David Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor to the End of the Third Century after Christ, Vols. I, II. Princeton University Press, 1950. Pp. XXI + 1, 661, with map. £6 6s.

I. We know fairly well how the City Dionysia at Athens was celebrated in classical times. But although the numerous dramatic festivals of the Hellenistic period were in many respects modelled on the Athenian Dionysia, it is not clear how the performances at these festivals were organized. The difficulty arises from the fact that apart from a few great centres which may have had their own theatre production, playwrights, actors, etc., the majority of cities depended on the travelling of Dionysos’.1 It seems that the of Dionysiac artists were formed early in the third century. Three major Dionysiac associations—the Athenian, the Isthmian and Nemean, and the Ionian and Hellespontian—operated in Greece, Asia Minor, and the islands in Hellenistic times. The question is how these associations functioned. Were they theatrical companies as well as professional guilds? Did they undertake the organization of musical and dramatic performances at various festivals? Was there a division of territories between the and were certain festivals dominated by certain guilds?

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Notes on some Greek Inscriptions, mainly in Athens

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.2307/624305 ◽

1910 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 260-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

A. M. Woodward

Keyword(s):

Third Century ◽

Asia Minor ◽

American School ◽

The Third ◽

Critical Notes

This paper contains some notes on miscellaneous inscriptions of which all but two are in Athens. The two exceptions are, firstly, the Ἀστραγαλομαντϵία inscription at Adalia, of which I publish a copy which will, I trust, be found more accurate than any of the previous versions; and, secondly, a recently discovered inscription from Northern Phocis dating probably from the end of the second, or the beginning of the third, century A.D. The remainder of the paper is devoted to some corrections in previously published copies of inscriptions in the Acropolis Museum.During a recent visit to Adalia (Attalia) in Pamphylia I copied again the well-known Ἀστραγαλομαντϵία inscription which is built into a wall there in one of the streets not far from the harbour; and it seems worth while to publish here the text of the inscription in minuscules, with a few critical notes. The most accessible copy of the stone is that given in Kaibel, Epigrammata Graeca No. 1038, but it is very faulty, and since that work was published other copies of the same inscription, or of similar inscriptions which are almost identically worded, have been found in Asia Minor. The most complete version was found by Sterrett at Ördekji (Anabura) in Pisidia (Papers of the American School at Athens, iii. [The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor] pp. 206–214; Hermes xiii. pp. 532 foll.), and enabled many of the previously uncertain readings on the Adalia stone to be cleared up; and a fragmentary inscription of the same class which is in places identical with that at Adalia was found at Aghlasun (Sagalassus) in Pisidia more recently.

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The Roman Equites in the Third Century A.D. - The Rise of the Equites in the Third Century of the Roman Empire. By C. W. Keyes. Pp. 54. Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press, 1915.

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x00008714 ◽

1917 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 59-61

Author(s):

J. S. Reid

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Third Century ◽

Oxford University ◽

The Third ◽

Princeton University ◽

Oxford University Press

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The Attribution Of The Oracle In Zosimus, New History 2. 37

The Classical Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0009838800026616 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 441-444 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

H. W. Parke

Keyword(s):

Third Century ◽

Asia Minor ◽

General Sense ◽

The Third ◽

The City

Zosimus, after recording the foundation and immense growth of Constantinople, introduces a digression directed towards his purpose of justifying paganism against Christianity. ‘It has often indeed occurred to me to wonder how, when the city of the Byzantines has grown, so that no other can compare with it for prosperity and size, there was no prophecy delivered from the gods of our predecessors about its development to a better fortune. With this thought in mind I have turned over many volumes of histories and collections of oracles, and with difficulty I happened upon one oracle said to be of the Sibyl of Erythrae or of Phaennis of Epirus. (For she is said to have produced oracles when in a state of possession.) Nicomedes, the son of Prusias, put his confidence in this oracle, and interpreting it in an advantageous sense he took up war against his father, Prusias, at the persuasion of Attalus.’ Zosimus proceeds to quote twenty-one lines of hexameter verse, which have come down in a rather corrupt state, but of which the general sense is reasonably clear. They consist mainly of an obvious post eventum forecast of the Gallic invasion of Asia Minor in the third century B.C.

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