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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures: Materiality, Presence and Performance

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Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures: Materiality, Presence and Performance

Funded by:Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Edited by:Anna Krauß, Jonas Leipziger,  and Friederike Schücking-Jungblut
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This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures.  
While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefacts are preserved and might comprise hints to the ancient reading practices. In form of case studies, the contributions to this volume examine various forms of written artefacts as to their implications on modes of reading. Analyzing different Qumran scrolls, codices, Tefillin, Mezuzot, magical texts, tablets, bricks, and statues as well as meta-textual and iconographic aspects, the articles inquire the possibilities of how to correlate material aspects to assumed modes of reception and practices of reading. The contributions stem from Egyptology, Papyrology, Qumran Studies, Biblical Studies, Jewish Studies, Ancient Christianity, and Islamic Studies.  
In total, this volume contributes to the research on practices of reception in times past and demonstrates the potential hidden in text-bearing artefacts.
 

The Power of Urban Water: Studies in Premodern Urbanism

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The Power of Urban Water: Studies in Premodern Urbanism

Edited by:Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug,  and Ulrich Müller

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Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle Ages have hardly been researched until now. The numerous contributions to this volume pose questions such as what the basic cultural significance of water was, the power of water, in the town and for the town, from different points of view. Symbolic, aesthetic, and cult aspects are taken up, as is the role of water in politics, society, and economy, in daily life, but also in processes of urban planning or in urban neighbourhoods. Not least, the dangers of polluted water or of flooding presented a challenge to urban society.

The contributions in this volume draw attention to the complex, manifold relations between water and human beings. This collection presents the results of an international conference in Kiel in 2018. It is directed towards both scholars in ancient and mediaeval studies and all those interested in the diversity of water systems in urban space in ancient and mediaeval times.    

 

Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction

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Sean McAleer 
Plato's 'Republic': An Introduction
This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato’s Republic, throwing light upon the text’s arguments and main themes, placing them in the wider context of the text’s structure. In its illumination of the philosophical ideas underpinning the work, it provides readers with an understanding and appreciation of the complexity and literary artistry of Plato’s Republic. McAleer not only unpacks the key overarching questions of the text – What is justice? And Is a just life happier than an unjust life?– but also highlights some fascinating, overlooked passages which contribute to our understanding of Plato’s philosophical thought.

Plato’s 'Republic': An Introduction offers a rigorous and thought-provoking analysis of the text, helping readers navigate one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory. With its approachable tone and clear presentation, it constitutes a welcome contribution to the field, and will be an indispensable resource for philosophy students and teachers, as well as general readers new to, or returning to, the text.

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Acknowledgments

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1. Fathers and Sons: Book I Download
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2. Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus, Book I Download
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3. A Fresh Start: Book II Download
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4. Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture, Books II and III Download
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5. Starting to Answer the First Question: The Political Virtues, Book IV Download
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6. The Republic’s First Question Answered at Last: Personal Justice, Book IV Download
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7. Questions about the Ideal Polis: The Three Waves, Book V Download
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8. Surfing the Third Wave: Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge, Book V Download
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9. The Philosopher’s Virtues: Book VI Download
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10. Metaphors to Think by: The Sun and Divided Line Analogies, Book VI Download
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11. The Allegory of the Cave: Book VII Download
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12. The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul: Books VIII–IX Download
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13. The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier, Book IX Download
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14. Are We There Yet?: Tying up Loose Ends in Book X Download
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List of Illustrations

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Index

1. Fathers and Sons

Chapter One, ‘Fathers and Sons’, covers the first half of Book I of the Republic, where Socrates raises the Republic’s first question about the nature of justice at the home of Cephalus, a wealthy merchant who lives in a suburb of Athens. Cephalus suggests that justice is paying one’s debts and telling the truth, but Socrates thinks this cannot be the essence of justice, since there are times when one should not return what one has borrowed. This alerts us to an important fact about what Socrates is looking for in an account of justice: the account should be unconditionally correct, with no ifs, ands, or buts. Cephalus’ son Polemarchus jumps into the conversation and offers a revision of his father’s definition, suggesting that justice—right conduct, generally—is benefiting one’s friends and harming one’s enemies. Socrates finds this account has implications that Polemarchus himself cannot accept, so the chapter explores Socrates’ reasoning, especially the assumption that justice, a virtue of character, is a craft or skill. We then discuss Socrates’ more direct argument against Polemarchus’ account, that the just person would not harm anyone.

2. Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus

Chapter Two, ‘Taming the Beast: Socrates versus Thrasymachus’, is devoted to Socrates’ encounter with the sophist Thrasymachus in the second half of Book I. Thrasymachus’ answers to the Republic’s main questions are a provocative challenge to the reverential attitude Socrates has toward justice in particular and virtue in general. Thrasymachus defines justice as whatever benefits the politically powerful and argues that a conventionally just person lives less happily than their unjust counterpart. Socrates offers five different arguments against Thrasymachus’ views, which are spelled out clearly and evaluated carefully, with attention paid to the connections between them and to the crucial concepts around which they orbit (e.g., the notion of a virtue). Socrates’ arguments fall short of the mark, and we will examine why this is the case, exploring avenues of response that Thrasymachus could but does not take. By the close of Book I, Socrates realizes that he has not answered the Republic’s second question because he has not yet answered the first: we cannot know whether the just life is happier until we first know what justice is.

3. A Fresh Start

Chapter Three, ‘A Fresh Start’, explores the way in which Socrates tries to address the Republic’s two questions, ‘What is justice?’ and ‘Is the just life happier than the unjust life?’. Rather than offering a battery of arguments as he did in Book I, Socrates offers an analogy between the polis (the Greek city-state) and the psychê (individual soul) that will structure the rest of the Republic. The plan is to first discover the nature of justice as a political virtue—as a virtue of the polis—and then apply this to the individual soul in order to discover the nature of personal justice.

4. Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture

Chapter Four, ‘Blueprints for a Platonic Utopia: Education and Culture’, examines Socrates’ account of education in the ideal polis, focusing especially on informal, cultural education in music and poetry. We will explore the fascinating connections Socrates draws between aesthetic and moral development, especially the role that poetic and musical style play over and above content. We then discuss Socrates’ rather disturbing attitude toward disabled citizens before focusing on the famous Noble Falsehood, which concludes Book III, discussing the role that myth, especially myths of origin, play in civic self-understanding.

5. Starting to Answer the First Question: The Political Virtues

Chapter Five, ‘Starting to Answer the First Question: The Political Virtues’, focuses on the first third of Book IV. The ideal polis complete, Socrates and company investigate the political virtues of wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice, defining each and discussing their location in the polis. We will explore these accounts and the issues they raise, for example how the kind of agreement that constitutes political moderation differs from the idea of consent in modern liberal political thought, and the question of whether there are other virtues in addition to the four cardinal virtues.

6. The Republic's First Question Answered at Last: Personal Justice

We continue discussing Book IV of the Republic in Chapter Six, ‘The Republic’s First Question Answered at Last: Personal Justice’. We first attend to Plato’s foray into psychology (literally, his account (logos) of the soul (psuchê)) in which he tries to justify the analogy between city and soul that has shaped the Republic. By appealing to the idea that the same thing cannot simultaneously undergo or perform opposite states or activities (dubbed the Opposition Principle), Socrates argues that the soul has a three-part structure, just as the city does: a rational part, which corresponds to the guardian-rulers in the polis; a spirited part (the seat of anger and pride), which corresponds to the soldierly auxiliaries of the polis; and an appetitive part, which corresponds to the craftspeople. Socrates then derives the personal virtues by applying the political virtues to the soul. The most important personal virtue, of course, is justice, which he conceives of as each part of the soul doing its own work: reason, not appetite or spirit, governs the just soul. We will pay attention to important features of this account, for example how it differs from Cephalus’ and Polemarchus’, for whom justice is a matter of interpersonal, external doing (of how one treats one’s fellows), while for Socrates and Plato is it a matter of intrapersonal, internal being, of what one’s soul is like.

