1: Meaning and Purpose of Hostageship in the Greco-Roman World {1–20} The circumstances in which persons acted as sureties in the Greco-Roman world may be classified under four basic categories: exchange, unilateral exaction by formal national agreement, private contract, and extralegal seizure. The words which describe such persons are ῥύσια, ὅμηρος, ἀνάδοχοι, ἐνέχυρα, and obses […]

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List of Abbreviations AJPh = American Journal of Philology CAH = The Cambridge Ancient History, ed. S.A. Cook, F.E. Adcock, and M.P. Charlesworth CIG = Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum CIL = Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum CJ = Classical Journal CQ = Classical Quarterly ILS = Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. Dessau, H., ed. 1954-55. Berlin. JRS = Journal of […]

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Preface {i-vi} With the eighteenth century died the last societies of Western Europe which practiced the institution of hostageship. After A.D. 1748, when France received two English peers as pledges for the return of Cape Breton, the nations of Europe no longer exacted hostages as living sureties for the fulfillment of international agreements. Consequently the […]

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About the Author Casey Dué is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Brown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D in Classical Philology from Harvard University. Her teaching and research interests include ancient Greek oral traditions, Homeric poetry, Greek tragedy, and […]

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Bibliography Ackermann, H. C., and J.-R. Gisler, eds. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae. Zurich: Artemis Verlag, 1981-1997. Adkins, A. W. K. “Threatening, Abusing, and Feeling Angry in the Homeric Poems.” JHS 89 (1960): 7-21. Ahlberg-Cornell, G. Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art: Representation and Interpretation. Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Åströms Förlag, […]

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Appendix Selected Ancient Literary References to Briseis [115]Apollodorus, Library, Epitome 4.1, 4.3, 4.7: Αχιλλεὺς δὲ μηνίων ἐπὶ τὸν πόλεμον οὐκ ἐξῄει διὰ Βρισηίδα (4.1) οἱ δὲ πέμπουσι πρὸς Ἀχιλλέα πρέσβεις Ὀδυσσέα καὶ Φοίνικα καὶ Αἴαντα, συμμαχεῖν ἀξιοῦντες καὶ Βρισηίδα καὶ ἄλλα δῶρα ὑπισχνούμενοι (4.3) […]

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Afterword Elegizing Briseis in Augustan Rome [91] The poetic potential of our glimpse of Briseis in the Iliad was not lost on the Augustan poets, who also had access to the Epic Cycle, which we have only in summary form. [1] Propertius and later Ovid seize on the figure of Briseis […]

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Conclusion. Tradition and Innovation A single man or even a group of men who set out in the most careful way could not make even a beginning at such an oral diction. It must be the work of many poets over many generations. When one singer … has hit upon a […]

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