Wednesday, October 14, 2026

The Homeric Psychology of Parmenidean Meditation

John, Benjamin

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin

This dissertation interprets the journey of the youth (kouros) in Parmenides' proem as an idealized mythological representation of a meditative practice by analyzing its deployment of Homeric psychological terminology. The first chapter puts forth an interpretation of Homeric psychology in light of what we now call the autonomic nervous system and suggests that thumos corresponds roughly to the “fight or flight” response of the sympathetic arm and psuche to the “rest and digest” response of the parasympathetic arm. At death, I argue, characters pass from the “hot” end of that spectrum to the “cold” end as the psuche exits the body. The second chapter uses this Homeric psychological scheme to argue that the journey of the kouros in Parmenides' proem depicts in mythological terms a process of heating and immortalizing the mind by increasing the thumos. This in turn allows him to meet and understand the unnamed goddess that greets him beyond the gates of Night and Day. I argue that this journey involves an ascent (anabasis) of the thumos towards the light of the sun rather than exclusively a descent to the underworld (katabasis), a common interpretation in recent years. The third chapter builds on the psychological and mythological interpretations developed in the first two chapters and examines one aspect of a meditative practice behind the proem. I argue that the kouros would heat and immortalize his mind by “inhaling” (αμπνυτο) more “wind” (πνοιη) to increase his thumos as an initial purification to prepare for the ascent. This proposal finds support in later Greek representations of meditative breathing practices that involve inhaling hot pneuma in the Chaldean Oracles and the “Mithras Liturgy” as well as comparison with similar ideas about “heat-generating ascetic practices” (tapas) in some Indian sources. I conclude that archaic Greek sages may have used inhalation-emphasized breathing practices to stimulate the sympathetic arm of the autonomic nervou (open full item for complete abstract)
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Committee: Thomas Hawkins (Advisor); Sarah Iles Johnston (Committee Co-Chair); Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (Committee Member); Hugh Urban (Committee Member) 
 
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Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry

But, Ekaterina

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2021, Greek and Latin

“Eutrapelia: Humorous texts in Hellenistic poetry” provides a study of the literary humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry in the context of rapid political and cultural change in the Ancient Mediterranean of the third century BCE. This project clarifies several questions connected to the nature of humor in Hellenistic iambic poetry: how does humor function in the poetry and performance of the early Hellenistic era? In which contexts does it appear? Does it reflect the multicultural environment of Ptolemaic Egypt? How is humor connected to the recontextualization of generic conventions, both literary and performative? Does humor become an expression of transgression: political, religious, or social? To address these questions, I conduct several case studies focusing on fragments of poems by Greek writers of the third century BCE (Callimachus, Cercidas, Machon, and Herodas) that refer to the tradition of Greek iambic poetry, a poetic invective genre closely connected to comedy and ritual obscenity. In Chapter 1, I focus on the humorous representation of philosophers in Callimachus's Iambus 1 and argue that these representations play an important role in Callimachus's dialogue with Plato and contemporary philosophy, and, at the same time, reflect Callimachus's ideas about the role of intellectual working in Alexandria under the royal patronage. In Chapter 2, I analyze fragments of Cercidas of Megalopolis, politician and Cynic philosopher, and argue that Cercidas employs elements of Cynic teaching to problematize the political and social issues of his community. In Chapter 3, I conduct a study of several anecdotes attributed to the comic writer Machon and argue that the targets of these anecdotes mirror Machon's own professional fate. In Chapter 4, I analyze sexually oriented humor in Herodas's Mimiamb 6 and argue that in this poem, Herodas promotes an idea of the female origin of iambic poetry. For each of these case studies, I address linguistic features of humor by a (open full item for complete abstract)
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Committee: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Ph.D. (Advisor); Tom Hawkins Ph.D. (Committee Member); Dana Munteanu Ph.D. (Committee Member) 
 
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Poetic Health: Literary and Medical Traditions in Apollonius' Argonautica

