John Bodel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 277400 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Bodel |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Bodel |
| ASSINATURA | BODEL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Not So Funny After All
In 1971 Helmut van Thiel published a short monograph in which he proposed that the text of Petronius, as we have it, presents parts of the narrative out of order and therefore needs to be restored to its original form. This chapter explores the consequences of following Van Thiel’s prescriptions for our appreciation of the Quartilla episode, a badly damaged and curiously repetitive section of narrative (16–25) in which a priestess of Priapus exac…
Not So Funny After All
Epigraphic Culture and the Epigraphic Mode
Over the past half century the field of epigraphic studies has shifted away from a quasi-exclusive focus on the editing and interpretation of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions to broader consideration of the place of inscribed writing in classical culture. Discussions of an “epigraphic habit” and of the relevance of inscriptions for evaluating ancient levels and types of literacy have developed independently and have followed different courses…
Machine Learning for Ancient Languages
Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from deciphering lost languages to restoring damaged inscriptions, to determining the authorship of works of literature. Technological aids have long supported the study of ancient texts, but in recent years advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning ha…
The Hidden Language of Graphic Signs
A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks. Readers, not viewers, matter most, and the most effective graphs largely record sound, not meaning. But what if embellishments mattered deeply - if hidden writing, slow to produce, slow to read, played as enduring a role as more accessible graphs? What if meaningful marks did service alongside record…
Notes on the elogium of a benefactor at Pompeii
The rediscovery in the summer of 2017 of a large monumental tomb of unusual form outside the Stabian Gate at Pompeii caused an immediate sensation, and the swift initial publication by M. Osanna in JRA 31 (2018) of the long funerary inscription fronting the W side of the base, facing the road, has been welcomed gratefully by the scholarly community. The text — at 183 words, by far the longest funerary inscription yet found at Pompeii — records a …
Ancient slavery and modern ideologies
Silvio Panciera (21 March 1933 – 16 August 2016)
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On Human Bondage
On Human Bondage
The Publication of Pliny’s Letters
This chapter considers the interrelated questions of the mode and sequence of publication of Pliny’s letters and argues that signs of artistic arrangement within and among the individual books point to both the original groupings and to Pliny’s broader literary goals. It employs two types of arguments not previously brought to bear on the issue: literary critical arguments focused on significantly placed thematic and verbal correspondences evokin…
Inscriptions and Literacy
The study of ancient reading and writing practices must begin with inscriptions. This chapter charts the recent debates about the concept of literacy in the Roman world. Setting out from the archaic period, it shows how inscriptions have a key role to play in any assessment of the difficult question of levels of literacy, while at the same time highlighting some of the methodological problems involved in such enquiries. The chapter concludes with…
Inventive inscriptions
The nineteenth century was critical in the development of epigraphy as a discipline. It saw the conception, birth, growth, and, in one case, the premature death of the first two corpora of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions of the modern era; it also marked the end of the period when inscriptions were widely neglected and casually falsified, and the beginning of the time when they were more often regarded as historical monuments than as ornamen…
Ancient Documents and their Contexts
Ancient Documents and their Contexts contains the proceedings of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy(San Antonio, Texas, 4-5 January 2011). It gathers seventeen papers presented at this conference, ranging from technical discussions of epigraphic formulae and palaeography to broad consideration of inscriptions as social documents and visual records
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World
List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor s Preface xvii Preface xix Introduction 1 Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert 1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12 Jason Neelis 2 The Power of Highway Networks during China s Classical Era (323 BCE 316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33 Michael Nylan 3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructur…
Epigraphy and the ancient historian
Few ancient historians nowadays would agree with Sir John Edwin Sandys that the relationship between epigraphy and history is one of undue encroachment of the former upon the latter. Most would concede that the history of classical antiquity could not be written without epigraphy, and many would assert that the proper business of the epigraphist is not only to edit inscribed texts but to set inscriptions into their cultural contexts and thus to d…
Epigraphic Evidence
Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard…
Slave labour and Roman society
INTRODUCTION Domestic slavery was imagined as existing at Rome from the beginning – it could hardly have been otherwise with a cultural institution so deeply embedded in daily life during the historical period – and its established presence by the middle of the fifth century bc can be presumed from references to manumission and the liability of slave-owners in the Twelve Tables. However, slave labour did not become a significant phenomenon in Rom…
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…
Epigraphy
Epigraphy is traditionally defined as the study of inscriptions – a term, according to one authoritative opinion, that could properly be applied to any form of writing produced in a given culture with writing instruments and on surfaces other than those normally used in day-to-day life. In practice, however, the territory it conventionally covers includes all modes of writing that are not regularly employed for the production of literary texts. T…
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Caveat emptor
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John H. D'Arms (1934-2002)
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A Dedicatory Inscription to the Emperor Trajan from the Small Temple at Petra, Jordan
Monumental villas and villa monuments
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Caveat emptor
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Trimalchio and the Candelabrum
Epigraphic Evidence
Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard…
Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University
