Two reviews of Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius have come out, one by Margot Neger in BMCR, and one by Paolo Bernardini in La Provincia di Como (here is the PDF and a translation). I should note that the Addenda et Corrigenda on the publisher’s website has also been updated, in order to address the few but unfortunate errors in the text; thank you to colleagues and reviewers for pointing those out.
Author Archives: Pedar W. Foss
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ROMARCH: Rome: City and Country; U. Reading Symposium, 11 May
Rome: City and country
A symposium in honour of Professor Annalisa Marzano
Department of Classics, University of Reading
11th May 2022, 2-5 PM
Programme
2.00 – 2.20
‘Introduction’
Barbara Goff and Amy Smith, University of Reading
2.20 – 2.40
‘Big data in the Roman countryside: The Roman Hinterland Project’
Rob Witcher, Durham University
2.40 – 3.00
‘Picking up the pieces’
Wim Jongman, University of Groningen
3.00 – 3.20
Break
3.20 – 3.40
‘Quantifying the built environment of Rome’
Jack Hanson, University of Reading
3.40 – 4.00
‘Recent research in South-East Rome: An introduction to the Rome Transformed Project’
Ian Haynes, Newcastle University
4.20 – 4.40
‘The Augustan horticultural revolution’
Annalisa Marzano, University of Reading
The event will be held both in person and online.
The link for joining the event remotely is as follows: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWJlNGJjNmYtOGM0NS00N2M3LWE0ODMtOGZhY2I5NmEzZDM4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%224ffa3bc4-ecfc-48c0-9080-f5e43ff90e5f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ab142154-1453-4d9e-93ec-c6a8991e6c42%22%7d
For more details, please contact Dr J. W. Hanson at j.w.hanson@reading.ac.uk.
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Herculaneum Society: Pliny the Younger and the Date and Sequence of the Vesuvian Eruption
Two talks for the Herculaneum Society, based at Oxford, 26 February 2022, now on YouTube:
- Professor Pedar Foss, DePauw University, on “Ashy Tuesday-Wednesday: The Date and Sequence of the AD 79 Eruption;”
- Professor Roy Gibson, Durham University, on “From Como to the Bay of Naples: Pliny’s Epistolary Italy.”
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The Date of the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption in the textual sources
20-min. lecture from 6 January 2022, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting. All details and data to be published in March 2022: https://www.routledge.com/Pliny-and-the-Eruption-of-Vesuvius/Foss/p/book/9780415705462
Three clarifications/corrections:
1) @ 3:40, when I say that gamma comprises 95% of extant Plinian manuscripts, I should have specified that this was 95% of all extant Plinian manuscripts that contain the Vesuvian letters.
2) @11:20, the date of Biondo’s ms. should be ca. 1424-25.
3) @12:05, I think that mss. c and q have a ‘nou’ with a long macron reading because c° contained both the ‘non’ (with a long macron) from Valla, and also the ‘nou’ from R1472, and either in that ms. or in its descendants, scribes were trying to reconcile those two options. Mss. c and q were both presentation copies (and have a number of errors), so their scribes were just trying to copy in a nice way what they saw in their exemplars, c° and q°. They weren’t necessarily trying to construe ‘November’, though that is a possibility. In either case, ‘November’ was not present in some dusty ancestor. It was contrived first, explicitly, by the r-editor in R1472–} r°.
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Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius – publication March 2022
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius (Routledge, March 2022) is in press. Here is how to order for your library at a 20% discount. My blog posts about the Vesuvius eruption are well obsolete, but I will leave them as-is for archival purposes. The book is about Letters 6.16 and 6.20, and contains these chapters:- Two Plinys: Short biographies of the Elder and Younger Pliny, setting the context for the Vesuvian letters.
- Two Letters: A reconstruction of the transmission history of Epp. 6.16 and 6.20 within the context of the whole manuscript tradition of the Epistulae. This is based on the collation of every known and available extant manuscript and early printed edition of the text of those letters (which has never been done before).