Erez, Yelena

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin

This dissertation examines the role of ancient medicine in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica as a fundamental component of the work's narrative structure. I use the writings of Empedocles, the Hippocratic physicians, Aristotle, and Herophilus to expand upon and develop a more nuanced understanding of the medical references which previous scholarship has identified. The first chapter provides historical context for the interdependence of medicine and poetry in the Hellenistic period. The second chapter explores the intersections of medical and literary traditions in the characterization of the hero, Jason. The third chapter untangles Apollonius' nuanced understanding of contemporary medicine through analysis of Medea's lovesick distress. The fourth chapter explores the invisible threats of medical miasma and spontaneous generation in the final book of the Argonautica. I interpret the use of medical terminology not as a way for the poet to display his erudition in the history of medicine, but as an intentional representation of varying interpretations of health, healing, and the body.
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Committee: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Advisor); Jackie Murray (Committee Member); Mark Fullerton (Committee Member); Dana Munteanu (Committee Member) 
 
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Sword Arm of the Demos: The Military Contributions of the Athenian Elite

Sword Arm of the Demos: The Military Contributions of the Athenian Elite
Green, Derek

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2021, History

Traditionally, scholars of Classical Athenian history have assumed that the Athenian demokratia organized itself for war around the principle of egalitarianism. My dissertation, which focuses on the military contributions of the elite, marks a significant departure from this view by arguing that this is decidedly not the case. In fact, I argue that the elite were so dominant in every aspect of war-making that warfare under the demokratia was primarily an elite concern. Not only did wealthy Athenians serve more frequently in the ranks, but they did so in a larger number of capacities. The liturgies of elite citizens funded both the individual triremes and in many cases, entire military expeditions. Athenian armies and fleets were led by the most elite citizens, who also dominated debates over matters of war and peace in the ekklesia. This elite domination did not undermine the sovereignty of the demos as a whole, however, as the demos was able to keep its elite members in line due to strict accountability measures. Significantly, these accountability measures, which were vital to the demokratia, were enforced almost exclusively by the elite. This decidedly inegalitarian approach to warfare has a broader significance when it comes to understanding the very nature of demokratia itself. I argue that, when we consider both the inequalities that we see at work when the Athenians made war with better known inequalities, such as the non-inclusion of women in politics and the widespread use of slave labor, this shows that demokratia was built on different principles than modern democracy and did not share modern concerns about inequality. The broader significance of this realization, I argue, is that future studies of demokratia should be more careful about delineating the differences between demokratia and democracy before hazarding comparisons.
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Committee: Greg Anderson (Advisor); Kristina Sessa (Committee Member); Anthony Kaldellis (Committee Member) 
 

 

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Infant Feeding Practices in Roman Italy: A Study of Weaning Variation and its Relationship to Physiological Stress During Infancy and Early Childhood

Oldershaw, Leigh

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Anthropology

Weaning is a central factor in both infant morbidity and mortality in archaeological populations. While a relationship between weaning and physiological stress has been established in many living populations, the degree to which weaning is associated with infant stress is highly dependent upon living conditions, food availability, and nutritional quality. As such, the impact of weaning on infant health cannot be assumed in archaeological samples. The aim of this research is to use high-resolution longitudinal weaning profiles to explore variation in weaning timing and its impact on physiological stress in one historic complex society, specifically Imperial Roman Italy. Individual weaning timelines for 52 ancient Romans from the Lazio and Marche regions of Italy are reconstructed using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) based analyses of Sr/Ca and, to a lesser extent, Ba/Ca signal intensity (concentration) ratios within dental enamel. Weaning timelines are compared to the timing of accentuated lines, histologically observable physiological stress markers in enamel. Timing of both weaning and accentuated lines are examined to determine the relationship between weaning behavior and stress in infancy and early childhood. Results indicate that early infant feeding practices were highly variable, with infants being exclusively breastfed, exclusively bottle fed – likely with herbivore milk – and fed with a combination of breastmilk and herbivore milk. Counter to expectations, exclusive breastfeeding was not associated with fewer accentuated lines in enamel when compared to bottle feeding or mixed feeding, although the weaning period in general was associated with higher frequencies of accentuated lines when compared to exclusive breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and mixed feeding prior to the onset of weaning. Exclusive breastfeeding was also not associated with improved mortality rates. Interestingly, feeding behavior between sites varied (open full item for complete abstract)
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Committee: Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg (Advisor); Douglas Crews (Committee Member); Mark Hubbe (Committee Member); Clark Larsen (Advisor) 
 
