PEDON, SON OF AMPHINNES: A GAME OF DONORS?

The Pedon Statuette is a VII cen. BCE Egyptian piece of sculpture from Priene (?) bearing a late VII or early VI cen. BCE Ionic inscription by an individual named Pedon, son of Amphinnes. Through a textual, historical, and linguistic analysis, it will be argued that Pedon was not a successful Greek mercenary in Saite …

Vergil’s Reception of Aratus’ “Hidden Signature”

In Buc. 3.40 Menalcas refers to Conon and a vague “quis fuit alter” who described the whole universe. Every commentary and also the ancient scholia ueronensia state that this expression could be a reference to Eudoxus, who described the universe in his Phaenomena, that were later ‘verified’ by Aratus, whose work became the standard astronomical …