Christopher P Jones
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3681009 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher P Jones |
| PRENOMES | Christopher P |
| SOBRENOME | Jones |
| ASSINATURA | JONES C P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6807-2380 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 342 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1966 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Grammarians and Emperors
The Greek γραμματικός combined several functions: as editor and expounder of texts, linguist, librarian, lecturer, courtier and sometimes as ambassador for his monarch or city. In due course Latin-speaking grammatici applied philological skills developed at Alexandria to their own literature, and served as librarians in the great libraries of the imperial period. The present paper studies some Greek γραμματικοί active in Rome, particularly Alexan…
Messene in the last years of Augustus
Christian Apologists and the Antonine Emperors = Apologetas cristianos y los emperadores Antoninos
The Antonine period from Hadrian onwards sees the beginning of a Christian literature of “apology,” more precisely of defense and justification of the new religion. These defenses sometimes take the form of attacks on “pagan” cults or on Judaism. The Christians begin to represent their religion as a philosophy, worthy of consideration beside the traditional philosophies of the Graeco-Roman world. At the same time Christians are still persecute…
Risky business
The armed Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has become the defining weapon of post-9/11 conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Controlled by a remotely-located operator, the capability of RPA to conducts attacks with no immediate risk to the operator has led some to claim that warfare with RPA is risk-free. However, an empirical assessment of operational context reveals that RPA operations involve credible risks to both combatants and non-combata…
The Historicity of the Neronian Persecution
Brent Shaw has recently argued that the Neronian persecution never occurred. In fact, there are no grounds for doubting Tacitus’ report of the persecution. Sources later than Tacitus (Melito, Dionysius of Alexandria) date the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul to the reign of Nero, but those reports have no bearing on the veracity of Tacitus’ account
An amulet from London and events surrounding the Antonine Plague
R. S. O. Tomlin has recently provided an excellent publication of an amulet found in the City of London in 1989. It is a long, narrow strip cut from a sheet of pewter, with 30 lines of Greek text, and the bearer was a certain Demetri(o)s. By a curious coincidence, two of the Greek inscriptions of Britain also involve a Demetrios, though a different one. They are inscribed on two bronze plates found in York about 1840. One reads , the other , and …
Five Letters Attributed to Dio of Prusa
Between Pagan and Christian
Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Pagan and Christian uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity
Three Temples in Libanius and the Theodosian Code
In Libanius' speech For the Temples (Or. 30), sometimes regarded as the crowning work of his career, he refers to an unnamed city in which a great pagan temple had recently been destroyed; the date of the speech is disputed, but must be in the 380 s or early 390 s, near the end of the speaker's life. After deploring the actions of a governor appointed by Theodosius, often identified with the praetorian prefect Maternus Cynegius, Libanius continue…
Introduction
Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the "blurring of genres" in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of "blurring" imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications of fuzzines…
"The Fuzziness of "Paganism
The subject of "the last pagans" or "the end of paganism" in the Greco-Roman world has interested scholars for over a century but begs the question "What is paganism?" Is the term usable as a tool of analysis? It originates from the Latin paganus, meaning "villager," "rustic," and reflects the way that Latin speakers viewed early Christianity as a phenomenon of the countryside, much as the English heathen, or German Heide, derives from a root mea…
The Historian Philostratus of Athens
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New Heroes in Antiquity
New heroes in antiquity
Chapter Twelve. Aristides’ First Admirer
Phrynichos? discussion of Aelius Aristides is preserved in the summary of the Sophistic Preparation made by Photios in the ninth century, not in his only extant work, the Ecloge . This chapter examines what he has to say about Aristides, at least in the form mediated by Photios, and then take up three subjects: the date at which he wrote; the local and social setting in which he wrote; and the literary context, that is, what in his views of langu…
A Forgotten Sophist
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Addendum to JRA 18 (2005)
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Ten dedications “To the gods and goddesses” and the Antonine Plague
