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Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies

April 13, 2024, 1:10 pm
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Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.

Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated and synoptic overview of early recording practices available worldwide.

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students engaged in the study of archival science, archival history, and the early history of human culture. The book will also appeal to practitioners of archives and records management interested in learning more about the origins of their profession.

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First Published 2021
eBook Published 21 April 2021
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 222
eBook ISBN 9780429054686

 

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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus

April 14, 2024, 10:20 am
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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus
Creators Ong, Matthew

The dataset consists of a full morphosyntactic annotation of the normalized letter corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo), plus associated metadata regarding sender, recipient, estimated date of composition, script, and dialect of Akkadian (if determinable). This corpus comprises ten of the twenty-one current volumes of SAAo and contains approximately 2600 letters from the royal archives of the late Neo-Assyrian kings. Each letter features morphosyntactic annotations specifying part of speech, lemma, morphological decomposition, and syntactic dependencies of all relevant tokens in the text. The annotations were made with the help of a spaCy language model with additional human checking and completion. The annotations are available both as a set of CONLLU files (one per text) and as linked open data in a single TTL file. The associated metadata is available as a CSV file and a TTL. Due to the letters' shared format, topics of concern, and historical period in which they were written, this corpus forms a natural object of study from a linguistic and social historical perspective. It is hoped this data will be of use to researchers wishing to do linguistic and sociolinguistic corpus research on these texts. 

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Journal article: 10.1093/llc/fqae002 (DOI)

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2023-09-01
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Newly Open Access Monograph Series: Tradition de la pensée classique

April 14, 2024, 10:36 am
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ISSN (Édition imprimée) : 1251-4756
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Sous la direction de Monique Dixsaut et Dimitri El Murr

« Tradition de la pensée classique » est une collection consacrée à la philosophie antique, notamment à Platon et à la tradition platonicienne au sens large. Études textuelles, thématiques et histoire des interprétations sont abordées dans une perspective plus philosophique et historique que philologique et font appel à des spécialistes de tous pays. Cette collection spécialisée se veut à destination d’un public étudiant et universitaire, intéressé par les philosophies de l’Antiquité et leur réception moderne et contemporaine. Fondée et dirigée depuis 1990 par Monique Dixsaut, elle est depuis 2020 codirigée par Dimitri El Murr.

Est classique le livre qu’une nation ou un groupe de nations ou les siècles ont décidé de lire comme si tout dans ses pages était délibéré, fatal, profond comme le cosmos et susceptible d’interprétation sans fin.
N’est pas classique (je le répète) un livre qui nécessairement possède tel ou tel mérite, mais un livre que les générations humaines, pressées par des raisons différentes, lisent avec une ferveur préalable et une mystérieuse loyauté.
Jorge Luis Borges (citation extraite de Enquêtes, trad. Paul et Sylvia Benichou, coll. Folio / Essais, Gallimard, Paris, 1967, p. 251-252) 

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Critica: Textual Issues in Horace, Ennius, Vergil and Other Authors

April 14, 2024, 10:43 am
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 Critica

Gathering together over 60 new and revised discussions of textual issues, this volume represents notorious problems in well-known texts from the classical era by authors including Horace, Ennius, and Vergil.

A follow-up to Vegiliana: Critical Studies on the Texts of Publius Vergilius Maro (2017), the volume includes major contributions to the discussion of Horace’s Carmen IV 8 and IV 12, along with studies on Catullus Carmen 67 and Hadrian’s Animula vagula, as well as a new contribution on Livy’s text at IV 20 in connection with Cossus’s spolia opima, and on Vergil’s Aeneid 3. 147–152 and 11. 151–153. On Ennius, the author presents several new ideas on Ann. 42 Sk. and 220–22l, and in editing Horace, he suggests new principles for the critical apparatus and tries to find a balance by weighing both sides in several studies, comparing a conservative and a radical approach.

Critica will be an important resource for students and scholars of Latin language and literature.

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First Published 2020
eBook Published 3 September 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 342
eBook ISBN 9781003016847

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Introduction

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Horace

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Epod. 5. 87 f.

