David Braund
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1069273 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Braund |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Braund |
| ASSINATURA | BRAUND D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Amazons
Function and dysfunction
Since personal patronage was all-pervasive in Roman society, it is hardly surprising that it played a leading role in what was perhaps the greatest issue of that society - namely, the creation, retention, administration and expansion of Rome’s empire
Antakaios
This article discusses the fi sh known among ancient Greeks of the Black Sea and more generally as the antakaios.It is the sturgeon, and perhaps specifi cally a variety called the "starry sturgeon" (Acipenser stellatus).The fi sh appears in texts and archaeological remains.Near the end of the fourth century BC the Bosporan kingdom issued large bronze coins which clearly show this species of sturgeon.It is easily identifi ed by its long, thin snou…
Environment and Habitation Around the Ancient Black Sea
Heracles’ Footprint by the River Tyras
Introduction
The ancient Black Sea is opening up for international study – perhaps slowly, but very surely. This book is intended as a major stride forward in our appreciation of the cultural life of Greeks and their neighbours there, for it offers the first ever substantial study of ancient theatrical and performance culture around the whole Black Sea region, stretching in time from the early archaic age until the Roman world and – ultimately – the emergence…
Theatre and Performance in the Bosporan Kingdom
If we are to understand the theatre and broader culture of the Bosporan kingdom, it is important to be clear from the outset about the kingdom’s development and physical environment. For, although details are scarce, we may be sure enough that the kingdom’s history and geography were key to its theatre, most obviously in its links to Athens and its ritual and cultural responses to its volcanic landscape. That holds good both for the works created…
Epilogue
The purpose of this closing section of the book is primarily to open some further lines of thought and enquiry by considering subsequent developments in theatre and performance around the Black Sea, as the region passed through the Hellenistic, Roman and ultimately Christian-Byzantine worlds. I shall attempt this in three sections, which may well seem at first to be very different and unrelated, but which will emerge as parts of a connected pheno…
Historiography and Theatre
The purpose of this chapter is primarily to examine storytelling at Olbia (alias Borysthenes), with particular regard to the theatrical evocations of the tale of Skyles in Herodotus’ Histories (4. 76–80). The fact that Herodotus saw fit to set out his demise in such detail, and thereby gave it so much space in his text, requires that we pay it special attention in any case. All the more so, when we observe that this lengthy vignette dominates the…
Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea
This is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history. In that way the wealth of material found around these great coasts is brought together with the best methodology in all fields of study. This landmark…
The Relief and Text of Ig Ii 3 1 298
This article examines an important document in the history of Athens’ relations with the rulers of the Bosporus, namely the stele on which we have the decree ( IG II 3 1 298) and its relief. The article argues that, in their different ways, both the decree and the relief stress the same theme – continuity. The relief portrays the two sons of Leukon, who have succeeded to the throne, on which they sit, holding a sceptre, while their father (deceas…
Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region
Deukalion the Scythian
Theatre in the Fourth-Century Black Sea Region
Apollo in Arms
Nero was very much concerned to show himself as a successful commander and diplomat. The favorite contrast between militarism and cultural pursuits was readily resolved in Nero's favorite figure of Apollo. While Nero pointed to Apollo as his precedent and archetype in music and the like, he could also insist upon Apollo as a god of war. Apollo was a very military deity as well as a patron of culture, as Augustus had already made clear. Meanwhile,…
The slave supply in classical Greece
APPROACHING THE GREEK SLAVE SUPPLY How did Greeks obtain their slaves, and how did men, women and children come to be slaves in classical Greece? While statistics are elusive, no one would seriously challenge the fact that there were large numbers of slaves in the Greek world of various kinds and origins. This chapter seeks to explore the processes that brought people into slavery in Greece, and also to give some sense of the individual slave's e…
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultur…
Myth and Ritual at Sinope
The interaction of myth and history at Sinope is explored with regard (1) to Diogenes the Cynic and (2) Sanape/Sinope the Amazon. The modern statue of Diogenes illustrates the abiding and changing significance of an individual whose myth is much more important than the more probable details of his biography. His dwelling in a storage-jar may echo the image of Sinope as a centre of production and exchange (especially in wine and oil), while his ap…
Greek geography and Roman empire
In the seventeen books of Strabo's Geography , the Euxine or Black Sea region receives a lot of attention from the opening chapters onwards. Why so much? The question becomes still sharper when we observe Strabo's awareness of the sheer size of his work. His great text is like a colossal statue, as he puts it. There is an evident authorial pride in its scope and a claim to special quality to match the quantity, but Strabo also shows, sometimes ex…
Classical Olbia and the Scythian World
