Harold Mattingly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 971664 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harold Mattingly |
| PRENOMES | Harold |
| SOBRENOME | Mattingly |
| ASSINATURA | MATTINGLY H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1175-3919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 174 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1917 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Framing the climate crisis
While UN reports indicate increasingly dire consequences of climate change, the political will to initiate rapid decarbonization is lacking, as nations fail to meet targets set by international agreements. Given these developments, this paper investigates the role of climate dread and fatalism in the discourse about climate science. We examine the treatment of fatalism in major theories of the policy process, noting that climate policy represents…
Poets and Politicians in Fifth-Century Greece
Periclean Imperialism
The Athenian decree for Chalcis ( IG 1 3 .40)
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The Athena Nike dossier
Stephen Tracy's neat demonstration that IG I 3 35—authorizing the building of a temple and appointment of a priestess for Athena Nike—was cut by the man responsible for the Promachos accounts ( IG I 435) at first seemed decisive for the traditional c. 448 B.C. against my radical down-dating. Ira Mark then argued that this decree provided for the naiskos and altar of his Stage III in the 440s: the marble temple belonged to Stage IV over twenty yea…
The Power of Money
SIX. Athens between Rome and the Kings
The date and purpose of the pseudo-Xenophon constitution of Athens
This short political pamphlet has survived to our day through the lucky chance of being included in the minor works of Xenophon, and for over 150 years it has been the subject of lively scholarly debate. The unknown author was a confirmed oligarch, but with an insider's insight into Athenian democracy. Though he cannot approve of this form of government, he is astute enough to see that the system works well on its own terms and that it is therefo…
The Athenian empire restored
One of the most important periods of Greek history lies between the Persian king Xerxes' defeat at Greek hands in 479 B.C.E. and the destruction of the power of Athens in 404 B.C.E. A major problem in the era is how and when Athens managed to transform the free alliance against Persia into an empire of Athenian subjects. The Athenian Empire Restored presents a sustained challenge to the dating and interpretation of this process. This volume offer…
New Light on the Athenian Standards Decree (ATL II, D 14)
Scipio Aemilianus' Eastern Embassy
The famous eastern tour of inspection undertaken by Scipio Aemilianus, L. Metellus Calvus and Sp. Mummius is now generally dated 140/39 b.c., where Diodorus seems to put it. The accepted view, however, involves discounting an explicit statement by Cicero. It also presents historical difficulties. In 140 b.c. there was no need for such a high-powered Roman initiative, and scholars can discover only very minor political results. Sherwin-White indee…
On Emending Cicero
Inscriptiones Graecae l 3
The Athena Nike Temple Reconsidered
Recent study of the Ionic temple by the Ilissos suggests strongly that its date should be lowered from ca. 450 to ca. 430 B. C.; this reassignment would make its building almost contemporary with that of its close counterpart, the Temple of Athena Nike on the Akropolis bastion. The decree authorizing that temple and appointing a new priestess (IG I2 24) has always been dated ca. 448 B. C. despite real anomalies, but this early date cannot be main…
The Tribute Quota Lists from 430 to 425 b.c
Bradeen and McGregor with exemplary skill and patience re-examined the almost desperately worn front face of ATL ii List 26. They were able to prove that the lines of its prescript were precisely forty-seven letters long. This excludes the possibility of dating this list 430/29 or 428/7 B.C., since only six spaces are available for the first numeral. They rightly maintained that the ATL Lists 25 and 26 must be kept together, but unlike them I wou…
The Second Athenian Coinage Decree
Vocabulary Change and Epigraphic Dating
The Athenian Proxeny Decree, ÏG" 1 2 30 + 23 ("SEG" 10.20)
The Extortion Law Of Servilius Glaucia
I Should have known better than to revive Carcopino's heresy on the Lex Bembina Repetundarum. My attempt to rob C. Gracchus of this important measure and restore it to Glaucia met with universal disbelief. Soon a powerful counter-attack followed in learned publications. There may seem little left to say. Certainly it would be pointless to go over the old arguments yet again. My only excuse for perseverance is that I have new material. For my read…
The Protected Fund in the Athenian Coinage Decree (ATL D 14, par 7f)
The numismatic evidence and the founding of Narbo Martius
