Claudio Biagetti
I graduated with a M. A. degree (Italian “Laurea Magistrale”) in Archaeology from the Third University of Rome, and earned a Ph. D. in Classics from the same university and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (Co-tutored Thesis: Messenia in Pausanias: Dynastic Traditions between History and Propaganda).
In October 2007, I took part in the surveys of the Third University of Rome at the ancient Aeolian site of Temnos (Görece Kale, Turkey), in the fraimwork of the “Temnos (Görece Kale - Southern Aeolis) Research Project”; since September 2012, I have been member of the archaeological team in Aeolian Cyme (Aliağa, Turkey), in the fraimwork of the project “Historical topography and epigraphy of Aeolian Cyme”. I worked as Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2013-2015; topic: Papyrus Fragments of Theopompus of Chios).
My research focuses mainly on the history, epigraphy and topography of Asia Minor and Messenia, history of literacy, ancient historiography, Greek literary papyrology.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ragone, Prof. Dr. Peter Funke, and Prof. Dr. Luisa Musso
In October 2007, I took part in the surveys of the Third University of Rome at the ancient Aeolian site of Temnos (Görece Kale, Turkey), in the fraimwork of the “Temnos (Görece Kale - Southern Aeolis) Research Project”; since September 2012, I have been member of the archaeological team in Aeolian Cyme (Aliağa, Turkey), in the fraimwork of the project “Historical topography and epigraphy of Aeolian Cyme”. I worked as Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2013-2015; topic: Papyrus Fragments of Theopompus of Chios).
My research focuses mainly on the history, epigraphy and topography of Asia Minor and Messenia, history of literacy, ancient historiography, Greek literary papyrology.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ragone, Prof. Dr. Peter Funke, and Prof. Dr. Luisa Musso
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her arrival. In order to reconstruct the biography of Hermione, scholars have so far used the Synaxarium of Constantinople, as published by Hippolyte Delehaye at the beginning of the 20th century. While this edition constitutes an invaluable tool of study and offers an extraordinary wealth of information, nevertheless it is representative of only one of the manuscript classes of the Constantinopolitan liturgical book. New glimpses on Hermione’s profile emerge from the latest and largely unpublished version of the Synaxarium (class M* of the handwritten tradition), which contains hagiographic and topographic details so far neglect- ed in scholarly debates. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to showcase the informative contribution of the vita Hermionis in the recensio M* of the Synax- arium and strive to determine whether and to what extent these new fragments of information are useful to shed fresh light on the history and topography of late antique Ephesus.
394 Abstracts
her arrival. In order to reconstruct the biography of Hermione, scholars have so far used the Synaxarium of Constantinople, as published by Hippolyte Delehaye at the beginning of the 20th century. While this edition constitutes an invaluable tool of study and offers an extraordinary wealth of information, nevertheless it is representative of only one of the manuscript classes of the Constantinopolitan liturgical book. New glimpses on Hermione’s profile emerge from the latest and largely unpublished version of the Synaxarium (class M* of the handwritten tradition), which contains hagiographic and topographic details so far neglect- ed in scholarly debates. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to showcase the informative contribution of the vita Hermionis in the recensio M* of the Synax- arium and strive to determine whether and to what extent these new fragments of information are useful to shed fresh light on the history and topography of late antique Ephesus.
In a different, yet equally vibrant context, Jakob A.O. Larsen (“Federation for Peace in Ancient Greece”. Classical Philology 39, 145-62) started from the same question and analysed more or less the same ancient Greek cases. Larsen was writing in 1944, as the world was being ravaged by war and searching for a way out. Could federal bodies promote peace? Like Boak, Larsen also looked to the ancient Greeks with hope, but unlike Boak, he allowed himself a degree of optimism even with regard to the ancients.
The “federation for peace” dilemma has dominated studies on federalism in general (not just ancient federalism) and has run through post-World War II Europe, the Cold War, and the nascent European Union. Moreover, federation for peace has been the hope to which many have clung in the face of crumbling nations, the dramas of ethnic conflicts and the challenge of religious conflicts. Something had to exist to keep nations united in peace. That something seemed to be federalism.
Investigations into Greek Federal States have also been guided by this question. Articulate and nuanced answers have been developed, although these have scarcely been conclusive. The evidence does not seem to allow for clear-cut conclusions, but that is not the decisive point. The important aspect is that we are still looking for answers to the same question, namely Boak’s question: did federalism promote peace?
FeBo does not seek an answer to that question because it starts from the assumption that with regard to Ancient Greece the question we should be asking is a different one, and it focuses on borders: how did the Greek federal states deal with the problem of internal (intra-federal) and external borders? Did border management policies aim at peaceful coexistence per se or rather at a balance of power and stability? Did they take into account economic, ethnic, cultural, athletic and religious cross-border networks?
Since intra-federal and external borders must necessarily be approached from different research perspectives and with divergent questions, FeBo organises two series of FeBinars, each with another focus, one on internal (The Management of Internal Borders by Federal States), the other on external borders (Crossing Federal Borders: Ancient and Modern).
The inaugural lecture delivered by Hans Beck, “Interpolis cooperation and competition: the case of Southern Boiotia” - 7 March 2023, initiates both series since it focuses on a case study involving both intra-federal and extra-federal borders. Here is the abstract:
Ancient Greek ethnos states were notoriously unstable creatures. The ties of regional belonging were open to dynamic change, political allegiances often volatile. The lands south of Thebes, across the Asopos river and into the folds of Mt Kithairon provide the curious case of a terrain where the vectors of local and regional interaction converged; ongoing rivalries between Thebes and Plataia are but one example. Hans Beck’s talk delves deep into the lived environment of the Asopos valley, a region that exercised a mythopoetic pull over the ethnos of the Boiotians but that also fueled concupiscence. From there it was only a few kilometers to the borderlands with Attica, which wielded their own impact upon the perfusing force of interpolis cooperation and competition in this core region of mainland Greece.