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Journal of Ancient History

ISSN: 2324-8114

Edited by: Gary Farney

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The Journal of Ancient History aims to provide a forum for scholarship covering all aspects of ancient history and culture from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity (roughly the ninth century BCE through the eighth century CE). The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles concerning the history and historiography (ancient and modern) of the ancient Mediterranean world and of neighboring civilizations in their relations with it. The journal is open to submissions in disciplines closely related to ancient history, including epigraphy, numismatics, religion and law. The journal does not currently publish book reviews.

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Volume 11 Issue 1

June 2023

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Publicly Available May 31, 2023

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Open Access May 31, 2023

Women’s property rights in the Archaic and Classical Cypriot city-kingdoms?

Beatrice Pestarino

Page range: 1-21

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This paper investigates the law of the Cypriot city-kingdoms in the Archaic and Classical periods. New insights concern the property rights of upper-class women from Cyprus, specifically from Idalion. The paper provides a fresh analysis of the content of the Idalion Bronze Tablet and of two scarab-seals. The data coming from their examination are compared with the iconography of women in Cyprus and the contents of two paragraphs of Lysias’ speech, On the Property of Aristophanes . The analysis of these testimonies demonstrates that in the Archaic and Classical periods, Cypriot upper-class women may have been landowners who rented out their properties, may have owned personal seals, and conceivably, may have managed family estates in the event of their husband’s death.

May 31, 2023

Memorialization in Thucydides’ Plague Episode

Jenna Colclough

Page range: 22-48

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Thucydides’ detailed description of the Athenian plague, which is estimated to have killed from a quarter to a third of Athens’ population has been approached from a variety of scholarly perspectives, yet its memorializing function is still under-explored. This article contends that Thucydides’ plague episode serves an inherent commemorative function and memorializes the plague through narrative emphasis, pathos, ἐνάργεια, and his focus on abortive burial rites.

May 31, 2023

Citizenship for sale?

Grants of politeia for money: a reappraisal

Sviatoslav Dmitriev

Page range: 49-75

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Reexamining inscriptional and literary sources on grants of politeia by ancient Greek cities in exchange for money allows us to rethink the commonly accepted interpretation of these grants as the sale of citizenship. This article argues that such grants actually reciprocated benefactions that involved a financial expenditure in the interests of the city. These grants could be interpreted as a sale of politeia , similar to today’s grants of citizenship offered by many countries in return for investments. However, like these modern gifts of citizenship, the grants in ancient Greece reflected a basic norm that politeia could only be conferred on benefactors.

Open Access May 31, 2023

The specific and the ambiguous: what can we say of royal ideology of bronze coin types of the earliest Seleucid kings?

Jenny Parr Shearer

Page range: 76-91

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This article argues that the bronze coin types of the earliest Seleucid kings clearly illustrate the royal ideology of Seleucus I and his co-rulership with Antiochus I. This article considers the audience and meaning of the bronzes, as well as their minting patterns. After a discussion of the obverse and reverse types, this article focuses on two images: that of the bull and the anchor. The bull being both highly produced, and open to interpretation, and the anchor being a symbol more personal and specific to Seleucus I. This article then goes on to put forward that the bull/anchor types produced at Aï Khanoum/Bactra were a deliberate link on the part of Antiochus to the types produced by Seleucus I to create an imperial image.

Open Access May 31, 2023

The trial of Demetrius: some observations on legal procedure against court misconduct under Philip V of Macedonia

Dionysios Filias

Page range: 92-106

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Despite extensive scholarship on trials regarding misconduct in the court of Philip V of Macedonia, the trial of his son Demetrius on the charge of assault on his brother and heir apparent Perseus, which is the only example of a trial of a Macedonian king’s son, seems to have escaped the attention of modern historians. Given that it is an event whose most detailed description appears in Livy’s history and that the Roman historian offers a very positive picture of the romanophile Demetrius, it is easy to understand why this trial has not been considered worthy of study. Nevertheless, Livy’s account reveals that the king observed specific procedural rules which are known from the other trials he dealt with, and which demonstrates Philip’s somewhat juridical attitude in legal processes against misconduct of the members of his court. The main purpose of this article is to highlight Philip’s juridical attitude by showing the similarity of the procedure applied in the trial of Demetrius as described by Livy to the legal processes followed by Philip in the trials of his courtiers during his early reign.

