Learning to see

Millar, Boyd

doi:10.1111/mila.12263

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“…76 During the later Republic, military commanders could award citizenship: this right was conferred on them by the passing of lex on each occasion, though it later became a prerogative that fell to the emperors. 77 Chaereas' request that the enrolment of the Greeks within the citizen body be legally enshrined (ψήwισμα ἐγράwη) could potentially reflect this type of scenario. There is no clear-cut evidence for the practice under Augustus, who wanted to 'preserve the status of the citizen', and it is only under Tiberius that we have direct evidence (albeit sporadic) for individual grants of citizenship to auxilia.…”

Section: Part II Roman Provincial Manpower and The Demobilisation Ofmentioning

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THE ROMAN ARMY AND GREEK MILITARISM IN CHARITON'SCHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE

Jolowicz

2018

Camb. class. j.

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This paper seeks to highlight and assess the presence of allusions to Roman military apparatus in Chariton'sChaereas and Callirhoe. In the introduction, I contextualise the argument within the history of scholarship on the novel, and discuss issues relating to the author's date, Aphrodisian provenance and readership. I then divide the argument into three parts. At the end of the novel, Chaereas returns to Syracuse and publicly displays the spoils won from the east in a manner that, I argue, is highly suggestive of the Roman triumph (Parti). He then extends a grant of citizenship to the Greek element of his army and issues them cash donatives, while Hermocrates gives farmland to the Egyptians. As I demonstrate, this is characteristic of what happens upon the demobilisation of Roman military manpower (especially theauxilia) (Partii). I then draw out the ramifications of an imperial-era author who represents Greek military exploits against the Persians, writing during a period in which Greeks were not interested in military endeavours (Partiii).

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THE ROMAN ARMY AND GREEK MILITARISM IN CHARITON'SCHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE

Jolowicz

2018

Camb. class. j.

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“…11 11 Millar (2019) has suggested that newly sighted subjects might have basic shape phenomenology but fail to represent external shape properties. Although nothing I have said conflicts with this view, the present point is different.…”

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Representing shape in sight and touch

Green

2020

Mind & Language

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We represent shape in both sight and touch, but how do these abilities relate to one another? This issue has been discussed in the context of Molyneux's question of whether someone born blind could, upon being granted sight, identify shapes visually. Some have suggested that we might look to real-world cases of sight restoration to illuminate the relation between visual and tactual shape representations. Here I argue that newly sighted perceivers should not be relied on in this way because they are unlikely to form the kinds of shape representations responsible for cross-modal recognition in normally sighted perceivers. I then argue that the available evidence makes a compelling case for the type identity view, on which the visual and tactual representations responsible for cross-modal recognition are type-identical.

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