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The fifth-century crisis
Smith, Christopher John
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
D051 Ancient History
T-NDAS
This essay seeks to establish the parameters of our uncertainty concerning one of the most difficult periods of Roman history, the period between the traditional end of the Roman monarchy and the passing of the Licinio-Sextian legislation. In addition to some methodological observations, the essay attempts to offer a model for understanding Roman choices and decisions in a period of change and transformation.
2017-11-13T11:30:09Z
2017-11-13T11:30:09Z
2017-10-26
Journal article
Smith , C J 2017 , ' The fifth-century crisis ' , Antichthon , vol. 51 , no. 2017 , pp. 227-250 . https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2017.14
0066-4774
ORCID: /0000-0002-6049-5514/work/66398301
https://hdl.handle.net/10023/12066
10.1017/ann.2017.14
eng
Antichthon
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/38532024-03-01T00:41:01Zcom_10023_55com_10023_15com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_56col_10023_880
Leadership and individuality in the Athenian funeral orations
Hesk, Jon
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
Athens
Funeral oration
Leadership
Military
DF Greece
Athenian funeral orations did not simply celebrate Athenian military achievements or renew and augment a specifically anonymous collective identity and hoplite ideology. Rather, the speeches also model the role and importance of sub-groups within the democratic polis and celebrate some individual generals for their attributes and achievements as leaders. Furthermore, internal and contextual evidence shows that the prominent leaders who were chosen to deliver these speeches were often promoting or defending their own particular involvement and advocacy of the military campaign in question. This stress on the importance of the individual ‘voice’ of the orator and the speeches' inscription of exemplary individuals (probably, but by no means certainly, much more common from the 380s downwards) offers a significant contribution to literary and historical understanding of this genre and its cultural and ideological functioning.
2013-07-22T10:01:00Z
2013-07-22T10:01:00Z
2013-06
Journal article
Hesk , J 2013 , ' Leadership and individuality in the Athenian funeral orations ' , Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies , vol. 56 , no. 1 , pp. 49-65 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00050.x
0076-0730
ORCID: /0000-0001-9727-6422/work/82788619
https://hdl.handle.net/10023/3853
10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00050.x
eng
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
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Beyond metaphor : archaeology as a social and artistic practice
Smith, Christopher John
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Archaeology
Visual art
Theoretical archaeology
Performance art
N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
T-NDAS
This article summarises recent work on the engagement between art and archaeology, but seeks to embed this in a longer history of archaeology as a metaphor for other cultural and social practices, and at the same time to compare the ways in which archaeologists and other practitioners operate within the field of cultural production.
2017-07-26T23:34:15Z
2017-07-26T23:34:15Z
2017-01-26
2017-07-26
Journal article
Smith , C J 2017 , ' Beyond metaphor : archaeology as a social and artistic practice ' , Journal of Visual Art Practice , vol. 15 , no. 2-3 , pp. 270-85 . https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2016.1228867
1470-2029
PURE: 249013645
PURE UUID: 50cc11a0-157b-4c5a-bc5e-69c6d9239b48
Scopus: 85010748037
ORCID: /0000-0002-6049-5514/work/36121710
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11302
https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2016.1228867
eng
Journal of Visual Art Practice
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2016.1228867
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The Aurunci and Sidicini
Smith, Christopher John
Farney, Gary D.
