Peter Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5657741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of History and Archaeology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The φιλιπηιον Gold Coinage
These two coins have been published by Manganaro, Berk and Bendall, and Lorber, and are listed in Campana’s catalogue of Campana as coins 15 and 16 from En
Introduction: The Problem with the ‘Sicilian Slave Wars’
This introduction establishes the framework for the reinterpretation of two major conflicts in 2nd century BC Sicily, traditionally known as the "Sicilian Slave Wars." It outlines the book's challenge to this long-standing categorization, proposing instead to view these events as complex revolts against Roman power involving diverse groups. The introduction previews how the subsequent chapters will critically reassess literary and material eviden…
The Creation of an Alternative State: Reassessing the Rebels in the War of 104–100 BC
This chapter analyzes the Second Sicilian 'Slave War' through both literary and material evidence. It examines the portrayal of leaders Salvius/Tryphon and Athenion in works by Diodorus Siculus, Florus, and Cicero, revealing the use of stereotypical characterizations similar to those in the first war. The study then integrates this literary analysis with archaeological evidence from inscribed slingshots. By examining key events, such as Salvius/T…
The Slave Revolt Topos: Thinking with Servile Unrest in Ancient Historiography
This chapter examines the historiographical context of the Sicilian 'Slave Wars' in ancient literature. It argues that the label 'slave revolt' was employed by ancient writers for various purposes, including as aetiologies, social and political commentary, and as commentary on free society. Through case studies ranging from Herodotus to Plutarch, the study demonstrates how this terminology was used to explain the origins of institutions or delegi…
The Coinage of King Antiochus: The War in Sicily of 136–132 BC through Rebel Eyes
This chapter re-examines the numismatic evidence from the first Sicilian revolt, focusing on coins bearing the name of King Antiochus (Eunus). Contextualizing these artifacts within second-century BC Sicilian numismatics, the study argues that the rebels' coinage reflects an attempt to establish cultural and political connections with south-eastern Sicily, presenting their leader as a Hellenistic monarch. This interpretation challenges the tradit…
How to Define Revolt? Ancient Slave Rebellions in the Global Context
This chapter critically examines the modern terminology of "slave revolts" as applied to the two Sicilian conflicts. It argues that the conventional labelling of these events as "First" and "Second" Sicilian Slave Wars implicitly suggests a similarity between them and with other slave rebellions throughout history. This chapter demonstrates that these two conflicts are atypical in the history of slavery, both ancient and modern, particularly in t…
The Slave-Owner Narratives of the ‘First Sicilian Slave War’: Eunus and His Rebels
This chapter critically examines the literary evidence for the First Sicilian 'Slave War', focusing on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheke through a narratological lens. It argues that the portrayal of rebel leaders Eunus and Kleon relies on Hellenistic stereotypes, questioning the reliability of these characterizations. The study demonstrates how key narrative moments are rhetorically constructed to emphasize the rebels' mistreatment by their masters,…
Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta
This book offers the first comprehensive English-language study of the events commonly known as the Sicilian Slave Wars of the second century BC. Challenging traditional interpretations, it argues that these uprisings should be viewed not as slave revolts but as rebellions stemming from socio-economic and political issues caused by Roman influence in Sicily. The study prioritizes the rebels' perspectives over those of the Graeco-Roman elite, crit…
Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta
Offers a radical reassessment of slave revolts and their function in ancient historiography Offers a re-examination of the two Sicilian Slave Wars from the perspectives of the rebels based on physical evidence for the rebellions Presents a detailed study of the principle literary sources of the events with a focus on their status as slave owner narratives Sets out a new approach to stories of servile unrest in antiquity through a study of their f…
Illustrations
x1.1Sites taken or attacked during the first war 211.2Coin circulation in Morgantina 361.3Coin circulation in Ietas 391.4Correspondences with King Antiochu
(Re)producing Slaves: Demand, Supply, and Demography
This chapter offers a broad survey of the range of social and economic variables that shaped the dynamics of the demography of the slave population of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. As such, it covers a vast extent of time and space but in the process attempts to establish general trends while also focusing on particular points of significance and interest. Emphasis is placed on the relative roles of reproduction and of external supply; the …
Hospital Staff Report It Is Not Burnout, but a Normal Stress Reaction to an Uncongenial Work Environment: Findings from a Qualitative Study
(1) Background: The issue of burnout in healthcare staff is frequently discussed in relation to occupational health. In this paper, we report healthcare staff experiences of stress and burnout. (2) Methods: In total, 72 healthcare staff were interviewed from psychiatry, surgery, and emergency departments at an Australian public health service. The sample included doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, administrators, and front-line manager…
Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ Narratives: Writing Social Commentary in the Bibliothēkē
Diodorus Siculus has not enjoyed a positive reputation among historians of antiquity. Since the nineteenth century his Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as a derivative work produced by an incompetent compiler, useful often only in so far as one can mine his text for lost and, evidently, far superior works of history. Diodorus’ own input into the Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as the clumsy intervention of ‘a small man with pretensions’. In one of t…
The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals)
