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Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 38.1, 1-5, 2021

What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment? More than meets the eye, as the... more What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment? More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity. This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions. While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also venture into other domains, such as Roman civilisation, Hellenistic epigraphy, and material culture. 'Identity' , as a philosophical, social or political concept, has been a major focus of attention in the humanities and social sciences for almost half a century, and the interface between language, discourse and identity enjoys a special currency in contemporary linguistics, psychology and cognitive as well as cultural studies. The linguist Martin Ehala, a strong contemporary scholarly voice in this area, has recently called for the creation of what he labels 'a proper identity studies' , noting that 'in the contemporary world, we are obsessed with identity' .2 But this claim mutatis mutandis can be also made for the classical world, which not only provides the student of identity with abundant material to explore through the lens of modern theoretical apparatuses, but also when approached through more traditional methodologies presents us with many striking parallels to contemporary phenomena.

The European Legacy. Special Issue, 2018

In: Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams & Janek Kucharski (2018) The Greeks in a Changing Wor... more In: Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams & Janek Kucharski (2018) The Greeks in a Changing World: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions, The European Legacy, 23:1-2 (Special Issue)

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory, London: Routledge, 1-11, 2020

PROOFS

Papers by Janek Kucharski

Forthcoming in: D. Felton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth. Oxford 2024, ... more Forthcoming in: D. Felton (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth. Oxford 2024, 245-253.

Forthcoming in: Scripta Classica Israelica 43 (2024)

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium 33.1 (2023), 205-218

Mnemosyne (advance articles)

In: J. Filonik, Ch. Plastow, R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Commun... more In: J. Filonik, Ch. Plastow, R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean. London 2023, 414-426.

In: A. Kapellos (ed.), The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past. Berlin 2023, 397-411.

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 61.3, 263-286, 2021

RISTOPHON OF AZENIA is a figure familiar to most classicists for three reasons: the re-enactment ... more RISTOPHON OF AZENIA is a figure familiar to most classicists for three reasons: the re-enactment of Pericles' citizenship law (403 B.C.), his biblical longevity (ca. 430-330), 1 and the anecdote about his seventy-five acquittals in trials for an unlawful decree (graphe paranomon). 2 In this last accomplishment his only nemesis appears to have been the orator Hyperides, the single litigant ever mentioned in the sources to have secured Aristophon's conviction by way of such prosecution. The evidence comes from a scholion to Aeschines'

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 38.1, 21-46, 2021

Sorry, first pages only due to copyright restrictions. If anyone is interested I'll be more than ... more Sorry, first pages only due to copyright restrictions. If anyone is interested I'll be more than happy to share the paper via e-mail.

In: P. Marciniak, I. Nilsson, Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period (Leiden 2021), 131-148

Sorry, first pages only due to copyright restrictions. If anyone is interested, I'll be happy to ... more Sorry, first pages only due to copyright restrictions. If anyone is interested, I'll be happy to share the paper via e-mail.

In: D. Felton, A.E. Duggan (anthology editor), A Cultural History of Fairy Tales. Vol. 1: Antiquity (New York: Bloomsbury), 131-148, 2021

To speak nowadays of a "spatial turn" in the study of literature and culture amounts to a long-ov... more To speak nowadays of a "spatial turn" in the study of literature and culture amounts to a long-overdue statement. Even in the field of Classics, often half a step behind other disciplines in adopting new theories of interpreting ancient history and its artifacts, the study of space is now a well-entrenched approach, one that demands no apology and perhaps only little introduction. 1 Space and place have been ushered into the privileged position previously occupied by time. This in turn has led to a new appreciation of known texts and stories; as noted by Pamela Gilbert, for example, "spatial relations would reveal to us a complexity and materiality which was being hidden away by the narrative" (2008: 103). But the spatial turn has also reconfigured our appreciation of culture and literature at a higher level, that of metanarrative. The prolific idea of "Otherness," for instance, was first conceived of and constructed precisely in terms of space, distance, and conceptual borders, exemplified in Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" ([1978] 2004), in which he criticizes constructions of the Orient as simultaneously fabulous and barbaric. The distinction between space and place is the one problem with which any study of the spatial dimension of literature and culture has to come to terms.

