Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron

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The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938\-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late\-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage. Contents Preface Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors A Personal Note Publications of Alan Cameron, 1963–2020 Chapter 1 Alan Cameron and the Symmachi Chapter 2 Fel Temp Reparatio and Themistius’ Oration 1 The Story of an Iconic Coin and a Career-Defining Panegyric Chapter 3 The Historia Augusta Minimalism and the Adequacy of Evidence Chapter 4 Ambrose Thinks with Slavery Chapter 5 Rutilius Namatianus, Melania the Younger, and the Monks of Capraria Chapter 6 Late Antique Homeric Exegesis in the Greek Anthology Chapter 7 Returning to the Wandering Poets New Poems by Dioscoros of Aphrodite Chapter 8 The Lost Farnesianus Manuscript Uncial Capitals for the Bishops of Rome Chapter 9 Late Antiquity Between Sasanian East and Roman West Third-Century Imperial Women as Pawns in Propaganda Warfare Chapter 10 Simony and the State Politics and Religion in the Later Roman Empire Chapter 11 Stenographers in Late Antiquity Villains or Victims? Chapter 12 Three Questions about the Ancient Hospital Chapter 13 Celebrity and Power Circus Factions Forty Years On Chapter 14 Alan Cameron and Byzantium References Index