Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron

353 Pages·2021·39.158 MB·English

by  W. V. Harris, Anne Hunnell Chen

Late Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Columbia Studies in the
Classical Tradition
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volume 46
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Alan Cameron (1938–2017)
Oaxaca, 1997
Late Antique Studies in
Memory of Alan Cameron
Edited by
W. V. Harris
Anne Hunnell Chen
Leiden | Boston
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Harris, William V. (William Vernon), editor, author. | Hunnell Chen,
Anne, editor, author. | Cameron, Alan, 1938–2017, honouree.
Title: Late antique studies in memory of Alan Cameron / edited by W.V.
Harris, Anne Hunnell Chen.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Columbia studies in
the classical tradition, 0166–1302 ; volume 46 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021005194 (print) | LCCN 2021005195 (ebook) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Civilization, Classical. | Civilization, Ancient. |
History, Ancient.
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Contents
Preface ix
W. V. Harris and Anne Hunnell Chen
List of Illustrations x
Abbreviations xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
A Personal Note xix
Publications of Alan Cameron, 1963–2020 xxi
1 Alan Cameron and the Symmachi 1
Rita Lizzi Testa
2 Fel Temp Reparatio and Themistius’ Oration 1
The Story of an Iconic Coin and a Career-Defining Panegyric 11
Edward Watts
3 The Historia Augusta
Minimalism and the Adequacy of Evidence 23
Michael Kulikowski
4 Ambrose Thinks with Slavery 41
Noel Lenski
5 Rutilius Namatianus, Melania the Younger, and the Monks
of Capraria 66
Gavin Kelly
6 Late Antique Homeric Exegesis in The Greek Anthology 85
Arianna Gullo
7 Returning to the Wandering Poets
New Poems by Dioscoros of Aphrodite 104
Jean-Luc Fournet
8 The Lost Farnesianus Manuscript
Uncial Capitals for the Bishops of Rome 134
Carmela Vircillo Franklin
viii Contents
9 Late Antiquity Between Sasanian East and Roman West
Third-Century Imperial Women as Pawns in Propaganda Warfare 168
Anne Hunnell Chen
10 Simony and the State
Politics and Religion in the Later Roman Empire 198
Michele Renee Salzman
11 Stenographers in Late Antiquity
Villains or Victims? 220
Raffaella Cribiore
12 Three Questions about the Ancient Hospital 233
W. V. Harris
13 Celebrity and Power
Circus Factions Forty Years On 247
Charlotte Roueché
14 Alan Cameron and Byzantium 260
Averil Cameron
References 277
Index 316
Preface
This volume commemorates the life and work of Alan Cameron (1938–2017),
a unique figure in the scholarship of Late Antiquity whose loss is deeply felt
by very wide circles of scholars and friends of all ages in the United States,
the UK and elsewhere. The reader of this book will encounter many allu-
sions to Alan’s acumen, energy and originality, and also to his generosity and
good humor. Averil Cameron provides an invaluable account of his schol-
arly progress. For a particularly sympathetic memoir the reader can turn to
what Glen Bowersock wrote in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society 162 (3) (2018), 1–8.
Columbia University’s Classics Department sponsored a conference on
October 27 and 28, 2018, in Alan’s honor, and twelve of the scholars published
here gave papers on that occasion (very different papers, in some cases, from
those we are publishing). Edward Watts could not be present, and W. V. Harris’s
paper on the hospitals was written later.
There is no pretense of thematic unity here beyond the fact that the whole
collection centers on Late Antiquity. In fact, we are happy to have avoided
any more specific unity of theme, since Alan himself ranged over very many
themes as well as over many centuries. He went wherever insatiable curiosity
led him. It seems likely therefore that a commemorative conference and a sub-
sequent book that reflected all of Alan’s interests would have been considered
by many people to be impossibly incoherent; so there is nothing here about
Callimachus or about the literature of the high Roman Empire.
But there is a rich table at this commemorative feast, with new texts as well
as commentaries on more familiar ones, with political and social and cultural
history, with numismatics, papyrology, paleography, and a little epigraphy,
with some old favorites of Alan’s—circus factions and the Historia Augusta—
and finally two chapters—one about Ambrose and slavery, the other about the
history of the hospital—that we hope would have piqued his interest.
It is our remaining privilege to thank everyone who has helped with this
project, and in particular and above all Professor Dame Averil Cameron, who
has generously advised us throughout.
W. V. Harris
Anne Hunnell Chen
New York, December 2019
Illustrations
Figures
2.1 Coin of Constantius with Fel Temp Reparatio legend and emperor on galley
reverse (RIC 8.Thessalonica.170). Private collection. Photo by author 18
7.1 Poem 1. Infrared image: Jean-Luc Fournet; image processing: Fabrice Bessière,
Collège de France 106
7.2 Poem 2. Infrared image: Jean-Luc Fournet; image processing: Fabrice Bessière,
Collège de France 110
7.3 Poem 3. Infrared image: Jean-Luc Fournet; image processing: Fabrice Bessière,
Collège de France 115
8.1 Bianchini 2:xxiii. C 4237. 18 F. Widener Library Special Collections, Harvard
University 140
8.2 Bianchini 2:lvii. C 4237. 18 F. Widener Library Special Collections, Harvard
University 141
8.3 Bianchini 2:lviii. C 4237. 18 F. Widener Library Special Collections, Harvard
University 142
8.4 Bianchini 2:lix. C 4237. 18 F. Widener Library Special Collections, Harvard
University 143
8.5 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus latinus 3836 (Agimundus Homiliary,
vol. 2), f. 64r 158
8.6 Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, B.25 II (Codex Juvenianus), f. 51r. Photo by Siria
Sarmiento 159
8.7 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS 10318 (Codex Salmasianus), 262
(view 272) 160
8.8 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vaticanus latinus 3836 (Agimundus Homiliary,
vol. 2), f. 67v 161
8.9 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS 10318 (Codex Salmasianus), 229
(view 239) 162
8.10 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS 10318 (Codex Salmasianus), 156
(view 166) 163
8.11 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS 10318 (Codex Salmasianus), 134
(view 144) 164
9.1 Galerius and Narseh engaged in equestrian combat. Arch of Galerius,
Thessaloniki (B.II.20). Photo by author 174
9.2 Sardonyx cameo featuring the Sasanian King of Kings capturing Emperor
Valerian. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cabinet des médailles,
inv. Babelon 360. Photo courtesy of Marie-Lan Nguyen, via Wikimedia
Commons 174