The cruelty of witchcraft 1

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Carm. 1. 28. 32.

A corruption in the Archytas ode?

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Carm. 4. 8. A distorted ode *

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Ep. 1. 1. 78. Greedy widows?

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Ars 120. Whose honour?

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part II|92 pages

Other authors

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Conjectural emendation in three stages

Diagnosis, conjecture, interpretation

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Ennius scen. 32 TrRF (= XLIII, 109–110 Joc.)

The gemitus of Andromache

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Ennius scen. 130 TrRF (= CXLVII, 288 Joc.)

Telephus at Argos

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Vergil

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Additions and second thoughts

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Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

April 14, 2024, 10:46 am
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 Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.

A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain.

Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 2 September 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 202
eBook ISBN 9781003029489

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Introduction and methods

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chapter 3|37 pages

The tyranny of tradition

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Pride comes before a fool

Job's loss of social status

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Agent-Based Modeling for Archaeologists

April 15, 2024, 12:16 pm
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Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

April 15, 2024, 12:50 pm
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Cover Pindar’s <i>Pythian Twelve</i>: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar’s compositional technique. See Less
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Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik

April 15, 2024, 12:55 pm
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Francesca Paola Porten Palange  
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Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer, Band 38,2 

Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik: Teil 1

Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer, Band 38,1  

Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik: Teil 2

Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer, Band 38,2

 Der Katalog erschließt umfassend die Punzenmotive der seit etwa 30 v.u.Z in Arezzo und Umgebung produzierten Reliefkeramik.

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Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International.

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https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1400
ISBN 978-3-96929-330-0 (PDF)

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12.04.2024

 

 

 

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Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West

April 15, 2024, 12:59 pm
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Desire and Disunity explores the struggles of Christianising late ancient sexuality in the late Roman West. Through an examination of fourth to sixth century sermons, letters, laws, and treatises in Latin-speaking communities, the difficulties of late antique clerics in moving ascetically influenced sexual ideals into wider practice become evident. Western clerics faced challenges on several fronts: the dedication and devoutness of lay Christians varied, while the military-political upheavals of the fifth century created new challenges and opportunities for influencing one’s flock. Furthermore, Roman sexual norms continued to inform the thinking of many clerics and lay figures alike, even when in opposition to more scripturally based moral reasoning. Problems of bigamy, concubinage, sex work, incest, homosexual acts, adultery, and more troubled western Christian communities, with contradicting rules and traditions on what was acceptable and what was not. What reach did elite clerical perspectives on sexual norms have amongst the non-elite? How did clerics navigate tensions between the idealisation of Christian communal purity and the actions of congregants that fell short of these ideals? What influenced clerical perceptions of sex and how did they articulate these ideas to their audiences? Clerical sources of this time reflect these challenges as well as varying church attempts to reform the sex lives of their congregants – and, indeed, church failure in doing so.

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https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89837
Keywords
Christian Church;late antiquity;Roman Christians;sexual ethics;morality;Salvian
ISBN
9781835530023, 9781835532539, 9781802073751
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publisher website
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/
Publication date and place
2024
Pages
248
Public remark
Funder name: Jisc Open Access Community Framework / OpenUP
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

 

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The University of Pennsylvania Collection of Sumerian Lexicography

April 16, 2024, 10:52 am
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This dataset is available unter the terms of the following Creative Commons LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Abstract

Published here is the Sumerian lexicography collection housed in The Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The collection was digitized in May 2023 by Dr Anna Glenn on behalf of the Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, with the kind permission of Prof. Steve Tinney and Dr Philip Jones. Further information on the creation and provenance of the data can be found in the PDF file named "00 Intro.pdf".

