Papers by Peter Kruschwitz
M. Limón Belén, C. Fernández Martínez (eds.), SUB ASCIA. ESTUDIOS SOBRE CARMINA LATINA EPIGRAPHICA, 2020
Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra... more Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra sólo puede ser realizada, salvo excepción prevista en la ley, con la autorización de sus titulares. La infracción de los derechos mencionados puede ser constitutiva de delito contra la propiedad intelectual (art. 270 y siguientes del Código Penal).
Archiv für Epigraphik 5.1, 2025
Pesaro-Urbino), im Altertum Forum Sempronii (Regio VI -Umbrien), ist die folgende Versinschrift b... more Pesaro-Urbino), im Altertum Forum Sempronii (Regio VI -Umbrien), ist die folgende Versinschrift bekannt geworden:1 r]es viae carmina pia, hospes, consiste ẹ[t? pe]rleg[e qui f ]uerim. Fraternis ma[nib]us tu[mu]lusque et coniugis ei[us] tra[di]tus est [mi nun]c, quem mors inimic[a p]eremiṭ. Iam bis sep[te]nos ṭịḅ[i], Roma, lab[or]ibus aṇnos praestitera[m], quom me miserum mala [F]ata vocarunt. 10 Egressum castreis duo me vi[d]ere parentes, linquentem vitae et commoda militiae. [H]i duo viderunt fratres, dulcissima coniu[x] fraterna, quae mi titu[l]um donavit apert[um], quem vos legere et vestris ostendere gnatẹ[is] 15 possetis, quorum vita per saecula currit.2 [D]icite: Maria tibi bene sit, quae [ f ]e[mina] caru[m] coniugis habuisti germa[nu]m f ̣ [asque] dedi[sti]. (CIL XI 6125 (cf. p. 1397) = CLE 986 (cf. p. 857) = AE 1992, 564) * Dieses Projekt wurde vom European Research Council (ERC) im Rahmen des Forschungsrahmenprogramms Horizon 2020 der Europäischen Union gefördert (Grant Agreement Nr. 832874 -MAPPOLA). 1 Der hier gegebene Text entspricht (von kosmetischen Eingriffen abgesehen) der Edition in EDR 107371 (F. Branchesi, Stand 17.04.2011, revidiert 13.05.2011) (mit Abbildungen), vgl. dazu noch EDCS 23100611. -Zum lokalen Kontext und der dazugehörigen Quellenlage siehe Trevisiol 1999, insbes. S. 115 zur hier vorgeführten Inschrift. Eine ausführliche Dokumentation und Besprechung des Texts findet sich bei Gori 1989 (mit denselben Abbildungen, die auch im o. g. Eintrag der EDR aufzufinden sind) (= AE 1992, 564). 2 Trevisiol 1999 ad loc. versieht den Text an dieser Stelle durch das diakritische Zeichen || mit dem Hinweis auf einen vermeintlichen Wechsel des beschriebenen Bereiches. Dies ist nach Inaugenscheinnahme der Fotos nicht nachvollziehbar. 3 Die Vorstellung von commoda militiae, "Annehmlichkeiten des Militärdienstes", mag auf den ersten Blick widersinnig erscheinen, jedoch sind hiermit (als t. t.) wohl ganz konkret vergleichsweise groß-
C. Augustynowicz / M. Fuchs / F.J. Ostrowski (edd.), Alltag – Erinnerung – Aufarbeitung an der Universität Wien. Historische Wissenschaften in Austrofaschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Nachkriegszeit, 2025
The Poetry of Death in the Corpus Tibullianum (with an Outlook on the Elegies of Propertius and Ovid)
Secretis bene uiuere siluis Studies in Latin Literature in Honour of Robert Maltby (ed. Stratis Kyriakidis, Charilaos Michalopoulos) Newcastle, 2024
A study of the verse inscriptions in the Roman elegiac poets, considering social implications and... more A study of the verse inscriptions in the Roman elegiac poets, considering social implications and perspectives of verse commemoration.
L. Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, R. Ardevan, R. Varga, F. Matei-Popescu, O. Țentea (eds.), Studia epigraphica et historica in honorem Ioannis Pisonis, Wiesbaden , 2024
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Uni... more This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 832874 -MAPPOLA). -We thank all museums, collections, and institutions that hold the monuments and objects under consideration in this article for kindly and generously granting Team MAPPOLA permission to access, study, document, and publish these monuments. All rights, including image rights, remain with their respective right-holders. Further reproduction is not permissible without their written consent.
L. Buzoianu, V. Lungu, D. Hălmagi (eds.) Aux sources des connaissances historiques. Épigraphie, textes littéreaires et documents archéologiques. Volume dédié à la mémoire de Alexandru Avram (Pontica 56 Supplementum X), Constanța, 2023
The present paper treats the topic of the Trojan Horse and its imaginary
inscription as relevant ... more The present paper treats the topic of the Trojan Horse and its imaginary
inscription as relevant to Greco-Roman epigraphy.