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Multiple identities in the age of the Second Sophistic
In recent years much attention has been paid to the question of 'Greekness' or 'Hellenicity.' In the period of the Roman Empire, especially the 'High Empire' of the second and third centuries, a view often implied, if not always expressed, is that 'Greek' and 'Roman' are words expressing fundamental opposites. 'Greek identity,' it is claimed, 'had always been articulated through the opposition of Greeks and non-Greeks, who were called barbaroi Th…
A speech of the Emperor Hadrian
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The Ties of Our Common Kindred
Research Article| January 01 2003 The Ties of Our Common Kindred Christopher Jones Christopher Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 132–136. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-9-1-132 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation C…
Being Greek under Rome
A Hellenistic Cult-Association
An inscribed stele of the second century BC from near Koloe in Lydia contains a decree of a cult-association by which the members honor and praise a certain Stratonike, their late priestess. The association was originally formed in memory of members of Stratonike’s family, and is centered on the family heroon. As well as honoring Stratonike, the members console her two surviving sons on her «apotheosis». A related stele lists the members of the a…
Hellenistic History in Chariton of Aphrodisias
The Earthquake of 26 BCE in Decrees of Mytilene and Chios
A decree of Mytilene (IG XII 2, 58), datable to the early years of Augustus’ principate, is to be connected with an earthquake or series of earthquakes that affected the city about the year 26 BCE. A decree from near the end of the reign, known from a copy in Olympia (IvOl 53), is not from Cos, as has been supposed, but from Chios, and refers to the reconstruction of Chios after the same earthquake. A new edition of this decree is provided
The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom
The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's b…
Stigma
One of the best episodes in Petronius' Satyrica involves the presence of the narrator, Encolpius, his lover Giton, and the rogue-poet Eumolpus, on board a ship owned by Lichas, of which another passenger is the flighty matron, Tryphaena. In an earlier episode of the novel, Lichas seems to have been the lover of Encolpius and Tryphaena of Giton, though both affairs had ended in enmity. There ensues a comic deliberation between Encolpius and Giton …
Ἕθνος and γνος in Herodotus
Herodotus has often been considered the Father of Ethnography no less than the Father of History. It comes as a paradox, then, that he has been taxed with confusion in his use of two terms that recur over and over in his discussion of peoples, ἕθνος and γνος. Here is the formulation of Raymond Weil: Hérodote definit mal l‘ethnos’. C'est pour lui tantôot une subdivision du ‘génos’, tantôt au contraire un ensemble de ‘géné’. Ainsi 1' ‘ethnos’ des M…
Between Pagan and Christian
Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Pagan and Christian uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity
Aphrodisias and Rome
The texts from Aphrodisias in Caria at the core of this book provide remarkable documentation for Roman history during the Mithridatic War, the Second Triumvirate and the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. They include a Greek translation of the longest senatus consultum so far known and a number of imperial letters. They throw light on provincial attitudes to Rome, on Roman policies in the provinces, on the relation of Octavian with Antony, and on many fasci…
The Romanization of Athens
The problem of romanization, the power of Athens, Susan E. Alcock Roman cicizens in Athens 228-31 BC, Christian Habicht the Athenian elite - romanization, resistance and the exercise of power, Daniel J.Geagan Laceratae Athenae - Sulla's siege of Athens in 87-6 BC and its aftermath, Michael Hoff the Tower of the Winds in Athens - Hellenistic or Roman?, hermann J. Kienast Athens under Augustus, Susan Walker classical encounters - Attic sculpture af…
Pliny
Ten dedications “To the gods and goddesses” and the Antonine Plague
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The Rhodian Oration Ascribed to Aelius Aristides
Among the works of Aelius Aristides is preserved one entitled the Rhodian ('Pοδιακ⋯ς, sc. λ⋯γος, no. 25) It concerns an earthquake which has recently struck the city of Rhodes, and since Keil's edition of 1898 it has usually been considered spurious. The work reproduces a true speech, not something like an open letter: the clearest sign is when the author uses the deictic pronoun τοετ⋯, ‘this here’, of the place in which he is speaking (53). One …
Homer's Daughters
IT OFTEN HAPPENS IN SCHOLARSHIP that a correct view is supplanted by an incorrect one, and can only be reestablished by the consideration of old evidence or the production of new: recentiores non potiores. The present study concerns a monument from imperial Athens which has been subjected to a variety of interpretations; the original one, often though not entirely unheeded, can be now supported by evidence from Pamphylia