7. Questions about the Ideal Polis: The Three Waves

In Chapter Seven, ‘Questions about the Ideal Polis: The Three Waves’, we see Polemarchus and Adeimantus begin Book V by putting the brakes on Socrates’ attempt to immediately begin answering the Republic’s second question, whether living a morally good life is good for the person living it. They raise questions about and objections to the ideal polis, known as ‘the Three Waves’, which is an apt metaphor for a sea-faring culture. The First Wave concerns the question of whether women can be guardian-rulers in the ideal city. Socrates’ affirmative answer—surprising to his companions and to many readers alike (though for different reasons)—raises the question of whether Plato is a feminist. The Second Wave concerns the ideal city’s communal living arrangements, especially child-rearing. Socrates argues that not only is the abolition of the traditional family possible, it is beneficial. The Third Wave is the subject of the next chapter.

8. Surfing the Third Wave: Plato's Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge

Chapter Eight, ‘Surfing the Third Wave: Plato’s Metaphysical Elevator, the Powers Argument, and the Infallibility of Knowledge’, focuses on the Third Wave, which concerns the very possibility of the ideal city. Socrates famously claims that the ideal city can be made real only if philosophers rule. This leads him to explore how philosophers differ from non-philosophers, which will guide the last part of Book V as well as Books VI and VII. A crucial point of difference is that philosophers have knowledge while non-philosophers merely have belief, a distinction which is explored in some depth and detail. We devote special attention to one of the Republic’s most crucial arguments, the Powers Argument, in which Socrates argues for the existence of the Forms, the mind-independently real, timeless essences of the many particular things that populate the everyday world of our senses. The reality of the Forms is perhaps Plato’s most distinctive metaphysical view, so we devote quite a bit of attention to stating, explaining, and evaluating the Powers Argument

9. The Philosopher's Virtues

Chapter Nine, ‘The Philosopher’s Virtues’, continues to explore the distinction between philosophers and non-philosophers, focusing on their different characters. Central to the discussion is the distinction between virtues of character (for example, justice), intellectual virtues (for example, a good memory), and virtues of personal style (for example, grace and elegance), attending to the light this last category sheds on Plato’s moral vision. As a prelude to the key analogies of Book VI, the rest of this chapter is devoted to the interesting analogies Socrates appeals to in addressing features of the Third Wave.

10. Metaphors to Think By: The Sun and Divided Line Analogies

Chapter Ten, ‘Metaphors to Think By: The Sun and Divided Line Analogies’, is devoted to the marquee analogies of Book VI, both of which address the Third Wave by developing the distinction between the sensible world of concrete particular things and the intelligible world of the Forms. Having suggested that the Form of the good is even more important than justice, Socrates cannot or will not say what the good is, but he does say what he thinks it is like: the good plays the same role in the intelligible world as the sun plays in the visible world. In the Analogy of the Divided Line, Socrates further develops the distinction between belief, which is appropriate to the sensible, visible world, and knowledge, which is appropriate to the intelligible world of the Forms. By exploring the role that hypotheses play in reasoning, he distinguishes philosophical knowledge from mathematical knowledge, somewhat surprisingly taking the former to be more rigorous.

11. Shedding Light on the Allegory of the Cave

True to its name, Chapter Eleven, ‘Shedding Light on the Allegory of the Cave’, devotes itself to exploring the famous Allegory of the Cave from Book VII of the Republic, carefully considering its various stages and themes before examining the issue posed by the enlightened philosopher’s return to the Cave. As Socrates describes it, the enlightened philosopher descends back into the Cave not because they want to, but because they recognize that justice requires them to do so. This raises an issue for discussion that Socrates does not seem to notice: the enlightened philosopher would be happier if they ignored the demands of justice and remained in the intelligible world of the Forms, which suggests that, contrary to Socrates’ view, the just life is not happier than the unjust life.