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Illuminating the Abyss: The Divine Underworld in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Illuminating the Abyss: The Divine Underworld in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Knodel, Rachael

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin

This dissertation re-examines the gods Hades and Persephone as they are portrayed in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Though the poem is nominally dedicated to Demeter, Persephone's story propels the remainder of the narrative. Historically, scholarship on this poem has focused on the relationship between the narrative and cult activity; instead, my dissertation relies on a close reading of the text, in unison with comparative texts, feminist readings, and narratological theory. With these tools, I demonstrate how the characters of Hades and Persephone evolve through the story and how this has been overlooked in previous scholarship. Persephone, for example, is often read as a victim and never beyond that. I build upon feminist readings to show how Persephone's roles are vital to the interpretation of the poem. She is first portrayed as a naive παρθενος (maiden), who becomes περιφρων (wise) by the time the narrative returns to her story. My study of Hades begins by pushing against the notion in scholarship that he is an inherently negative deity. I show that there are biases in our studies of this god which are unfounded and based instead on modern perspectives. By reading these characters in this way, I highlight previously unrecognized moments of the poem; for example, I read the opening flower-picking scene as an epiphany of Hades and Persephone as consenting to the consumption of the pomegranate seed. This project proposes an alternative way to read the Hymn but does not negate or remove the value of other approaches to the text. I focus on the narrative itself and its historical, social, and mythological background to better comprehend the ways the ancient audience likely understood this story, especially regarding Hades and Persephone. I accomplish this by prioritizing the narrative of the poem and the use of narratological theories. This project is, therefore, a narratological-feminist reading of and commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
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Committee: Sarah Johnston (Advisor); Harriet Fertik (Committee Member); Tom Hawkins (Committee Member); Fritz Graf (Committee Member) 
 

 

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Archaeology in Greece Online / Chronique des fouilles en ligne

[First posted in AWOL 30 November 2009. Updated 13 October 2026]

Archaeology in Greece Online / Chronique des fouilles en ligne
Chronique des fouilles en ligne - AGO

Editorial project

Archaeology in Greece Online combines the Chronique published annually in the BCH by the French School at Athens, and Archaeology in Greece published as part of the annual Archaeological Reports by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British School at Athens (which continues to appear in print in a new review format).

The project is managed jointly by the French School at Athens and the British School at Athens: data processing is divided by region and reflects the traditions, history and research foci of the two schools. Texts are thus either in English or in French, but the search engine draws on the entire database regardless of language.
 

Collaborators

The Chronique team of the French School at Athens consists in 2026 of Véronique Chankowski (School Director), Guillaume Biard (Director of Studies in Antiquity and Byzantine Studies), Catherine Bouras (editorial secretary), and Louis Mulot (Developments). Entries on Cyprus are written by Sabine Fourrier (CNRS). The drafting of entries is regularly entrusted to scientific members of the School. For the British School at Athens, the team consists of Rebecca Sweetman (School Director), Georgios Mouratidis (Assistant Director), and Kostis Christakis (Knossos Curator).

Past collaborators : Laurianne Sève, Amélie Perrier, Julien Fournier, Arthur Muller, Directors of Studies in Antiquity and Byzantine Studies, Alexandre Farnoux, Dominique Mulliez (Directors) , Catherine Aubert, Publications assistant, Catherine Morgan, John Bennet, Directors, Robert Pitt, Chryssanthi Papdopoulou, Michaeol Loy, assistant directors. 

General Information

The inclusion of material in Archaeology in Greece Online does not constitute its formal publication.
The EfA and the BSA cannot supply copies of illustrations here reproduced to which they do not hold copyright.
 

