An extremely fascinating inscription from the first year – indeed, probably, the first month – of the principate of Tiberius, casting new light on the Tacitean narrative of his succession, has come to light in Spain last year under rather murky circumstances. It consists of three joining fragments of the upper right corner of a … Continue reading A new document on the accession of Tiberius| Georgy Kantor's blog
In this year’s volume of the Journal of Hellenic Studies, Christopher Jones presents an argument – somewhat speculative, but not unpersuasive – that the historian Philip of Pergamon known only through the surviving inscription on the base of his statue at Epidaurus (Inscriptiones Graecae IV2.i 687), was identical with ‘Philip the historian’, one of the participants … Continue reading Philip of Pergamon: the common source of Plutarch and Tacitus?| Georgy Kantor's blog