The website currently presents a catalogue of 28 documents, including historical manuscripts and editions, alongside three indexed editions by Diego Kurilo. It offers searchable passages in Latin and translations, locus-based navigation, and links to digitized historical witnesses with their institutional attribution.
Vinogradov, Ju. A. et V. A. Goroncharovskij, éd. (2026) : М.
В. Фармаковский (1873–1946). Антиковед у истоков отечественной
археологической технологии : Материалы научной конференции, посвящённой
150-летию со дня рождения Мстислава Владимировича Фармаковского / M. V.
Farmakovskij (1873–1946). Antikoved u istokov otechestvennoj
arheologicheskoj tehnologii : Materialy nauchnoj konferencii,
posvjashhjonnoj 150-letiju so dnja rozhdenija Mstislava Vladimirovicha
Farmakovskogo, Saint-Pétersbourg, [M. V. Farmakovskij
(1873–1946). Spécialiste de l’Antiquité, pionnier de la technologie
archéologique en Russie : Actes de la conférence scientifique consacrée
au 150e anniversaire de la naissance de Mstislav Vladimirovitch
Farmakovskij]
Cet ouvrage rend hommage à M.V.
Farmakovskij qui est le frère du grand archéologue B.V. Farmakovskij. Il
est connu comme peintre, mais il a aussi été actif dans le domaine de
l’archéologie, aidant M. I. Rostovtzeff pour son ouvrage sur les
peintures du Bosphore et s’intéressant à la céramique peinte, aux vases
en verre et au textile.
L’ouvrage compte deux parties. La première
rassemblant quatre articles porte sur la vie, mettant en valeur
davantage son caractère artistique, alors que la seconde partie
rassemble neuf contributions archéologiques, notamment sur les thèmes
qui ont intéressé M.V. Farmakovskij : céramique, verre, peinture. On
notera une étude sur la présence des ossements de lion dans les villes
du nord de la mer Noire aux VIe et Ve s. av. J.-C.
Vulnerability is not often associated with virtue. Yet to be vulnerable
is central to human experience. In this book, McCoy examines ways in
which Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy have important insights to
offer about the nature of human vulnerability and how human beings might
better come to terms with their own vulnerability. While studies of
Greek heroism and virtue often focus on strength of character, prowess
in war, or the achievement of honour for oneself or one’s society, McCoy
examines another side to Greek thought that extols the recognition and
proper acceptance of vulnerability. McCoy begins with the literary works
of Homer’s Iliad, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes before expanding her analysis to philosophical works. There, she analyzes imagery of wounding in Plato’s Gorgias and Symposium
as well as Aristotle’s work on the vulnerability inherent in friendship
and an innovative interpretation of tragic catharsis in the Poetics.
As much a work of philosophy as of classical textual analysis, McCoy’s
work aims at a deeper understanding of the virtues of vulnerability for
individuals and societies alike.
Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days like Ovid’s Fasti.
This book explores the role of festivals in elegiac, lyric, and epic
poetry, as well as historiography. In all of these, festivals play a
more pervasive role than has so far been realized. Tibullus’ elegiac
oeuvre rests on an interplay between amatory and festive poetics, and
Propertius uses festivals in his fourth book of elegies to question,
from an amatory perspective, the memory associated with Roman festivals.
In the poetry of Sulpicia and Ovid’s Tristia, festivals allow voices that are otherwise marginalized to shape their own commemoration. Horace’s Odes and the Carmen saeculare
rest on an intriguing interplay of festivity in the private sphere,
which forms but a fleeting moment, and the monumentality of public
festivals. Post-Vergilian Latin epicists use festivals to explore the
fragility of human identity in a world dominated by the gods, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and to question the commemoration connected with festive days, undermining the foundational importance of festivals in the Aeneid. In Livy’s ab urbe condita and Tacitus’ Histories,
festivals both provide structure and capture long-term developments in
Roman history, while situating both works in broader historiographical
and intertextual dialogues. The book sheds new light on these works,
uncovering their unique ‘festive poetics’. It demonstrates that Latin
literature adds important new aspects to our understanding of festivals,
which offer even richer avenues of creating meaning and shaping or
questioning commemoration than is often assumed.
The founding, or re-founding, of cities was a powerful engine of local
change in the empire(s) created by Alexander the Great and his
Successors. New cities, such as Antioch and Alexandria, epitomized the
new world that later came to be defined as “Hellenistic.” In this study,
François Gerardin examines the subsequent development of this
phenomenon by marshaling the evidence for a “new wave” of city
foundation in the second century BCE. Approaching this corpus from the
perspective of state formation, rather than cultural hybridization, he
points out the resilience, if not the resistance, of Hellenistic
monarchies—namely, the Attalids, Ptolemies, and Seleucids—at a time when
Rome and Arsacid Parthia were on the rise. More specifically, he
identifies a shift in power relations between state and subject, monarch
and city, in which local adaptations of the polis—i.e., the
self-governing citizen community commonly associated with Greece—played a
central part. The same process, he argues, characterized each part of
the Hellenistic world in a different way, for reasons ranging from
ethnicity and dynastic identity to institutional legacies and
geographical constraints. In this reevaluation of the later Hellenistic
period as an age of ongoing vitality, the example of Euergetis, a new
polis in Egypt, occupies center stage. Documented in a fragmentary
archive of ancient papyri, it is examined here for the first time in all
its facets.
This book provides a new history of ideas concerning freedom and justice
by comparing undervalued sources from ancient Near Eastern cultures
with well-known ancient Greek sources, from early civilizations to
pre-Hellenistic times. The book has two main theses. First, freedom is a
value outside the Western world. Autonomous legal responsibility,
self-mastery and free choice, inwardness, and originality are all ideas
found before classical antiquity. Furthermore, in some ancient Near
Eastern cultures, including ancient Israel, one finds early democratic
institutions and democratic rules of procedure, including the law of
impartiality. Second, freedom and justice did not come into deep
conflict with each other. Instead, they married, from very early on, and
their marriage kept developing over time, especially in the form of
liberation and equity. Sporadic individual and collective debt releases,
the exodus myth, the laws about the regular release of debt slaves,
Solon’s reform, and the establishment of the law of impartiality connect
the ideas of freedom and justice from early times onwards. Liberation,
as an eminent idea in cultural memory, drives equity to unfold as
situational justice and subsistence ethics for the needy. In this book,
we find the beginning of the idea of prioritarianism that weds freedom
with justice and grants priority to the worst off.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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