Bradley, Guy
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
DG Italy
2018-11-01T00:46:30Z
2018-11-01T00:46:30Z
2017-11
2018-11-01
Book item
Smith , C J 2017 , The Aurunci and Sidicini . in G D Farney & G Bradley (eds) , The Peoples of Ancient Italy . De Gruyter Reference , de Gruyter , pp. 447-60 . https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513001-022
9781614513001
9781614513001
9781501500145
PURE: 253016766
PURE UUID: 7a164acf-1c33-4deb-8a26-1b5d8dc94833
Scopus: 85041571961
ORCID: /0000-0002-6049-5514/work/66398300
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16365
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513001-022
eng
The Peoples of Ancient Italy
De Gruyter Reference
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter Inc., Boston/Berlin. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614513001-022
de Gruyter
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Romanization 2.0 and its alternatives
Woolf, Greg
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge
Romanization
Post-colonial Roman archaeology
Globalization
Material-culture studies
The object turn
Material agency
CC Archaeology
CB History of civilization
PA Classical philology
This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) material-culture studies as important theoretical directions for the (near) future. The present state and scope of the Romanization debate, however, seem to prevent a fruitful development in that direction. The first part of this paper therefore briefly analyses the Romanization debate and argues that large parts of ‘Anglo-Saxon Roman archaeology’ have never been really post-colonial, but in fact from the mid1990s onwards developed a theoretical position that should be characterized as anticolonial. This ideologically motivated development has resulted in several unhealthy divides within the field, as well as in an uncomfortable ending of the Romanization debate. The present consensus within English-speaking Roman archaeology ‘to do away with Romanization’ does not seem to get us at all ‘beyond Romans and Natives’, and, moreover, has effectively halted most of the discussion about how to understand and conceptualize ‘Rome’. The second part of the article presents two propositions outlining how to move forward: globalization theory and material-culture studies. Through this focus we will be able to better understand ‘Rome’ as (indicating) objects in motion and the human–thing entanglements resulting from a remarkable punctuation of connectivity. This focus is important as an alternative perspective to all existing narratives about Romanization because these remain fundamentally historical, in the sense that they reduce objects to expressions (of identity) alone. It is time for our discussions about ‘Rome’ to move ‘beyond representation’ and to become genuinely archaeological at last, by making material culture, with its agency and materiality, central to the analyses.
2015-05-31T23:10:53Z
2015-05-31T23:10:53Z
2014-06
2015-06-01
Journal article
Woolf , G 2014 , ' Romanization 2.0 and its alternatives ' , Archaeological Dialogues , vol. 21 , no. 1 , pp. 45-50 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203814000087
1380-2038
PURE: 120047914
PURE UUID: 39d24b06-65b2-4b91-ad4e-4533574adbd9
Scopus: 84901008754
WOS: 000336496400006
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6716
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203814000087
eng
Archaeological Dialogues
© Cambridge University Press 2014
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From the Republic of Letters to the Olympus: The Rise and Fall of Medical Humanism in 67 Portraits
Visser, Arnoud Silvester Quartus
van Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans
portrait
printed
veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque icones
Sambucus
Plantin
antwerp
medicine
philosophy
dioscorides
scholarly community
medical humanism
hellenism
In this article the first portrait book of physicians and philosophers, Joannes Sambucus' Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque Icones [...] (Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574) is examined as a prism of the history of science and the culture of scholarship in the sixteenth century. It shows how the book was produced and what sort of information it presents, with particular attention to its antiquarian interest. Many of the portraits turn out to be based on the famous Dioscorides manuscript (Codex Vindobonensis) which had recently been brought to the imperial court in Vienna. In the appendix all portraits are listed with specific reference to those based on the Dioscorides manuscript. Furthermore, the social functions of the portrait collection are considered. It is shown how the book has to be set in the context of Sambucus' ambition to replace the successful Dioscorides editions by Pier Andrea Mattioli. For this project Sambucus needed support from his colleagues and patrons. The portrait book was a useful instrument for this strategy. In the end, however, bad timing thwarted the plans: by 1570 medical humanism was becoming more and more of an antiquarian enterprise itself.
2010-06-18T10:47:34Z
2010-06-18T10:47:34Z
2004
Book item
Visser, ASQ. (2004). 'From the Republic of Letters to the Olympus: The Rise and Fall of Medical Humanism in 67 Portraits.' In van Dijkhuizen, JF. (Ed.), Living in Posterity: Essays in Honour of Bart Westerweel : Veloren Publishers. pp. 299 - 313
9789065508393
StAndrews.ResExp.Output.OutputID.10995
http://www.verloren.nl/boeken/2086/248/1349/cultuur-en-mentaliteit/living-in-posterity
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/917
en
Living in Posterity: Essays in Honour of Bart Westerweel
Copyright of Veloren Publishers. Full text deposited by permission of the publisher. Original work available from http://www.verloren.nl/boeken/2086/248/1349/cultuur-en-mentaliteit/living-in-posterity
299 - 313
Veloren Publishers
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Servius, Cato the Elder and Virgil
Smith, Christopher John
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Servius
Cato the Elder
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70BCE-19BCE)
Aeneas
P Language and Literature
Classics
T-NDAS
This paper considers one of the most significant of the authors cited in the Servian tradition, Cato the Elder. He is cited more than any other historian, and looked at the other way round, Servius is a very important source for our knowledge of Cato. This paper addresses the questions of what we learn from Servius’ use of Cato, and what we learn about Virgil ?
