HISTORY / Ancient / General

Hellenistic bookhands

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"The handbook illustrates 94 Greek literary papyrus texts from Egypt and Herculaneum and documents the different types of scripts used in copying works of Greek literature, from the earliest surviving bookrolls written in the 4th century BC up to the first century AD. The aim is…

Flavian Epic Interactions

fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes

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Biographical note: Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK; Astrid Voigt, Open University, UK. Main description: This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman l…

Integration in Rome and in the Roman world: proceedings of the Tenth Workshop of the Internat…

by Benoist, Stéphane, Kleijn, Gerda de

fromImpact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Seri…

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Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. They are explored from juridical,political, social and religious points of view.

Götter- und Heldensagen

by Apollodor

fromSammlung Tusculum

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Das mythologische Handbuch Die uns überlieferte Endfassung von Apollodors Sagensammlung stammt vermutlich aus dem 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Die Wurzeln dieses mythologischen Handbuchs reichen aber, wie Paul Dräger nachweist, wesentlich weiter zurück (vermutlich bis ins 6. Jahrhunde…

Interweaving worlds: systemic interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st mill…

by Sherratt, Andrew

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How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural sphe…

The volume contains 12 papers presented at the conference "Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures" (Toruń, Poland 2005). Five of them concern Near Eastern calendars and sky-watching, three are devoted to European archaeoastronomy (including a paper on Stonehenge), and two represent…

Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner, Jr: On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

by Beal, Richard Henry, Beckman, Gary M., McMahon, John Gregory, Hoffner, Harry A.

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Annotation

Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World

by Bremmer, Jan N.

fromMünchner Vorlesungen zu antiken Welten

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This book explores ancient mystery cults and their influence on emerging Christianity. The author discusses the famous Eleusian Mysteries as well as smaller and lesser-known Greek and Roman mysteries, offering an indispensable in-depth analysis of this fascinating phenomenon.

Cultural memory and early civilization: writing, remembrance, and political imagination

by Assmann, Jan

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"Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and …

Cultural memory and early civilization: writing, remembrance, and political imagination

by Assmann, Jan

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"Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and …

The emergence of Islam in late antiquity: Allāh and his people

by ʻAẓmah, ʻAzīz

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"Based on a critical review of the relevant scholarship, and with the use of epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional sources, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It re…

Crisis of empire: doctrine and dissent at the end of late antiquity

by Booth, Phil

fromTransformation of the classical heritage

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"This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then …

The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persia…

by Vanderhooft, David S., Lipschits, Oded

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The study of the yehud stamp impressions, which appear on the handles or bodies of store jars, has persisted for over a century, beginning with the discovery of the first of these impressions at Gezer in 1904. Nevertheless, until the pioneering work of Stern in 1973, who catalog…

The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persia…

by Vanderhooft, David S., Lipschits, Oded

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The study of the yehud stamp impressions, which appear on the handles or bodies of store jars, has persisted for over a century, beginning with the discovery of the first of these impressions at Gezer in 1904. Nevertheless, until the pioneering work of Stern in 1973, who catalog…

Syro-Hittite Monumental Art and the Archaeology of Performance: The Stone Reliefs at Carchemish and Zincirli in t…

by Gilibert, Alessandra

fromTopoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berline…

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Biographical note: Alessandra Gilibert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.