barbarian Lands in the Latin Verse Inscriptions
Notions, as well as realities, of foreignness, alienness, and not-belonging in the Roman world have received ample treatment, from a broad range of perspectives, in recent scholarship. An important aspect that has not been covered thus far is the question of how these experiences inscribed themselves in the history of the mentality, especially (but not only) of those affected, and how these deeply subjective and personal experiences extended into…
Inhabiting a Lettered World
Based on a survey of the evidence for perishable and liminal Roman material writing habits that might appropriately be described as ‘fringe epigraphy’, this paper invites a conceptual re-evaluation of writing and the role of letters, words, and texts – including their perception – in the Roman world. It thus challenges recent attempts of an all too narrow disciplinary, institutional view of what might constitute Latin epigraphy. Much rather, it i…
Linguistic Variation, Language Change, and Latin Inscriptions
This chapter investigates Latin inscriptions that contain linguistic features which appear to stem from popular, as opposed to elite, usage and are rarely, if ever, found in Roman literary authors, unless these were explicitly seeking to mimic uneducated, semi-literate, or moronic people’s speech. Topics treated include: diastratic, diaphasic, and diatopic varieties of Latin, the now contested concept of “Vulgar Latin,” and the phonology, morphol…
Adnotationes epigraphicae V ( 37–44)
Menedemerumenus
The verbal monstrosity Menedemerumenus is found 24 times around the graffiti of Pompeii. All these texts seem to have been written by three writers who either knew or were inspired by each other. Because of the find spots of the graffiti it could be possible that the inhabitants of the Casa dei Quattro Stili and the Casa del Menandro were the authors of these graffiti
Lucius Caltilius Paphilus and his Wife Servilia Reunited (CIL X 1021 + X 1046)
Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy
INTRODUCTION Roman tragedy has not received the same amount of careful examination as Greek tragedy – not even the tragic œuvre of Seneca and those few other tragedies that happened to survive in full. Partly the fragmentary nature of the textual corpus is to blame, but also, and this is perhaps even more important, the fact that Roman tragedy never managed to leave behind its smell of being secondary, of being derivative, and of being inferior t…
What the Pompeians Saw
Die Metrischen Inschriften der Römischen Republik
Pompeian Wall Inscriptions and the Latin Language
Das vorklassische Lehrgedict der Römer
Carmina latina epigraphica Pompeiana
Zu den republikanischen Carmina Latina Epigraphica (III)
Die Inschrift stammt nach Auskunft zweier von G. Amati verfaßter Codices Vaticani Latini aus der Nähe von Trebula Mutuesca (heute: Monteleone). Der Inschriftträger ist verschollen. Abbildungen und verläßliche Angaben zu Material, Gestalt, Abmessungen und Buchstabenformen haben ich nicht erhalten. Zudem wird das exemplum von Amati nicht einheitlich überliefert: (...)
Die Antiken Quellen Zum Saturnischen Vers
This article is the first complete documentation and analysis of the ancient sources for the Saturnian metre. There are three main questions: (i) What can we say about the development of the name 'numerus Saturnius' resp. 'numerus Faunius'? What did it mean? (ii) Which characteristics had been attributed to this metre? (iii) What did the ancient authors know (or think) about its nature? (And what do they offer more than mere description of eviden…
Revision von CLE 1910
Die Inschrift CLE 1910 (s. Abb. 3) wurde 1902 bei Sidi Abdallah / Ferryville (Tunesien) bei der Ruine eines römischen (christlichen?) Badehauses entdeckt. Es handelt sich dabei um den Bestandteil eines Bodenmosaiks (opus musiuum resp. tessellatum, 160 x 80 cm); im sich über der Inschrift anschließenden Teil des Mosaiks sind in nicht sehr realistischer Weise Fischer, Seetiere sowie ein Küstenstreifen mit Häusern und Bäumen dargestellt
Pompeian Wall Inscriptions and the Latin Language
Menedemerumenus
The verbal monstrosity Menedemerumenus is found 24 times around the graffiti of Pompeii. All these texts seem to have been written by three writers who either knew or were inspired by each other. Because of the find spots of the graffiti it could be possible that the inhabitants of the Casa dei Quattro Stili and the Casa del Menandro were the authors of these graffiti
Revision von CLE 1910
Die Inschrift CLE 1910 (s. Abb. 3) wurde 1902 bei Sidi Abdallah / Ferryville (Tunesien) bei der Ruine eines römischen (christlichen?) Badehauses entdeckt. Es handelt sich dabei um den Bestandteil eines Bodenmosaiks (opus musiuum resp. tessellatum, 160 x 80 cm); im sich über der Inschrift anschließenden Teil des Mosaiks sind in nicht sehr realistischer Weise Fischer, Seetiere sowie ein Küstenstreifen mit Häusern und Bäumen dargestellt