Website

This website has been entirely redeveloped during the year 2018 at the EfA by Louis Mulot (Software engineer) and G. Bejjaji (trainee in the IT department).

The site has been tested with different browsers (for computers, phones and tablets) in their most recent versions, supporting actual HTML standards. It is strongly recommended that you update your browser to avoid problems with display, animation, content management, and security. 
Refer to the official site of your web browser for more information.

 

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Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies

Valeria Vitale (Editor), Gabriel Bodard (Editor) 
Book cover for Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies 

This volume presents case studies in classical and Byzantine research that exemplify practices, structures and standards in open data which transform and subvert historical scholarship. It leverages new data publication methods and embeds them as part of its argument, exploring the potential of non-linear discourse, multimedia content and data visualisation. Individual chapters illustrate how open scholarship enables a shift from authority-based interpretative frameworks to transparent, collaborative approaches, and combining datasets allows for analysis and comparisons at unprecedented scales, empowers researchers and elicits creative and original responses to old and new research questions.

Collaborative practices and data models lead historians to reflect rigorously and openly on assumptions, definitions and biases, encouraging more diverse approaches to interpretation of ancient sources. The different perspectives, methodologies, disciplines and research questions showcased in this book highlight the role of open data and code in the pursuit of historical research questions and the creation of new knowledge. It demonstrates that methods like linked open data, open licensing, documentation of standards and the publication of code influence the development of open data, tools and workflows, and are in turn nourished by a rich, sustainable classical open data ecosystem.

Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies 

 

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Copyright: © Authors 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63674/shcx2882

Number of pages: 268

Number of illustrations: 24

Publication date: 8 October 2026

  • Introduction
    Valeria Vitale and Gabriel Bodard

  • 1 Historical authority and the prosopography of the Byzantine world: from factoids to assertions
    Tara Andrews

  • 2 Connecting late antiquities: challenges and opportunities for prosopographical data
    Charlotte Tupman & Richard Flower

  • 3 Venetian officals in sixteenth-century Cyprus: An online database and a pilgrimage account
    Tassos Papacostas

  • 4 Connections through collections: linking archaeological and epigraphic archives through places and people
    Alessandra Giovenco & Nurdan Atalan Çayırezmez

  • 5 Engraving the soil: the challenges of defining spatial footprints in Cypriot cultural heritage
    Stuart Dunn

  • 6 You can’t step into the same dataset twice: iterative improvement through reuse of open Libyan place data
    Valeria Vitale

  • 7 The makeup of Ajax: reconstructing networks of interpretation through the commentary tradition
    Charles Pletcher & Matteo Romanello

  • 8 Traces of lost libraries in the works of Alexandrian and Byzantine scholars: bibliographic open data from antiquity to Wikimedia
    Monica Berti

  • 9 Digital epigraphy at Dura-Europos: toward a FAIR-er inscriptional corpus
    Anne Hunnell Chen, Carl R. Rice, Ilaria Bucci & Jennifer A. Baird

  • 10 Reception of Sapphic language in Hadrianic verse epigraphy: building on open philological data
    Marja Vierros & Gabriel Bodard

  • 11 The next decade of Byzantine sigillography: the impact of open data as collaboration
    Martina Filosa, Jonathan Shea & Alessio Sopracasa

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    Monday, October 12, 2026

    How to Build Belief with Blocks: The Religious Affordance of Greco-Roman Funerary Inscriptions

    Kron, Colleen

    Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin

    This dissertation investigates how ancient Roman people came to believe that stories are true. It focuses on Roman funerary inscriptions in Greek and Latin that make extraordinary eschatological claims about ordinary people. It uses the idea of religious affordances to build an ecological model for understanding funerary inscriptions in context. It adapts the environmental model of visual perception for understanding inscribed epitaphs as a network of three interdependent spheres: the locational, temporal, acculturative, and linguistic affordances of the medium, the material affordances of the substance, and the visual and verbal affordances of the inscribed surface. It takes the ‘Cave of the Vipers,' a late 1st or early 2nd century CE tomb for a Roman woman named Atilia Pomptilla (CIL X 7563–7578), as an extended case study to develop and demonstrate the efficacy of this ecological model. Above all, this dissertation argues for the relevance of belief as a valid analytical concept in the broader study of Greco-Roman religion.
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    Committee: Fritz Graf (Advisor); K.A. Rask (Committee Member); Gaia Gianni (Committee Member) 
     
