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Metropolitanus Campus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

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It may not be unsuitable to the purpose of this Journal to depart for once from the strictly scientific method, and describe shortly the problem of a ‘Lost Phrygian City,’ as it presents itself to the explorer both in its relation to ancient literature and in its actual modern features. I take the example of a city which played no part in ancient history, which is mentioned only twice or thrice incidentally in classical literature, where no known event took place and no person known to fame was born, which, in short, is about as insignificant as a city could well be, and I hope to show that the discovery even of such a little city may have interest and value for classical scholars.

The passage in which Livy describes the march of the consul Manlius on his piratical raid through Asia Minor is one of peculiar interest on many grounds, apart from its value for students of geography. There is no passage in the whole of Livy which is more obviously translated from a Greek original: it is therefore of great importance in the question of his relation to his authorities and of his trustworthiness in using them. Beyond the mere resolution of the true scholar to understand his author, there is the further incentive to study this particular passage that the author's historical character is to some extent dependent on it. Now the third recorded stage beyond Sagalassos in Manlius's march is the Metropolitanus Campus. Where in wide Phrygia was the Metropolitanus Campus?

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1883

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