12. The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul

In Chapter Twelve, ‘The Decline and Fall of the Ideal City-Soul’, we begin exploring Socrates’ answer to the Republic’s second question. In Books VIII and IX, Socrates sketches five kinds of cities and souls, noting what each takes as its primary end or goal and which part or class governs the soul and city, respectively. We trace the decay from the best city-soul to the worst, attending to the role that changes to education play and to interesting features of each stage, and discuss at some length Plato’s distinction between necessary and unnecessary desires.

13. The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier

Chapter Thirteen, ‘The Republic’s Second Question Answered: Three and a Half Arguments that the Just Life is Happier’, explores the arguments Socrates gives in Book IX that the just life is happier—indeed, 729 times happier—than the unjust life. There are fascinating features of the first two arguments, for example that the tyrannical person is incapable of friendship and that each part of the soul has a distinctive kind of pleasure. The third argument, the Metaphysics of Pleasure Argument, argues that since what is more filling is more pleasant and what is more real is more filling, the Forms, being the most real things, ground the most pleasant pleasures. We discuss this argument at some length, noting its dependence on the Powers Argument but also exploring ways in which Socrates seems to anticipate and preemptively respond to objections. In the last argument, which Socrates does not identify as such (hence the ‘half’), is a metaphorical argument which, despite its being less philosophically rigorous than the Metaphysics of Pleasure Argument, is more intuitively persuasive and in no way relies on the problematic Powers Argument. This chapter concludes with a discussion of Plato’s paternalism: his view that most of us, being incapable of the philosophical wisdom that consists of knowledge of the good, are incapable of good self-governance, so we are all better off being governed by someone else’s (i.e., a philosopher-king’s or -queen’s) reason.

14. Are We There Yet? Tying up Loose Ends in Book X

Chapter Fourteen, ‘Are We There Yet? Tying up Loose Ends in Book X’, explores the three topics of the Republic’s final book, Book X. The first is the status of poetry, which Socrates wants to revisit since he now has a psychology (the three-part soul) that he lacked when poetry was first discussed. He concludes, quite reluctantly, that very little poetry will be allowed in the ideal city, mainly because of its power to corrupt us: we give ourselves over to emotion and thus dethrone reason from its rightful place. After exploring his arguments for this view, we turn to his argument for the immortality of the soul, which Socrates offers in the context of showing the external advantages of living a just life (namely, having a reputation for justice), which were set aside to answer Glaucon’s and Adeimantus’ challenge of showing that justice was intrinsically good—that all by itself it made its possessor better off. Lastly, we attend to the Myth of Er, with which the Republic ends. Er’s story is an allegory about the importance of careful choice in living justly and thus happily. It is a fascinating way to end the Republic, in terms of both content and style; we briefly explore what philosophical points Plato might be making by ending a work of philosophy this way.

Open Access Monograph Series: Materiale Textkulturen [Material Text Cultures]

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[First posted in AWOL 26 August 2017, updates 9 November 2020]

Materiale Textkulturen [Material Text Cultures]
Ed. by Lieb, Ludger
eISSN: 2198-6940
The series Material Text Cultures is the publication organ of the identically named Collaborative Research Center 993 at Heidelberg University. The series publishes anthologies and monographs dedicated to the  Collaborative Research Center’s main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of the written in non-typographic societies.

Open Access Monograph Series: Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten

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 [First posted in AWOL 1 September 2016, updated 9 November 2020]

Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten
ISSN: 2198-9672
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The “Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten” is a joint research center established at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with a permanent visiting professorship. Each year an internationally renowned scholar in the field of Ancient Studies is nvited to hold a lecture series on significant interdisciplinary topics. The series presents these lectures to an audience interested in the history and culture of the ancient world.

 

Callimachus: A Regest of Greek Papyri

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Callimachus is an automated regest of published papyri and ostraka, ie. a processed extract of the formal contents of the text in the papyri hosted at the Papyri.info site. Additional info about the date, origin, material, etc., of the papyri (from the HGV database) is included in order to enrich the queries. Currently Callimachus (in beta) contains only the data on documentary papyri. Literary papyri will be added in the following weeks. Lexical information about the papyrus is contained in the sibling Anagnostes database, soon to be released here.

