Shul’c, P.N. (1953) : Мавзолей Неаполя Скифского / Mavzolej Neapolja Skifskogo, Moscou [Le mausolée de Néapolis de Scythie].
Ce mausolée construit sous forme de tour
abrite 72 tombes des élites locales de la ville de Néapolis de Scythie,
capitale du royaume scythe des IIe-Ier s. installés en Crimée.
L’ouvrage publie le résultats des fouilles de cette tour fouillée depuis
1946.
Ouvrage richement illustré en noir et blanc, avec notamment 33 planches.
Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2024, Greek and Latin
This
project uses mythology as a heuristic tool to enrich our understanding
of the ancient female body and its processes. Alongside the important
and necessary implications afforded by Greco-Roman myth, each of my
chapters works through the prominent tripartite biological statuses of
the ancient woman that appear in the surviving Greco-Roman gynecological
documents—post-natal care, pregnancy/birth, and virginity.
By approaching the material from three separate angles, my dissertation
explores the complex relationship between medicine and mythology. In
each life stage of an ancient woman, I reveal how “irrational” myth and
“rational” Greco-Roman medicine support one another in the reckoning,
mechanisms, and actions of the female body. Each chapter utilizes
Soranus' Gynecology to commence an analysis of each life stage because,
as a document speculated to be a manual for midwifery, it offers a
viable proving ground due to its range of topics from virginity to
raising children.
Committee: Fritz Graf (Advisor); Julia Nelson Hawkins (Committee Member); Sarah Iles Johnston (Committee Member)
Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Greek and Latin
This
dissertation explores myths from cultures of the Aegean and eastern
Mediterranean that depict gods performing sacrifice and gods as the
victims of sacrifice. The author investigates how the motif of divine
sacrifice or ritualized deities is connected to aitiologies of sacrifice
and the typology of dying and rising gods. The author situates the
myths within a historical framework of cultural exchange in the Aegean
and eastern Mediterranean to show how different cultures in contact
adapted and creatively reworked myths about gods involved in sacrifice.
The author begins with a new reading of the Mesopotamian story of
Atrahasis and shows through an analysis of Mesopotamian ritual texts
that the slaughter of the god Ilawela in Atrahasis should be interpreted
as the first sacrifice, which results in the creation of humans who
then provide offerings to the gods. The author then uses the Hebrew
Bible as a case study to show how the theme of sacrifice and
anthropogeny was adapted by a neighboring culture. Then, with a close
reading of Hesiod's myth of Prometheus and Pandora and the Greek story
of the flood preserved by Pseudo-Apollodoros, the author argues that
Greek authors borrowed the Mesopotamian motif of sacrifice and
anthropogeny and adapted it to fit Greek theology. Next, in an
investigation of the fragmentary Phoenician myth of Melqart, the author
offers a new reading of the myth about the attempted sacrifice of
Herakles recorded by Herodotos and argues that the historian preserves a
Greek adaptation of the myth of the sacrifice of Melqart, who was
syncretized with Herakles by the fifth-century BCE. The author then
reads the Phoenician myth of the sacrifice of the infant god Ieoud,
preserved by the Roman period author Philo of Byblos, as an adaptation
of the pattern of a dying and rising god known from the Ugaritic myth of
Baal, the historical antecedent of Melqart. Accordingly, the author
shows how Philo's myth of Ieoud provides crucial information for reconst
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Committee: Carolina López-Ruiz (Advisor); Fritz Graf (Committee Member); Sam Meier (Committee Member)
Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Greek and Latin
My
dissertation investigates how Syriac-speakers conceptualized their
communal subjectivities within a Roman imperial context. I argue that
Syriac literature from the Roman empire, and especially Syriac
historiography and Syriac liturgical texts, provided Syriac-speakers
with the discursive tools with which they could interpret recent history
and formulate conceptions of the self within a Roman context. I argue
that Syriac identity prior to the formation of the Syriac Orthodox
Church was articulated through a dialectic with contemporary Roman
imaginaries of ethnicity and citizenship. In doing so, I problematize
scholarship that supposes `Syriacness' and `Romanness' were antithetical
in the late Roman period. Instead, I contend that Syriac-speaking
communities adopted, manipulated, and redefined discourses of Romanness
in order to create their own Syriac-speaking Roman subjectivities.
Committee: Anthony Kaldellis (Advisor); David Brakke (Committee Member); Fritz Graf (Committee Member)
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Objective The Journal of Ancient History
aims to provide a forum for scholarship covering all aspects of ancient
history and culture from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity (roughly
the ninth century BCE through the eighth century CE). The journal
publishes peer-reviewed articles concerning the history and
historiography (ancient and modern) of the ancient Mediterranean world
and of neighboring civilizations in their relations with it. The journal
is open to submissions in discipline s closely related to ancient
history, including epigraphy, numismatics, religion and law. The journal
does not currently publish book reviews.
Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2021, Greek and Latin
My
dissertation investigates how questions of ethnicity affected social
mobility in the military and political context of the late Roman empire.
In particular, I focus on individuals of the fourth and fifth centuries
whose ethnic profiles can be defined as non-Roman, and I illustrate how
their ethnic `otherness' could be considered as a liability for
advancement in the Roman state. Through the analysis of selected case
studies, I show that invisible barriers to recognition and promotion
were in place in the late Roman world for individuals with a non-Roman
pedigree. The careers of Alaric, Gainas, Stilicho, Aspar, Arbogast,
Ricimer, Magnentius, and Zeno testify to the existence of these
barriers, which I call the `Porphyry Ceiling' after the modern notion of
the Glass Ceiling.
Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2023, History
This
dissertation examines early Christian literary hierarchies and
categories, beginning in the pre-Christian context of the Hellenistic
world and ending in the early Middle Ages. While scholars have long
studied the formation of the biblical canon and the development of
ancillary classes of text, such as the so-called “apocrypha,” many
accounts of this history struggle to evince how these intellectual and
institutional categories changed over time, which tends to obscure early
Christian intellectual nuance and circumspection. This project improves
our understanding by rooting early Christian evaluation of sacred (or
potentially sacred) literature in the literary criticism of the
classical world. It finds that, over the course of centuries, early
Christianity generally moved away from the question of textual
authenticity to the question of theological authority. In many cases,
this movement corresponded to the maturation of the institutional
episcopacy, particularly in the post-Constantinian era. Consequently,
while Hellenistic literary criticism had once provided the chief
template for Christians to evaluate books, hierarchies of text became
increasingly institutionalized and supposed to have been settled by
earlier authorities. By the sixth century, some Christian commentators
forgot the meaning of the older categories altogether.
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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