May 25, 2023

The Sibylline Books in the Early Roman Empire

Susan Satterfield

Page range: 107-129

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Many scholars have suggested that Augustus and Tiberius were afraid of prodigies and the Sibylline Books. Not only, they claim, did these emperors suppress prodigy reports, they also destroyed parts of the official Sibylline collection. This paper argues that the early emperors were not afraid of state divination. Rather than being a threat to their power, prodigies, expiations, and the Sibylline Books were used to confirm their position and to counter the authority of competing forms of divination.

Open Access May 31, 2023

The Universal and the Local in the Civitas Batavorum

Kristian Kanstrup Christensen

Page range: 130-148

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Intense recruitment for the Roman army among the Batavians of the Lower Rhine exposed their community more profoundly to Latin literacy and the universal culture of the empire than many other provinces. However, through an anthropological examination of their community, the present paper demonstrates that even under these conditions, the cultural amalgamation of the imperial and the local was limited, and Batavian society retained a markedly distinct culture throughout centuries of Roman rule.

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JAH aims to publish articles, of varying lengths, that make a fresh and significant contribution to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world. They should endeavor to be as accessible as possible to scholars specializing in a variety of geographic and chronological areas, and to that end citations in ancient languages should always be translated. The language of publication is English.

Authors should use ScholarOne Manuscripts for article submission (see link in right-hand menu). There are no formatting guidelines for the initial submission, but, upon the acceptance of their work, authors will be expected to resubmit their accepted submission in conformity with the journal’s formatting style. Further instructions may be issued to authors regarding what is required for the final version.
Submitters should also take care to anonymize their papers so as to facilitate the blind-refereeing process.

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An Editorial Board processes all submissions for the JAH. The Editor circulates submissions at his/her discretion to the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board members submit their opinion on publication to the Editor as well as that of a second reader (a “referee”) chosen by the Board member or the Editor. From there, the Editor makes a final verdict about publication (usually: “accept,” “reject,” “accept with revision,” “revise and resubmit”). Detailed comments are normally sent only to authors of accepted submissions, or of submissions thought suitable for resubmission. JAH and De Gruyter are committed to a speedy process, from submission to final publication.

Once accepted and prepared for publication, articles will appear on the journal’s website for immediate access and reference. Articles in the journal will thereafter appear in print form in one of two yearly issues.

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Gary D. Farney
Department of History
Rutgers University, Newark
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E-mail: gfarney@rutgers.edu

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Editor
Gary D. Farney; Rutgers University

Assistant Editor
Katheryn Whitcomb; Rutgers University

Editorial Board
Mary Boatwright; Duke University
Beate Dignas; University of Oxford
Elizabeth Frood; University of Oxford
Julia Kindt; University of Sydney
Hans-Friedrich Mueller; Union College (Schenectady, NY)
Petra Sijpesteijn; Leiden University
Marc Van De Mieroop; Columbia University
Konstantinos Vlassopoulos; University of Crete
Rachel Mairs; University of Reading

Editorial Office:
Gary D. Farney
Department of History
Rutgers University, Newark
Conklin Hall, 175 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102-1814
T: 973-353-3897
F: 973-353-1193
E-mail: gfarney@rutgers.edu

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Online ISSN: 2324-8114
Print ISSN: 2324-8106
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: May 29, 2013
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: All those interested in the history and culture of the ancient Mediterranean world, including Classicists, historians, and archaeologists.