Callimachus contains three kinds of information.

The first one refers to several countable features of the text, as it was encoded by the Papyri.info project; for instance, how many words, letters, gaps, letters per line, scribal hands, etc. can be found inside every document. These data was extracted during the parsing of the documents from the Integrating Digital Papyrology Papyri.info github repo. The lexical information belongs to another project, Anagnostes, soon to appear here.

The second type of information is an automated calculation of the state of the text of the papyrus (Callimachus' number). In other words, how much (and how well) the original text of the papyrus can be read in the edition used by Papyri.info. This calculation is provided as two decimal numbers (CRN and CNN) from 0 to 1 (one means all the text is perfectly readable).


Callimachus Readability Number (CRN) is a measure of the readability of the part of the text that was edited (up to which point the editor was able to read or conjecture the papyrus' text information).
Callimachus Conservation Number (CCN) is a measure of the conservation of the papyrus' text. CRN (center) and CCN (center) refers only to the "center" of the papyrus, defined as the part of the text after the first full word preserved and before the last full word preserved. Here you may find how this number is obtained.

There is still another variety of the CRN and CNN, (namely CRN2 and CRN2) which somehow amplifies the differences between different states of preservation: this is obtained by squaring the values of each letter and then obtaining the square root of the total. Whether this, or the simple number is more useful, is a matter to be resolved.


The third kind of data is mainly data about the papyrus (or ostrakon) itself, as provided by the Papyri.info project: Date, Origin, material, content, etc. This information comes from the metadata included in the XML documents, or from the HGV database. All this info (and many more) can be consulted in the Papyri.info site as well.

Look for a feature / set of features of any papyrus in the database

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Look for the details of a papyrus

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Browse the list of papyri

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Look up what kind of information about a papyrus you can find here

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Look up how the Callimachus number is calculated


 

Open Access Journal: Studies in Mediterranean antiquity and classics

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[First posted in AWOL 6 July 2013, updated  10 November 2020]

Studies in Mediterranean antiquity and classics
ISSN: 1934-3442
SMAC features the outstanding research of undergraduates at Macalester College in the study of ancient Mediterranean people and cultures. Papers are welcome addressing the languages, literature, material culture, societies or history of the ancient Mediterranean world or their reception in later historical periods. Submissions are peer reviewed by advanced students at Macalester College.

Current Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1 (2020)

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Excavations at Tell Barri/Kahat

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Excavations at Tell Barri/Kahat

Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2000

Relazione preliminare

Paolo Emilio Pecorella
University of Florence, Italy

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DOI: 10.36253/88-8453-096-2Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

 Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2001 Relazione preliminare

Paolo Emilio Pecorella
University of Florence, Italy

Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3070-0062

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Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

Tell Barri/Kahat: la campagna del 2002

Relazione preliminare

Paolo Emilio Pecorella
University of Florence, Italy

Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3070-0062

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Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

 Tell Barri / Kahat. La campagna del 2003

Relazione preliminare

Paolo Emilio Pecorella
University of Florence, Italy

Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3070-0062

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-8453-794-2Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

 Tell Barri / Kahat. La campagna del 2004

Paolo Emilio Pecorella
University of Florence, Italy

Raffaella Pierobon Benoit
University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3070-0062

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-8453-776-8Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

 


AKROTHINIA: Contributi di giovani ricercatori italiani agli studi egei e ciprioti

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 AKROTHINIA: Contributi di giovani ricercatori italiani agli studi egei e ciprioti

Edited by:

Anna Margherita Jasink
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5122-0482

Luca Bombardieri
University of Turin, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6889-4106

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-766-1Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)
AKROTHINIA 2: Contributi di giovani ricercatori agli studi egei e ciprioti

Edited by:

Maria Emanuela Alberti
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5119-3581

Anna Margherita Jasink
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5122-0482

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-757-3Series: Strumenti per la didattica e la ricercaISSN 2704-6249 (print) - ISSN 2704-5870 (online)

Open Access Journal: Oriental Institute News & Notes

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 [First posted in AWOL 23 April 2010. Most recently updated 11 November 2020]

Oriental Institute News & Notes
News & Notes is a Quarterly Publication of The Oriental Institute, printed for members as one of the privileges of membership.