Disiecta membra. Migration und Fremdheitserfahrungen zwischen Isolation und Integration in kaiserzeitlichen Versinschriften aus Tomis
Gymnasium. Zeitschrift für Kultur der Antike und Humanistische Bildung, 2023
Migration und Fremdheit waren ständige, ethnisch-kulturell komplexe sowie auch sozio-ökonomisch v... more Migration und Fremdheit waren ständige, ethnisch-kulturell komplexe sowie auch sozio-ökonomisch vielschichtige Erfahrungen im griechisch-römisch geprägten Altertum, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten – nicht zuletzt auch aufgrund zeitgeschichtlicher Ereignisse – in den Mittelpunkt der altertumswissenschaftlichen Forschung gerückt sind. Zu einem umfassenden Verständnis dieser Erfahrungen gehört neben der makro-historischen Aufarbeitung auch der sorgsame Umgang mit Mikro-Narrativen derjenigen, deren Einzelschicksale in der Summe die Makrohistorie überhaupt erst ergeben. Ausgehend von einem der bekanntesten und am besten dokumentierten Fälle von Fremdheitserfahrung – Ovid in Tomis – werden in diesem Aufsatz dem berühmten Beispiel weitere Fälle aus demselben geographischen Kontext an die Seite gestellt und erörtert. All diesen Texten ist dabei gemeinsam, dass das Erfahrene poetisch reflektiert und verarbeitet wird. Es eröffnet sich solchermaßen ein reiches Spektrum an Einzelschicksalen, die in der Gesamtschau einen differenzierten Einblick in die unmittelbaren Schwierigkeiten ebenso wie in die langfristigen Herausforderungen der Fremdheitserfahrungen im Tomis der römischen Kaiserzeit gestatten.
Electrum 31, 2024
Each unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the ... more Each unit of the Roman army constituted a major logistic operation that cannot be reduced to the fighting men who formed their core and purpose. While camp followers are depicted in literary sources especially as an hindrance to war operations, inscriptions provide a different picture of the world that gravitated around the military forts and fortresses. In the military settlements that guarded the limes, the presence of paramilitary and non-military personnel did not represent a burden, but an important part of the military economy, which in some cases even led to the emergence of a new business class. In this paper, we provide an anthology of verse inscriptions dedicated by, or to, camp followers, with a view to showcase how their everyday interactions with the army were conceptualised and verbalised, ultimately contributing to a richer picture of the limes social ecosystem.
Sylloge Epigraphica Barcinonensis XIX, 2021
This paper provides a synoptic discussion of the verse inscriptions that are mentioned in Vitruvi... more This paper provides a synoptic discussion of the verse inscriptions that are mentioned in Vitruvius’ De architectura as well as some additional notes on Vitruvius’ use of inscriptions more generally. The author argues that Vitruvius demonstrates a clear understanding of epigraphic space-monument-text interactions (and definitions) in which verse, especially in its upper-class uses, like other forms of the creative arts, serves a decorative as well as an educational function, whereas contrasting prose translations are provided for a more general audience.
Sylloge Epigraphica Barcinonensis 21 (2023), pp. 145–163, 2023
One of the most widespread tropes within funerary Latin verse epigraphy is the idea that parents ... more One of the most widespread tropes within funerary Latin verse epigraphy is the idea that parents being forced to bury their children is an alteration of the natural order. This notion was expressed in numerous ways, but perhaps the par parenti topos is the oldest one. The small group of inscriptions that carries it has a very specific geographical spread across central Italy, which was interpreted in the past as an argument in favour of the existence of manuals of verse inscriptions. This paper explores the diffusion of this poetic idea and explains it through other mobility factors. Resumen: Uno de los tópicos más difundidos dentro de la epigrafía funeraria latina en verso es el que recoge la idea de que es una alteración del orden natural de las cosas que los padres se vean obligados a enterrar a sus hijos. Este encontró numerosas formulaciones epigráficas,
Glaubitz, N. – Wesselmann, K. (edd.), Plurale Autorschaft. Formen der Zusammenarbeit in Schriftkultur, Kunst und Literatur (= LWU – literatur in wissenschaft und unterricht neue folge 2/2023), Würzburg, pp. 155–185., 2023
CUCD Bulletin, 2023
Obituary for Jane F. Gardner
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 224, 2022
Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 52 (2022) 181–199
This article provides an in-depth analysis and discussion of Plutarch, De curiositate ... more This article provides an in-depth analysis and discussion of Plutarch, De curiositate ch. 11, wherein the ancient author advises his readership against any in-depth engagement with written offerings of the lettered world that they inhabit. Reading inscriptions, Plutarch appears to argue, is a slippery slope towards meddlesome behaviour, and it ought to be avoided (especially since inscriptions have little to offer that is of profound interest). Careful analysis demonstrates, however, that Plutarch’s actual line of argument is rather more nuanced and subtle: purpose of interaction and focus of one’s activity are important aspects to consider. Based on the implication of Plutarch’s argument, namely that engaging with written texts (even when they are on public display) might be deemed somewhat intrusive, a number of relevant inscriptions that address such privacy-related matters, are also revisited.
