Title Pages University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature Peter Liddel and Polly Low Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001 Title Pages (p.i) Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents (p.ii) Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents (p.iii) Inscriptions and Their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature General Editors ALAN BOWMAN ALISON COOLEY This innovative new series offers unique perspectives on the political, cultural, social, and economic history of the ancient world. Exploiting the latest technological advances in imaging, decipherment, and interpretation, the volumes cover a wide range of documentary sources, including inscriptions, papyri, and wooden tablets. (p.iv) Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Page 1 of 2 Title Pages It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2013 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First edition published in 2013 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available ISBN 978–0–19–966574–7 Printed in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Page 2 of 2 Contents Title Pages Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Reception of Ancient Inscriptions Peter Liddel and Polly Low Part I Literary Epigraphy and The Ancient Past 2 Cui vetustas fidem faciat: Inscriptions and Other Material Relics of the Past in Graeco-Roman Antiquity Andreas Hartmann 3 Herodotus and Temple Inventories Elizabeth Kosmetatou 4 Illustrating, Documenting, Making-believe: The Use of psephismata in Hellenistic Biographies of Philosophers Matthias Haake 5 From Inscriptions to Literature (and Sometimes Back Again): Some Uses of the Epigraphic Sources in the Ancient Literary Traditions on Delphi Manuela Mari 6 Inscriptions as Literature in Pausanias’ Exegesis of Hellas Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos 7 Archaic Latin Inscriptions and Greek and Roman Authors David Langslow 8 Inscribed Epigrams in Orators and Epigrammatic Collections Andrej Petrovic Part II Literary Epigraphy: Complementarity and Competition 9 Epigraphic Literacy in Fifth-century Epinician and its Audiences Joseph Day 10 Kleos Versus Stone? Lyric Poetry and Contexts for Memorialization David Fearn 11 Inscriptions on the Attic Stage Julia Lougovaya 12 Aristotle’s Hymn to Virtue and Funerary Inscriptions Pauline LeVen 13 Speaking from the Tomb? The Disappearing Epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia Fr. 64 Pf. A. D. Morrison 14 Inscriptional Intermediality in Latin Literature Martin Dinter 15 Furor epigraphicus: Augustus, the Poets, and the Inscriptions Jocelyne Nelis-Clément and Damien Nelis 16 Epitome and Eternity: Some Epitaphs and Votive Inscriptions in the Latin Love Elegists L. B. T. Houghton 17 Shuffling Surfaces: Epigraphy, Power, and Integrity in the Graeco-Roman Narratives Alexei V. Zadorojnyi Index of Sources: Inscriptions Index of Sources: Literary Texts and Papyri Index Preface and Acknowledgements University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature Peter Liddel and Polly Low Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001 (p.v) Preface and Acknowledgements The conference from which this collection has developed was made possible by a generous grant from the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the Classical Association provided further support in the form of bursaries for graduate students attending the conference: we (and the bursary recipients) are very grateful to them. We are also indebted to all those who attended the conference (both speakers and members of the audience) for their enthusiastic, informed, and informative contributions, and to the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Manchester for hosting the event. The series editors and the anonymous readers for the Press provided very helpful guidance in planning and completing the volume; Val Knight undertook the daunting task of formatting, copy-editing, and indexing the assembled papers. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to J. K. Davies for his warm encouragement and for kindly sharing with us his expertise on the subject of documents and inscriptions in ancient literature over a number of years. Our introduction draws extensively on his work, as did the conference upon which this collection is based. We are greatly honoured by the willingness of Stathis Stavropoulos, the prominent Greek political commentator and cartoonist,1 to create a cover-illustration for this collection. He depicts a stele, set up in the environs of a temple, inscribed with the definition of Ἐπιγραφαί which appears in the 1888 archaeological Lexicon of the polymath and epigraphical pioneer Alexandros Rizos Rangavis.2 Two ancient readers Page 1 of 2 Preface and Acknowledgements discuss the text; one of them carries a transcription (which appears, notwithstanding the censure of his patron (or teacher, or master), to be accurate). Stavropoulos raises, satirically, one means by which knowledge of inscribed texts was transmitted, but invites us also to consider and to call into question the sense and tenacity of a nineteenth-century definition of the subject—which appears to be set in stone. Abbreviations of Greek and Latin authors and texts, epigraphic publications, periodicals, and standard reference works generally follow the conventions of (respectively) Liddell and Scott’s Greek– English Lexicon and the Oxford Latin Dictionary, the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum and L’Année Épigraphique, the Année Philologique, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. Significant exceptions or additions to these conventions are listed in the bibliography following the relevant chapter. Except where otherwise stated, all website addresses were correct and active as of 31 August 2012. P.P.L and P.A.L. Manchester Notes: (1) For another example of epigraphical imagery in his work, see S. Stavropoulos (2010). Τὰ Ἀνδρείκελα. Athens, 108. (2) A. R. Rangavis (1888). Λεξικὸν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς Ἀρχαιολογίας μετὰ πολλῶν εἰκόνων καὶ πινάκων. Athens, i. 281. Of his works, Antiquités helléniques ou Répertoire d’inscriptions et d’autres antiquités. 2 vols. Athens), 1842–55, is of great importance to epigraphers of Greece. Page 2 of 2 List of Illustrations University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature Peter Liddel and Polly Low Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001 (p.ix) List of Illustrations Fig. 6.1a. Inscription on the statue base of Ergoteles. Photo: Y. Tzifopoulos, reprinted from Κρητικά Χρονικά; © Εταιρία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών and Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων. 157 Fig. 6.1b. Drawing of the inscription on the statue base of Ergoteles. After E. Kunze, ‘Ein kretischer Periodonike’, Kretika Chronika 7 (1953): 138–45; © Εταιρία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών. 157 Fig. 6.2a. Gorgias’ inscribed statue base. Photo: Y. Tzifopoulos; © Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων. 159 Fig. 6.2b. Drawing of Gorgias’ inscribed statue base. After IvO 293; © Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Τουρισμού, Ζ΄ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων—Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων. 159 Fig. 7.1. The ‘Forum inscription’: drawing from Carafa, Il comizio di Roma dalle origini all’età di Augusto (Rome 1998) 129. Reproduced from M. Cristofani, La Grande Roma dei Tarquini (Rome 1990) by kind permission of Erik Pender and Roberto Marcucci, L’Erma di Bretschneider. 170 Page 1 of 2 List of Illustrations Fig. 15.1. Sion, canton du Valais (Switzerland) in reuse in the entrance wall of the Hôtel de Ville: Dedication to Augustus from the inhabitants of Sion, 8/7 BC (CIL XII 136 = ILS 6755 = RIS III 253). Photo: Fr. Wiblé. 322 Fig. 15.2. Gold coin; 20–19 BC. Left (obverse): head of Augustus, laureate; right (reverse): rectangular altar, inscribed: FORT.RED/ CAES.AVG/S.P.Q.R. (RIC 1 53a, p. 45) © The Trustees of the British Museum R.5986. 323 Fig. 15.3. Silver coin; L. Mescinius Rufus; 16 BC. Left (obverse): head of Augustus, laureate; right (reverse): cippus or altar inscribed referring to the Ludi Saeculares and a legend relating to the emperor’s office of Quindecimir Sacris Faciundis (RIC 1 354, p. 68). © The Trustees of the British Museum R. 2002,0102.4968. 323 Fig. 15.4. Arles: Marble copy of the clipeus Virtutis, prob. 26 BC (AE 1952, 165). Photo: M. Lacanaud; © Musée départemental Arles antique. 328 Fig. 15.5. Rome, Museum of the Imperial Forums: fragment of pedestal from the Forum of Augustus in Lunense marble with inscription naming Aeneas (CIL VI 8.3 40931). Photo: J. Nelis- Clément. 329 Fig. 15.6a. Fragment of the dedication on the Architrave of the Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome, 12 May 2 BC (CIL VI 8.2 40311). Photo: G. Alföldy; © Foto-Archiv CIL Inv.-Nr. PH0007032. 332 Fig. 15.6b. Reconstruction by G. Alföldy of the dedication on the Architrave of the Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome, 12 May 2 BC. Drawing: G. Alföldy; © Foto-Archiv CIL Inv.-Nr. PH0007033. 332 Fig. 15.7. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 7 December 2010. Photo: Alison Ford. 340 Page 2 of 2 Notes on Contributors University Press Scholarship Online Oxford Scholarship Online Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature Peter Liddel and Polly Low Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780199665747 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.001.0001 (p.x) Notes on Contributors Joseph Day is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Wabash College, Indiana, and a frequent Senior Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Since the mid-1980s, he has written many articles on earlier inscribed Greek epigram, and his Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication: Representation and Reperformance appeared in 2010. Martin Dinter, Ph.D. (Cambridge), is Lecturer in Latin Literature and Language at King’s College London. He is author of Anatomizing Civil War— Four Studies in Lucan’s Epic Body (2012) and co-editor of A Companion to the Age of Nero (2012). He has published articles on Virgil, Horace, and Lucan as well as Flavian Epic. David Fearn is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the University of Warwick. His recent work includes Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition (2007) and Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (edited, 2010), along with a number of other contextual studies of Greek choral lyric poetry. He is currently working on a book about choral lyric poetry, art, and material culture. Matthias Haake Page 1 of 4