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    The Talmud Yerushalmi’s Civil Law in Its Ancient Legal Context: Rabbinic Law – Roman Law – Hellenistic Law

    Hezser, Catherine / Willems, Constantin
     

    Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures

     The Talmud Yerushalmi’s Civil Law in Its Ancient Legal Context provides a historical and comparative examination of legal issues that were shared by both rabbis and jurists during the Roman-Byzantine period. The topics covered concern slaves and manumission, women and property, house building and ownership rights, the treatment of laborers, liability for wild animals, and the broader issue of surveillance and accountability of citizens in the Roman world.
    The chapters are written by historians of Roman law as well as scholars of rabbinic literature and ancient Judaism. They reveal the shared interest of rabbis and jurists in specific legal issues, their attention to the same details, similarities in legal solutions, and interesting differences that point to social, cultural, and religious concerns. The interdisciplinary volume exemplifies how the inclusion of rabbinic legal traditions in the study of ancient legal systems enables a better understanding not only of Jewish law but also of Roman legal culture and social practice in late antiquity.

    pages/dimensions: VIII, 178 pages
    language: English
    binding: Book (Paperback)
    dimensions: 17.00 × 24.00 cm
    weight: 307g
    publishing date: 14.10.2026
    prices: 49,00 Eur[D] / 50,40 Eur[A]
    ISBN: 978-3-447-12607-6
    DOI: 10.13173/9783447126076

     

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    Open Access Journal: Raydān: journal of ancient Yemeni antiquities and epigraphy

    [First Posted in AWOL 17 July 2013, updated (new URLs)12 October 2026] 
     
    Print ISSN: 1015-4523
    Online ISSN: 3136-9367
    Journal title: Raydān: Journal of Ancient Yemeni Antiquities and Epigraphy
    Publisher: General Organization of Antiquities and Museums (GOAM), Yemen
    Print ISSN: 1015-4523
    Online ISSN: 3136-9367
     Current official website: https://raydan.goam.gov.ye/index.php/raydan  
    Publication frequency: Quarterly

    Access: Open access, with articles freely available online.

    RAYDÂN

    Revue des antiquités et de l’épigraphie du Yémen antique
    Journal of Ancient Yemeni Antiquities and Epigraphy

    Current Issue

    No. 22 (2026): نقوش قتبانية وسبئية
    View No. 22 (2026): نقوش قتبانية وسبئية
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    2026-09-10
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    The Israelite Samaritan Torah

    The Israelite Samaritan Torah
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    The Israelite Samaritan Torah
    About this app
    The Five Books of Moses as they have been kept by the Samaritan community, on Mount Gerizim and in Holon, for thousands of years. Read the Samaritan Pentateuch in the ancient Samaritan script or in Hebrew letters, divided into the Samaritan sections and chapters alongside the Jewish division.

    What's inside
    • Verse commentary from the Samaritan sources themselves: Tībåt Mårqe (Memar Marqe), the Book of Asatir, Sīr al-Qulūb, Abu'l-Faraj's commentary, responsa and traditional essays
    • Compare versions with the Masoretic Text, the Septuagint, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Targum Onkelos, plus textual variants from a critical edition
    • Translations: the Samaritan Aramaic Targum, Arabic and English
    • Word dictionary: Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic for every word, the HaMeliṣ lexicon, and a searchable index of words and roots
    • Pronunciation: a phonetic transcription of the Samaritan reading tradition, with read-aloud
    • Recordings: Samaritan readers' recitation traditions, with continuous play and repeat
    • The Samaritan library: liturgical poems with a rhyme finder, a dictionary, notable people and scholars, and a historical timeline
    • The Samaritan calendar: today's date, the weekly portion and the month's festivals
    • Search, bookmarks, printing, and three interface languages (Hebrew · English · Arabic)

    Who it's for
    Learners, Bible scholars and students of Semitic languages, and anyone interested in the Samaritans and their tradition.