Die Antiken Quellen Zum Saturnischen Vers
This article is the first complete documentation and analysis of the ancient sources for the Saturnian metre. There are three main questions: (i) What can we say about the development of the name 'numerus Saturnius' resp. 'numerus Faunius'? What did it mean? (ii) Which characteristics had been attributed to this metre? (iii) What did the ancient authors know (or think) about its nature? (And what do they offer more than mere description of eviden…
Zu den republikanischen Carmina Latina Epigraphica (III)
Die Inschrift stammt nach Auskunft zweier von G. Amati verfaßter Codices Vaticani Latini aus der Nähe von Trebula Mutuesca (heute: Monteleone). Der Inschriftträger ist verschollen. Abbildungen und verläßliche Angaben zu Material, Gestalt, Abmessungen und Buchstabenformen haben ich nicht erhalten. Zudem wird das exemplum von Amati nicht einheitlich überliefert: (...)
Carmina latina epigraphica Pompeiana
Das vorklassische Lehrgedict der Römer
Die Metrischen Inschriften der Römischen Republik
Pompeian Wall Inscriptions and the Latin Language
Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy
INTRODUCTION Roman tragedy has not received the same amount of careful examination as Greek tragedy – not even the tragic œuvre of Seneca and those few other tragedies that happened to survive in full. Partly the fragmentary nature of the textual corpus is to blame, but also, and this is perhaps even more important, the fact that Roman tragedy never managed to leave behind its smell of being secondary, of being derivative, and of being inferior t…
What the Pompeians Saw
Lucius Caltilius Paphilus and his Wife Servilia Reunited (CIL X 1021 + X 1046)
Menedemerumenus
The verbal monstrosity Menedemerumenus is found 24 times around the graffiti of Pompeii. All these texts seem to have been written by three writers who either knew or were inspired by each other. Because of the find spots of the graffiti it could be possible that the inhabitants of the Casa dei Quattro Stili and the Casa del Menandro were the authors of these graffiti
Adnotationes epigraphicae V ( 37–44)
Linguistic Variation, Language Change, and Latin Inscriptions
This chapter investigates Latin inscriptions that contain linguistic features which appear to stem from popular, as opposed to elite, usage and are rarely, if ever, found in Roman literary authors, unless these were explicitly seeking to mimic uneducated, semi-literate, or moronic people’s speech. Topics treated include: diastratic, diaphasic, and diatopic varieties of Latin, the now contested concept of “Vulgar Latin,” and the phonology, morphol…
Inhabiting a Lettered World
Based on a survey of the evidence for perishable and liminal Roman material writing habits that might appropriately be described as ‘fringe epigraphy’, this paper invites a conceptual re-evaluation of writing and the role of letters, words, and texts – including their perception – in the Roman world. It thus challenges recent attempts of an all too narrow disciplinary, institutional view of what might constitute Latin epigraphy. Much rather, it i…
Imaginations of Barbarians and Barbarian Lands in the Latin Verse Inscriptions
Notions, as well as realities, of foreignness, alienness, and not-belonging in the Roman world have received ample treatment, from a broad range of perspectives, in recent scholarship. An important aspect that has not been covered thus far is the question of how these experiences inscribed themselves in the history of the mentality, especially (but not only) of those affected, and how these deeply subjective and personal experiences extended into…
Poetic Baggage
Each unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the fighting men who formed their core and purpose. While camp followers are depicted in literary sources especially as an hindrance to war operations, inscriptions provide a different picture of the world that gravitated around the military forts and fortresses. In the military settlements that guarded the limes, the presence of paramilitary and non-mili…
With Her Back to the Wall
Revisiting the arrangement, textual design, and spread of information of the four inscribed parts of the well-known funerary altar of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus and Aconia Fabia Paulina, the author argues that the inscription at the altar’s otherwise undecorated rear, the poem of Paulina, was deliberately designed to preserve private information about the couple and their religious beliefs, but to be hidden from the public eye – arguably by pla…
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