- Two Days: A reconstruction—based on the latest volcanological studies and a new complete GIS model of the AD-79 topography of the Bay of Naples—of the eruption sequence, its effects upon the landscape and people of the Bay of Naples, and how those new studies enlighten the accounts in Pliny’s Epistulae, including the likely location of the Pliny’s villa from which the eruption was first spotted. In addition, this chapter treats the date of the eruption, both in the manuscript tradition, and in the archaeological evidence. It shows, among other things, how ‘November’ crept into the manuscript tradition as an error, how that error was propagated, and why the textual tradition cannot be used as a basis for arguing that the eruption happened in October or November, despite the repeated citation of problematic 17th-/18th-c. scholarship and recent press favoring a non-August date.
- Epistulae 6.16, The Elder’s Story: Text, textual variants, new translation, and detailed commentary.
- Epistulae 6.20, The Younger’s Story: Text, textual variants, new translation, and detailed commentary.
Routledge will also host the data files behind the arguments in their Online Resources. Those will include:
- A side-by-side continuous Latin and English translation of Epp. 6.16, 6.20, including the collation markers (PDF).
- Ep. 6.16 Inventory of Sources and Collation (Excel spreadsheet).
- Ep. 6.20 Inventory of Sources and Collation (Excel spreadsheet).
- Epp. 6.16 and 6.20 Collation “Fingerprints” — the key readings that decipher the manuscript tradition (Excel spreadsheet).
- Select Collation of Epp. 1.8, 12, 23-24 — key readings to understand the manuscript tradition for Epp. 1.1-5.6 and the F source (PDF).
- Select Collation of Book 8 Letters — key readings to understand the manuscript tradition for the theta branch of the manuscript tradition (PDF).
- Collation Encoding Key (how manuscript abbreviations in items 2-6 are encoded in the collation spreadsheets) (PDF).
- Continuous Color Diagram for the Manuscript Tradition (PDF).
- Continuous Halftone Diagram of the Eruption Sequence (PDF).
- Geographic Information System (GIS) of the pre-eruption Bay of Naples in AD 79 (ArcGIS folder).
Please cite my work appropriately. Thank you.
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Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art: CARC, Oxford
The Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art. Gandhara Connections 4th International Workshop
Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March 2020, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU
We are pleased to announce that the provisional programme for our 2020 Gandhara Connections Workshop The Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art is now available on our website.
Download the workshop abstract and provisional programme here.
Please check our Gandhara Connections website for updates and time changes.All are welcome and attendance is free, but please book a place by emailing: carc@classics.ox.ac.uk
We plan also to live webcast this event – details to follow.
Classical Art Research Centre
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LUTel: +44 (0)1865 278083
Fax: +44 (0)1865 610237
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ROMARCH: Oxford CARC Lecture: Heracles’ Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley
Heracles’ Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley by Dr Llewelyn Morgan2019 Gandhara Connections Lecture
Thursday 14th November, 5.00pm
At: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU
Oxford University’s own Dr Llewelyn Morgan will give the 2019 Gandhara Connections Lecture on ‘Heracles’ Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley’. Dr Morgan is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and author of The Buddhas of Bamiyan (2012), which reflects his longstanding interest in Graeco-Roman connections with Central Asia and India.
The lecture will take place at 5pm on Thursday 14th November 2019 in the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU. A video will be made available online afterwards.
All are welcome to attend and places are free, but please book by emailing us: carc@classics.ox.ac.uk
Classical Art Research Centre
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LUTel: +44 (0)1865 278083
Fax: +44 (0)1865 610237
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ROMARCH: Archaeologia Bulgarica ХХIII 2019 #2 Contents
Archaeologia Bulgarica ХХIII 2019 #2
table of contents
ARTICLESReho, M.: Two оinochoai by the Nikias Painter in the National
Archaeological Museum in Sofia…1Georgiev, P. Y.: Archaeometric Research and Reconstruction of a Bronze
Vessel from Kitova Burial Mound near the Village of Krushare,
Municipality of Sliven….27Sharankov, N. / Hristov, I.: A Milestone of Emperor Philip the Arab from
the Road Oescus – Philippopolis Found at the Eastern Wall of the
castellum of Sostra…..57Dana, D. / Moreau, D. / Kirov, S. / Valeriev, I.: A New Greek Dedication
from the Sanctuary of Telerig among the spolia at Zaldapa….71Doncheva, S.: Early Medieval Slotted Openwork Strap Ends with “S”-Shape
Double Palmettes from Northeastern Bulgaria…..79Regards,
Lyudmil Vagalinski (editor)
https://www.facebook.com/Archaeologia-Bulgarica-811557715855220/
www.archaeologia-bulgarica.com
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