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Pier Candido Decembrio: Volgarizzamento del Corpus Caesarianum. Edizione critica

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Pier Candido Decembrio: Volgarizzamento del Corpus Caesarianum. Edizione critica


Paolo Ponzù Donato
Giorgio Cini Foundation , Italy

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-590-6Series: Premio Ricerca «Città di Firenze»ISSN 2705-0289 (print) - ISSN 2705-0297 (online)

 The oldest translation in a modern language (vulgarization) of Caesar's commentaries, published in 1438 by Pier Candido Decembrio and dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti and Inigo d'Avalos, is published for the first time in a critical edition. The text is presented by a rich introduction, which provides a detailed overview of the work, with particular regard to the dedications that accompany it, the style of translation and the Latin exemplar used by the humanist, recognized in a code of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, which, already severely damaged during World War II, was restored at the request of the author of the research at the Government of Saxony, revealing the exceptional ecdotic revision made by the Decembrium on the corpus Caesarianum. The online edition of the volume is accompanied by a special appendix to the philological introduction, which includes all the errors and lessons of the manuscripts that have passed on the vulgarization.

Viene pubblicata per la prima volta in edizione critica la più antica traduzione in una lingua moderna (volgarizzamento) dei commentari di Cesare, realizzata nel 1438 da Pier Candido Decembrio e dedicata a Filippo Maria Visconti e Inigo d’Avalos. Il testo è presentato da un’ampia introduzione, in cui viene fornita una dettagliata panoramica sull’opera, con particolare riguardo alle dediche che l’accompagnano, allo stile della traduzione e all’esemplare latino utilizzato dall’umanista, riconosciuto in un codice della Sächsische Landesbibliothek di Dresda, che, già gravemente danneggiato durante la II guerra mondiale, è stato restaurato su sollecitazione dell’autore della ricerca presso il Governo della Sassonia, svelando l’eccezionale revisione ecdotica compiuta dal Decembrio sul corpus Caesarianum. L'edizione online del volume è corredata da un'apposita appendice all'introduzione filologica, comprensiva di tutti gli errori e le lezioni singolari dei manoscritti che tramandano il volgarizzamento.

Studi di poesia greca tardoantica: Atti della Giornata di Studi Università degli Studi di Firenze, 4 ottobre 2012

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Studi di poesia greca tardoantica: Atti della Giornata di Studi Università degli Studi di Firenze, 4 ottobre 2012

Studi di poesia greca tardoantica 

Edited by:

Daria Gigli
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5956-0270

Enrico Magnelli
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6596-8317

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-488-2Series: Studi e saggiISSN 2704-6478 (print) - ISSN 2704-5919 (online)

he volume contains the documents of the study day held in Florence on the 4th October 2012 and presents the contributions of nine young scholars of proven competence, belonging to different Italian universities. The multifaceted Greek poetic production of the post-Hellenistic age is investigated through its literary genres and the specific issues it poses: mythological-narrative and didactic epic, theological oracles, pagan and Christian hymnography, an epigram, survival of the poetic expressive code in the prose of the early Byzantine age. The essays are different in perspective - critical-textual, exegetical, historical-literary - but are united by a solid philological basis; moreover, each of them offers innovative ideas that make the volume of great interest for the international scientific community.

Il volume contiene gli atti della giornata di studi svoltasi a Firenze il 4 ottobre 2012 e presenta i contributi di nove giovani studiosi di provata competenza, formatisi in varie Università italiane. La multiforme produzione poetica greca di età post-ellenistica è indagata attraverso i suoi generi letterari e le specifiche problematiche che essa pone: si tratta di epica mitologico-narrativa e didattica, di oracoli teologici, di innografia pagana e cristiana, di epigramma, di sopravvivenza del codice espressivo poetico nella prosa della prima età bizantina. I saggi sono diversi per prospettiva – critico-testuale, esegetica, storico-letteraria – ma accomunati da una solida base filologica, e ciascuno di essi offre idee innovative che rendono il volume di sicuro interesse per la comunità scientifica internazionale.

