How Syracusan Was The Carthaginian Treasury?
By Timothy Smith
This paper reconsiders the prevailing interpretation of the civic function of late Archaic and early Classical Greek treasuries. Recent scholarship has configured the great Panhellenic sanctuaries’ thesauroi (treasuries) in the broader context of a reconstructed “contest of paradigms” between aristocratic ethos and civic ideologies (Neer 2001; Morris 1996; Kurke 1991).
Ritual and Identity at the Restored Epidauran Asklepieion
By Stephen Ahearne-Kroll
At the height of popularity of the Epidauran Asklepieion in the 4th century BCE, a suppliant would expect to participate and perform a varied set of rituals as part of the incubation process. There was a period of decline in the Epidauran sanctuary between the middle of the 2nd c. BCE and the renovation of the sanctuary by Hadrian and then Antoninus in the 2nd c.
Self-Definition of Alexander the Great
By F. S. Naiden
A bilingual inscription on a recently rediscovered pedestal from Alexander the Great’s shrine at Bahariya, in the Western Desert of Egypt, has been analyzed for its Egyptian text, which contains the only complete titulary for Alexander as pharaoh (F. Bosch-Puche, “L’ ‘autel’ du temple d’Alexandre le Grand à Bahariya retrouvé,” BIFAO 2008, followed by his “The Egyptian Royal Titulary of Alexander the Great, I: Horus, Two Ladies, Golden Horus, and Throne Names,” JEA 2013). Remaining unanalyzed is the Greek text that accompanies the Egyptian one. It reads,
The Tyrant as Liberator: The Treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi
By Matthew Sears
Plutarch mentions a now-lost treasury of Brasidas and the Acanthians at Delphi, filled with spoils taken from the Athenians (Mor. 400F, 401C; Lys.