‘Epigraphically the Twenties are too late…’
First principles tend to be forgotten in the course of scholarly polemic. At worst the fault lies in the animus and heat engendered. At best it is because the opponents have become absorbed in an elegant game of skill. Meanwhile the problem remains unresolved—whether it is the dating of crucial fifth-century Attic texts or some far less serious point. We must keep our priorities right. What really counts in the ‘three-bar sigma’ controversy, for …
The Extortion Law of the Tabula Bembina
In a previous article, based on a rigorous study of the text on both sides, I hope to have shown that fragments A and B of the famous Tabula Bembina should be set c. 35 letter-spaces closer together than in Mommsen's edition, and that the estimated width of the tablet should be reduced correspondingly. This is likely to have disturbing consequences. In particular, it now seems fairly certain that four whole chapters of the extortion law—mainly co…
The Extortion Law of the Tabula Bembina
In a previous article, based on a rigorous study of the text on both sides, I hope to have shown that fragments A and B of the famous Tabula Bembina should be set c. 35 letter-spaces closer together than in Mommsen's edition, and that the estimated width of the tablet should be reduced correspondingly. This is likely to have disturbing consequences. In particular, it now seems fairly certain that four whole chapters of the extortion law—mainly co…
The Two Republican Laws of the Tabula Bembina
Since Mommsen's magisterial publication, no one has seriously attempted to rearrange those fragments of a Roman bronze tablet that were once in the collection of Cardinal Bembo. There can be no doubt but that Mommsen placed most of the fragments correctly, both in relation to each other and to the preserved top and left side of the tablet. Only three variables remain: the extent of the gaps between the A and B fragments, the width of the tablet a…
Athenian Imperialism and the Foundation of Brea
The decree establishing an Athenian colony at Brea in the north Aegaean area was firmly placed by the editors of The Athenian Tribute Lists in 446 B.C.; they identified the troops mentioned in lines 26 ff. with the men then serving in Euboia. In 1952, however, Woodhead proposed redating the decree c. 439/8 B.C. and explained lines 26 ff. by reference to the Samian revolt. A decade later I put forward a more radical theory, which seems to have won…
The Athena Nike Temple Reconsidered
Recent study of the Ionic temple by the Ilissos suggests strongly that its date should be lowered from ca. 450 to ca. 430 B. C.; this reassignment would make its building almost contemporary with that of its close counterpart, the Temple of Athena Nike on the Akropolis bastion. The decree authorizing that temple and appointing a new priestess (IG I2 24) has always been dated ca. 448 B. C. despite real anomalies, but this early date cannot be main…
Scipio Aemilianus' Eastern Embassy
The famous eastern tour of inspection undertaken by Scipio Aemilianus, L. Metellus Calvus and Sp. Mummius is now generally dated 140/39 b.c., where Diodorus seems to put it. The accepted view, however, involves discounting an explicit statement by Cicero. It also presents historical difficulties. In 140 b.c. there was no need for such a high-powered Roman initiative, and scholars can discover only very minor political results. Sherwin-White indee…
The Athenian empire restored
One of the most important periods of Greek history lies between the Persian king Xerxes' defeat at Greek hands in 479 B.C.E. and the destruction of the power of Athens in 404 B.C.E. A major problem in the era is how and when Athens managed to transform the free alliance against Persia into an empire of Athenian subjects. The Athenian Empire Restored presents a sustained challenge to the dating and interpretation of this process. This volume offer…
The Extortion Law Of Servilius Glaucia
I Should have known better than to revive Carcopino's heresy on the Lex Bembina Repetundarum. My attempt to rob C. Gracchus of this important measure and restore it to Glaucia met with universal disbelief. Soon a powerful counter-attack followed in learned publications. There may seem little left to say. Certainly it would be pointless to go over the old arguments yet again. My only excuse for perseverance is that I have new material. For my read…
The Methone Decrees
The series of decrees concerning Methone throws welcome light on Athenian foreign policy and the imperialism of Pericles' successors. Here is historical evidence of the highest quality. Are we using it as fully and accurately as we should? This paper is written in the belief that we are being hampered by unsound presuppositions. Chronologically the second decree is our main fixed point. It was passed in the first prytany of 426/5 B.C. The third a…
The date and purpose of the pseudo-Xenophon constitution of Athens
