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grbs-7201	Oliver, James H.	Antoninus Pius to Ptolemais Barca about the Capitolia	1979	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1215	52	64	157 Antoninus Pius to Ptolemais Barca about the Capitolia James H. Oliver JOYCE M. REYNOLDS1 has just published all nine fragments of the large inscription at Cyrene which contains (1) an imperial letter of A.D. 135 to Cyrene with an appendix about what Hadrian had written on the same subject to the archon of the Panhellenion, (2) extracts of another epistle 2 of [Hadrian] to the Cyrenaeans, (3) a long section from a speech 3 (rather than an edict) of Hadrian, (4) extracts of (I think) one epistle of Antoninus Pius to the Cyren­ aeans, and (5) a complete epistle of Antoninus Pius to Ptolemais Barca. As absurd as the claim seemed for historical, religious and cultural reasons in the second century, the outrageously ambitious Barca was destined eventually to supplant Cyrene, so much so and so long that some European maps as late as the eighteenth century still referred to the Cyrenaica as the kingdom of Barca. 8 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND January, I979 5 L. Robert, Deux concours grecs a Rome, CRA! 1970, 6-27, says on p.B n.2 that the list of references in L. Friedlander, Sittengeschichte Roms 10 IV (Leipzig 1923) 276-BO, Zur Geschichte des kapitolinischen Agons, could today be abundantly augmented without becoming thereby more interesting.	cache/grbs-7201.pdf	txt/grbs-7201.txt