Paola Ceccarelli

University College London, History, Faculty Member

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Books by Paola Ceccarelli

Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC- 150 BC)

La Pirrica Nell'Antichità Greco Romana: Studi Sulla Danza Armata

... La pirrica nell&amp;#x27;antichità greco romana. Studi sulla danza armata. by ... The Sud... more

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker E L'Antiquaria Napoletana: Carteggi Gervasio-Welcker E Minervini-Welcker.

edited volumes by Paola Ceccarelli

Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography (eds. Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)

by Lutz Doering and Paola Ceccarelli

In the ancient world, letter-writing not only forged connections between individuals, but also he... more In the ancient world, letter-writing not only forged connections between individuals, but also helped to construct and cultivate group-identities and communities. This volume explores the interrelation of epistolary communication and socio-political practice across four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.

• Incorporates a range of original case studies, offering new insights into the socio-political dimensions of letter-writing in the ancient world across key cultural contexts
• Utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to ancient epistolography, drawing on Jewish and Biblical studies, classics, and ancient history, and combining both literary and historical perspectives on this vital aspect of antiquity

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Greek Memories: Theories and Practices. (TOC)

Greek Memories. Theories and Practices, 2019

Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and prac... more Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to late antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different ‘disciplinary’ approaches to memory in ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by re-focusing it on the question of how various theories and practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises).

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Water and identity in the ancient Mediterranean

Mediterranean Historical Review, Jun 2012

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Papers by Paola Ceccarelli

Review of: C. Calame, Thésée et l'imaginaire athénien. Légende et culte en Grèce antique, Lausanne 1990

Dance and Desserts: an Analysis of Book Fourteen

Review of: A. Sarri, Material Aspects of Letter Writing in the Graeco-Roman World 500 BC – AD 300

Le Pyrrhichai di Frinico e Frinico figlio di Melanthas

Message épistolaire et message oral au Proche-Orient et en Grèce Archaĭque et Classique

Ecriture féminine, écriture épistulaire, parole des rhéteurs: à propos du fragment 194 KA de la Sappho d’Antiphane

Review of: M. Pucci ben Zeev, Jewish rights in the Roman world. The Greek and Roman documents cited by Josephus Flavius

Menyllos bnj2 295

Brill new Jacoby, 2nd edition, 2023

Commentary on the text The well-known story of the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Aulis was meant to ... more Commentary on the text The well-known story of the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Aulis was meant to serve as the parallel for a Roman story concerning the sacrifice of a Metella, narrated by Pythokles of Samos (BNJ 833 F 1); however, while in the Parallela minora the Roman story usually precedes the Greek one, here the two are inverted. The inversion is probably a mechanical error by the copyist of the archetype of the Parallela, to be connected with the loss of the story itself (so F. Jacoby, 'Die Überlieferung von Ps. Plutarchs Parallela Minora und die Schwindelautoren', Mnemosyne S. 3.8 (1940), 94); or the mechanical loss of most of the story may have brought along the change in disposition. As A. Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Oxford 2004), 134 notes, if the manuscripts of the Parallela abbreviate many stories-this is a particularly striking instance-, they however rarely omit the source reference for the story: references, the more obscure the better, and with them the recourse to written authority are central to the enterprise of the Parallela.

format_quoteThe Parallela minora serves to enhance credibility of Greek myths through Roman historical comparisons.format_quote

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Theophilos (296)

Brill New Jacoby, 2nd edition, 2023

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Aretades of Knidos (285)

Brill New Jacoby, 2nd edition, 2024

promised that he would betray his father. The father, enraged, cut his throat; so Aretades of Kni... more promised that he would betray his father. The father, enraged, cut his throat; so Aretades of Knidos in the third book of his Macedonian History. Critical Apparatus Commentary on the text This story is paired with the famous Roman one of Brutus, who in 509 BC, having put an end to the monarchy, decapitated his sons when they were found to be conspiring against him (a story attributed by Pseudo-Plutarch to Aristeides of Miletos, BNJ 286). The Greek parallel is thus much later than the Roman one which should validate it (something that happens also elsewhere in the Parallela minora: list of instances and discussion in K.