In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between 1860 and 1900 was a time of great confusion in biology; the natural selection hypothesis was in retreat before its acute critics, and no extension of evolutionary theory to human affair…
Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900
The Geography of Rebellion: Strategy and Supply in the Two ‘Sicilian Slave Wars’
The two Sicilian ‘Slave Wars’ of the second century BC have rarely been studied in terms of their strategic complexities. Previous efforts to do so have started from the assumption that each conflict was a priori the same or similar. In addition, both wars have been placed into a separate category of analysis from other wars, leading to analyses that have characterised the wars together as disorganized guerrilla campaigns or examples of ancient m…
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012
Eunus: The Cowardly King
In 135 b.c ., unable to endure the treatment of their master Damophilus, a group of slaves, urged on by the wonder-worker Eunus, captured the city of Enna in Eastern Sicily in a night-time raid. The subsequent war, according to our sources the largest of its kind in antiquity, raged for three years, destroying the armies of Roman praetors, and engaging three consecutive consuls in its eventual suppression. The success of the rebels in holding out…
Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950
This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of
"The Busiest Man in England"
This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Alle
“A Pedlar Crying Stuff”: Selling the Wares (1880–1889)
Allen got back from Hyères in May 1880. As we have seen, he had not idled his way through the months of recuperation. Indeed, in the month after his return there appeared in Fraser’s Magazine an article, “Geology and History,” which is a very typical and fine example of his early work. It explains how the agriculture, the manufactures, the arts, and even the religion of a society stands, quite literally and well as metaphorically, on its geology.…
Promoting children's interest in health: An evaluation of the child health profile
The child health profile was developed as an extension for older children of the personal child health record, which has normally been kept by mothers. The profile was introduced in three health board areas in Scotland. A questionnaire survey of young people revealed a mixed response concerning the usage and value of the profile. A small number had used it fully as a means of recording or communicating about personal health‐related matters, but a…
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ Narratives: Writing Social Commentary in the Bibliothēkē
Diodorus Siculus has not enjoyed a positive reputation among historians of antiquity. Since the nineteenth century his Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as a derivative work produced by an incompetent compiler, useful often only in so far as one can mine his text for lost and, evidently, far superior works of history. Diodorus’ own input into the Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as the clumsy intervention of ‘a small man with pretensions’. In one of t…
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012
Eunus: The Cowardly King
In 135 b.c ., unable to endure the treatment of their master Damophilus, a group of slaves, urged on by the wonder-worker Eunus, captured the city of Enna in Eastern Sicily in a night-time raid. The subsequent war, according to our sources the largest of its kind in antiquity, raged for three years, destroying the armies of Roman praetors, and engaging three consecutive consuls in its eventual suppression. The success of the rebels in holding out…
Supervenience and Computational Explanation in Vision Theory
According to Marr's theory of vision, computational processes of early vision rely for their success on certain “natural constraints” in the physical environment. I examine the implications of this feature of Marr's theory for the question whether psychological states supervene on neural states. It is reasonable to hold that Marr's theory is nonindividualistic in that, given the role of natural constraints, distinct computational theories of the …
Promoting children's interest in health: An evaluation of the child health profile
The child health profile was developed as an extension for older children of the personal child health record, which has normally been kept by mothers. The profile was introduced in three health board areas in Scotland. A questionnaire survey of young people revealed a mixed response concerning the usage and value of the profile. A small number had used it fully as a means of recording or communicating about personal health‐related matters, but a…
"The Busiest Man in England"
This book is a critical biography of Grant Allen, (1848-1899), the first for a century, based on all the surviving primary sources. Born in Kingston, Ontario, into a cultured and affluent family, Alle
“A Pedlar Crying Stuff”: Selling the Wares (1880–1889)
Allen got back from Hyères in May 1880. As we have seen, he had not idled his way through the months of recuperation. Indeed, in the month after his return there appeared in Fraser’s Magazine an article, “Geology and History,” which is a very typical and fine example of his early work. It explains how the agriculture, the manufactures, the arts, and even the religion of a society stands, quite literally and well as metaphorically, on its geology.…
Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950
This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of
From a Distant Shore: Australian Writers in Britain 1820–2012
Eunus: The Cowardly King
In 135 b.c ., unable to endure the treatment of their master Damophilus, a group of slaves, urged on by the wonder-worker Eunus, captured the city of Enna in Eastern Sicily in a night-time raid. The subsequent war, according to our sources the largest of its kind in antiquity, raged for three years, destroying the armies of Roman praetors, and engaging three consecutive consuls in its eventual suppression. The success of the rebels in holding out…
The Vital Science (Routledge Revivals)
In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation. The period between 1860 and 1900 was a time of great confusion in biology; the natural selection hypothesis was in retreat before its acute critics, and no extension of evolutionary theory to human affair…
Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination,1860-1900
The Geography of Rebellion: Strategy and Supply in the Two ‘Sicilian Slave Wars’
