All aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and their continuing presence in modernity
David Kawalko Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens in the group
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THEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENSGreek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Review of Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire, by Pierre Briant in the group
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Review of Kings, Countries, Peoples: Selected Studies on the Achaemenid Empire, by Pierre Briant, translated by Amélie Kuhrt. Oriens et Occidens, vol. 26. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. Pp. xxv + 633. €99.
Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
Evidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
Miklos Mezosi deposited Két új Szapphó-vers első magyar fordítása in the group
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This paper contains two poems by Sappho discovered on papyrus in 2014, in the Greek original with a facing Hungarian translation by the author, along with an essay on Sappho and her historical and cultural context.
Anna P. Judson deposited Scribes as Editors: Tracking Changes in the Linear B Documents in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
This is the first page only. Full article is available at https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.124.4.0523 (JSTOR subscription required) or https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/310940 (open access).
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A wide variety of edits can be identified in the Linear B administrative documents from Mycenaean Greece. The writers of these documents…[Read more]Ben Newbound deposited A ring from Pylos in the group
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A three-page paper on the artistry of a bronze age ring whose discovery was reported in 2019.
Ernest Metzger deposited Roman Law in the group
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The Romans developed a sophisticated body of law over one thousand years. The law was consulted and used in medieval and modern Europe, and from Europe it was exported around the world. Many modern legal systems are based, or partly indebted to, Roman law. The Roman legal tradition endured, even as specific rules fell away. The success of the…[Read more]
Carol Atack deposited Imagined Superpowers: Isocrates’ Opposition of Athens and Sparta in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Isocrates has been comparatively neglected as a source for political and cultural history and theory. However, the many works of his long career show a continuing
engagement with Athenian political culture and the education of its political class, and his assessment of Sparta is significant for both of these. He imagines and explores the struggle…[Read more]Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week ago
I wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
Carol Atack deposited “Cyrus appeared both great and good”: Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
n this chapter, Atack argues that Xenophon’s depiction of the performance of kingship by Cyrus (Cyropaedia), Agesilaus (Hellenica, Agesilaus), and other kings contains an evaluative model that explores alternative techniques a ruler can use to persuade others to be ruled. By deploying frameworks of performativity and spectacle derived from J…[Read more]
Roland Steinacher deposited Vandalisches oder römisches Recht? Betrachtungen zu Recht und Konsens im vandalischen Nordafrika am Beispiel der Verfolgungsgeschichte Victors von Vita in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Wir verfügen insgesamt über wenige Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte und dem
Rechtswesen im vandalischen Nordafrika. Die vorherrschende Sicht lässt sich in etwa
folgendermaßen zusammenfassen: Das vandalische Afrika war ein zweigeteiltes Gemeinwesen.
›Germanische‹ Vandalen und ›Romanen‹ lebten nebeneinander und jede dieser
Gru…[Read more]Roland Steinacher deposited Das Tiroler Inntal in vor- und frührömischer Zeit in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Aus historischer Sicht sind genauere Definitionen, Abgrenzungen und ethnische Zuweisungen der
Bevölkerung des Alpengebiets in vorrömischer Zeit ausgesprochen schwierig, umstritten und problematisch.
Die einschlägigen Diskussionen drehen sich meist um die Kategorien „Kelten“ oder „Räter“
3. Beide Zuordnungen sind jedoch seit der Antike unsc…[Read more]Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
This chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
Maria Papadopoulou deposited Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar (online): 3-4 August / 3-4 September, 2020 in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Due to the great interest for the first two sessions of the Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar, we are very happy to announce two new online sessions on August 3rd & 4th and on September 3rd & 4th. This doctoral seminar is an introduction to Digital Humanities defined as the application of methods and tools from Information and Communication…[Read more]
Thomas J. Nelson deposited Penelopean Simaetha: A Flawed Paradigm of Femininity in Theocritus’ Second Idyll in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Scholars have long noted the deeply intertextual features of Simaetha’s monologue in Idyll 2, including its Homeric, Sapphic and tragic resonances. In this contribution, however, I focus on an underexplored connection between Theocritus’ speaker and the Odyssean Penelope. I first highlight the Idyll’s pervasive engagement with heroic epic, dwell…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Udjahorresnet the Persian: Being an Essay on the Archaeology of Identity in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 months, 4 weeks ago
This essay is an examination of Udjahorresnet’s Persian identity. Best known from the inscription on his naophorous statue now in the Vatican, Udjahorresnet was a high-ranking courtier in Egypt under the Saite pharaohs Amasis and Psamtik III, and subsequently under the Persian kings Cambyses and Darius. While his statue’s form, function and ins…[Read more]
Mateus Corrêa deposited Remote city of Atlantis in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This work is a translation of my article “A cidade Remota de Atlântida” to English. It’s my first work about this city and its location.
This work uses Plato’s current geographical knowledge and original writings to search for the location of the remote city of Atlantis
Mateus Corrêa deposited A cidade remota de Atlântida in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
The portuguese version of the article “The remote city of Atlantis”.
Este trabalho utiliza do conhecimento geográfico atual e os escritos originais de Platão para apurar a possível localização da cidade remota de AtlântidaRoland Steinacher deposited Das Christentum im frühen Europa in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Das vandalische Afrika gilt als Musterbeispiel des „Kirchenkampfs“ zwischen
homöischen Barbaren und katholischen Römern. Kronzeugen sind Victor von Vita,
Fulgentius von Ruspe und Quodvultdeus von Karthago. Etwa 50 Jahre nach dem Ende
der Vandalenkönige inAfrika 533 kam es dagegen in Spanien zum Ausgleich zwischen
Katholiken und Homöer…[Read more]Cillian O'Hogan deposited MAXIMIANUS AND HIS POETRY – (A.) Franzoi Le Elegie di Massimiano. Testo, traduzione e commento. Note biografiche e storico-testuali. Appendix Maximiani a cura di P. Mastandrea e L. Spinazzè. (Supplementi di Lexis 68.) Pp. iv + 270. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2014. Paper, €60. ISBN: 978-90-256-1294-8. in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Book review of new edition and translation of the poetry of Maximianus.
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