ANS Digital Library Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Many numismatic doctoral theses and dissertations are never published or appear only in print accessible to very few people. To remedy this, the American Numismatic Society invites researchers to search, read, and download from its growing collection of doctoral works without charge. Scholars are invited to submit their theses/dissertations digitally, which will be posted here for others to use under Creative Commons licensing. Over time, the ANS hopes that this Open Access area will become the world’s premier online collection of advanced, groundbreaking numismatic scholarship.

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Bransbourg, Gilles, 1965-
Date
2010
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Language
French
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2689-3703 dissertations text
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Gooch, Megan Laura
Date
2011
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Durham University
Language
English
. dissertations text 2011 en application/pdf docs/Money_and_Power_in_Viking_Kingdom_of_York.pdf
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Tzamalī́́s, Aléxandros R. A.
Date
2012
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L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS IV - SORBONNE
Language
French
dissertations L’histoire des régions qui seront nommées plus tard Macédoine et Thrace avant l’expansion du
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Gruber, Ethan W.
Date
2013
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University of Virginia
Language
English
, curators, and information technologists. dissertations 2013 en application/pdf docs
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Van Alfen, Peter G.
Date
2002
University
University of Texas-Austin
Language
English
dissertations The primary focus of this study is to ascertain the identification and origins of the commodities
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Wittmann, Matthew
Date
2010
University
University of Michigan
Language
English
. But of course dissertations are never solely about scholarship and for their mix of assistance..., Matthew Author aut University of Michigan dissertations In the summer of 1853, New York City
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Paunov, Eugeni I.
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2013
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Cardiff University
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English

Open Access Digital Library: Bibliothek Goussen

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Bibliothek Goussen
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The Goussen library collection is a specialist library for oriental church history. It contains prints in Western classical and modern languages, but predominantly prints in oriental languages such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th and the 19th century). The former owner Heinrich Goussen (1863 – 1927) collected nearly every print within the language groups that had ever been published about the subject. The collection contains numerous rare or valuable oriental prints. There could hardly a collection be put together as completely as here, not even from the holdings of large European libraries.

Studi di Archeologia del Vicino Oriente: Scritti degli allievi fiorentini per Paolo Emilio Pecorella

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Stefania Mazzoni
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4738-6791

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-145-4Series: Studi e saggiISSN 2704-6478 (print) - ISSN 2704-5919 (online)

 The book presents recent studies and research by the students of Paolo Emilio Pecorella, a lecturer in Archaeology and Art History of the Ancient Near East at the University of Florence. The contributions reflect the numerous interests and activities in the field promoted by Pecorella and continued now by his school: in Syria and Mesopotamia (J.S. Baldi, S. Nannucci, V. Orsi, C. Coppini and G. Baccelli), in Anatolia (F. Manuelli, A. D'Agostino, G. Guarducci and S. Valentini), in Cyprus (L. Bombardieri), and in Iran (S. Anastasio).

Il volume presenta studi e ricerche recenti degli allievi di Paolo Emilio Pecorella, docente di Archeologia e storia dell'arte del Vicino Oriente antico nell'ateneo fiorentino. Sono contributi che rispecchiano i molti interessi e le diverse attività sul campo che il maestro promosse, e che la sua scuola oggi continua: in Siria e Mesopotamia (J.S. Baldi, S. Nannucci, V. Orsi, C. Coppini, G. Baccelli), in Anatolia (F. Manuelli, A. D'Agostino, G. Guarducci, S. Valentini) , a Cipro (L. Bombardieri), e in Iran (S. Anastasio).


Villas, Peasant Agriculture, and the Roman Rural Economy

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Annalisa Marzano (Hrsg.) 
 Villas, Peasant Agriculture, and the Roman Rural Economy

Panel 3.15 Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018

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Marzano, Annalisa (Hrsg.): Villas, Peasant Agriculture, and the Roman Rural Economy: Panel 3.15, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, Band 17). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.652

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Veröffentlicht am 12.11.2020.

