For scholars interested in the study of Late Antiquity
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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 76.3, 2023/WS 135, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 148–151 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoMore detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).
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Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Some Aspects of Decorations on Early Christian Lamps from the Central Balkans, in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more] -
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Fish symbol and maritime motifs on late antique lamps from Central Balkans in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoElements of Christian visual culture appeared in
various media in monumental and applied art during the late
antique period, from painted decoration in the catacombs,
through funerary monuments, to utilitarian objects such as
jewellery and lamps. The paper analyses the symbolic meaning
of fish and maritime motifs in the context of the late…[Read more] -
Danijela Tešić Radovanović deposited Visual Representations of Saint Menas and Saint Thecla: Objects and Sources in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoOn a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity. Form, Tradition, and Context, ed. Berenice Verhelst/Tine Scheijnen (2022), Plekos 25, 2023, 327–339 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months agoThe volume under review is based on the premise that there is no real dialogue between Greek and Latin studies on the literature (and especially on the poetry) of Late Antiquity, at least not a dialogue as intense as with regard to the earlier, ‘classical’ literature. The reason for this is not least the problem that mutual dependencies between…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited Zeitschriftenschau Fachwissenschaft (Mnemosyne 75.6, 2022/Hermes 150.4, 2022), Forum Classicum 66, 2023, 62–68 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months agoMore detailed Discussions on J. van Waarden: Leafing through Pliny with Sidonius. Sidon. Ep. 1.1, Plin. Ep. 1.1, 1.2, and 1.5, and Satire, Mnemosyne 75/6, 2022, 1021–1043 (62–64) and G. Wöhrle: Fragmente im
Überfluss. Zur Problematik eines philologischen Begriffs, Hermes 150/4, 2022, 385-404 (64–67). -
Mark Beumer deposited Hygieia. Identity, Cult and Reception in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThis article examines the Greek goddess Hygieia by looking at her identity, cult status in the ancient world and subsequent scholarly reception. Should she be viewed as a goddess or a personification? By studying Hygieia primarily as a concept of health within ancient medicine, as well as a personification and a goddess, it will be argued that…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Henning Ohst deposited A Companion to Isidore of Seville, ed. Andrew Fear/Jamie Wood (2020), Plekos 24, 2022, 65–77 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe Companion assembles a total of twenty chapters in English throughout, which – as explained in more detail in the Introduction by the two editors – are thematically divided into three sections (“parts”): “Isidore’s Contexts” (chapters 1-4, including the “Introduction”), “Themes in Isidore’s Works” (chapters 5-13), and “Transmission andReception…[Read more]
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Nikos Tsivikis deposited Messene: a Bibliography on the Archaeology and History of the city v.01/12/2022 in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoA work-in-progress, this is an extended bibliography on Messene covering the period from 1831 and up to today. It includes the excavation reports and archaeological/historical publications of ancient and byzantine Messene in Messenia, SW Peloponnese. Please send via mail or message any corrections, suggestions and additions.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited Review of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year agoReview of Katell Berthelot, Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. 552. ISBN 9780691199290. $45.00.
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Andrew Jacobs deposited “Coloured by the Nature of Christianity”: Nock’s Invention of Religion and Ex-Jews in Late Antiquity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year agoIt is my modest goal in this essay to trace how Nock uses conversion to produce religion(s) and then to explore its similarities to and differences from an analogous construction of religion-through-conversion in late antiquity.
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Amit Gvaryahu deposited REVIEW OF BENJAMIN PORAT, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS, FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year agoBenjamin Porat’s Justice for the Poor differs from these books not only in that it is written in Hebrew (from the list above, only Wilfand’s 2014 book has been translated into Hebrew), but also because it envisions rabbinic charity as a branch of “law.” Porat is a law professor, and his book is jointly published by a law school, a think tank an…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Gesetze gegen den Polytheismus zwischen Konstantin I. und Theodosius I. – Beobachtungen zu spätantiken kaiserlichen Verfügungen in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoIn gewissem Sinne ist der Befehl zur allgemeinen Zwangstaufe im Codex Justinianus Abschluss einer beinahe 200-jährigen Entwicklung. Im Folgenden werden einzelne Stränge der kaiserlichen Gesetzgebung zwischen Konstantin I. und Theodosius I. besprochen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem westlichen Reichsteil. Allein die schiere Menge kaiserlicher B…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Early Medieval Latin Manuscripts Transmitting the Text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville [excel datasheet] in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis excel file contains structured and formalized data about all surviving and identified early medieval Western manuscripts containing the text of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, fully or partially. It records information about the place of origin, provenance, preservation, the date of origin, material properties, script, content, the…[Read more]
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Evina Stein(ova) deposited Annotation of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in Its Early Medieval Context in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis article provides an overview of the annotated pre-1200 manuscripts of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville and discusses the nature and character of the annotation of this work. It shows that the Etymologiae was annotated principally in the early Middle Ages. The glossing took place in three contexts: in the insular world, perhaps in the…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the Law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe circulation and republication of Christian Roman laws on Jews and Judaism gives us a window into the ways imperial attention to the Jewish “other” – sometimes benevolent, sometimes punitive – created multiple paths for the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Laws on economic status, social interaction, and religious custom ultimately produce…[Read more]
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Andrew Jacobs deposited Christians, Jews, and Judaism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, c. 150–400 CE in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThe institutional, social, and theological rise of an imperial-episcopal orthodoxy in the 4th-century Roman Empire transformed the productive, if not always genial, scriptural and ritual interactions among Jews and Christians in previous centuries into a discourse of theological difference, enabling violence and exclusion.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoThis paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
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