Citation: Sjöberg, Åke W.: The University of Pennsylvania Collection of Sumerian Lexicography. 23. October 2023. Open Data LMU. 10.5282/ubm/data.417

 

 
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Open Access Journal: Syzetesis - Rivista online

April 16, 2024, 11:03 am
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 Syzetesis - Rivista online
ISSN: 1974-5044

 syzetesis.it
La Rivista online “Syzetesis” pubblica contributi inediti di filosofia e di storia della filosofia sottoposti a “double-blind peer review”. La Rivista ospita altresì sezioni monografiche su pensatori, problemi o correnti che animano o hanno animato il dibattito filosofico.
“Syzetesis” privilegia un approccio storico, ma anche quello teoretico informato e fondato sul rispetto dei testi. 
Il carattere peculiare degli studi selezionati per la pubblicazione non si riduce all’originalità, essendo ben consapevoli del fatto che, nel campo degli studi umanistici e filosofici, non è detto che originalità coincida sempre con novità. Per questo “Syzetesis” favorisce contributi che mirino piuttosto alla comprensione e alla discussione critica di temi, problemi e questioni diƒ natura storica e filosofica.

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Issue XII - 2025 (EN)
Volume XII - 2025 (IT)

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Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London

April 16, 2024, 11:08 am
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Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London

This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, opening a window onto different social and cultural milieus. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 25 May 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 212
eBook ISBN 9780429470035

 

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The language of iatrosophia

A case-study of two manuscripts of the Library at Wellcome Collection (MS.4103 and MS.MSL.14)
ByTina Lendari, Io Manolessou

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Jewish astronomy in Byzantium *

The case of Wellcomensis MS.498
ByAnne Tihon

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Greek Renaissance commentaries on the Organon

The codex Wellcomensis MS.MSL.1 *
ByNikos Agiotis

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A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

April 16, 2024, 11:12 am
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A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 
By Edith Hall, Henry Stead
A People's History of Classics

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.

This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war.

A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 17 March 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 670
eBook ISBN 9781315446608

 

part I|160 pages

Canons, media and genres

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Motives and methods

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Working-class readers

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part II|108 pages

Communities

chapter 8|23 pages

Dissenting Classics

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chapter 9|21 pages

Adult education

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chapter 10|27 pages

Classics and class in Ireland

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chapter 11|20 pages

Scottish working Classics

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part III|114 pages

Underdogs, underclasses, underworlds

chapter 13|22 pages

Seditious classicists

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Underdog professors

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chapter 15|16 pages

Ragged-trousered philologists

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Hinterland Greek

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Classical underworlds

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Class and the classical body

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Working identities

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Shoemaker Classics

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Pottery workers

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Classics amongst the miners

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Soldiers

Dai and Diomedes on the Somme

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Theatre practitioners

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Open Access Journal: Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East

April 17, 2024, 12:07 pm
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[First  posted in AWOL 31 Januar 2022, updated 17 April 2024]
 
ISSN: 2752-3527 (Print)
ISSN: 2752-3535 (Online) 

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is a bi-annual open-access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries. 

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Published: 2024-04-14

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023). Special IssueTopic: Knowledge Construction and the Ancient Near East

Guest Editor: Zachary Rubin

Published: 2023-12-28

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Special Issue: Parenthood in the Ancient Near East
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

Published: 2023-01-31

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The Apocalypse of Peter in Context

April 17, 2024, 12:18 pm
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 editors: Maier D.C., Frey J., Kraus T.J.
“The Apocalypse of Peter in Context” offers scholarly inquiries into this complex and frequently overlooked early Christian text from different angles. By extending the boundaries of traditional analyses, this collection of essays elucidates the eschatological beliefs prevalent in nascent Christian communities and the formative influences that gave rise to perceptions of heaven and hell. Through new approaches to authorship, transmission, and materiality, it explores this early apocryphal text’s complex relationship with Jewish literature of the Second Temple period and its reception in (Late) Antiquity and the Middle Ages in various branches of Christianity. It also presents the first comprehensive English translation of the entire Ethiopic transmission context and further possible Ethiopic witnesses never critically edited and translated before. The result of a multidisciplinary conference, this collection provokes new insights and stimulates further research on this captivating witness to a distinct branch of apocalyptic thought within early Christianity.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.
year:2024
isbn:9789042952089
pages:XVI-402 p.

