This dissertation explores the experience of arriving in the port cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the Hellenistic through the Early Roman periods, describing the historical, environmental, and architectural backgrounds of these sites and offering an outline of t…
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No século V a.C., assistiu-se a um conflito que opôs Gregos a Persas, que ficaria conhecido como Guerras Pérsicas, e que ajudou a consolidar a formação de uma identidade pan-helénica. Esta identidade foi concebida em simultâneo e por oposição à criação da imagem do “Outro” não-g…
Penelope, the legendary queen of Ithaca, has long been regarded by the public as a faithfully waiting matron and astute wife of Odysseus. This project is designed to present the viewer with different Penelopes as seen through the eyes of the nineteenth and twentieth-century arti…
Bu araştırmanın amacı, ahlak felsefesinin temel tartışma alanlarından olan erdem etiğini Aristoteles ve Alasdair MacIntyre örneği üzerinden incelemektir. Erdem ve ahlak tartışmaları, insana ve topluma dair şeyler olmaları yönüyle hemen her dönemin önemli konu başlıkları olarak ö…
Antik Çağ'dan günümüze, gerek mesleki gerekse dini açıdan önemini kaybetmeden süregelmiş olan 'çobanlık' kavramı, tabletler başta olmak üzere birçok kaynakta devamlı olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Çobanlık, gerek önemli bir geçim kaynağı olması, gerekse din ve devlet adamlarının …
Bu çalışmada modern vatandaşlığın inşa süreci incelendi. Modern vatandaşlığın hangi süreçler sonunda ortaya çıktığı ve hangi zemin üzerine inşa edildiği ele alınarak inşa sürecinin doğurduğu sorunlar ele alındı. Vatandaşlık kavramının, doğduğu Antik Yunan kent devletlerinden iti…
Damnatio Memoriae terimi, 17. yüzyılda Roma İmparatorluğu'nda uygulanan hafızadan silme yöntemi için kullanılmıştır. Bu uygulamanın, Roma İmparatorluğu'nun kültürel hafızasına etkisi de oldukça önemlidir. Olumsuz etkileri bir yana aslında hafızadan silinmek istenen kişinin süreç…
To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the Ninth Century CE. Rather than telling the story from a sin…
This dissertation explores myths from cultures of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean that depict gods performing sacrifice and gods as the victims of sacrifice. The author investigates how the motif of divine sacrifice or ritualized deities is connected to aitiologies of sacri…
Anadolu, geçmişten günümüze birçok medeniyete ve kültüre ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Özellikle antik çağlarda bunu görebilmek çok daha mümkündür. Yunanlılar ve öncesi, Romalılar, Bizanslılar, Selçuklular, Osmanlılar ve günümüz medeniyetleri bu bölgede yer almıştır. Özellikle MÖ 133’…
In this thesis I discuss a puzzle originally introduced by Chrysippus of Soli, the third head of the Stoic school who lived during the II to III century B.C. The puzzle involves two individuals in one body: an impossibility. In this work I will offer an argument aiming to elucid…
Histories of medicine in the ancient Greco-Roman world have traditionally been centered on elite men, despite elite men representing only a small portion of medical practitioners in the ancient world. While recent studies have begin to correct this picture, ideas of folk and eli…
The broad objective of this dissertation is an interdisciplinary study uniting historical linguistics, classical philology, and comparative poetics in an attempt to investigate archaic Greek poetic texts from a diachronic perspective. This thesis consists of two parts. The first…
Pharaoh's command in Gen 41:55—“Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do”—aptly summarizes the breadth of authority Joseph attains in Egypt and the means by which he exercises it: direct speech. By interpreting Egyptian dreams, Joseph establishes himself as a “wise and discerning” …
This dissertation explores the ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenisti…
One of the most memorable tales in Homer's Iliad is that of Bellerophon, the Corinthian hero sent as courier with a message deceitfully intended to arrange his death. A similar story is related in the Sumerian Sargon Legend of the eighteenth-century B.C.E., which tells of how Sa…
After Rome conquered Egypt, Egypt invaded Rome. Or so it would seem, judging from the explosion of Egyptian-inspired art in Rome beginning in the mid-first century BC—including a host of Egyptian motifs incorporated into Roman wall painting. These motifs are based on pharaonic a…
The Nabataeans, best known today for the spectacular remains of their capital at Petra in southern Jordan, continue to defy easy characterization. Since they lack a surviving narrative history of their own, in approaching the Nabataeans one necessarily relies heavily upon the co…
Scholars of migration, colonization, and cultural interaction in antiquity have increasingly turned towards a variety of concepts (such as hybridity, negotiations, and middle grounds) developed by postcolonial theorists to describe the dynamics of ancient civilizations beyond th…