VARRO AND POMPEY: SOME MORE (MULTIPLE) HEBDOMADS?. (May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Geiger, Joseph
• Is Part Of: Classical quarterly. Volume 71:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 253
• Page End: 258
• Publication Date: 2021-05
• Subjects: Theatre of Pompey -- Varro's Hebdomades -- statue groups in Rome -- Tatian -- Greek female poets; Classical philology -- Periodicals; Classical literature -- Periodicals; 880
• DOI: 10.1017/S0009838821000306
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-8388

Abstract

Abstract: This article argues that a group of fourteen female statues seen in the Theatre of Pompey in Rome by Tatian belonged to Greek female poets. This group, along with the statues representing the fourteen nationes vanquished by Pompey, and certain groups of statues in the Forum of Augustus should all be ascribed to the influence of the Hebdomades of Pompey's familiaris Varro .