 

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Die Werkstätten der arretinischen Reliefkeramik

April 18, 2024, 10:48 am
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Francesca Paola Porten Palange 
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Monographien des RGZM, Band 76,1 

Monographien des RGZM, Band 76,2 

Dem »Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik« (RGZM Kataloge Vor- und Früh geschichtlicher Altertümer 38, 1-2 [2004]) folgen nun diese beiden Bände über die Werkstätten, die von ca. 30 v.Chr. an in Arezzo und Umgebung Reliefkeramik produziert haben.
Im ersten Band werden insgesamt 22 Werkstätten analysiert, ergänzt durch ein Kapitel über den Töpfer Anteros, von dem wir noch nicht wissen, für welche Manufaktur er gearbeitet hat. Die Werkstätten sind völlig neu bearbeitet, und ihr Repertoire ist umfassender beschrieben. Hinzu kommen viele bis dato unbekannte Punzenmotive sowie gegenüber der bisherigen Forschung notwendige Neuzuweisungen, wodurch wir – obwohl das Material des Museums in Arezzo immer noch so spärlich veröffentlicht bleibt – von der Gattung ein deutlich klareres und genaueres Bild erhalten und das Repertoire der einzelnen Offizinen an Reichhaltigkeit gewinnt.
Der zweite Band enthält für jede Werkstatt in zeichnerischer Darstellung die Namensstempel und die bislang bekannten Profile, außerdem die wichtigsten Randmotive und die häufigsten vegetabilischen Ornamente, die für die korrekte und sichere Zuschreibung eine so entscheidende Rolle spielen. Ebenso sind – um die im ersten Band beschriebenen Figurenreihen besser nachvollziehen zu können – auch die bedeutungsvollen Zyklen anhand zahlreicher Bildkombinationen sowie bislang singulär überlieferte Zusammensetzungen figürlicher und ornamentaler Motive dargestellt.

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New Trends in the Research on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas

April 18, 2024, 10:51 am
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 Much has been written on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas since the work of Lipisus, Wright, and Bonnet. However, many of the crucial questions concerning the text remain still today open: When was the text composed? In which language was it written, Greek or Syriac? And most importantly, where in the ancient world did the text see the light? Also the nature and structure of the text remain in doubt: What is the nature of the text we have at our disposal? And how was it transmitted throughout the Middle Ages? The present volume intends to provide answers at least to some of these questions. Its title, New Trends in the Research on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, however, shows that it at the same time intends to break new ground in the analysis of the text, revising some old, vexed problems.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.
year:2024
isbn:9789042951815
e-isbn:9789042951822
pages:XVIII-210 p.

 

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Open Access Journal: Gaia: revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque

April 18, 2024, 12:20 pm
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 [First posted in AWOL 12 May 2013, updated 18 April 2024]

Gaia: revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce Archaïque
ISSN: 1262-3717
eISSN - 2275-4776 
Founded in 1996 by Françoise Létoublon along with André Hurst (Genova) and Franco Montanari (Geneva), Gaia is meant as a crossroads of discussions concerning Archaic Greece in an original manner. It publishes articles by authors coming from different but complementary fields (literature, linguistics, philology, history, anthropology, archeology, reception of antiquity). It is also open from a linguistic point of view (articles published up to now in French, English, Italian and German). The issues from 1997 à 2017 are available on Persée.

The current volumes are now hosted on Open Edition:

Sous la direction de Pascale Brillet-Dubois

Ce numéro de Gaia est consacré principalement à un dossier destiné à faire dialoguer des spécialistes de la poésie archaïque et des historiens de la pensée dite présocratique. Les articles rassemblés, écrits par P. Brillet‑Dubois, G. Cursaru, B. Folit‑Weinberg, F. Létoublon, A. Macé et É. Ménard, témoignent d’une part de la cristallisation du concept d’« être », dont on perçoit les prémisses chez Homère avant que Parménide ne forge un nom pour le désigner, et de l’importance des images, vecteurs sensibles de la pensée conceptuelle, chez des poètes-penseurs comme Hésiode et des penseurs-poètes comme Parménide et Empédocle. Ils montrent la continuité culturelle qui existe entre des poètes qui interrogent très consciemment le rapport entre le langage et le monde et des philosophes qui s’expriment dans une langue poétique, tout en soulignant la façon dont Parménide et Empédocle rompent avec la tradition pour affirmer leur projet singulier. Le numéro contient également un article synthétique de M. Briand sur la choralité dans les Olympiques de Pindare.

