Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron.

Intro -- 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.

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.

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