Editorial Statement
Not inappropriately, the editors of almost every new journal in the field of classical studies and ancient history customarily begin with justifying their project. This is quite natural considering the overabundance of journals in our discipline. The editors of Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History, sponsored by University of Warsaw and by the Institute of History of the said University in particular, are not unaware of this difficulty. Still, it is somewhat surprising that – alongside quite a few highly valuable series of studies in ancient history and some respectable classical journals – there is no ancient history journal published on a regular basis in Poland. And since we have found the relevant scholarly community productive and lively enough to venture such an enterprise, we decided to run the risk. In addition, the fora where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists, and epigraphists – in a word all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic or intellectual manifestations – can meet with their Orientalist, Egyptologist etc. counterparts are still extremely rare. Furthermore, it is our intention to try to provide, in every issue of this journal, an up-to-date overview of the most
important books from our discipline published in Poland and/or in Polish that otherwise would hardly have been accessible to the international reader. In many ways, the tutelary patron we have chosen for this new enterprise is therefore appropriate. Palamedes, a civilising hero and a cultural inventor, but also a middleman of a sort and a go-between in the Greco-Trojan conflict, seems to symbolise our plans and ambitions adequately – if only as a figure of the
deplorable consequences of the lack of communication between those different ‘camps’ we intend to bring together. Hence, Palamedes warmly welcomes contributors specialising in various disciplines of our broadly defined field, sharing the same eagerness to explore ancient cultures and histories and to apply an interdisciplinary approach in their studies of classical and Near Eastern civilisations.
Guidelines for contributors
Contributions in English, French, German, and Italian are welcomed. In preparing your typescripts please follow the standard editorial rules of your respective language, but in quotation and reference forms come, wherever possible, as close as possible to the principles stated below for English (paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6).
1. Submission of papers
For the initial submission, one hard copy should be sent along with an attachment or floppy disk of article, short note or review (12-point fonts, double-spaced, printed with adequate margins, footnotes typed as endnotes on separate sheets using 12-point fonts too), devoid of any indication of the author’s identity. Contributors should keep their own identical copy, with the same pagination, for further reference once their submission is accepted.
Please enclose a short summary in English which is necessary for the electronic publication of Palamedes.
2. Anonymous referees and final submission
Submitted texts will be examined by two (or more) anonymous referees, which will take some time, but not more than four months. Please do not enquire to the editors before the end of this period. The authors will be informed about the editor’s decision; the ultimate decision may depend on revision and changes suggested by the referees.
When offered publication, contributors will be asked to submit a carefully prepared final version of their papers or short notes, both in hard copy and on computer file (also as an e-mail attachment), closely following the guidelines below. Both for Mac and PC format, an RTF (Rich Text Format) version is recommended. In general, keep the formatting of your text as simple as possible. Please do not abuse non-Latin (Greek, Hebrew etc.) fonts, use transcriptions wherever possible, and always provide the reader with translations of longer
quotations in ancient languages, especially in the main body of the text. For Greek fonts: Athenian Greek and Kadmos Greek fonts for Macintosh (do not use SuperGreek family fonts), or TrueType Greek fonts for PC are highly recommended. For other non-Latin characters use the fonts available at www.sbl-site.org, for Mac and PC respectively.
3. Quotations
Greek, Hebrew and other ancient language quotations are not italicised. For Greek, do not use iota subscript or lunar sigma. Latin quotations are italicised, except for longer ones, set in separate paragraphs. Transcription should always be italicised. When quoting modern languages do not italicise, use single inverted commas, and square brackets for supplemented and inserted material.
4. Abbreviations
In principle, abbreviations should follow, respectively, LSJ (9th edn), OLD and OCD for ancient authors and works, L’année philologique for modern periodicals and series. Standard reference books can be quoted by their initials only (e.g. RE, LSCG), initials of their authors (e.g. LSJ, ML) or the author’s (authors’) name(s) (e.g. Tod = A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century). Use B.C. (or B.C.E.) after the numeral, A.D. before and C.E. after it respectively. Cf. is not italicised.
5. References to ancient authorities and texts
Ancient proper names familiar in English should be kept in their usual form; otherwise, they can both be Latinised (Boeotia) or transliterated (Boiotia). For abbreviations, see above. Use the following abbreviated reference forms:
Arist. Pol. IV 1305a 7–10
[Arist.], Ath. pol. 9,1
Hom. Il. I 1–7
Plato, Republic (or Res publica, or Rep.) 342a 1–5
Solon, fr. 4,1–4 West2 (or IEG2), or Solon, fr. 4 West2, ll. 1–4
Thuc. I 23,1
FGrHist 115 F 153.
Gen 1:1–3
4Q463 fr. 1,2
References to collections of inscriptions and papyri should follow the standard abbreviations. For inscriptions, the following reference form is recommended: IG V 1. 198.37 (meaning vol. V fasc. 1 nr. 198 line 37); KAI2 181.1–2. In references both to ancient and modern authors always avoid f. or ff., give precise page or line references instead.
6. References to modern works
Always use full bibliographical references at first citation, then abbreviate as: Adkins, Merit and Responsibility, 12–36. Always avoid op. cit., loc. cit., and ibid., whereas idem/ eadem (italicised) is acceptable only when quoting subsequently different works by the same author.
For abbreviations, see above. Full references should take the following form:
• W.H. Adkins, Merit and Responsibility. A Study in Greek Values, Oxford 1960, 12–36.
• O. Murray, ‘The Greek symposion in history’, in E. Gabba (ed.), Tria Corda. Scritti in onore di Arnaldo Momigliano, Como 1983, 259–262.
• O. Longo, P. Scarpi (eds), Homo edens. Regimi, miti e pratiche dell’alimentazione nella civiltà del Mediterraneo, Verona 1989.
• G. Giangrande, ‘Sympotic Literature and the Epigram’, in L’épigramme grecque (Entretiens Fondation Hardt 14), Vandoeuvres–Geneva 1968, 91–177.
• R.P. Winnington-Ingram, ‘The Danaid Trilogy’, JHS 81 (1961), 141–52.
• H.R. Moehring, ‘The Acta Pro Judaeis in the Antiquities of Flavius Josephus. A Study in Hellenistic and Modern Apologetic Historiography’, in J. Neusner (ed.), Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults: Studies for Morton Smith at Sixty, Part 3 (SJLA 12), Leiden 1975, 124–158.
• N.P. Lemche, ‘The Old Testament – A Hellenistic Book?’, in L.L. Grabbe (ed.), Did Moses Speak Attic? Jewish Historiography and Scripture in the Hellenistic Period (JSOT Suppl. 317), Sheffield 2001, 287–318.
• J. Wilkins et al., Food in Antiquity, Exeter 1995.
Send all manuscripts to the Editor at the following address:
Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History
Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spano
Institute of History, University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: palamedes@uw.edu.pl