Mnemosyne 73.6, 891-914, 2020

in: Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, Janek Kucharski, 'The Making of Identities in Atheni... more in: Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith-Williams, Janek Kucharski, 'The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory'. London: Routledge 2020, 172-190

Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World, ed. by Juliette Harrisson, Routledge, 2019

In: J. Doroszewska, M. Job, T. Sapota (eds.), Wzory kultury antycznej. Katowice 2018, 143-161 [in... more In: J. Doroszewska, M. Job, T. Sapota (eds.), Wzory kultury antycznej. Katowice 2018, 143-161 [in Polish]

In: Z. Kadłubek, B. Mytych-Forajter, A. Nawarecki (eds.), Ilustrowany słownik terminów literackic... more In: Z. Kadłubek, B. Mytych-Forajter, A. Nawarecki (eds.), Ilustrowany słownik terminów literackich, Gdańsk 2018, s. 444-447 [in Polish]

In: J. Filonik, B. Griffith-Williams & J. Kucharski (eds.), The European Legacy. Towards New Para... more In: J. Filonik, B. Griffith-Williams & J. Kucharski (eds.), The European Legacy. Towards New Paradigms. Special Issue: The Greeks in a Changing World. Ancient Answers to Modern Questions. 23.1-2 (2018), 60-76

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 38.1, 1-5, 2021

The European Legacy. Special Issue, 2018

The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory, London: Routledge, 1-11, 2020

PROOFS

Forthcoming in: Scripta Classica Israelica 43 (2024)

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium 33.1 (2023), 205-218

Mnemosyne (advance articles)

In: A. Kapellos (ed.), The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past. Berlin 2023, 397-411.

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 61.3, 263-286, 2021

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 38.1, 21-46, 2021

In: P. Marciniak, I. Nilsson, Satire in the Middle Byzantine Period (Leiden 2021), 131-148

In: D. Felton, A.E. Duggan (anthology editor), A Cultural History of Fairy Tales. Vol. 1: Antiquity (New York: Bloomsbury), 131-148, 2021

Mnemosyne 73.6, 891-914, 2020

Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World, ed. by Juliette Harrisson, Routledge, 2019

Classica & Mediaevalia, 2015

Classica et Mediaevalia 66 (2015), 41-74 [published in 2017]

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 203 (2017), 56-64

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41.1 (2017), 1-10

Eos, 2019

This volume comprises thirteen essays dealing more or less overtly with norms, rules and their tr... more This volume comprises thirteen essays dealing more or less overtly with norms, rules and their transgressions in the communities of the ancient world. Its scope is broad, as it takes the reader from Homer to the early Roman empire. This means that it will inevitably attract only the selective attention of readers, depending on their research interests and personal inclinations. The essays are preceded by two introductions: one providing a summary of the volume, and the other-its theoretical underpinning. In the latter, Karl-Joachim Ηölkeskamp discusses the threefold relationship between 'principles', 'rules' and 'norms'. His approach is an essentially structural one: a rule is a concrete manifestation of a principle. Principles are general and abstract, like the principle of fairness or of the equality of opportunities, while rules organise them into particular laws and regulations. The third element, that of 'norms', however, not only operates at the junction of the two others, but also brings in a factor of flexibility, a contextually delimited range of tolerance for transgression. When the rule might stipulate the immediate punishment of certain offences, the norm would encourage turning a blind eye to some of them (a good example here would be the apparent leniency in the treatment of state-debtors in ancient Athens). The first contribution by Gunnar Seelentag takes us to the world of the archaic epic and the emergent poleis. His focus is on the institutional development of the administration of justice. This he delineates through three distinct stages, each illustrated with a close reading of the relevant literary or epigraphic documents. The first is founded on voluntary arbitration, where the numerous mediators compete among themselves for a reward promised to him who gives the best judgement (i.e. most satisfactory to both sides of the conflict); this stage, according to Seelentang, is represented in the judicial scene described in the celebrated ekphrasis of Achilles' shield. The second stage comes when those making judgements begin to cooperate with each other instead of competing; they can now exercise some form of pressure to have the dispute resolved through their mediation, the results of which, furthermore, need not be tailored to everyone's liking; Hesiod's struggle against his brother Perses and the 'gift-eating kings' exemplifies this shift. The third and final step is taken when the administration of justice becomes monopolised and institutionalised, as seen in an inscription from Dreros (c. 650 BC) which clearly limits the judge's time in office and renders invalid any settlement made outside the judicial context (Dr1 in: M. Gagarin, P.J. Perlman, The Laws of Ancient Crete: c. 650-400 BCE, Oxford 2016). This movement from open competition to cooperation and then institutionalisation is explained by Seelentag through the model of the prisoner's dilemma; the mediators (which are members of the elite) eventually find it more advantageous to settle for smaller but evenly distributed rewards from cooperation rather than the asymmetrical and uneven prizes which result from open competition. These advantages still come at a cost, but theose who carry this burden are the masses, whose disputes come under the jurisdiction of the elites. This is an elegant and plausible model, and a worthy addition to the vast bibliography on the development of the administration of justice in early Greece. Robin Osborne's chapter promises a disquisition on cult practices and 'unruly women'. Its main contention is quite original: the fact that women were allowed substantially more liberties in the religious domain than in the civic one should not be understood in terms of complementary coexistence (as it usually is), but of conflict between the principle of suppressing female activity and the customary norms of accommodating it with much less restriction in the context of cult. This conflict, as Osborne argues, is played out in the competitive spirit underlying women's dedications in the sanctuaries, their showing-off in splendid adornments during processions, and their

Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 7 (2017), 31-36

Phoenix 68.1-2 (2014), 170-172

Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 3 (2013), 57-59

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2020

Katowice 2020

Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Katowice 2016, 404 p. [in Polish] ERRATA: s. 34, przyp. 137, 138; s. 346, przyp. 26 JEST: Gabri... more Katowice 2016, 404 p. [in Polish]
ERRATA:

s. 34, przyp. 137, 138; s. 346, przyp. 26
JEST: Gabrielsen 1995
POWINNO BYĆ: Gabrielsen 1994

s. 34, linijka 7-9 (od góry)
JEST: Osobliwie jednak, jak informują nas źródła epigraficzne, po ukończeniu trierarchii nie zwrócił sprzętu okrętowego
POWINNO BYĆ: Osobliwie jednak, jak informują nas źródła epigraficzne, po ukończeniu trierarchii nie rozliczył się z uszkodzeń okrętu

s. 34, przyp. 138
JEST: IG II2 1628 1629.859-869...
POWINNO BYĆ: IG II2 1628.339-349, 436-452; 1629.859-869...

s. 149 oraz przyp. 13
JEST: Halimousioi
POWINNO BYĆ: Halimous

s. 241, przyp. 17
JEST: słynny dowódca najemników urodzony w Oreos na Eubei (ok. 390 p.n.e.); jego matką była Atenka, ojciec zaś cudzoziemcem
POWINNO BYĆ: słynny dowódca najemników urodzony w Oreos na Eubei (ok. 390 p.n.e.); jego matką była obywatelka tej polis, ojciec zaś cudzoziemcem

s. 249
JEST: niewolnikom, którzy walczyli
POWINNO BYĆ: niewolnikom, którzy mieli walczyć

s. 278
JEST: Państwo w tych okolicznościach zachowało właściwą postawę.

POWINNO BYĆ: Państwo w tych okolicznościach było pełne napięcia.

s. 278, p. 15
JEST: „zachowało właściwą postawę” (ὀρθῆς οὔσης), objaśnione jako przeciwieństwo dla: „było poruszone i przerażone”

POWINNO BYĆ: „było pełne napięcia” (ὀρθῆς οὔσης), objaśnione jako: „było poruszone i przerażone”

s. 318, p. 5
JEST: Brun 2000: 154 (której praca...
POWINNO BYĆ: Brun 2000: 154 (którego praca...

318, p. 6
JEST: Brun 2000: 41-44, która
POWINNO BYĆ: Brun 2000: 41-44, który

321, p. 24
JEST: nawet ona jednak mimochodem
POWINNO BYĆ: nawet on jednak mimochodem

Katowice 2012, 297 p. [in Polish]