Too Much and Never Enough: Timber Supply and Storage at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos (314-167 BCE)
By Michael McGlin, Temple University
This paper investigates the acquisition and management of timber in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delos during the island’s political independence (314-167 BCE).
Encoding Lives in Epigraphic Form: Family Memories and Empire in Statius, silv. 3.3 and the Flavii’s Monument from Cillium
By Chiara Battisti, Princeton University
This paper examines the encoding of family memories in two poetic texts from the High Roman Empire: Silvae 3.3, a funerary poem written by the Flavian poet Statius for Claudius Etruscus’ father, and the funerary poem from the mausoleum of the Flavii in Cillium (second c. AD, CIL VIII, 211-216).
Battlefields and Sacred Ways
By Matthew Sears, University of New Brunswick
The Spartans famously buried their dead on the battlefield (Low 2011; Kucewicz 2021) while the Athenians repatriated their dead as part of their patrios nomos (Low 2010, 2012; Arrington 2015; Pritchard 2022; Rees 2022). Of course, the entirety of the Greek experience was far more complicated than this simple contrast would suggest (Low 2003; Christesen 2018; Bérard 2020).
The Symbolism of Absence: Public Cenotaphs and Civic Ideology in Archaic Greek Colonies
By Itamar Levin, Brown University
Cenotaphs constitute some of the most impressive graves in Greek antiquity, particularly during the archaic period. However, while each of these memorials has been examined individually, scholars of ancient Greek history and archeology have yet to consider empty tombs as a discrete group with unique characteristics. This is especially striking considering the importance that scholarship on the modern nation-state ascribes to cenotaphs in (re)producing national ideology (Anderson 9–36).