The Historicity of the Neronian Persecution
Brent Shaw has recently argued that the Neronian persecution never occurred. In fact, there are no grounds for doubting Tacitus’ report of the persecution. Sources later than Tacitus (Melito, Dionysius of Alexandria) date the martyrdoms of Peter and Paul to the reign of Nero, but those reports have no bearing on the veracity of Tacitus’ account
An amulet from London and events surrounding the Antonine Plague
R. S. O. Tomlin has recently provided an excellent publication of an amulet found in the City of London in 1989. It is a long, narrow strip cut from a sheet of pewter, with 30 lines of Greek text, and the bearer was a certain Demetri(o)s. By a curious coincidence, two of the Greek inscriptions of Britain also involve a Demetrios, though a different one. They are inscribed on two bronze plates found in York about 1840. One reads , the other , and …
"The Fuzziness of "Paganism
The subject of "the last pagans" or "the end of paganism" in the Greco-Roman world has interested scholars for over a century but begs the question "What is paganism?" Is the term usable as a tool of analysis? It originates from the Latin paganus, meaning "villager," "rustic," and reflects the way that Latin speakers viewed early Christianity as a phenomenon of the countryside, much as the English heathen, or German Heide, derives from a root mea…
A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Volume I
Five Letters Attributed to Dio of Prusa
Three Temples in Libanius and the Theodosian Code
In Libanius' speech For the Temples (Or. 30), sometimes regarded as the crowning work of his career, he refers to an unnamed city in which a great pagan temple had recently been destroyed; the date of the speech is disputed, but must be in the 380 s or early 390 s, near the end of the speaker's life. After deploring the actions of a governor appointed by Theodosius, often identified with the praetorian prefect Maternus Cynegius, Libanius continue…
Introduction
Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the "blurring of genres" in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of "blurring" imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications of fuzzines…
The Historian Philostratus of Athens
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Addendum to JRA 18 (2005)
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A speech of the Emperor Hadrian
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The pancratiasts Helix and Alexander on an Ostian mosaic
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Neryllinus
Three Foreigners in Attica
SEVERAL ATTIC INSCRIPTIONS, one of them published only very recently, mention a Julius Nicanor, the Homer and New Themistocles: in several of them these words have been erased.l Nicanor is also mentioned by Dio Chrysostom and Stephanus of Byzantium. He is therefore a person of interest, though the evidence concerning him has caused various difficulties. First, Homer and New Themistocles. These words were correctly explained as long ago as 1863 by…
A Friend Of Galen
In 163 Galen gave an anatomy lesson in Rome before an audience that included ‘Demetrius of Alexandria, a friend of Favorinus, who was every day speakingin public on themes proposed to him, in the style and manner of Favorinus’
Towards A Chronology of Plutarch's Works
The belief is widespread that the majority of Plutarch's works was written after the death of Domitian in 96, when the author was a comparatively old man. So far, however, the foundations for this belief have not been firmly laid. The latest study of Plutarchean chronology, that of Ziegler, omits much, and new evidence is constantly accruing. The following study is an attempt to make use of all the material now available that bears on the dating …
A Friend Of Galen
In 163 Galen gave an anatomy lesson in Rome before an audience that included ‘Demetrius of Alexandria, a friend of Favorinus, who was every day speakingin public on themes proposed to him, in the style and manner of Favorinus’
The Younger Pliny and Jerome
DISCUSSING THE FATE of Pliny's correspondence in the late Empire, Alan Cameron has observed that Jerome in letters of 395 and 398 shows a knowledge of letters of Pliny (CQ n.s. 15 [1965] 293-294 and also C. n.s. 17 [1967]). It can be added that another letter of Pliny is echoed in the preface of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus, published in 393 (for the date see F. Cavallera, Saint-,Jr6me [1922] 2.31)
A New Commentary on the Letters of Pliny
THE LETTERS of the Younger Pliny are the chief contemporary source for the ill-documented reign of Trajan. They describe its society and institutions, they reflect its values and its judgements on history both recently past and in the making. Sherwin-White is therefore justified in confining this commentary' to historical and social matters. In a long general introduction he discusses the chronology of the Letters, their subject matter, the caree…
Pliny
Philostratus. Life of Apollonius
Aelius Aristides, ΕΙΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΑ
A short speech preserved among the writings of Aelius Aristides is addressed to an unnamed emperor. At present, it is generally agreed to be spurious, spoken by an unknown orator before the emperor Philip the Arab. It has been called ‘the only preserved specimen of the oratory of the third century’, ‘perhaps the only speech preserved in the corpus of Aristides of which the authenticity can be denied with confidence’, and it has been used as a pri…
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Volume I
The Inscription from the Sea-Wall at Anemurium
Philostratus
D. A. Russell, Plutarch. (Classical life and letters.) London
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A Syrian in Lyon
The Roman World of Dio Chrysostom
The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of the major sources of information about Greek civilization during the early Roman Empire. C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. Skillfully combining literary and historical evidence, Mr. Jones describes Dio's b…
Three Foreigners in Attica
SEVERAL ATTIC INSCRIPTIONS, one of them published only very recently, mention a Julius Nicanor, the Homer and New Themistocles: in several of them these words have been erased.l Nicanor is also mentioned by Dio Chrysostom and Stephanus of Byzantium. He is therefore a person of interest, though the evidence concerning him has caused various difficulties. First, Homer and New Themistocles. These words were correctly explained as long ago as 1863 by…
Apuleius' "Metamorphoses" and Lollianus' "Phoinikika
THE PAPYRUS FRAGMENTS of Lollianus' Phoinikika now in Cologne and first published by Albert Henrichs in 1969 have been called most important new fictional prose-narrative material uncovered by papyrology since the publication of the Ninus-romance in 1893.' Together with the so-called Glauketes-papyrus, which they show to have belonged to another copy of the same work,2 they received a full edition from Henrichs in 1972, and two important and inde…
The ΕΙΣ ΒΑΣIΛΕΑ again
Among the works of Aelius Aristides is preserved an address to an unnamed ‘king’. The prevailing view in this century has been that it is addressed to a third-century emperor, and was attributed to Aristides in error. In an article published in 1972 ( JRS 62 (1972), 134–52), I argued that the speech was genuine, and was delivered by Aristides in 144 before Antoninus Pius. In a recent article in this journal ( CQ N.S. 29 (1979), 172–97), Stephen A…
A Deed of Foundation from the Territory of Ephesos
The ‘foundation’ in the juridical sense, ‘the establishing of an institution, together with an endowment or provision for its perpetual maintenance’, is a conspicuous phenomenon of the Hellenistic and imperial periods. Though ancient foundations vary widely in form, purpose, and organization, two kinds predominate. One, of which the fullest examples are Hellenistic, is funerary. The founder forms an association, or endows one already formed, for …
Neryllinus
Aphrodisias and Rome
The texts from Aphrodisias in Caria at the core of this book provide remarkable documentation for Roman history during the Mithridatic War, the Second Triumvirate and the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. They include a Greek translation of the longest senatus consultum so far known and a number of imperial letters. They throw light on provincial attitudes to Rome, on Roman policies in the provinces, on the relation of Octavian with Antony, and on many fasci…
Homer's Daughters
IT OFTEN HAPPENS IN SCHOLARSHIP that a correct view is supplanted by an incorrect one, and can only be reestablished by the consideration of old evidence or the production of new: recentiores non potiores. The present study concerns a monument from imperial Athens which has been subjected to a variety of interpretations; the original one, often though not entirely unheeded, can be now supported by evidence from Pamphylia
Culture and Society in Lucian
The works of the second-century satirist Lucian--of which about seventy survive--have had a marked influence on western literature since the Renaissance. Translated by Erasmus, and called "inimitable" by Gibbon, Lucian is the first to tell the famous story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. His subjects range from the hypocrisy of philosophers to fantastic voyages in space. He is often thought the true father of science fiction and, at the same time, …
Sophron the Comoedos
An inscription found in the theatre of Hierapolis(Pamm UKkale)in Phrygia and recently published is of interest both in itself and because it may help to elucidate a passage of Arrian′s Discourses of Epictetos
Stigma
One of the best episodes in Petronius' Satyrica involves the presence of the narrator, Encolpius, his lover Giton, and the rogue-poet Eumolpus, on board a ship owned by Lichas, of which another passenger is the flighty matron, Tryphaena. In an earlier episode of the novel, Lichas seems to have been the lover of Encolpius and Tryphaena of Giton, though both affairs had ended in enmity. There ensues a comic deliberation between Encolpius and Giton …
Flavia Politta and Manilius Fuscus
A Hellenistic Inscription from Arsinoe in Cilicia
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