2017-11-16T17:30:06Z
2017-11-16T17:30:06Z
2017
Journal article
Smith , C J 2017 , ' Servius, Cato the Elder and Virgil ' , Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA) , vol. 129 , no. 1 , pp. 85-100 . < http://mefra.revues.org/4151 >
1724-2134
PURE: 251291268
PURE UUID: 7cc753c9-35f1-4714-bd6e-6b71a74795ef
Scopus: 85040816934
ORCID: /0000-0002-6049-5514/work/66398307
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12119
http://mefra.revues.org/4151
eng
Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA)
Copyright © 2017, École française de Rome. This work has been made available online with permission from the publisher. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://mefra.revues.org/4151
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Forgetting the Juvenalien in our midst : literary amnesia in the satires
Geue, Tom Alexander
König, Alice
Whitton, Christopher
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire
PA Classical philology
2018-07-31T23:32:03Z
2018-07-31T23:32:03Z
2018-02
2018-08-01
Book item
Geue , T A 2018 , Forgetting the Juvenalien in our midst : literary amnesia in the satires . in A König & C Whitton (eds) , Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian : Literary Interactions, AD 96–138 . Cambridge University Press , pp. 366-384 . https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108354813.018
9781108420594
9781108354813
PURE: 252214557
PURE UUID: fa115d89-92ed-44d8-82c7-e2de7f98c904
Scopus: 85047393550
ORCID: /0000-0003-0148-3393/work/83481941
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15742
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108354813.018
eng
Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian
© 2018 Publisher / the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108354813.018
Cambridge University Press
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/120632023-04-18T23:41:48Zcom_10023_55com_10023_15com_10023_8740com_10023_39com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_56col_10023_8741col_10023_880
J.B. Ward-Perkins, the BSR and the landscape tradition in post-war Italian archaeology
Smith, Christopher John
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
University of St Andrews. Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Landscape archaeology
CC Archaeology
Archaeology
T-NDAS
Nothing has so characterized the British School at Rome's approach, from its inception, as the commitment to landscape archaeology in one form or another. This paper discusses the origins of this commitment in the work of Thomas Ashby, but focuses on the major contribution of J.B. Ward-Perkins and the South Etruria Survey. This survey is set in the context both of intellectual developments in landscape archaeology, and the specific circumstances of the BSR, and its Director, after the Second World War. The article traces the impact of this work on subsequent landscape archaeology.
2017-11-13T10:30:18Z
2017-11-13T10:30:18Z
2017-10-26
Journal article
Smith , C J 2017 , ' J.B. Ward-Perkins, the BSR and the landscape tradition in post-war Italian archaeology ' , Papers of the British School at Rome , vol. In press . https://doi.org/10.1017/S006824621700037X
0068-2462
PURE: 251521044
PURE UUID: 4e59feea-8c24-4f36-8324-0417069c115a
Scopus: 85033396439
ORCID: /0000-0002-6049-5514/work/66398304
WOS: 000447002200010
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12063
https://doi.org/10.1017/S006824621700037X
eng
Papers of the British School at Rome
© British School at Rome 2017 . This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S006824621700037X
oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/95272023-04-18T10:12:52Zcom_10023_55com_10023_15com_10023_879com_10023_878col_10023_56col_10023_880
An imperial image : the Bath Gorgon in context
Cousins, Eleri Hopkins
University of St Andrews. School of Classics
Bath
Gorgon
Sulis Minerva
Temple
Forum of Augustus
Clipeus
DA Great Britain
T-NDAS
This paper attempts to put the Gorgon from the pediment of the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath into a wider provincial context, by arguing for links between the Gorgon and first- and early second-century imitations in Gaul and Spain of the iconography of the Forum of Augustus in Rome. These imitations, part of what might be called a ‘visual language of empire’, served to connect the urban spaces of the provinces to Rome; by linking the Gorgon to this trend and setting aside interpretations of the Gorgon which have focused on his perceived status as a ‘Romano-Celtic’ masterpiece, we can justify more satisfactorily his position as the centrepiece of a pediment dominated by imperial imagery.
2016-09-19T16:30:09Z
2016-09-19T16:30:09Z
2016
Journal article
Cousins , E H 2016 , ' An imperial image : the Bath Gorgon in context ' , Britannia , vol. 47 , pp. 99-118 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131
0068-113X
PURE: 245677618
PURE UUID: bdb7bcbe-d3d0-4f83-9a1a-1ccb0df4d13d
Scopus: 84973897304
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9527
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131
eng
Britannia
© The Author 2016. Published by The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X16000131