The study of Olbia has always been set apart through the outstanding results of its excavations and the splendour of individual finds there. This volume focuses on the interaction of the city of Olbia and the population around it, embracing both the Scythian and the classical worlds. Chapters consider the progress of archaeology at Olbia, Herodotus' account of Olbia and its environs, interaction between Greeks and non-Greeks, and Olbia's situatio…
Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor
Herodotus’ Spartan Scythians
Notes from the Black Sea and Caucasus
Friends and Foes
This chapter first explores the Athenian democracy's ambivalence towards the institution of monarchy. It shows that while monarchy was widely regarded as at odds with democracy, the existence of good kings could also be accepted and such kings could even be accommodated within the Athenian democracy's past. The second section elucidates the 5th-century democracy's concern (1) with the notion of the establishment of one-man rule at Athens; (2) wit…
Athenaeus and his world
Georgia in Antiquity
This is the first full history of the ancient Georgia ever to be written outside Georgia itself. It is also an introduction to the substantial archaeological work that has been carried out in Georgia in recent decades. The principal purpose of this book is to open up ancient Georgia for the world of scholarship at large. It is not only the history of a neglected region, but also a sustained attempt to inform topics and issues that are more famili…
Athenaeus and his world
The Aedui, Troy, and the Apocolocyntosis
In his Gallic War Caesar tells us that the Roman Senate had frequently recognized the Aedui as ‘brothers and kinsmen’. This statement, though prima facie rather odd, is fully supported by Caesar's contemporaries, Cicero and Diodorus Siculus, and a number of later authorities. Ihm was of the opinion that the Aedui were recognized as ‘fratres consanguineosque’ because they were the first tribe in Gallia Comata to enter into alliance with Rome. Howe…
Ruling Roman Britain
In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction of a new approach to Roman Britain, its history and its archaeology. For the first time, monarchy is identified as a key issue in the history of Roman …
Three Hellenistic Personages
Amynander of Athamania first appears in our sources in 209 B.C. and last appears in 189 B.C. In whatö follows I shall discuss two episodes from within this period
Myth and Ritual at Sinope
The interaction of myth and history at Sinope is explored with regard (1) to Diogenes the Cynic and (2) Sanape/Sinope the Amazon. The modern statue of Diogenes illustrates the abiding and changing significance of an individual whose myth is much more important than the more probable details of his biography. His dwelling in a storage-jar may echo the image of Sinope as a centre of production and exchange (especially in wine and oil), while his ap…
The Export of Slaves from Colchis
Polybius in a familiar passage, lists goods moving past Byzantium between the Mediterranean. world and the Black Sea region; among these goods, slaves are accorded a prominent place: ...as regards necessities it is an unidsputed fact that the most plentiful supplies and best qualities of of cattle and slaves reach us from the countries lying round the Pontus, while among luxuries the same countries furnish us with an abundance of honey, wax and p…
Dionysiac Tragedy in Plutarch, Crassus
It has recently and rightly been observed that Plutarch is exceptional as a prose author in the finesse with which he employs tragedy in his Lives. And, one might add, in the extent to which he does so. His dislike for the sensationalism of ‘tragic history’ was no obstacle to his use of ‘the sustained tragic patterning and imagery which is a perfectly respectable feature of both biography and history’. The primary purpose of the present discussio…
Procopius on the Economy of Lazica
Procopius states that the Colchian Lazi had neither salt nor grain nor any other good thing; for this reason they always engaged in trade with the Romans around the Black Sea
Observations on Cartimandua
Cartimandua first appears in the historical record in a.d. 51, in which year she handed Caratacus to the Romans. She was already ruler of the Brigantes: how long she had ruled is not known, but it is quite possible that she was in power even before Claudius' invasion in a.d. 43. The Brigantes seem to have been a federation: how close-knit this federation was and how far and firmly Cartimandua's authority extended over it must be matters of some d…
Four Notes On The Herods
In JRS (1968), Shelagh Jameson discussed the relative chronology of the campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius: her discussion has rightly met with broad acceptance. She argued that Petronius began his first Ethiopian campaign in or by autumn 25 B.c. , while Gallus began his Arabian campaign in or by August 26 B.C. and ended it in October or November 25 B.c
The Aedui, Troy, and the Apocolocyntosis
In his Gallic War Caesar tells us that the Roman Senate had frequently recognized the Aedui as ‘brothers and kinsmen’. This statement, though prima facie rather odd, is fully supported by Caesar's contemporaries, Cicero and Diodorus Siculus, and a number of later authorities. Ihm was of the opinion that the Aedui were recognized as ‘fratres consanguineosque’ because they were the first tribe in Gallia Comata to enter into alliance with Rome. Howe…
Three Hellenistic Personages
Amynander of Athamania first appears in our sources in 209 B.C. and last appears in 189 B.C. In whatö follows I shall discuss two episodes from within this period
Royal Wills and Rome
DISPOSIZIONI TESTAMENTARIE REALI E ROMA La prima metà di questo articolo è una raccolta di tutta le disposizioni testamentarie reali concernenti Roma dal III secolo a.c. al I secolo d.c. Questi testamenti comprendono lasciti di interi regni nonchè legati minori, e la nomina del popolo romano a tutore degli eredi del re. La seconda parte esplora la logica che si trova dietro queste disposizioni: perchè i re le prendevano? Vengono studiate varie po…
