Bucovală, M. (1967) : Necropole elenistice la Tomis, Constanta [Les nécropoles hellénistiques de Tomis].
Ce petit ouvrage, après une brève
introduction sur les rites identifiés dans la nécropole de Tomis,
présente le mobilier funéraire de 75 tombes. Chaque tombe est datées et
illustrée par une photographie rassemblant les artefacts, qui sont
brièvement décrit. À la fin une dernière partie présente une synthèse
par catégorie d’artefact sur le matériel découvert.
Ce livre est utile en l’absence d’autres
ouvrages, mais est clairement insuffisant comparativement à la richesse
du matériel et aux données limitées disponibles sur la Tomis
hellénistique.
The Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents was founded to archive,
catalogue, and digitize epigraphic materials — placing them online so
that scholars everywhere have direct access to these primary documents.
Recent years have seen a significant
increase in migration and displacement. Due to economic, political, and
climatic pressures, large numbers of individuals are leaving their
countries of origin and settling in new environments and societies. As a
result, national identity has increasingly come to the fore in public
discourse. Shaping and reshaping national agendas, debates surrounding
national identity are affecting policies and influencing voting
behaviours. Discourse on this issue is often centred on the idea of
autochthony and nativism. Yet we do not encounter such anxieties in
ancient Rome, one of the longest-lasting political orders in history.
Unlike among the Greeks, the idea of autochthony did not take root among
the Romans. Instead, Rome’s identity tended to be fluid, accommodating
the development of highly variegated and multi-ethnic groups and
societies.
The purpose of this volume is to understand how the Romans
represented themselves and how others defined and regarded them. It aims
to identify the various narratives that contributed to the construction
of Roman self-representation by raising the following questions: What
stories did Romans tell about themselves? How did they enact and perform
their selfhood in biographic and autobiographical sources? How did
Greek and Judean sources understand and define Roman identity? And,
taken together, how did these narratives influence Roman
self-perception?
Rather than arguing for a monolithic or coherent understanding of Romanitas,
this volume explores a variety of performances and manifestations of
Roman identity. It focuses both on sources where the self or individual
is the primary focus, alongside more general texts dealing with specific
elements of Roman identity.
From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater
sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have
long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that
forms modern-day Poland. This volume for the first time aims to draw
together research into these finds, gathered throughout the author’s
career, in a synthetic approach that sees discoveries of swords and
other armaments analysed against a broad, comparative background. The
work begins with a focus on votive deposits from lakes, here used as a
lens for addressing questions about military strategy and war ritual
more generally, before moving on to explore the weapons and warriors of
the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures, as well as shedding light on the
lives of the Balts. Finally, an in-depth analysis is made of shields
from the protohistoric period, exploring the genesis and variability of
the forms taken by this protective weapon. Through this approach, this
richly illustrated volume sheds new light not only on the typology and
chronology of weaponry from the Roman and Migration Periods, but also on
the symbolism and functionality that these arms held.
Incubation (temple sleep) was a well-known
ritual in the Near East and became increasingly popular in Classical and
Hellenistic Greece, becoming attached to Asclepius and other
divinities. It flourished in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was
encountered by the emergent Christianity. Temple sleep was so widespread
that it was impossible to ban. The Christianization of the incubation
ritual was thus a detailed and lengthy (but successful) process that
encompassed several aspects of the Church’s self-definition, including
important social and theological issues of the era. The list of relevant
issues is extensive: the fate of Greek temples and the reinterpretation
of sacred space, confronting Hippocratic medicine, and the learned
Greek intelligentsia. Since disease and a search for cure is a
ubiquitous human need, the early Church embraced a healing ministry, in
secular terms as well as in ritual healing. Incubation records show how
the Church viewed dreams, conversion, or the notions of magic and
divination. All these come within the framework of writing miracles: the
transformation of the cult was thus incorporated into standard Church
discourse, from ritual practice to proper literary genres.
This first comprehensive monograph on Christian incubation examines
the rich material of all the relevant Greek miracle collections: those
of Saint Thecla, Cyrus and John, the different versions of Saint Cosmas
and Damian and saint Artemios, as well as the minor incubation saints,
As a result, it unfolds the transformation of healing sites and
practices related to dreams as they spread across Byzantium, from rural
Asia Minor to Constantinople and Alexandria.
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always
formed, re-formed, and transformed themselves in conversation. That is,
these religions have come to exist in all their varieties by
interacting with, thinking about, and imagining each other. In this
sense they are co-produced, linked by a dynamic and ongoing
inter-dependence. The fifteen essays collected in this volume explore
moments of such religious coproduction from the second to the
twenty-first century, from early pilgrimage sites to social media. The
case studies range across textual and material cultures, showing how a
variety of artefacts, coins, rituals, communities, narratives,
theological doctrines, and scholarly concepts, were all co-produced
across the three religious traditions. In so doing they present a
panorama of possibilities from the past, as well as a taxonomy that can
help us think about the future of religious co-production. An
introductory essay describes the advantages of approaching the past,
present, and future of these religions through the lens of
co-production, and reflects on crucial methodological issues related to
the understanding of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as co-produced
religions.
This volume pays tribute to the exceptional
career of Luc Deitz, shaped by intellectual depth and an insatiable
curiosity. Inspired by Scaliger’s maxim “Utinam essem bonus grammaticus
…”, Luc Deitz devoted his life to exploring the texts, ideas, and
traditions that have shaped our culture. The contributions assembled
here reflect the remarkable breadth of his interests. The section
on Classical Scholarship from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
examines his work on Scaliger and Neo-Latin literature. The chapter
Manuscripts and Libraries highlights his dedication to preserving and
promoting Luxembourg’s manuscript heritage, while the section on Luxemburgensia explores the intellectual history of a region that has always been close to his heart.
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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