Das Bild der Schrift in der griechischen Plastik: Materialität und Intermedialität schrifttragender statuarischer Monumente von archaischer bis hellenistischer Zeit

Das Bild der Schrift in der griechischen Plastik: Materialität und Intermedialität schrifttragender statuarischer Monumente von archaischer bis hellenistischer Zeit

Johannes Fouquet 

 

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Volume 27 | Image & Context

Inscriptions are a fixed component of statuary monuments in Greek sculpture. Unlike their textual content, their materiality and aesthetics were long overlooked in classical studies. This study is thus the first to examine questions relating to the design of statuary inscriptions and the associated social practices between the Archaic and Hellenistic periods.

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August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112212202

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112205518

Front matter:

12

Main content:

580

Illustrations:

158

Coloured Illustrations:

14

 

 

 

 

Imperium und Oikumene: Universale Horizonte und partikulare Kontexte in der hellenistisch-römischen Welt

Imperium und Oikumene: Universale Horizonte und partikulare Kontexte in der hellenistisch-römischen Welt

Charlotte Köckert 

 

Volume 120 | Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 

In the Hellenistic-Roman world, communication exists within the tension between specific contexts and broader perspectives. Living environments are local in scale yet related to universal horizons. This creates problems for theoretical and empirical sciences, as well as for 'world empires' and 'world religions'. The contributions in this volume examine these issues from the perspective of various disciplines within classical studies 

eBook published on:

August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112249758

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112249741

Front matter:

11

Main content:

452

Tables:

2

 

 

Avian Iconography and Awareness of the Natural Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Avian Iconography and Awareness of the Natural Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Chiori Kitagawa 

 

Ancient Egyptians employed three calendrical systems—civil (365 days), natural (environmental phenomena) and lunar—yet the relationship between administrative time-reckoning and ecological awareness in funerary iconography merits closer examination. Whilst elites employed the civil calendar for administration, subsistence practitioners followed natural seasonal rhythms, such as Nile inundation, animal reproduction and bird migration. This study investigates whether Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom (27th–18th century BCE) funerary decorations depicting avian fauna reflect accurate seasonal temporality or idealised scenes separated from natural cycles.

The research analyses avian iconography in funerary contexts, examining whether portrayed bird species could have seasonally coexisted and comparing these with depicted subsistence activities. It evaluates how tomb owners and artisans conceptualised and incorporated natural temporal patterns into commemorative spaces.

The findings address whether representations adhered to conceptual (aspektivisch) conventions excluding random factors, thereby treating seasonality as incidental rather than intentional. This contributes to understanding the intersection of ecological knowledge, temporal consciousness and artistic convention in funerary contexts from ancient Egypt.

eBook published on:

October 19, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112244937

Paperback published on:

October 19, 2026

Paperback ISBN:

9783112244920

Front matter:

8

Main content:

58

Illustrations:

21

Tables:

1

 

 

American Oriental Society archive

American Oriental Society archive

Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of correspondence, records, ephemera, photographs, realia, maps, and other materials created by, or related to, the American Oriental Society (AOS). Materials span from the Society’s founding in 1842 to 2012 and document the establishment, collecting, and business functions of the AOS. The collection's strength lies in the development of the Near East and Asia as an area of study for 19th and early 20th century American...

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Dates

• 1770-2012
• Majority of material found within 1850-1985

Creator

• American Oriental Society

Language of Materials

Materials are in English, German, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Greek, Dutch, and unidentified languages

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Box 57 (computer files): Restricted fragile material. Original computer files may not be accessed due to their fragility. Researchers must consult access copies instead of the originals. Contact Access Services for more information.

Boxes 51-60, 62, 64-67, 69-70, 73-89, 98-101: In-process material pending conservation treatment and housing. For further information, consult Access Services.

Conditions Governing Use

The American Oriental Society archive is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Conditions Governing Use

The American Oriental Society Archive is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the American Oriental Society, 2024.

Arrangement

Materials are organized into two series: I. Historic records, 1770-1994, and II. Modern records, 1876-2012.

Extent

85.96 Linear Feet (214 boxes)

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.aos

 

Open Access Journal: Circe de Clásicos y Modernos

 [First posted in AWOL 11 November 2009. Updated 22  October 2026]

Circe de Clásicos y Modernos
On-line ISSN 1851-1724 
ISSN-e: 1514-3333

Circe de Clásicos y Modernos is an annual publication by the Instituto de Estudios Clásicos of the Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, director Marta Alesso. The journal aims to publish original works on Philology, Philosophy, History, Literature and Classic Tradition, and for these to be accepted by members of the International Review Committee, who referee blind the works sent by the Editorial Committee. The journal’s geographical reach is international. It also publishes reviews of books by Argentinian and foreign authors and news on scientific events in the journal’s specialization.