The two Sicilian ‘Slave Wars’ of the second century BC have rarely been studied in terms of their strategic complexities. Previous efforts to do so have started from the assumption that each conflict was a priori the same or similar. In addition, both wars have been placed into a separate category of analysis from other wars, leading to analyses that have characterised the wars together as disorganized guerrilla campaigns or examples of ancient m…
Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ Narratives: Writing Social Commentary in the Bibliothēkē
Diodorus Siculus has not enjoyed a positive reputation among historians of antiquity. Since the nineteenth century his Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as a derivative work produced by an incompetent compiler, useful often only in so far as one can mine his text for lost and, evidently, far superior works of history. Diodorus’ own input into the Bibliothēkē has been dismissed as the clumsy intervention of ‘a small man with pretensions’. In one of t…
Hospital Staff Report It Is Not Burnout, but a Normal Stress Reaction to an Uncongenial Work Environment: Findings from a Qualitative Study
(1) Background: The issue of burnout in healthcare staff is frequently discussed in relation to occupational health. In this paper, we report healthcare staff experiences of stress and burnout. (2) Methods: In total, 72 healthcare staff were interviewed from psychiatry, surgery, and emergency departments at an Australian public health service. The sample included doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, administrators, and front-line manager…
(Re)producing Slaves: Demand, Supply, and Demography
This chapter offers a broad survey of the range of social and economic variables that shaped the dynamics of the demography of the slave population of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. As such, it covers a vast extent of time and space but in the process attempts to establish general trends while also focusing on particular points of significance and interest. Emphasis is placed on the relative roles of reproduction and of external supply; the …
The φιλιπηιον Gold Coinage
These two coins have been published by Manganaro, Berk and Bendall, and Lorber, and are listed in Campana’s catalogue of Campana as coins 15 and 16 from En
Introduction: The Problem with the ‘Sicilian Slave Wars’
This introduction establishes the framework for the reinterpretation of two major conflicts in 2nd century BC Sicily, traditionally known as the "Sicilian Slave Wars." It outlines the book's challenge to this long-standing categorization, proposing instead to view these events as complex revolts against Roman power involving diverse groups. The introduction previews how the subsequent chapters will critically reassess literary and material eviden…
The Creation of an Alternative State: Reassessing the Rebels in the War of 104–100 BC
This chapter analyzes the Second Sicilian 'Slave War' through both literary and material evidence. It examines the portrayal of leaders Salvius/Tryphon and Athenion in works by Diodorus Siculus, Florus, and Cicero, revealing the use of stereotypical characterizations similar to those in the first war. The study then integrates this literary analysis with archaeological evidence from inscribed slingshots. By examining key events, such as Salvius/T…
The Slave Revolt Topos: Thinking with Servile Unrest in Ancient Historiography
This chapter examines the historiographical context of the Sicilian 'Slave Wars' in ancient literature. It argues that the label 'slave revolt' was employed by ancient writers for various purposes, including as aetiologies, social and political commentary, and as commentary on free society. Through case studies ranging from Herodotus to Plutarch, the study demonstrates how this terminology was used to explain the origins of institutions or delegi…
The Coinage of King Antiochus: The War in Sicily of 136–132 BC through Rebel Eyes
This chapter re-examines the numismatic evidence from the first Sicilian revolt, focusing on coins bearing the name of King Antiochus (Eunus). Contextualizing these artifacts within second-century BC Sicilian numismatics, the study argues that the rebels' coinage reflects an attempt to establish cultural and political connections with south-eastern Sicily, presenting their leader as a Hellenistic monarch. This interpretation challenges the tradit…
How to Define Revolt? Ancient Slave Rebellions in the Global Context
This chapter critically examines the modern terminology of "slave revolts" as applied to the two Sicilian conflicts. It argues that the conventional labelling of these events as "First" and "Second" Sicilian Slave Wars implicitly suggests a similarity between them and with other slave rebellions throughout history. This chapter demonstrates that these two conflicts are atypical in the history of slavery, both ancient and modern, particularly in t…
The Slave-Owner Narratives of the ‘First Sicilian Slave War’: Eunus and His Rebels
This chapter critically examines the literary evidence for the First Sicilian 'Slave War', focusing on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheke through a narratological lens. It argues that the portrayal of rebel leaders Eunus and Kleon relies on Hellenistic stereotypes, questioning the reliability of these characterizations. The study demonstrates how key narrative moments are rhetorically constructed to emphasize the rebels' mistreatment by their masters,…
Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta
This book offers the first comprehensive English-language study of the events commonly known as the Sicilian Slave Wars of the second century BC. Challenging traditional interpretations, it argues that these uprisings should be viewed not as slave revolts but as rebellions stemming from socio-economic and political issues caused by Roman influence in Sicily. The study prioritizes the rebels' perspectives over those of the Graeco-Roman elite, crit…
Slavery and Rebellion in Second-Century BC Sicily: From Bellum Servile to Sicilia Capta
Offers a radical reassessment of slave revolts and their function in ancient historiography Offers a re-examination of the two Sicilian Slave Wars from the perspectives of the rebels based on physical evidence for the rebellions Presents a detailed study of the principle literary sources of the events with a focus on their status as slave owner narratives Sets out a new approach to stories of servile unrest in antiquity through a study of their f…
Illustrations
x1.1Sites taken or attacked during the first war 211.2Coin circulation in Morgantina 361.3Coin circulation in Ietas 391.4Correspondences with King Antiochu
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