Ronald T Ridley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5371623 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ronald T Ridley |
| PRENOMES | Ronald T |
| SOBRENOME | Ridley |
| ASSINATURA | RIDLEY R T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Great Livy Delusion, 1924
In the summer of 1924, a young Neapolitan scholar, Mario di Martino Fusco, claimed to have discovered the long-lost 107 books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, sparking an international media frenzy. Announced prematurely by his supposed ally, Francesco Ribezzo, the claim captivated the scholarly world until it was definitively debunked. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary newspaper reports and scholarly reactions, this article reconstructs the unfo…
Essays on Livy’s Two Millennia (on G. Baldo and L. Beltramini, edd., Livius noster
he genesis of this fat volume was the celebration of Livy's bimillenary in (retaining rightly his traditional dates) centring on Padova, with an extraordinarily rich programme of events ( -). 1 The volume is subdivided into five parts, with thirty-eight contributions.It is a shame that some biographical identification on these writers ('established scholars as well as younger researchers') is not included.The introduction by Baldo is bilingual in…
The Fate of the Column of Antoninus Pius
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Roman archaeology, and totally unknown to modern scholars and works of reference, despite the comprehensive documentation, is the story of the extraction of the column of Antoninus Pius in the Campus Martius (1703–5). The work was placed in the hands of the ‘noble’ architects Carlo and Francesco Fontana, instead of competent engineers, and the result was the destruction of the column
Lars Porsenna and the Early Roman Republic
A dominant and fascinating figure at the very beginning of the Republic is Porsenna, king of Clusium. He has been a focus of attention since the Renaissance and for the following seven centuries. Fashions in interpretation have come and gone. This essay surveys those interpretations, and attempts to sum up the complexities of contemporary scholarship.
The Hoplite as Citizen
The ancient Greek art of war has been extensively studied. The weapons, strategy and tactics of Greek warfare are well known. We have discovered all about the weight of shields, the length of spears, the depth of line. We note the effects of the appearance or absence of light-armed troops or cavalry. We discuss strategic devices such as epiteichismos and remark upon the poverty of tactical innovation until the time of Epaminondas. We are all conv…
A Brimming Cup
I did not know Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905–90). She retired from the School of History in 1962, and I arrived in 1965. She was, however, very much a living legend, and many colleagues had been her s
The Dean of Archaeological Photographers
Harry Burton (1879–1940) was the most famous photographer in Egyptian archaeology, but he has previously received only a short entry in one specialised biographical dictionary, and been the subject of two essays. This study provides a basic biography, to document his photographic contribution to the history of Egyptian archaeology, and to indicate where published collections of his photographs, often uncredited, can be found
The Historian’s Silences
The fragments of Livy’s annalistic predecessors may be meagre, but they allow us to detect variant traditions which he does not include. Polybios, Tacitus and the emperor Claudius also record such variants on early Roman history. The same is true of the antiquarians Varro, Cincius, Verrius Flaccus, Gellius and Festus. These variants are examined to suggest what Livy might have rejected and why
The emperor's retrospect
The most famous of all Latin inscriptions is the ARes Gestae divi AugustiA (the achievements of the late emperor Augustus), published after his death at the entrance to his mausoleum in Rome, but known to us from various copies set up in the eastern provinces. It set out the things he most wanted to be remembered for from his first bid for power at the age of 19. The first copies were brought back to Europe in the sixteenth century, and the text …
The Forgotten Historian
Books
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend. By Alistair Thomson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994. Pp. vi + 282. $19.95 cloth. The Great War Gains and Losses—ANZAC and Empire. Edited by Craig Wilcox and Janice Aldridge, Australian War Memorial and Australian National University, Canberra, 1995. Pp. xiii + 236. $15.00 paper. Gender and Wan Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake. Cambridge University…
The Finding of the Esquiline Silver Treasure
The ‘Esquiline Treasure’ is one of the prize exhibits in the British Museum; two small objects from it are to be found in Paris and Naples. A contemporary account of its discovery in 1793 was published by the leading antiquarian of the day, Ennio Quirinio Visconti. He described the operation as a chance excavation near the monastery of the Minims on the Esquiline with a further footnote specifying that the site was a little beyond the Subura in t…
Four Unpublished Letters by or relating to Bernardino Drovetti
Publication de quatre lettres inedites issues de la correspondance de Bernardino Drovetti, Consul de France de 1803 a 1815, et Consul General de 1821 a 1829, en Egypte. Ces quatre lettres, dont deux sont de la main de Drovetti, procurent un certain nombre de renseignements sur le contexte politico-historique de l'Egypte du debut du 19e siecle (invasion anglaise en 1807, politique economique de Mehemet Ali) et sur les activites de Drovetti en Egyp…
Champollion in the Tomb of Seti I
The Discovery of the Pyramid Texts
Klio Band 61, Heft 2
The Enigma of Servius Tullius
(The Economic Activities of the Perioikoi *)
The perioikoi represent, in many ways, the most mysterious element in the ancient Spartan state x). I wish here to take up only one aspect of their life, probably the most crucial one : their economic activities. The question is of obvious importance, given the special economy of Sparta, in which the part of the helots is well enough known. Did the Spartans rely on the perioikoi as well? When one comes to attempt an answer to this, one is met wit…
(The Economic Activities of the Perioikoi *)
The perioikoi represent, in many ways, the most mysterious element in the ancient Spartan state x). I wish here to take up only one aspect of their life, probably the most crucial one : their economic activities. The question is of obvious importance, given the special economy of Sparta, in which the part of the helots is well enough known. Did the Spartans rely on the perioikoi as well? When one comes to attempt an answer to this, one is met wit…