This short political pamphlet has survived to our day through the lucky chance of being included in the minor works of Xenophon, and for over 150 years it has been the subject of lively scholarly debate. The unknown author was a confirmed oligarch, but with an insider's insight into Athenian democracy. Though he cannot approve of this form of government, he is astute enough to see that the system works well on its own terms and that it is therefo…
Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church
Athenian Finance in the Peloponnesian War
Mattingly Harold B. Athenian Finance in the Peloponnesian War. In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 92, livraison 2, 1968. pp. 450-485
The Coleraine Hoard
Early in 1854, in the townland of Ballinrees, about three and a half miles west of Coleraine, county Londonderry, Ireland, a labouring man unearthed from a considerable depth in peaty soil one of the most remarkable hoards of Roman silver ever found in our isles. Though no trace remained of any urn or other container, it was apparent, both from the depth of the deposit and from the closeness with which the whole was packed together, that it was i…
Framing the climate crisis
While UN reports indicate increasingly dire consequences of climate change, the political will to initiate rapid decarbonization is lacking, as nations fail to meet targets set by international agreements. Given these developments, this paper investigates the role of climate dread and fatalism in the discourse about climate science. We examine the treatment of fatalism in major theories of the policy process, noting that climate policy represents…
The Consecration of Faustina the Elder and Her Daughter
That there is something strange and unusual about the ‘consecration’ coinage of Faustina the Elder, and, to a less degree, of her daughter too, has always been apparent to the student: it was forced on my own attention while I was writing the Introduction to B. M. C. Empire, IV. If I return to the subject, it is because it seems that there is still something to be added to the results already obtained
The Roman ‘Virtues’
Juvenal in his First Satire (vv. 115, 116) remarks on the curious fact that Pecunia, though so devoutly worshipped, yet has no temple of her own ut colitur Pax atque Fides, Victoria, Virtus, quaeque salutato crepitat Concordia nido. She is not actually like them an object of cult. The modern reader, while relishing the bitterness of the gibe, is left vaguely wondering how the Romans could seriously worship such ‘personifications’ as Pax or Fides,…
New Light on the Athenian Standards Decree (ATL II, D 14)
Commodus-Hercules in Britain
In 1918 the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge acquired with Professor Babington's collection a hoard of some-what unusual objects. They were found in 1857 in Willingham Fen, Cambridgeshire, south of the River Ouse or Old West River, on a spot, which is now no longer fen but a field known as ‘The Hempsalls,’ two and a half miles north-west of Cottenham and eight miles north of Cambridge. They had been placed in a wooden box, no doub…
The Athena Nike dossier
Stephen Tracy's neat demonstration that IG I 3 35—authorizing the building of a temple and appointment of a priestess for Athena Nike—was cut by the man responsible for the Promachos accounts ( IG I 435) at first seemed decisive for the traditional c. 448 B.C. against my radical down-dating. Ira Mark then argued that this decree provided for the naiskos and altar of his Stage III in the 440s: the marble temple belonged to Stage IV over twenty yea…
A Conflict of Ideas in the Late Roman Empire
The Power of Money
On Emending Cicero
Inscriptiones Graecae l 3
The Second Athenian Coinage Decree
Vocabulary Change and Epigraphic Dating
The Protected Fund in the Athenian Coinage Decree (ATL D 14, par 7f)
The Extortion Law of the Tabula Bembina
In a previous article, based on a rigorous study of the text on both sides, I hope to have shown that fragments A and B of the famous Tabula Bembina should be set c. 35 letter-spaces closer together than in Mommsen's edition, and that the estimated width of the tablet should be reduced correspondingly. This is likely to have disturbing consequences. In particular, it now seems fairly certain that four whole chapters of the extortion law—mainly co…
The Date of Livius Andronicus
There can be no doubt of the primacy of Andronicus in Roman literature, but there is an interesting and unorthodox ancient tradition concerning his date. Modern scholars incline to place Andronicus' birth about 285 B.C. and to postulate either that he came to Rome as a slave from Tarentum in 272 B.C., or that the story of his captivity is a fiction. His first play was produced in 240 B.C
The Mints of the Early Empire