 

Dernier numéro en ligne
25 | 2022
L’antropologo «classico» entre bêtes et dieux. Omaggi a Ezio Pellizer (Vol. 2)

Sous la direction de Francesca Marzari, Alberto Cecon et Alberto Pavan

Ce numéro de Gaia accueille le second volet du dossier « L’antropologo “classico” entre bêtes et dieux. Omaggi a Ezio Pellizer » coordonné par Francesca Marzari, Alberto Cecon et Alberto Pavan (pour le premier volet, voir Gaia 24/2021). La mémoire d’Ezio Pellizer y est célébrée par ses collègues et amis à travers des contributions qui revisitent des thèmes qui lui étaient chers, entre poésie épique, théâtre, philologie, histoire, archéologie et anthropologie. Il est question de l’universalité intemporelle d’Ulysse, du paysage mythologique slovène, de la fortune de l’épisode du passage des Argonautes en Adriatique, de la réécriture de la mythologie grecque dans un poème didactique du XVIe siècle, de l’épitomé très personnelle de Conon par le byzantin Photius, du rapport entre Lucien et le Joueur de flûte de Hamelin, d’Aristophane et Alexandrie, de la figure légendaire de la matrone romaine Cornélia, mère des Gracques et fille de Scipion l’Africain.
Suivent trois articles hors dossier, sur la re-sémantisation en milieu étrusque des vases de banquet de production attique décorés avec des hybridités oculaires (Christian Mazet), le sens de la promesse dans la société iliadique (Anastasia Kefala) et la reprise des épopées homériques dans les dramaturgies du XXIe siècle (Anaïs Tillier). Avec ce numéro, nous inaugurons enfin une rubrique de notes de lecture qui sera alimentée au fil de l’eau tout au long de l’année.



 

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Inner Affinity: Ovid, Titian, Philip of Spain

April 18, 2024, 12:25 pm
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Studies in Iconology, 23

 The title of this little book is inspired by Erwin Panofsky’s remarks on the “inner affinity” between Ovid and Titian. But this inner affinity between the Latin poet and the Venetian painter also extends to Philip of Spain, for whom Titian painted the famous cycle of canvases that he referred to in his letters as the “Poesie”. To explore this kinship of spirit among the poet, the painter, and the king, this study examines the dynastic fecundity that results from the effects of works of art on the imagination, the soul and the body.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year:2023
isbn:9789042951891
e-isbn:9789042951907
pages:VIII-129 p.

 

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Architecture, Iconography, and Text: New Studies on the Northwest Palace Reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II

April 19, 2024, 10:26 am
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Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 301

The papers published in this volume attempt to move scholarship forward in the interpretation of the Northwest Palace reliefs of Ashurnasirpal II, with particular focus on the intersection of their architectural setting, their loaded iconography, and the text of the so-called Standard Inscription incised across their faces. The papers deal with both the interpretation of the reliefs in their ancient setting and their modern reception and heuristic use across the boundaries of disciplines. They address direct and indirect interaction of iconography and text in physical space, the roles of scribes and artisans in the production of the architecture-iconography-text ensemble, along with its impact on ancient viewers. The ensemble’s impact on modern viewers, and particularly its reception in the nineteenth century, are also examined, as well as the application of its hermeneutic analysis to the study of Hebrew poetry.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year:2023
isbn:9789042951518
e-isbn:9789042951525
pages:VIII-191 p.