Circe clás. mod. vol.30 no.1 Santa Rosa June 2026  Artículos       ·  Género doxográfico y diatriba antiestoica en el tratado pseudofilónico “Sobre la indestructibilidad del mundo (Aet.)” Alesso, Marta         · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )       ·  Epítome de la historia de Alejandro Magno. Introducción, traducción y notas Notes, Epitome of the Deeds of Alexander the Great. Introduction, Translation and         · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )       ·  Representaciones de la composición poética en la comedia de Aristófanes Schere, Jimena         · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )       ·  La reconfiguración elegíaco-epistolar de Safo en la Heroida 15 de Ovidio Reales, Nicolás Pedro Alberto         · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )       ·  Palíngrafos virgilianos en Bomarzo de Manuel Mujica Lainez Constantino, Genaro Valencia         · abstract in English | Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )      Reseñas       ·  Unceta Gómez, Luis y Salcedo González, Cristina (eds.) Clasicismo e identidades contemporáneas. Recepciones clásicas en la cultura de masas. Madrid: Catarata, 2024, 302 págs. ISBN 978-84-1067-061-7 Laborde, por Jeremías         · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

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“And in whom do you most delight?” Poets, Im/mortals, and the Homeric Hymns

“And in whom do you most delight?” Poets, Im/mortals, and the Homeric Hymns

Romano, Carman

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

In the first portion of this project, I analyze the myths of the Homeric Hymns from a divine vantage point, exploring the ways in which their narrators ask the divine to “delight” in their work. Unsurprisingly, deities enjoy hearing of their own superiority, and I argue that the Hymns' mythic scenes of epiphany efficiently crystallize that superiority into narrative form. Because epiphany forces a direct confrontation between god and human, it provides an opportunity for the poet to juxtapose god with mortal, efficiently revealing their insurmountable differences. In particular, by way of the epiphanic scene, the poet, in order that his divine audience might “delight in him the most,” communicates to his titular divinity the total insufficiency of human beings to interact with the divine. I focus, however, on the context in which these epiphanic scenes are deployed, and I ask how that context might affect the entire mythic narrative's appeal, especially to mortal audiences. In the second piece of this project, I delve into the poems' appeal to mortal audiences, and examine how the Hymns' poets use dramatic irony, framing devices, and humor to “delight” the human beings listening to their compositions. I argue that the poets seek to flatter their mortal audiences by providing them with information deliberately withheld from mortal characters. Even further, the Hymns' narrators reveal to their mortal listeners information withheld from divine characters as well. The singer of one of the myths incorporated into Hymn to Apollo, for example, lets his audience know the trick about to be played on Apollo, thus allowing the usually terrifying god to be humiliated—much to the mortal audience's “delight.” I hone in especially on the Hymn to Hermes and argue that its poet subverts the type-casting deployed in the other Hymns' mythic scenes of epiphany at divine expense. I show how the narrator of the myth relayed in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, rather than leverage the type- (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Sarah Iles Johnston (Advisor); Carolina López-Ruiz (Committee Member); Thomas Hawkins (Committee Member) 

 

De-Marginalizing Prophetic Suprahuman Knowledge

De-Marginalizing Prophetic Suprahuman Knowledge

Biggerstaff, Michael

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2022, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

This dissertation assesses biblical prophets' claims to possess access to suprahuman knowledge. A common modern scholarly construct of biblical prophecy holds that prophets were primarily social critics who denounced social injustice and exhorted repentance. The problem with that construct is not that it acknowledges prophets as decrying social ills and admonishing repentance, but that the construct marginalizes prophets' alleged suprahuman knowledge to the function of social criticism. A close analysis of the prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, as provided herein, reveals that the modern construct has inverted the primary focus of the ancient texts. Rather than present the prophets as primarily social critics who denounce social injustice and exhort repentance, the biblical authors principally emphasized the prophets as suprahuman knowledge specialists who occasionally decried social ills and preached repentance. The introductory chapter demonstrates the prevalence of the modern scholarly construct by citing numerous statements by scholars who explicitly marginalize biblical claims that prophets possessed access to suprahuman knowledge in favor of interpreting prophets as social critics denouncing social ills and exhorting repentance. Chapter two provides a history of scholarship from the Dead Sea Scrolls through the twentieth century that establishes the origin of the modern construct as a product of the nineteenth century. Prior to the nineteenth century, exegetes never understood prophetic claims of suprahuman knowledge as subordinate to issues of social justice and repentance. In chapter three, I expose how biblical prophetic texts only occasionally depicted the prophets as social critics. Even in cases where the prophets were portrayed as decrying social injustice or exhorting repentance, the authors paired those statements with claims of prophets announcing information beyond normal human ken. Whereas relatively few prophetic texts paint the prophets as...

Committee: Samuel Meier (Advisor); Daniel Frank (Committee Member); Michael Swartz (Committee Member)