Images / Passages for Comment Flashcards

Question

What two scholars agree on Atotas the Miner's status?

Answer 1

Bäbler - does not believe that Atotas was a freedman, since he does not mention this in his epitaph. This argument from silence is not a strong one. We could rarely detect an ex-slave who did not mention this fact in his epitaph and so we cannot know how many such cases occurred. Fragiadakis - considers Atotas a slave.

Answer 2

Leach - Ex-slaves like the Eurysaces and the fictional Trimalchio were limited to “figurative” displays of art in order to remain publicly relevant, achieving immortality through grand tombs in prominent places that would cement themselves in the minds of passers by. Wilson & Schörle - His identity is tied to his baking business - its monetary value is his claim to elite status - and therefore the art on his tomb depicts the “division of labour in a fairly large-scale bakery”.

Answer 3

Use Petronius’s character Trimalchio as ancient source - Elite status due to noble birth was perceived as being at risk of being subverted by businessmen, and the derision aimed at their profession and tombs is evidenced by Petronius’ character Trimalchio. He acts as the epitome of the “extreme boorishness of ex-slaves” in order to undermine their funerary achievements and reduce them to the status of their birth.

Answer 4

“Sold to Pythian Apollo [...] under the condition that she is free and not claimable to anyone forever”

Answer 5

Lewis - The evidence of the Delphic manumissions suggests that it was normal for an ethnic slave name to mirror the ethnicity of its bearer, although this was not the case in every circumstance

Answer 6

Lee - The fifth period of the campaign, roughly spring and summer 400 BC, took the Cyreans westward from Trapezus to Byzantium. The Black Sea coast was a mixture of the familiar and the exotic. On the one hand, there were the trappings of Aegean Greek life: the poleis of Trapezus, Cerasus, Cotyora, Sinope and Heracleia, sailing ships and merchants, even starch-stiff Spartan officers. On the other hand, there were tribal peoples like the Mossynoecians, with their dugout canoes, dolphin blubber for oil, and tattooed children.

Answer 7

Herodotus - “For this is the nature of the land of Egypt: in the first place, when you approach it from the sea and are still a day's sail from land, if you let down a sounding line you will bring up mud from a depth of eleven fathoms. This shows that the deposit from the land reaches this far.”

Answer 8

“The extraordinary greatness of the Roman empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains.” - Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 3.67.5

Answer 9

“The Romans gave particular attention to areas the Greeks neglected: paved roads, aqueducts, and sewers capable of washing the filth of the city out into the Tiber. Furthermore, they have also paved the roads in the countryside, adding both cuts to hills and viaducts across valleys so that wagons can take a shipload.” - Strabo, Geogr., 5.3.8

Answer 10

Cassius Dio - viewed Hadrian as a ‘hands-on’ emperor Tertullian - “an explorer of all curiosities”

Answer 11

Strabo, Pliny, Pausanius

Answer 12

Cooper & Hall - “… tourism is essentially an experiential industry, that is people are consciously seeking to purchase particular experiences that are primarily ephemeral and intangible…” LaFrance - “From Roman walls to Twitter, humans have a long-standing obsession with leaving their mark.”