Ten dedications "To the gods and goddesses" and the Antonine Plague

Journal of Roman Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 293-301

  Jones, C P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (63)

1. L. Robert, OMS VI, 540 (= Les Fouilles de Claros [1954]): "le IIe siècle de notre ère est la grande époque de Claros"
2. A. D. Nock, Selected essays on religion and the ancient world 1 (Oxford 1972) 165 (= REA 1928)
3. Nock's second thoughts, at CR 43 (1929) 126, are due to Taramelli's dating of Nora to the 1st c.
4. 2, 477
5. H. Erbse, Theosophorum Graecorum fragmenta (Teubner edn., Stuttgart 1995) no. 13 (the literary versions)
6. For the version at Oenoanda (SEG 27, 933) the fundamental discussion is L. Robert, OMS V, 617-39 (= CRAI 1971)
7. On the archaeological setting, A. S. Hall, ZPE 32 (1978) 263-67
8. On which see Bull. Ép. 1979, 506
9. The latest discussions known to me are E. Livrea, ZPE 122 (1998) 90-96
10. S. Mitchell in P. Athanassiadi and M. Frede (edd.), Pagan monotheism in late antiquity (Oxford 1999) 81-92
11. And D. S. Potter, The Roman Empire at bay, AD 180-395 (London 2004) 203-5, 626 n.169
12. ΧΡΩΜΑΤΙΣ need not be a woman's name, as usually assumed, but might represent "Chromatios"; cf. Bull. Ép. 1976, 811
13. Lucian, Alex. 23, 49 (Harmon's translation, slightly altered)
14. L. Robert in J. des Gagniers (ed.), Laodicée du Lycos (Québec 1969) 301-2
15. Cf. Bull. Ép. 1976, 592, on Gorgos of Colophon, a collector of metrical oracles of Claros
16. E. Birley, Chiron 4 (1974) 511-13 (= The Roman army: papers 1929-1986 [Amsterdam 1988] 365-67)
17. Widely accepted, e.g., by H. W. Parke, Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor (London 1985) 160-62
18. Euzennat, AntAfr 10 (1976) 65-68
19. Against Birley, Letta, SCO 39 (1989) 268-80
20. See G. R. H. Horsley and S. Mitchell, The inscriptions of Central Pisidia (ISGK 57; Bonn 2000) maps on 179-80
21. For a list of the cities known to have sent delegations to Claros, see L. and J. Robert, Claros I: Décrets hellénistiques (Paris 1989) 4-6
22. K. Lanckoronski, Städte Pamphyliens und Pisidiens II: Pisidien (Vienna 1892) nos. 200 (IGR III 342: reign of Antoninus Pius) and 201
23. For Latin usage, TLL V, 909.14-18
24. For Greek, see especially H. Wankel on Dem., De cor. 1 (pp. 108-9)
25. Also G. Hutchinson on Aesch., Septem 87
26. IGR I, 767
27. 2 no. 370, cf. Robert, OMS V, 219 (= RPhil 1959)
28. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 25 no. 10. Not "a group of Thracian ladies," as Parke, Oracles 159
29. With addenda by P. Herrmann on 198, citing L. Robert, OMS V, 599 n. 5 (= CRAI 1968)
30. Izmir: Robert, OMS V, 626-27
31. G. Pugliese Carratelli, ASAA n.s. 25-26 (1963/64) 357-65 no. II, with p. 362 on the date
32. Further bibliography in Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 11-13 no. 12, Steinepigramme I, 259-60. These authors cite Pugliese Carratelli for a date "Zeit Hadrians oder unmittelbar danach", and make no mention of the Great Plague
33. Cf. J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ép. 1967, 582, p. 544
34. 2 (Cambridge 2000) 164-69, and further below, notably on the two inscriptions from Noricum
35. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 6-10 no. 2, Steinepigramme I, 575-79
36. For the attribution to Claros, see Buresch 70-78, confirmed by Ch. Picard, BCH 46 (1922) 190-97
37. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 16-20 no. 8, Steinepigramme I, 396-99 (bibliography)
38. "Son of Glycon": L. Robert, A travers l'Asie Mineure (Paris 1980) 405-8
39. SEG 41, 981
40. Excellent discussion by F. Graf, ZPE 92 (1992) 267-79, esp. 271-73, establishing Claros as the origin
41. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 26-27 no. 11 and Steinepigramme 296-97. Cf. the "wound-inflaming plague" mentioned in an epigram of Rome (below)
42. J. Krauss, Inschr. Sestos (IGSK 19; Bonn 1980) no. 11
43. (with the comments of J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ép. 1981, 328)
44. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 20-25 no. 8
45. Merk.-Staub., "Klaros" 32-33 no. 18
46. Protective texts: L. Robert, Hellenica 13 (1965) 265-71
47. Inscription of Antioch: P. Perdrizet, CRAI 1903, 62-66, citing Mart. Cap., Nupt. philol. merc. 1.18
48. For epigraphic evidence supporting these claims, cf. C. P. Jones, GRBS 12 (1971) 45-48
49. Chron. (ed. Helm) p. 206 = Duncan-Jones 120 (11)
50. Duncan-Jones; the latest studies known to me are: R. S. Bagnall, JRA 13 (2000) 288-92
51. E. Lo Cascio, MÉFRA 114 (2002) 102-4
52. A. Marcone, RivStorItal 114 (2002) 803-19
53. C. Bruun, JRA 16 (2003) 426-34
54. Thus U. Ehming, ZPE 122 (1998) 206-7, on Spanish oil-amphoras
55. Cf. Or. 51.25. Inscription: G. Petzl, Inschr. Smyrna II.1 (IGSK 24.1; Bonn 1987) no. 766
56. Merk.-Staub., Steinepigramme I, 501
57. Ed. Kühn, XIX.15 = Duncan-Jones 118 (1)
58. Hyrcanian plain: P. Herrmann, ArkDerg 5 (1997) 171-74 with pl. LVIII (SEG 47, 1649)
59. J. H. Oliver, Greek constitutions of Early Roman emperors (Philadelphia 1989) no. 184, ll. E61-62
60. Note also Philostr., Vit. Soph. 561 (p. 172 Wright): "Happy they who perished in the Plague."
61. Moretti, IGUR II, 1378 (Peek, Gr. Versinschr. 993)
62. Ann. Ép. 1994, 1334, with R. Brettwieser, Gräzer Beiträge 21 (1995) 149-56
63. Map in G. Pereira Menaut, Corpus de inscricións romanas de Galicia I (Santiago 1991) 235