Presented here are 14 Roman epitaphs of early Imperial date from the epigraphic collections of Harvard University. All but three were published in 1909 by Clifford H. Moore, who purchased a small collection of Latin inscriptions in Rome in 1905 and 1906 for Harvard's Department of the Classics. Most of the stones collected by Moore are simple grave markers of first-or second-century date from the city of Rome; more than half reportedly came from …
Ancient slavery and modern ideologies
Ancient Documents and their Contexts
Ancient Documents and their Contexts contains the proceedings of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy(San Antonio, Texas, 4-5 January 2011). It gathers seventeen papers presented at this conference, ranging from technical discussions of epigraphic formulae and palaeography to broad consideration of inscriptions as social documents and visual records
Inscriptions and Literacy
The study of ancient reading and writing practices must begin with inscriptions. This chapter charts the recent debates about the concept of literacy in the Roman world. Setting out from the archaic period, it shows how inscriptions have a key role to play in any assessment of the difficult question of levels of literacy, while at the same time highlighting some of the methodological problems involved in such enquiries. The chapter concludes with…
Trimalchio and the Candelabrum
Trimalchio's Coming of Age
RECENTLY M. D. REEVE HAS ARGUED that when Trimalchio says annos quattuordecim fui he means fourteen; the accusative annos he cites Anth. Lat. 15 SB (= 28 Riese), line 3 annos ludere te decem decebit with Shackleton Bailey's note ad loc. (i.e. decem annos natum) and shows that in Petronius' day duration was normally expressed with the ablative case.1 T. Wade Richardson, finding the linguistic evidence inconclusive, defends the conventional interpr…
A new Roman brickstamp from Etruria
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Thirteen Latin Funerary Inscriptions at Harvard University
Presented here are 14 Roman epitaphs of early Imperial date from the epigraphic collections of Harvard University. All but three were published in 1909 by Clifford H. Moore, who purchased a small collection of Latin inscriptions in Rome in 1905 and 1906 for Harvard's Department of the Classics. Most of the stones collected by Moore are simple grave markers of first-or second-century date from the city of Rome; more than half reportedly came from …
Reading and Variant in Petronius
Critical editions of most classical authors are based on readings transmitted by medieval scholars that can be examined and collated. Modern editions of Petronius, on the other hand, are principally based on printed editions, most of them published in France during the sixteenth century. In this volume T. Wade Richardson considers the use made of the Petronius manuscripts then extant by seven French humanist editors for their various editions, co…
Monumental villas and villa monuments
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Five papers on Italy honoring Herbert Bloch
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Death Before Body-Bags
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John H. D'Arms (1934-2002)
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A Dedicatory Inscription to the Emperor Trajan from the Small Temple at Petra, Jordan
Caveat emptor
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Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Household and Family Religion in Antiquity
Epigraphy
Epigraphy is traditionally defined as the study of inscriptions – a term, according to one authoritative opinion, that could properly be applied to any form of writing produced in a given culture with writing instruments and on surfaces other than those normally used in day-to-day life. In practice, however, the territory it conventionally covers includes all modes of writing that are not regularly employed for the production of literary texts. T…
Slave labour and Roman society
INTRODUCTION Domestic slavery was imagined as existing at Rome from the beginning – it could hardly have been otherwise with a cultural institution so deeply embedded in daily life during the historical period – and its established presence by the middle of the fifth century bc can be presumed from references to manumission and the liability of slave-owners in the Twelve Tables. However, slave labour did not become a significant phenomenon in Rom…
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…
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World
List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor s Preface xvii Preface xix Introduction 1 Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert 1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12 Jason Neelis 2 The Power of Highway Networks during China s Classical Era (323 BCE 316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33 Michael Nylan 3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructur…
Epigraphy and the ancient historian
Few ancient historians nowadays would agree with Sir John Edwin Sandys that the relationship between epigraphy and history is one of undue encroachment of the former upon the latter. Most would concede that the history of classical antiquity could not be written without epigraphy, and many would assert that the proper business of the epigraphist is not only to edit inscribed texts but to set inscriptions into their cultural contexts and thus to d…
Epigraphic Evidence
Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered. Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard…
Inventive inscriptions
The nineteenth century was critical in the development of epigraphy as a discipline. It saw the conception, birth, growth, and, in one case, the premature death of the first two corpora of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions of the modern era; it also marked the end of the period when inscriptions were widely neglected and casually falsified, and the beginning of the time when they were more often regarded as historical monuments than as ornamen…
Ancient Documents and their Contexts
Ancient Documents and their Contexts contains the proceedings of the First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy(San Antonio, Texas, 4-5 January 2011). It gathers seventeen papers presented at this conference, ranging from technical discussions of epigraphic formulae and palaeography to broad consideration of inscriptions as social documents and visual records
The Publication of Pliny’s Letters
This chapter considers the interrelated questions of the mode and sequence of publication of Pliny’s letters and argues that signs of artistic arrangement within and among the individual books point to both the original groupings and to Pliny’s broader literary goals. It employs two types of arguments not previously brought to bear on the issue: literary critical arguments focused on significantly placed thematic and verbal correspondences evokin…
Inscriptions and Literacy
The study of ancient reading and writing practices must begin with inscriptions. This chapter charts the recent debates about the concept of literacy in the Roman world. Setting out from the archaic period, it shows how inscriptions have a key role to play in any assessment of the difficult question of levels of literacy, while at the same time highlighting some of the methodological problems involved in such enquiries. The chapter concludes with…
On Human Bondage
On Human Bondage
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