My object in this paper is to present to students of Roman history a general view of the imperial coinage from Augustus to Vespasian, not of course in all its details, but mainly with reference to (1) the mints at which and (2) the authorities by whom it was issued. It is a subject on which recent numismatic research has yielded novel and interesting results, which are probably not yet familiar outside specialist circles. My conclusions are based…
Some Historical Roman Coins of the First Century A.D
Obv. Head of Caligula, bare, r. c caesar avg germ p m tr pot cos. Rev. Head of an Emperor, radiate, r. Star, 1. and r. in field. No legend. av. 8; 119 gr. B.M. Struck at Lugdunum, A.D. 37, soon after the accession of Caligula (March 18th)—the first issue of the new reign. The features of the Emperor on the rev. are those of Tiberius, as seen on coins of about the years A.D. 22–23. Other specimens of this aureus show features which suggest Augustu…
The Mints of the Empire
In a paper published in the 1917 volume of this Journal, pp. 59 ff., I attempted to make available for the general student the results of some recent research on coins. The present paper is designed to continue the task thus begun. It follows the same plan and is subject to the same restrictions. General principles are stressed, while for details reference is made to the special publications noted on pp. 263, 264. Only the imperial issues, not th…
Some historical coins of the late Republic
The object of this paper is to indicate, by the aid of a few chosen examples, the kind of contribution that can still be made by Republican coins to history. Numismatic detail has, therefore, deliberately been curtailed: those who wish for more are referred to Grueber's Catalogue of the Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum , with its full index of moneyers' names in vol. iii, and to an article by the author of this paper, due shortly…
Der Untergang der Römerherrschaft in Pannonien. Von Andreas Alföldy. Band I (Ungarische Bibliothek für das Ungarische Institut an der Universität Berlin, herausgegeben von Robert Gragger, Erste Reihe,…
Der Untergang der Römerherrschaft in Pannonien. Von Andreas Alföldy. Band I (Ungarische Bibliothek für das Ungarische Institut an der Universität Berlin, herausgegeben von Robert Gragger, Erste Reihe, 10). Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter & Co.1924. Pp. 91. Goldmark 2. - Volume 13 Issue 1-2
Commodus-Hercules in Britain
In 1918 the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge acquired with Professor Babington's collection a hoard of some-what unusual objects. They were found in 1857 in Willingham Fen, Cambridgeshire, south of the River Ouse or Old West River, on a spot, which is now no longer fen but a field known as ‘The Hempsalls,’ two and a half miles north-west of Cottenham and eight miles north of Cambridge. They had been placed in a wooden box, no doub…
The Reign of Trajan Decius
The general chronology of the reign of Decius has been described by Arthur Stein in a recent paper, based principally on the evidence of papyri, inscriptions and coins. Grenfell and Hunt had already pointed out ( Ox. Pap. i, 35), in connexion with a papyrus giving a list of emperors from Augustus to Decius with the number of years of each reign, that ‘in reckoning the length of reigns, the months after the last Thoth I (Aug. 29) in an emperor's r…
Some historical coins of Hadrian
In the absence of a full and satisfactory record in literature of the reign of Hadrian, we turn with more than ordinary expectation to his large and varied coinage. We are at once confronted with a formidable difficulty: most of Hadrian's coins bear no other sign of date than COS · III —that is to say, they can only be dated to the long period from A.D. 119 to 138. This problem, then, must be faced at the outset. To save space, we will at once se…
Notes on the Chronology of the Roman Emperors from Valerian to Diocletian
The First Age of Roman Coinage
The Romans of later times knew very little about the origins of their coinage. Thus, Pliny the Elder could assign the first issue of bronze to Servius Tullius, and the mint-master of Trajan could mistake denarii of somewhere near 200 B.C. for issues of Horatius Cocles and Decius Mus. Apart from isolated notices in metrological and other writers, we have a limited amount of coherent tradition, notably in Pliny the Elder, Varro and Festus, which in…
Tribvnicia Potestate’
The problem of the reckoning of the tribunician power of the Roman Emperors leads us along thorny paths; but they are paths which the seeker after a true chronology must tread. The method usually followed by historians to-day—that of Eckhel, as developed and amplified by Mommsen—certainly approximates to the truth and seldom leads one far astray. There remain, however, sufficient evidences to show that it is not the whole truth; and, where exactn…
Hoards of Roman Coins Found in Britain and a Coin Survey of the Roman Province
