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Book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum  Volume LIII  2003   2 Vols

Download or read book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Volume LIII 2003 2 Vols written by R. A. Tybout and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEG LIII covers the publications of the year 2003, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2003 but pertaining to material from 2003. This volume will be published in two parts, with volume LIII-1 containing Attica.

Book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum  Volume LIV  2004

Download or read book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Volume LIV 2004 written by Angelos Prof. Chaniotis and published by Supplementum Epigraphicum Grae. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEG LIV covers the publications of the year 2004, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2004 but pertaining to material from 2004.

Book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum  Volume LVI  2006

Download or read book Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Volume LVI 2006 written by Angelos Prof. Chaniotis and published by . This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SEG LVI covers the publications of the year 2006, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2006 but pertaining to material from 2006.

Book Ancient West   East

Download or read book Ancient West East written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima

Download or read book Studies in the Archaeology and History of Caesarea Maritima written by Joseph Patrich and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesarea Maritima, the capital of the Roman province of Judaea / Palaestina, was founded in 10/9 BCE by Herod the Great to serve as an administrative and economic center. It was named after his Roman patron Caesar Augustus, the first Roman emperor. The book, well illustrated, presents the results of the large scale excavations at the site during the 1990’s and early 2000’s in their wider historical and cultural context: the architectural evolution and transformation of the thriving city from its foundation to its decline caused by the Arab conquest (640/41 CE), its conversion to a Roman colony in 71 CE, aspects of provincial administration, commerce and economy, entertainment and religious life of its communities – Jews, Pagans, Christians and Samaritans.

Book Greek Colonisation

    Book Details:
  • Author : G.R. Tsetskhladze
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 9047404106
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Greek Colonisation written by G.R. Tsetskhladze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north east. In this colonial world Greek and local structures met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. The work is dedicated to Prof. A.J. Graham. This first volume gives a lengthy introduction to the problem, including methodological and theoretical issues. The chapters cover Mycenaean expansion, Phoenician and Phocaean colonisation, Greeks in the western Mediterranean, Syria, Egypt and southern Anatolia, etc. The volume is richly illustrated.

Book Ancient Prophecy

Download or read book Ancient Prophecy written by Martti Nissinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.

Book The Inscriptions  1926 1950

Download or read book The Inscriptions 1926 1950 written by John Harvey Kent and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inscriptions found in the excavations at Corinth between 1926 and 1950 are published here which, although fragmentary, provide significant new evidence for the history of Greece in the Roman period. Here the Greek texts before 44 B.C. number only 49; the bulk of the volume deals with 451 texts, both Greek and Latin, of the Roman Imperial period, 220 Greek texts of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine period and 17 after A.D. 800. Text, translation, and commentary are offered for each inscription and a general introduction to each period summarizes the historical information yielded by the texts and includes lists of the names of those who held various Roman offices.

Book The Hellenistic Far East

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Mairs
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2016-08-05
  • ISBN : 0520292464
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Hellenistic Far East written by Rachel Mairs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.

Book The Athenian Constitution After Sulla

Download or read book The Athenian Constitution After Sulla written by Daniel J. Geagan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to examine the text of every known Athenian inscription datable to the period after the new constitution of Sulla (ca. 68 B.C.) and to reconstruct information about the civic offices and institutions established in this period. The author therefore presents all the evidence he has found for the duties of major officials, councillors, and minor magistrates. He compares this information with the earlier picture painted by Aristotle in his study of the Constitution of the Athenians, and shows that many changes took place in the Roman period.

Book Iran

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Iran written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include the Director's report, 1961/62-

Book Cities and Priests

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  • Author : Marietta Horster
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2013-10-29
  • ISBN : 3110318482
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Cities and Priests written by Marietta Horster and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural records such as dedications, honorific statues and decrees are keys to understanding the manifold and diverse social roles and religious functions of priesthoods in the cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the classical period to late antiquity. These texts and images indicate how the priests and priestesses saw themselves and were viewed by others. The approaches in this volume are historical, religious, and archaeological, and they elucidate the religious functions that the cult personnel fulfilled for the city, and the perception of priests and priestesses as citizens of the polis. The volume focuses on developments from the Hellenistic period into Imperial times. Subjects include: gendered priesthoods and family traditions, the topography of honorary statues and the presentation of funerary monuments, federal and civic priesthoods as well as priests of private cult-foundations, benefactions and social pressure, and the religious, social and political functions of priests and priestesses within cities.

Book Serving Athena

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  • Author : Julia L. Shear
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-11
  • ISBN : 1108618022
  • Pages : 555 pages

Download or read book Serving Athena written by Julia L. Shear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.

Book Callimachus  Hymn to Demeter

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  • Author : Callimachus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-20
  • ISBN : 9780521604369
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Callimachus Hymn to Demeter written by Callimachus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callimachus was one of the most influential writers in the ancient world and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature. Dr Hopkinson here thoroughly analyses Callimachus' Sixth Hymn, The Hymn to Demeter providing the first full edition and commentary on the work in English.

Book Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean  800 BCE   200 CE

Download or read book Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean 800 BCE 200 CE written by Allison Glazebrook and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE–200 CE challenges the often-romanticized view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture. Departing from the conventional focus on elite society, these essays consider the Greek prostitute as displaced foreigner, slave, and member of an urban underclass. The contributors draw on a wide range of material and textual evidence to discuss portrayals of prostitutes on painted vases and in the literary tradition, their roles at symposia (Greek drinking parties), and their place in the everyday life of the polis. Reassessing many assumptions about the people who provided and purchased sexual services, this volume yields a new look at gender, sexuality, urbanism, and economy in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Book A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions

Download or read book A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions written by Marcus Niebuhr Tod and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Birth of Hedonism

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  • Author : Kurt Lampe
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-26
  • ISBN : 1400852498
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Hedonism written by Kurt Lampe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. In The Birth of Hedonism, Kurt Lampe provides the most comprehensive account in any language of Cyrenaic ideas and behavior, revolutionizing the understanding of this neglected but important school of philosophy. The Birth of Hedonism thoroughly and sympathetically reconstructs the doctrines and practices of the Cyrenaics, who were active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. The book examines not only Aristippus and the mainstream Cyrenaics, but also Hegesias, Anniceris, and Theodorus. Contrary to recent scholarship, the book shows that the Cyrenaics, despite giving primary value to discrete pleasurable experiences, accepted the dominant Greek philosophical belief that life-long happiness and the virtues that sustain it are the principal concerns of ethics. The book also offers the first in-depth effort to understand Theodorus's atheism and Hegesias's pessimism, both of which are extremely unusual in ancient Greek philosophy and which raise the interesting question of hedonism's relationship to pessimism and atheism. Finally, the book explores the "new Cyrenaicism" of the nineteenth-century writer and classicist Walter Pater, who drew out the enduring philosophical interest of Cyrenaic hedonism more than any other modern thinker.