All aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and their continuing presence in modernity
Meredith Warren deposited Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 days, 7 hours agoPreview of Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (SBL Press, 2019) https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=064211C&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL
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In her book, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature, Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms…[Read more]Ahuvia Kahane started the topic Feedback on the Chicago Homer for future development. in the discussion
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 week, 4 days agoDear Colleagues,
We are writing to ask for some feedback about the Chicago Homer project http://homer.library.northwestern.edu/ in advance of some possible future updates/development.
We would be very grateful for comments by both experienced and new users, noting briefly, e.g.,
-What and how frequently have you used the Chicago Homer for?…[Read more]
Philip Harland deposited Familial Dimensions of Group Identity: ‘Brothers’ (ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ) in Associations of the Greek East in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoArticle exploring the use of sibling language in associations beyond Judean or Christian groups.
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Philip Harland deposited Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence: Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoA chapter exploring rivalries among groups in ancient Greek cities of Asia Minor.
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Philip Harland deposited Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at Hierapolis in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoArticle exploring Jewish or Judean groups in the context of associations at Hierapolis.
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Philip Harland deposited Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle on ancient biographical or autobiographical stories regarding journeys in pursuit of wisdom.
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Philip Harland deposited Banqueting Values in the Associations: Rhetoric and Reality in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle on banqueting within associations.
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Philip Harland deposited Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society (second edition) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoThis is the complete second, fully revised edition of the book with links to inscriptions on the AGRW website. (First edition was published by Fortress in 2003).
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Philip Harland deposited Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Preliminary Case Study of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle surveying economic conditions within associations in Asia Minor and on Greek islands.
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Philip Harland deposited Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoBook that explores processes of identification within various small group situations in the Greco-Roman world.
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Philip Harland deposited “‘Do Not Deny Me This Noble Death’: Depictions of Violence in the Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts.” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle comparing representations of domestic, civic, and imperial violence in novels and in apocryphal acts.
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Philip Harland deposited Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. BZNW, 204. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoPDF of Bosporan section of work only in keeping with the publisher’s policy.
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Philip Harland deposited ‘These people are . . . Men Eaters’: Banquets of the Anti-Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle that explores stories of wild banquets within the context of ethnographic discourses.
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Philip Harland deposited Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoChapter introducing and surveying the intersection of the gods and travel in the Greco-Roman world.
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Philip Harland deposited The Declining Polis? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day agoArticle exploring and challenging the notion of the decline of the city as a preliminary to the study of rivalries among associations.
Daniel Barber deposited PRESENCE AND THE FUTURE TENSE IN HORACE’S ODES in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoHorace is sometimes said to profess in the Odes a “poetics of presence”, a philosophical or aesthetic orientation that privileges the here and now. This paper examines how such an orientation toward the present might interact with the poet’s use of the future tense and especially with those future verbs that seem to postpone focal events. It is co…[Read more]
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Daniel Barber deposited Tui plenum: Horace in the Presence of the Gods in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 4 weeks, 1 day agoIn Books 1-3 of the Odes, Horace makes clear a hierarchy of divinity through the structures of lyric address and distinguishes the gods and goddesses of his poetic preference from the preeminent deities of Augustan state cult. Specifically, he equivocates masterfully as he approaches Apollo and Jupiter while elevating Mercury, a minor figure in…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Roman collecting and the biographies of Egyptian Late Period statues in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 month agoStudies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of c…[Read more]
Carl R. Rice deposited “Whatever the Master Orders is Not Shameful”: Objectifying the Boy-Slave in the Roman Domestic Sphere in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 month agoExploration of the ways boy-slaves’ bodies were objectified in first century CE Roman art and literature.
Sarah Bond deposited “Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago“Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House,” in Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert, Impact of Empire Series, edited by Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 84-102.
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