 

 

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'Trinkt von dem Wein, den ich mischte!''Drink of the Wine which I have Mingled!': Festschrift für Silvia Schroer zum 65. Geburtstag

April 19, 2024, 1:21 pm
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 Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge würdigen das vielfältige Wirken von Silvia Schroer in biblischer Exegese, Ikonographie, feministischer Kritik und der breiten Erforschung von Texten und Bildern des Alten Israel und seiner Nachbarkulturen. Weggefährt*innen, die verschiedenen Generationen von Forschenden angehören, schlagen in 35 Aufsätzen Brücken zwischen ihrer eigenen Forschung und Silvias Werk, indem sie in einer bunten Festschrift dessen Höhepunkte und vielfältige Anschlussmöglichkeiten markieren.

The contributions gathered in this volume honor the work of Silvia Schroer in biblical exegesis, iconography, feminist criticism, and the broad exploration of texts and images from Ancient Israel and neighboring cultures. Across 35 contributions, companions representing different generations of researchers relate their own work to Silvia’s scholarship, pointing to some of the latter’s highlights and connectivity in a colorful Festschrift.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year:2023
isbn:9789042952638
e-isbn:9789042952645
pages:XII-632 p.

 

 

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Divine Names on the Spot II: Exploring the Potentials of Names through Images and Narratives

April 19, 2024, 1:24 pm
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editors: Porzia F., Bonnet C.

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 299

Names, images, and narratives are intimately related and frequently polysemous. As pieces of information on the gods, they convey fragments of knowledge and attempts to interpret the multifaceted complexity of the divine world. In what Robert Parker describes as an “archipelago”, images and narratives are like compasses used to approach the mapping of the gods. The different contributions collected in this volume, dealing with the Greek and the Semitic worlds (the two main areas of the “Mapping Ancient Polytheisms” project), explore connections but also discrepancies between these different semantics, in order to highlight specificities and commonalities in the onomastic and iconographic languages.

Les noms, les images et les récits sont intimement liés et volontiers polysémiques. En tant qu’éléments d’information sur les dieux, ils véhiculent des fragments de connaissance et constituent autant de tentatives d’interprétation de la complexité multiforme du monde divin. Dans ce que Robert Parker décrit comme un «archipel», les images et les récits sont comme des boussoles qui facilitent la cartographie des dieux. Les différentes contributions rassemblées dans ce volume, traitant des mondes grec et sémitique (les deux principaux domaines abordés dans le projet «Mapping Ancient Polytheisms»), explorent les connexions mais aussi les divergences existant entre ces différentes sémantiques, afin de mettre en évidence les spécificités et les points communs entre langage onomastique et langage iconographique.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year:2023
isbn:9789042951617
e-isbn:9789042951624
pages:VIII-333 p.

 

 

 

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Late Antique Wall Paintings from Porphyreon in the Sidon Hinterland

April 19, 2024, 1:27 pm
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Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology, 7

It all began on a spring day in 1975 on a beach in southern Lebanon - bulldozing works revealed blocks of stone with vivid wall paintings. This chance discovery led to full-scale excavation of a Late Antique settlement, identified later with ancient Porphyreon. Close to 300 fragments of wall paintings were uncovered: jeweled crosses, human figures, animals, plants, geometric motifs, and painted Greek inscriptions - an abundance of iconographic repertoire unmatched at any other Late Antique archaeological site in the Eastern Mediterranean. The vicissitudes of modern Lebanese history and the fragmentary condition of the assemblage led to this collection being undocumented, unstudied, unpublished, and virtually forgotten for nearly four decades.
The present volume is the outcome of a comprehensive study carried out in 2014-2019 within the frame of an archaeological expedition organized jointly by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) of the University of Warsaw and the Lebanese Directorate General of Antiquities (DGA). The study addresses a wide range of issues, including the iconography of individual representations and the overall iconographic programs applied in the different architectural contexts (church and private houses), the style and artistic qualities, dating, execution techniques and materials employed. It also presents the current condition of the paintings and the conservation project that accompanied the author’s research.
The study on the wall paintings from the basilica and houses of Porphyreon is a major contribution to a sorely underexplored subject - the Late Antique wall paintings from the Eastern Mediterranean and the role they played as a link between Roman painting, which they were a successor of, and Byzantine art of which they were a forerunner.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.

year:2022
isbn:9789042950566
e-isbn:9789042950573
pages:XLII-541 p.

 

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