The Historian’s Silences
The fragments of Livy’s annalistic predecessors may be meagre, but they allow us to detect variant traditions which he does not include. Polybios, Tacitus and the emperor Claudius also record such variants on early Roman history. The same is true of the antiquarians Varro, Cincius, Verrius Flaccus, Gellius and Festus. These variants are examined to suggest what Livy might have rejected and why
The Enigma of Servius Tullius
(The Economic Activities of the Perioikoi *)
The perioikoi represent, in many ways, the most mysterious element in the ancient Spartan state x). I wish here to take up only one aspect of their life, probably the most crucial one : their economic activities. The question is of obvious importance, given the special economy of Sparta, in which the part of the helots is well enough known. Did the Spartans rely on the perioikoi as well? When one comes to attempt an answer to this, one is met wit…
The Enigma of Servius Tullius
Klio Band 61, Heft 2
The Discovery of the Pyramid Texts
Champollion in the Tomb of Seti I
Four Unpublished Letters by or relating to Bernardino Drovetti
Publication de quatre lettres inedites issues de la correspondance de Bernardino Drovetti, Consul de France de 1803 a 1815, et Consul General de 1821 a 1829, en Egypte. Ces quatre lettres, dont deux sont de la main de Drovetti, procurent un certain nombre de renseignements sur le contexte politico-historique de l'Egypte du debut du 19e siecle (invasion anglaise en 1807, politique economique de Mehemet Ali) et sur les activites de Drovetti en Egyp…
The Forgotten Historian
Books
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend. By Alistair Thomson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1994. Pp. vi + 282. $19.95 cloth. The Great War Gains and Losses—ANZAC and Empire. Edited by Craig Wilcox and Janice Aldridge, Australian War Memorial and Australian National University, Canberra, 1995. Pp. xiii + 236. $15.00 paper. Gender and Wan Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake. Cambridge University…
The Finding of the Esquiline Silver Treasure
The ‘Esquiline Treasure’ is one of the prize exhibits in the British Museum; two small objects from it are to be found in Paris and Naples. A contemporary account of its discovery in 1793 was published by the leading antiquarian of the day, Ennio Quirinio Visconti. He described the operation as a chance excavation near the monastery of the Minims on the Esquiline with a further footnote specifying that the site was a little beyond the Subura in t…
The emperor's retrospect
The most famous of all Latin inscriptions is the ARes Gestae divi AugustiA (the achievements of the late emperor Augustus), published after his death at the entrance to his mausoleum in Rome, but known to us from various copies set up in the eastern provinces. It set out the things he most wanted to be remembered for from his first bid for power at the age of 19. The first copies were brought back to Europe in the sixteenth century, and the text …
The Dean of Archaeological Photographers
Harry Burton (1879–1940) was the most famous photographer in Egyptian archaeology, but he has previously received only a short entry in one specialised biographical dictionary, and been the subject of two essays. This study provides a basic biography, to document his photographic contribution to the history of Egyptian archaeology, and to indicate where published collections of his photographs, often uncredited, can be found
The Historian’s Silences
The fragments of Livy’s annalistic predecessors may be meagre, but they allow us to detect variant traditions which he does not include. Polybios, Tacitus and the emperor Claudius also record such variants on early Roman history. The same is true of the antiquarians Varro, Cincius, Verrius Flaccus, Gellius and Festus. These variants are examined to suggest what Livy might have rejected and why
A Brimming Cup
I did not know Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905–90). She retired from the School of History in 1962, and I arrived in 1965. She was, however, very much a living legend, and many colleagues had been her s
Lars Porsenna and the Early Roman Republic
A dominant and fascinating figure at the very beginning of the Republic is Porsenna, king of Clusium. He has been a focus of attention since the Renaissance and for the following seven centuries. Fashions in interpretation have come and gone. This essay surveys those interpretations, and attempts to sum up the complexities of contemporary scholarship.
The Hoplite as Citizen
The ancient Greek art of war has been extensively studied. The weapons, strategy and tactics of Greek warfare are well known. We have discovered all about the weight of shields, the length of spears, the depth of line. We note the effects of the appearance or absence of light-armed troops or cavalry. We discuss strategic devices such as epiteichismos and remark upon the poverty of tactical innovation until the time of Epaminondas. We are all conv…
The Fate of the Column of Antoninus Pius
One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Roman archaeology, and totally unknown to modern scholars and works of reference, despite the comprehensive documentation, is the story of the extraction of the column of Antoninus Pius in the Campus Martius (1703–5). The work was placed in the hands of the ‘noble’ architects Carlo and Francesco Fontana, instead of competent engineers, and the result was the destruction of the column
Essays on Livy’s Two Millennia (on G. Baldo and L. Beltramini, edd., Livius noster
he genesis of this fat volume was the celebration of Livy's bimillenary in (retaining rightly his traditional dates) centring on Padova, with an extraordinarily rich programme of events ( -). 1 The volume is subdivided into five parts, with thirty-eight contributions.It is a shame that some biographical identification on these writers ('established scholars as well as younger researchers') is not included.The introduction by Baldo is bilingual in…
The Great Livy Delusion, 1924
In the summer of 1924, a young Neapolitan scholar, Mario di Martino Fusco, claimed to have discovered the long-lost 107 books of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, sparking an international media frenzy. Announced prematurely by his supposed ally, Francesco Ribezzo, the claim captivated the scholarly world until it was definitively debunked. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary newspaper reports and scholarly reactions, this article reconstructs the unfo…
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