Four Notes On The Herods
In JRS (1968), Shelagh Jameson discussed the relative chronology of the campaigns of Aelius Gallus and C. Petronius: her discussion has rightly met with broad acceptance. She argued that Petronius began his first Ethiopian campaign in or by autumn 25 B.c. , while Gallus began his Arabian campaign in or by August 26 B.C. and ended it in October or November 25 B.c
Rome and the friendly king
Anth. Pal. 9. 235
Who is the author of this poem and what is its historical context? Gow and Page are convinced that the author is Crinagoras. Manuscript authority, in the person of the so-called ‘corrector’, supports the attribution. Yet, at first sight at least, the attribution of this poem to Crinagoras raises something of a problem. It does so because the poem evidently relates to what seems to be a contemporary marriage linking the royal families of Egypt and…
Observations on Cartimandua
Cartimandua first appears in the historical record in a.d. 51, in which year she handed Caratacus to the Romans. She was already ruler of the Brigantes: how long she had ruled is not known, but it is quite possible that she was in power even before Claudius' invasion in a.d. 43. The Brigantes seem to have been a federation: how close-knit this federation was and how far and firmly Cartimandua's authority extended over it must be matters of some d…
Augustus to Nero
The Social History of Rome
Augustus to Nero
The Export of Slaves from Colchis
Polybius in a familiar passage, lists goods moving past Byzantium between the Mediterranean. world and the Black Sea region; among these goods, slaves are accorded a prominent place: ...as regards necessities it is an unidsputed fact that the most plentiful supplies and best qualities of of cattle and slaves reach us from the countries lying round the Pontus, while among luxuries the same countries furnish us with an abundance of honey, wax and p…
Hadrian and Pharasmanes
Procopius on the Economy of Lazica
Procopius states that the Colchian Lazi had neither salt nor grain nor any other good thing; for this reason they always engaged in trade with the Romans around the Black Sea
Felix (Person)
[Gk Phēlix]. The procurator of Palestine from a.d. 52–60 who, supposedly “possessing accurate knowledge of the Way” (Acts 24:22), heard Paul’s defense shortly after the apostle had been removed from Jerusalem to Caesarea (Acts 23:23–24:27). The little we know about Felix we learn from Josephus and f
Drusilla (Person)
[Gk Drousillē]. The Jewish wife of Felix, the Roman procurator who heard Paul’s defense in Caesarea (Acts 24:24). Most of what we know about Drusilla comes from the Jewish historian Josephus, who reports that she was born in a.d. 37/8, the youngest daughter of Agrippa I and Cypros (Ant 18.132; War 2
Priscus on the Suani
Dionysiac Tragedy in Plutarch, Crassus
It has recently and rightly been observed that Plutarch is exceptional as a prose author in the finesse with which he employs tragedy in his Lives. And, one might add, in the extent to which he does so. His dislike for the sensationalism of ‘tragic history’ was no obstacle to his use of ‘the sustained tragic patterning and imagery which is a perfectly respectable feature of both biography and history’. The primary purpose of the present discussio…
Archaic Georgia
Much has been written about Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea region in the archaic period, but the evidential basis for such writings is scant, even by the humble standards of ancient history, where evidence is never in excess. Most important issues remain in dispute. However, Hellenocentric models of colonization are now seldom adopted: they have been replaced by a more nuanced concern for all participants in the historical …
The Geography and Economy of Ancient Georgia
The geography of Colchis and Iberia is characterized by diversity: mountains, passes, plains, marshes, and foothills form a changing landscape, intersected by scores of rivers, some readily navigable. To the north and east, passes lead on to extensive plains, while to the south they lead into the Armenian uplands. The west is dominated by the Black Sea itself, the greatest highway of the region.
Dedication
Colchis under the Principate
From the time of Pompey, Rome left Colchis under local rule for a century or so. The arrangement was recommended by the endemic piracy and banditry which flourished in the wetlands and mountains of the eastern Black Sea region. Largely for that reason, even after the establishment of direct Roman rule in ad 64, local rulers continued to play a major role in Colchis. From the first century ad Rome had forts along the east coast of the Black Sea, b…
Achaemenids and Seleucids in Georgia
The purpose of this chapter is to construct the history of Colchis as it developed from the later stages of the colonial processes which were explored in the previous chapter. Vital to that history is the Persian empire and, thereafter, its Seleucid successor in the region, though ancient Georgia has seldom been considered in these broad imperial contexts. Persian cultural influences combined with Greek impact both from the coast and from the Hel…
Imagining Georgia in Antiquity
The myth retained that prominence because it was germane to a series of key issues and themes which remained current and problematic in the Graeco-Roman world: the ethics of sea-travel, man’s abuse of nature, the use of magic, the dangerous stranger, the power of oaths, the limits of proper vengeance, relationships, rights, responsibilities and loyalties within a family, the problematics of marriage and parenthood, gender, ethnicity, and much mor…
Title Pages
Between Romans and Sassanians
The changes and upheavals of the third century had their impact in Colchis and Iberia, as elsewhere. Through the third century and into the fourth the very centre of the Roman empire moved towards the periphery. The foundation of Constantinople in AD 324 is but one symptom of that development.
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