Medieval Worlds, 2022
Notions, as well as realities, of foreignness, alienness, and not-belonging in the Roman world ha... more Notions, as well as realities, of foreignness, alienness, and not-belonging in the Roman world have received ample treatment, from a broad range of perspectives, in recent scholarship. An important aspect that has not been covered thus far is the question of how these experiences inscribed themselves in the history of the mentality, especially (but not only) of those affected, and how these deeply subjective and personal experiences extended into poetic environments beyond the literary canon. The present paper addresses this matter through a full-scale discussion of the terminology directly related to the terms barbarus and barbaricus as they are found in the Latin verse inscriptions. The body of evidence is of especial importance in this regard, as it reflects a cultural practice that spans the geographical, chronological, and social dimensions of the Roman empire. Starting with the earliest evidence of the term in the verse inscriptions of Pompeii, the paper then examines the remaining evidence which can be grouped in three main clusters: (i) mentions of barbarians as worthy opponents, (ii) references to barbarians as those who lack civilisation and refinement, and (iii) instances in which the term barbarus has been used in self-representation and self-description.
E. Cousins (ed.), Dynamic Epigraphy: New Approaches to Inscriptions , 2022
has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon ... more has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 832874-MAPPOLA). Early stages of this paper were developed during a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship held by P.K. in 2014-5 and, in part, presented on occasion of the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, at the University of St. Andrews: comments and feedback by the audience were gratefully received. 145 7. When poetry comes to its senses the inscribed environment that they inhabited? 3 These are the questions that merit attention and further study, and it seems sensible to approach this matter in a way that follows the five senses of the human sensorium, re-establishing the sensuous experience, or at least its conceptualizations, of encounters with inscribed poetry (and in many cases: with the inscribed world in general). Sight The most obvious, primary way in which anyone, at any given time, would encounter inscribed poetry is, of course, visual. Sight is, however, a significantly more complex experience than commonly considered, and productively taken into account, in relevant scholarship on the matter. 4 Recent Carmina Epigraphica research has investigated a wide range of aspects related to the visual and graphic presentation of inscribed poetry. In particular, scholarship has focused on the paradigms and strategies behind the ways in which poetic texts were commonly presented, both on their own and in relation to the inscribed monuments as well as, where applicable, prose elements of more complex textual compositions. 5 The (narrow) focus on the actual object, the micro-context of an actual inscription and its wording in relation to the inscribed monument, is only one aspect that matters when it comes to the visual experience of inscribed poetry, however-and in that it also is the one that is most closely related to our own visual experience, as we still encounter texts from up close, in situ just as much as in museums, collections, and galleries. 6 This would not, however, be the way in which people in Roman times initially encountered both inscribed objects and, more specifically, instances of verbal art. Rather, the entire encounter is a complex process, escalating (potentially) through a significant number of steps from distance to intimate proximity and familiarity. Approach and distance/proximity are only two aspects, however, in a much more complicated framework still. Monuments, portable objects, mosaics, once they are placed (or at least considered) in their original context, interact with their experienceable surroundings in a complex and intricate manner, and they
Greece and Rome, 2020
for the sake of my country's reputation for literary taste, I hope this was not true!' On the act... more for the sake of my country's reputation for literary taste, I hope this was not true!' On the actual evidence for the awareness of Rome's literary poetry in Britain, see e.g. A. A. Barrett, 'Knowledge of the Literary Classics in Roman Britain', Britannia 9 (1978), 307-13. 5 For recent discussions of mobility in the Roman Empire, see the papers collected in L. de Ligt and L. E. Tacoma (eds.), Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire (Leiden and Boston, MA, 2016); and E. Lo Cascio and L. E. Tacoma (eds.), The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire.
A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity, 2020
Habis, 2019
The late antique comedy Querolus (or Aulularia) makes a number of references to the ways in which... more The late antique comedy Querolus (or Aulularia) makes a number of references to the ways in which the text of an inscribed urn was read. This is important, hitherto neglected evidence for the way in which encounters and interactions with inscribed objects, especially from a funerary sphere, were imagined in the Roman world. Based on an in-depth discussion of relevant passages, initial conclusions are drawn and linked to related phrases and passages in surviving epigraphic evidence, giving reason to rethink the multi-layered, complex sensuous experience that is commonly just referred to as ‘reading inscriptions’.
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inscription as relevant to Greco-Roman epigraphy.