Papers by Christopher P Jones
ARYS 16 (2018 [2019] 333-45, 2019
The Antonine period from Hadrian onwards sees the beginning of a Christian literature of "apology... more The Antonine period from Hadrian onwards sees the beginning of a Christian literature of "apology, " more precisely of defense and justification of the new religion. These defenses sometimes take the form of attacks on "pagan" cults or on Judaism. The Christians begin to represent their religion as a philosophy, worthy of consideration beside the traditional philosophies of the Graeco-Roman world. At the same time Christians are still persecuted, and imperial policy towards them, as expressed in the form of imperial edicts or implicitly
Update on recent developments concerning P. Oxy. 5345 (Gospel of Mark)
Chiron 45 (2015) 101-122
Two inscriptions, XII 2, 58 (OGIS 456; IGRR 4, 39) and Inschriften von Olympia 53, refer to the e... more Two inscriptions, XII 2, 58 (OGIS 456; IGRR 4, 39) and Inschriften von Olympia 53, refer to the earthquake of 26 BCE; IvO 53, sometimes attributed to Cos, is from Chios.
P. Desideri and F. Fontanella, eds., Elio Aristide e la Legittimazione greca dell’Impero di Roma (Bologna, 2013), 2013
English-language version of “Elio Aristide e i primi Anni di Antonino Pio,” in P. Desideri and F... more English-language version of “Elio Aristide e i primi Anni di Antonino Pio,” in P. Desideri and F. Fontanella, eds., Elio Aristide e la Legittimazione greca dell’Impero di Roma (Bologna, 2013), 39-67
Description of a recently launched, interactive website containing several thousand photos made b... more Description of a recently launched, interactive website containing several thousand photos made by Louis Robert.
Thoughts on the publication of a new papyrus of Mark's gospel
A letter ascribed either to Antoninus Pius or to Marcus Aurelius in Christian sources has similar... more A letter ascribed either to Antoninus Pius or to Marcus Aurelius in Christian sources has similarities to a letter of Pius from Ephesos, and may be based on an imperial letter mentioning the Christians.
The sophist Philagros of Cilicia is Lucian’s target in the Lexiphanes, and Hadrian of Tyre is his... more The sophist Philagros of Cilicia is Lucian’s target in the Lexiphanes, and Hadrian of Tyre is his target in the Pseudologista.
The Egyptian Ammonius (Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques A 138), his family, and his connecti... more The Egyptian Ammonius (Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques A 138), his family, and his connections with Rome, notably through M. Annius Afrinus, cos. suff. in unknown year (PIR A 630).
The inscription from Thespiae concerning an emergency levy of troops (AE 1971.447; SEG 39.456) co... more The inscription from Thespiae concerning an emergency levy of troops (AE 1971.447; SEG 39.456) concerns the German Wars of Marcus Aurelius and not the invasion of Greece by the Costobocoi ca. 170
Prose- and verse- inscriptions honoring the “heavy” athlete Aurelius Achilleus. A subsequently pu... more Prose- and verse- inscriptions honoring the “heavy” athlete Aurelius Achilleus. A subsequently published epigram from Seleuceia on the Calycadnos for the wrestler Aurelius Maron (P. Grossardt, Epigr. Anat. 43 [2002] 170-173) is very close in style. (SEG 31.903)
Horace, Odes 3.26, is a prayer that Chloe be punished for rejecting the speaker as a lover by bei... more Horace, Odes 3.26, is a prayer that Chloe be punished for rejecting the speaker as a lover by being rejected herself
Discussion of M. Plancius Varus (PIR P 443) with proposal that he founded the temple of Diana Pla... more Discussion of M. Plancius Varus (PIR P 443) with proposal that he founded the temple of Diana Planciana in Rome: L. Chioffi, Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae 2 (1995) 15, prefers the traditional identification of the founder with one of the Plancii of the late Republic. I continue to think that the attachment of the Plancii to the goddess of their patris makes M. Plancius Varus the likely founder.
Valla’s 1486 edition of Juvenal includes scholia from a well-informed lost source; his informatio... more Valla’s 1486 edition of Juvenal includes scholia from a well-informed lost source; his information about Calpurnius Piso, the conspirator against Nero, and about the orator Vibius Crispus, ultimately derives from Suetonius’ De viris illustribus
On the family of Plutarch’s friend (T. Flavius) Philinus (PIR F 330, cf. PIR 6.137); appendix on ... more On the family of Plutarch’s friend (T. Flavius) Philinus (PIR F 330, cf. PIR 6.137); appendix on the epigram of Honestus for an Augusta (cf. no. 164). I regret having missed T. Flavius Mondo, son of Philinus, archon at Athens, and priest of Homonoia tôn Hellênôn in the mid-third century (J. H. Oliver, Hesperia 11 [1942] 71-74 no. 38).
Pliny’s young friend Julius Naso (PIR I 437) is the son of the well-known Gallic orator Julius Se... more Pliny’s young friend Julius Naso (PIR I 437) is the son of the well-known Gallic orator Julius Secundus (PIR I 559).
“Kinship” between peoples (syngeneia, consanguinitas) and its role in the intellectual background... more “Kinship” between peoples (syngeneia, consanguinitas) and its role in the intellectual background of the Aeneid.
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