    The app is free, has no ads and needs no sign-up. It is a volunteer project of Avnei Shoham, made to open the Samaritan library to everyone who seeks it.

     

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    Sunday, October 11, 2026

    Aytas Mevkii/Islamlar in the Elmali Basin, Turkey: A Multi-Period Sepulchral Site in Northern Lycia

    Lockwood, Sean

    PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2011, Arts and Sciences: Classics

    This dissertation is the first systematic description and analysis of the sepulchral and commemorative monuments at Aytas Mevkii, an ancient cemetery set in the hills just north of modern Islamlar in the Elmali basin. This is a liminal location, surrounded by the better-known and more politically powerful territories of Lycia, Pisidia, and the Cibyratis. The sepulchral remains at Aytas Mevkii exhibit local characteristics unique to the region, although influence from most of its neighbors is easily detectable. I engage in a detailed examination of the iconography, style, construction methods, and chronology of the funerary monuments at Aytas Mevkii. Through this analysis I locate them within the wider cultural and political contexts of southern Anatolia. Despite the liminal location of the Elmali basin and subsequent paucity of references to the area in ancient literature, I argue, through a close reading of these sources in conjunction with epigraphic evidence, that the region was part of an area known in antiquity as the Milyas. With this geographical context in mind, I describe, date, and analyze the monuments at Aytas Mevkii, including rock-cut tombs, sculpture, sarcophagi and chamosoria, and architecture. Having established a chronology for the physical remains, I then present the first reconstruction of the political history of the Elmali basin, creating a local context within which the monuments at Aytas Mevkii are placed. I propose that these monuments were created by a local Milyan population, one that is difficult to define by applying modern ethnic theory to the available evidence, due mostly to the lack of a first-person voice in ancient literary accounts and clear self-identification in inscriptions. Despite this, my analysis of the evidence shows that the local population was able to adopt cultural characteristics such as tomb forms and iconography from surrounding peoples, to adapt them to their own particular requirements and tastes, and to add thei (open full item for complete abstract)


     
     
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    The 'Telemachus' Complex': Becoming Good Heirs on the Tragic Stage

    The 'Telemachus' Complex': Becoming Good Heirs on the Tragic Stage
    Cozzi, Cecilia

    PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2023, Arts and Sciences: Classics

    “The Telemachus Complex: Becoming Good Heirs on the Tragic Stage” applies to Greek tragedies psychoanalytic theory (the “Telemachus Complex” codified by Massimo Recalcati in response to Freud's own Oedipal Complex). This framework explains inheritance as an “act of reclamation”: sons need to exercise an active role in negotiating the symbolic debt connecting them to their fathers. Their “movement forward” to reclaim their position stems primarily from an individual choice, which should neither dismiss or recreate the memory of father's deeds. In the first chapter, I explore how Aeschylus shows the dangers of a firm rejection of the father's example of political authority, as Xerxes demonstrates it in the aftermath of the battle of Salamis throughout the Persians. Next, I concentrate on Aeschylus' Oresteia and argue that Orestes conceives of inheritance primarily as the need to claim his father's wealth and position of power in Argos, following closely in Agamemnon's footsteps, while the gods (Apollo, Athena) are reinforcing the leading role fathers exercise in their sons' lives, In the second chapter, I investigate how Sophocles offers a different representation of this issue by looking at the ethical implications of a father's example. I focus first on his earlier plays, where fathers impose on their offspring unquestioning obedience (Antigone) and the faithful imitation of their beliefs (Ajax, Trachiniae). These offspring (Ajax, Haemon and Hyllus) cannot deviate from their father's norms, but they should rather conform to them. Sophocles progressively concentrates on the sons' ability to go beyond the complete rejection and the passive duplication of fatherly examples. In the Electra and Philoctetes, Orestes and Neoptolemus offer the best embodiment of a successful heir mastering the “Telemachus Complex”: both these characters act upon their legacy, without being too attached to or too dismissive of their fathers' deeds. The third chapter shows how fili (open full item for complete abstract)