 

Die römische Villa war ein prägendes Element der römischen Welt, dessen Aussehen und Verbreitung in den Regionen Italiens und darüber hinaus mit verschiedenen historischen Phänomenen in Verbindung gebracht wurde: Die territoriale Ausdehnung Roms, die Errichtung von Kolonialstädten und die Bereitschaft der einheimischen Eliten, an Formen römischen Lebens teilzunehmen. Während die traditionelle Geschichtsschreibung die zunehmende Ausbreitung großer Villen in Italien während der Republik als ein Phänomen ansah, das kleine und mittlere Landbesitzer vom Land verdrängte und damit zu den sozio-politischen Problemen Roms beitrug, haben neuere Studien gezeigt, dass große Villen und Bauernhöfe nicht im Widerspruch zueinander standen. Die in diesem Band gesammelten Artikel versuchen, eine organischere Bewertung der Funktionsweise der "Villenwirtschaft" und der "bäuerlichen Wirtschaft" zu erreichen und zu untersuchen, inwieweit - wenn überhaupt - die beiden Wirtschaftsweisen ineinander integriert waren. Dies wird durch die Beantwortung zweier Hauptfragen erreicht: ob Villen und kleine und mittlere Bauernhöfe Teil von zwei unterschiedlichen Produktions- und Verteilungssystemen waren oder nicht; und inwieweit das Bild, das sich aus den Provinzen ergibt, mit der Situation im römischen Italien verglichen werden kann.

Annalisa Marzano ist Professorin für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Reading, Großbritannien, und Co-Direktorin des "Casa della Regina Carolina Project" in Pompeji. Sie ist die Autorin von "Roman Villas in Central Italy: A Social and Economic History” (Brill 2007), “Harvesting the Sea: The Exploitation of Marine Resources in the Roman Mediterranean” (Oxford UP 2013) und Mitherausgeberin des Bandes “The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin” (Cambridge UP 2018).

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Contents
Preface
Annalisa Marzano
Villas, Peasant Agriculture, and the Roman Rural Economy: An Introduction
Werner Tietz
Temporary Workforce in the Roman Villa
Astrid Van Oyen, Gijs Tol, Rhodora G. Vennarucci
Planning and Investment in a Peasant Landscape: the Site of Podere Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy)
Maria Stella Busana, Claudia Forin
Economy and Production Systems in Roman Cisalpine Gaul: Some Data on Farms and Villae
Juan Francisco Álvarez Tortosa
Production Models in Roman Commercial Agriculture: the Northwest of Hispania Citerior Between the 2nd Century BC and the 2nd Century AD
Oriol Olesti
Villae, Fundi, Peasant Agriculture and Wine Production in the Ager Barcinonensis
Lisa Lodwick
The Organisation of Cereal Production in Britannia: Grain-drying Ovens as Evidence for Agricultural Integration
Olivera Ilić
Roman Rural Settlements in the Provinces of Pannonia Inferior and Moesia Superior
Antoni Martín i Oliveras, Víctor Revilla Calvo
Quantifying Roman Laeetanian Wine Production (1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD): A Microeconomic Approach to Calculating Vineyard’s Crop and Winemaking Processing Facilities Yields

 

Open Access Monograph Series: Aegyptiaca Kestneriana

Archaeological Work in Crete, Proceedings

Decor-Räume in pompejanischen Stadthäusern: Ausstattungsstrategien und Rezeptionsformen

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Series: Decor, 1

The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end of the 2nd century BCE and the early Imperial period. For the first time, individual decor phenomena are not only considered in isolation, but also in terms of their spatial and social relationship.

 

Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares: Acta ludorum saecularium

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In collaboration with:François Chausson and Wolfram Schneider-Lastin
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The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The volume offers a completely newly constituted Latin text of both inscriptions with translation and detailed commentary. In addition, other important texts to the Ludi saeculares are provided in the original and in translation.

 

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