On finding that I was to share in the tribute which we are bringing to Sir George Macdonald, I vowed, as do those who mean to give of their best, the first thing that should meet me on my way home. Such vows have a way of turning out badly—or, at least, awkwardly— for the vowers, and this has been no exception to the general rule. The first subject that met me on my next appearance at the British Museum was the question of Roman coins found in Br…
Virgil's Golden Age
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Britannia
The storied name which stands at the head of this paper has an immense range of association and interest. Lest the gentle reader be frightened at the outset by too extensive a prospect let us define at once the limits we have set to our present inquiry.There is a knowledge of Britain that is characteristic of this and the last century. It is a knowledge founded on the results of numberless excavations on surveys of roads, forts and cities, on int…
The Reign of Aemilian
The reign of Aemilian is one of the most obscure episodes in the dark third century of our era. ‘Obscurissime natus obscurius imperavit,’ wrote Eutropius of him, and the epigram has not lost its point to-day. But on one vexed question—the date of his reign—the coins, studied in connexion with the literary tradition, will yield an answer at least approximately certain, and from that answer results follow, which are of vital importance to the chron…
The Roman ‘Virtues’
Juvenal in his First Satire (vv. 115, 116) remarks on the curious fact that Pecunia, though so devoutly worshipped, yet has no temple of her own ut colitur Pax atque Fides, Victoria, Virtus, quaeque salutato crepitat Concordia nido. She is not actually like them an object of cult. The modern reader, while relishing the bitterness of the gibe, is left vaguely wondering how the Romans could seriously worship such ‘personifications’ as Pax or Fides,…
The Coleraine Hoard
Early in 1854, in the townland of Ballinrees, about three and a half miles west of Coleraine, county Londonderry, Ireland, a labouring man unearthed from a considerable depth in peaty soil one of the most remarkable hoards of Roman silver ever found in our isles. Though no trace remained of any urn or other container, it was apparent, both from the depth of the deposit and from the closeness with which the whole was packed together, that it was i…
A History of Roman Religion
The Later Paganism
It has sometimes been maintained that the old polytheism of Greece and Rome was already moribund by the reign of Augustus; that, although its forms still persisted, they persisted only as conventions of literature and art, or as political conveniences; that genuine religious emotion had either ebbed away or found other channels,—the Eastern religions, Judaism, Christianity, or the moral philosophies. This thesis, however, ceases to appeal, when w…
Coinage of the Dark Age in Britain
It is perhaps best at the beginning of this paper to clear away an illusion that readily I besets us, as we look back on the Dark Age that followed the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain-the illusion that there was something unique in the fate of our island. 'The barbarians thrust us into the sea, the sea thrusts us back to the barbarians',-and Aetius, the Roman Patrician, turns a deaf ear. As a matter of fact, Britain only suffered the fate t…
The First Age of Roman Coinage
A paper by me on the same subject appeared in the Journal as long ago as 1929 (pp. 19 ff.). The criticism of the traditional datings there suggested seems in the main to have stood the test of time. But reconstruction should follow in due course on demolition; and, although no final scheme can yet be proposed, already it should not be premature to formulate some results to which research is pointing. Before we can produce a perfect figure we need…
Carausius
CARAUSIUS, our British Emperor, has not been too badly served by commentators. He first attracted the wayward and erratic genius of Stukeley, (I) then, after a long C interval, the solid and devoted labours of Webb. (2) Of Stukeley little can be retained beyond a handful of brilliant guesses. Webb, on the other hand, has laid the foundations of a ' Corpus ' of the coinage and has succeeded in stating most of the problems of the reign and solving …
The Religious Background of the ‘Historia Avgvsta’
The object of this short note is to check the date of the ‘Historia Augusta,’ which is usually determined from a number of very special allusions, by its attitude towards a matter of universal interest — religion
The Consecration of Faustina the Elder and Her Daughter
That there is something strange and unusual about the ‘consecration’ coinage of Faustina the Elder, and, to a less degree, of her daughter too, has always been apparent to the student: it was forced on my own attention while I was writing the Introduction to B. M. C. Empire, IV. If I return to the subject, it is because it seems that there is still something to be added to the results already obtained
Zephyritis
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