     

     

     

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    Open Access Journal: Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter

     [First posted in AWOL 14 July 2009, updated 11 October 2026]

    Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter
    ISSN: 2055-7604
     
    The A+M Group Newsletter was started independently by Janet Ridout-Sharpe following a talk she gave to fellow members of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland at the Natural History Museum in London in 2000, which described her work on archaeological shell assemblages undertaken, albeit on a very part-time basis, since the late 1970s. Having worked in virtual isolation, it was a revelation to discover that others had similar interests, and a brief note in The Conchologists Newsletter in September 2000 elicited responses from more than 30 people. Intended to encourage communication between archaeomalacologists, the first issue of the newsletter appeared in July 2001, originally under the title Malaco+Archaeology Group Newsletter, which was changed to its present title in January 2003 to reflect that of the newly-established ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group. The newsletter was initially published privately and sent to recipients individually by email. As interest in the subject grew, and because the newsletter and the ICAZ group were aimed at the same audience, the ICAZ
    Archaeomalacology Working Group agreed to host the newsletter on its website from issue 5 in March 2004. Newsletter issues have appeared at roughly six-monthly intervals and include short articles, research notes, abstracts of publications, notices of meetings, requests for information, and anything else of potential interest to archaeomalacologists. Janet went on to edit 22 issues until January 2013 when she handed over the reins to Annalisa Christie. Cindy Nelson-Viljoen took over the role of newsletter editor in September 2016.

  • Issue 41, December 2025
  • Issue 40, December 2024
  • Issue 39, November 2023
  • Issue 38, November 2022
  • Issue 37, February 2022
  • Issue 36, September 2021
  • Issue 35, February 2021
  • Issue 34, August 2020
  • Issue 33, February 2020
  • Issue 32, August 2019
  • Issue 31, February 2019
  • Issue 30, August 2018
  • Issue 29, February 2018
  • Issue 28, August 2017
  • Issue 27, February 2017
  • Issue 26, August 2016
  • Issue 25, April 2015
  • Issue 24, April 2014
  • Issue 23, October 2013
  • Issue 22, January 2013
  • Issue 21, June 2012
  • Issue 20, December 2011
  • Issue 19, Summer 2011
  • Issue 18, December 2010
  • Issue 17, June 2010
  • Issue 16, December 2009
  • Issue 15, June 2009
  • Issue 14, December 2008
  • Issue 13, June 2008
  • Issue 12, December 2007
  • Issue 11, May 2007
  • Issue 10, December 2006
  • Issue 9, March 2006
  • Issue 8, September 2004
  • Issue 7, March 2005
  • Issue 6, September 2004
  • Issue 5, March 2004
  • Issue 4, August 2003
  • Issue 3, January 2003
  • Issue 2, April 2002
  • Issue 1, July 2001
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    Open Access Monograph Series: Akh Purattim - Les rives de l’Euphrate

    Akh Purattim - Les rives de l’Euphrate
    ISSN (Édition imprimée): 2102-5363
    Recherches historiques, archéologiques, épigraphiques ou archéométriques sur la région du moyen Euphrate, effectuées en particulier dans le cadre des missions françaises de Mari et Terqa.
    En collaboration avec le Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international.
    • Akh Purattim 3

      AKH PURATTIM 3

      Jean-Claude Margueron, Olivier Rouault, Pascal Butterlin et al. (dir.)
      2015
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    • Akh Purattim 2

      AKH PURATTIM 2

      Jean-Claude Margueron, Olivier Rouault et Pierre Lombard (dir.)
      2007
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    • Akh Purattim 1

      AKH PURATTIM 1

      Jean-Claude Margueron, Olivier Rouault et Pierre Lombard (dir.)
      2007
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    See AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies

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    Saturday, October 10, 2026

