PHOENIX

PHOENIX Journal of the Classical Association of Canada Revue de la Soci´et´e canadienne des e´ tudes classiques VOLUME LXIV NO. 3–4

FALL-WINTER/AUTOMNE-HIVER 2010

` CONTENTS/TABLE DES MATIERES The Oaths of the Athenians at the Ratification of Solon’s Reforms Vincent J. Rosivach

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The Desertion of Nicarchus the Arcadian in Xenophon’s Anabasis John Hyland

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Helping Behavior in Classical Athens

Matthew R. Christ

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Chaereas, Hippolytus, Theseus: Tragic Echoes, Tragic Potential in Chariton J. H. D. Scourfield

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Ipsa Dixerat: Women’s Words in Roman Love Elegy Sharon L. James

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Pass´eisme et modernisme au d´ebut du second si`ecle: Le cas de Pline le Jeune Nicole MÂethy

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Nundinae: The Culture of the Roman Week

James Ker

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La r´evolte des Boukoloi (delta du Nil, e´ gypte, ca 166–172 de notre e` re): Regard socio-environnemental sur la violence Katherine Blouin

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Retour sur la datation et l’origine de Lactantius Placidus, Â commentateur de Stace Etienne Wolff

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Book Reviews/Comptes rendus Ariana Traill: Women and the Comic Plot in Menander Mary-Kay Gamel FrancËoise Frazier: Po´etique et cr´eation litt´eraire en Gr`ece antique: La d´ecouverte d’un « nouveau monde » Apostolos Lampropoulos Craig Cooper (ed.): Epigraphy and the Greek Historian James Sickinger W. V. Harris (ed.): The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans LÂeopold Migeotte Emily Baragwanath: Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus Jonathan David Vivienne J. Gray (ed.): Xenophon: On Government Bruce LaForse Waldemar Heckel: The Conquests of Alexander the Great Frank L. Holt Paula Gottlieb: The Virtue of Aristotle’s Ethics Jozef Muller È J. D. Reed: Virgil’s Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid David Meban Alison Keith: Propertius: Poet of Love and Leisure S. J. Heyworth

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Silvia Mattiacci and Andrea Perruccio: Anti-mitologia ed Eredita` È Neoterica in Marziale: Genesi e Forme di una Poetica Regina Hoschele Erik Gunderson: Nox philologiae: Aulus Gellius and the Fantasy of the Roman Library Myles Lavan Joan Booth (ed.): Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond Debra L. Nousek Leanne Bablitz: Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom Caroline Humfress Clifford Ando: The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire Celia E. Schultz Andrew Wallace-Hadrill: Rome’s Cultural Revolution Clifford Ando Susan P. Mattern: Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing Tana Allen David Walsh: Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting: The World of Mythological Burlesque Robert F. Sutton Judith M. Barringer: Art, Myth, and Ritual in Classical Greece Mary C. Sturgeon Rachel M. Kousser: Hellenistic and Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical Francesca C. Tronchin

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´ EDITORIAL STATEMENT/COMMUNIQUE´ DE LA REDACTION PHOENIX aims to publish scholarly papers embodying original research in all areas of Classical Studies: the literature, language, history, philosophy, religion, mythology, science, archaeology, art, architecture, and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds from earliest times to about a.d. 600. Articles should make a fresh, interesting, and significant contribution to our understanding of classical antiquity. The journal welcomes submissions that use new approaches to elucidate their chosen topic and wishes to encourage more submissions on broader themes, as well as those that treat a single question in a detailed manner. Authors should ensure that the argument of the paper is clearly expressed and its general significance made clear. Papers illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and/or line-drawings are welcome. Please note that Phoenix does not normally consider for publication articles of longer than 50 pages in manuscript. La revue P HOENIX publie des articles scientifiques aux conclusions originales dans tous les domaines des e´ tudes classiques: litt´erature, histoire, philosophie, religions, mythologie, sciences, arch´eologie, arts, architecture et culture du monde gr´eco-romain. Les limites chronologiques sont extrˆemement larges, des origines a` l’Antiquit´e tardive (ca 600 de notre eˆ re). Phoenix ne publie que les articles qui contribuent de fac¸on originale et significative a` notre compr´ehension de l’antiquit´e gr´eco-romaine. Les argumentations qui reposent sur de nouvelles m´ethodologies et de nouvelles approches sont les bienvenus. Le comit´e de r´edaction sollicite des articles sur des th`emes plus g´en´eraux qu’auparavant, aussi bien que ceux qui traitent d’un seul probl`eme d’une fac¸on plus d´etaill´ee. L’auteur doit s’assurer de la clart´e de sa d´emonstration et en souligner l’importance. Enfin les articles peuvent eˆ tre accompagn´es de photographies en noir et blanc, de cartes et de dessins au trait. Pri`ere de noter que Phoenix ne retient g´en´eralement pas les propositions d’articles dont le manuscrit fait plus de 50 pages.