- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- Chapter:
- (p.402) 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s Phryges and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- Source:
- The Archaeology of Greece and Rome
- Author(s):
Rolf Michael Schneider
, John Bintliff, Keith Rutter- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
In the nineteenth century, remains on the north-eastern side of the Forum Romanum were identified as belonging to the Basilica Paulli (Chioffi 1996 4–5; Fig. 17.18 below), which had been situated opposite the Basilica Iulia. This identification had been based on ancient texts which are, however, ambiguous in their reading. They attest in the Forum Romanum either a single Basilica Fulvia-Aemilia-Paulli (communis opinio) or two separate basilicas, namely an archaeologically unverifi ed Basilica Aemilia and the verified Basilica Fulvia-Paulli. The latter is here called the Basilica Paulli and not the Basilica Aemilia, which is what, confusingly, most scholars have called it.2 In 1993 Eva Margareta Steinby scrutinised the opposing statements again and concluded that only the assumption of two separate basilicas, set up in the Forum Romanum in two different areas, would resolve the contradictions in the texts.
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The Coming of the Greeks’ and All That
- 2 Archaeology and the Archaeology of the Greek Language: On the Origin of the Greek Nouns in-<span xml:lang="ell">εύς</span>
- 3 Survey, Excavation and the Appearance of the Early <i>Polis</i>: A Reappraisal
- 4 Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Picture in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander’ (<i>Imagines</i> I.1)
- 5 Homer’s Audience: What Did They See?
- 6 Homer and the Sculptors
- 7 Potters, <i>Hippeis</i> and Gods at Penteskouphia (Corinth), Seventh to Sixth Centuries BC
- 8 Space, Society, Religion: A Short Retrospective and Prospective Note
- 9 Modelling the Territories of Attic Demes: A Computational Approach
- 10 Hesiod and the Disgraceful Shepherds: Pastoral Politics in a Panhellenic <i>Dichterweihe</i>?
- 11 ‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art: A Preliminary Sketch
- 12 Coins in a ‘Home Away from Home’: The Case of Sicily
- 13 Life on Earth and Death from Heaven: The Golden Pectoral of the Scythian King from the Tolstaya Mogila (Ukraine)
- 14 The Idea of an Archetype in Texts Stemming from the Empire Founded by Cyrus the Great
- 15 Loropéni and Other Large Enclosed Sites in the South-West of Burkina Faso: An Outside Archaeological View
- 16 The Poetics of Ruins in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 17 Context Matters: Pliny’s <i>Phryges</i> and the Basilica Paulli in Rome
- 18 Anthony in Edinburgh
- 19 Anthony McElrea Snodgrass and the Classics Faculty in Cambridge: A Personal Appreciation
- 20 The First Thirty-Six Years of the Boeotia Project, Central Greece
- Index