    Kalapodi. Catalogue of Early Iron Age fine ware fabrics

    The present catalogue provides an overview of macroscopic fabric groups that have been identified within the assemblage of Early Iron Age fine wares from excavations at the sanctuary of Kalapodi. It comprises a total of 45 fabric-typological groups and sub-groups distinguished by macroscopic properties and is illustrated by photographs of fresh breaks (macroscopic and microscopic) of 321 reference pieces. In its current form, the catalogue is intended to serve as a reference for basic visual fabric comparison and is aimed at anyone who is involved in the archaeological processing and study of Greek Early Iron Age pottery. Scientific data will supplement the catalogue in the second phase of the research programme. The dataset was compiled as part of the DFG-project no. 508182668.

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    Alexandra Ch. J. von Miller (0000-0001-7317-9484) [03a1kwz48] (2026). Kalapodi. Catalogue of Early Iron Age fine ware fabrics [Data set]. DAI. https://doi.org/10.34780/wsps2qgm
    Retrieved: 18:08 10 Oct 2026 (UTC)

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    "iDAI.field explained"

    The project "Strengthening the Digital Humanities in Ancient Studies" funded by Einstein Stiftung Berlin (https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/) gave the possibility to create Tutorials the software iDAI.field (https://field.idai.world/). To actively participate in these tutorials you can download imaginary training data and create your own project. The Data of the first 6 Tutorials can be downloaded here. Each data set has the name of the tutorial from the tutorials website (https://www.dainst.org/fieldexplained).

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    Fabian Gapp (0009-0002-5832-8706) (2026). "iDAI.field explained" [Data set]. DAI. https://doi.org/10.34780/2pfes3yx
    Retrieved: 18:06 10 Oct 2026 (UTC)

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    Newly Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the Asia Institute

    ISSN: 0890–4464  

    Spearheaded by Carol Altman Bromberg since the 1980s and serving as a foundational journal for Iranian, Near Eastern, and Central Asian studies for almost one hundred years, the Bulletin of the Asia Institute represents a scholarly tradition and standard of unparalleled quality.

    The Yarshater Center is honored to be bequeathed the mantle of publication of such a prestigious journal. We are grateful to Editor Emerita Bromberg for entrusting the journal to the Yarshater Center and its Director, M. Rahim Shayegan, who is serving as the Bulletin’s next editor.

    The Yarshater Center is committed to the dissemination of all research gratis. As such, the Bulletin shall be published simultaneously in high-quality print format and free Open Access, available to download here. Volumes 1–32 shall be populated here shortly.

    Volume 32

     

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    Designating the King in the Womb of His Mother: From Assyrian through Sasanian Times (pp. 3–15)

    Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck), Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel)

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    Rethinking the Achaemenid World Order: Space, Religion, and Communicative Strategies (pp. 17–47)

    M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

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    On the Early History of the Image of Mithra in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (pp. 49–65)

    Fabrizio Sinisi (Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW))

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    The Triumph of Dionysus and Heracles on a Gold Tray from Datong (Pingcheng, Capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, 398–494 CE) (pp. 67–103)

    Anca Dan (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)), Frantz Grenet (Collège de France)

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    The “Ḵosrow Cup”: Looking Anew into the Persian Grail (pp. 105–132)

    Samra Azarnouche (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

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    Two Newly Identified Šahname Stories in Panjakent Paintings (pp. 133–141)

    Frantz Grenet (Collège de France)

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    Open Access Journal: Minerva: Revista de filología clásica

    [First posted in AWOL 20 January 2013, updated 10 October 2026]

    Minerva: Revista de filología clásica
    ISSN: 0213-9634
    http://dialnet.unirioja.es/recursos/imagen?entidad=REVISTA&tipo_contenido=93&revista=945
    Acoge en sus páginas colaboraciones que versan acerca de los ámbitos hoy en día admitidos bajo el concepto de Filología Clásica, con especial atención a los comprendidos en las denominaciones de Filología Griega y Filología Latina en su contenido más amplio, tanto en lo que se refiere a su contenido como a los periodos cronológicos correspondientes

     

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.24197/mrfc.37.2024
    Publicado: 18/12/2024

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