Thursday, October 31, 2019

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Pella: Coinage of the Kings of Macedonia

[First posted in AWOL 19 November 2015, updates 31 October 2019]

Pella: Coinage of the Kings of Macedonia
As a component of the National Endowment of the Humanities funded Hellenistic Royal Coinages project, PELLA is an innovative research tool aiming, among other things, to provide a comprehensive typology and catalogue of the coinages struck by the Macedonian kings of the Argead dynasty (c. 700–310 BC), arguably the most influential coinages of the ancient Greek world. Fueled first by indigenous precious metal mines in their native Macedonia, and later by the spoils of their conquests, including the rich treasures of the Persian Empire, the Argeads’ numismatic output was monumental. For centuries after their deaths, coins in the name of Philip II (ruled 359–336 BC) and Alexander the Great (ruled 336–323 BC) continued to be produced by successor kings, civic mints, and imitators from Central Asia to Central Europe. The coinage of the Argeads themselves and that produced in their names has been extensively studied, but to date no comprehensive, easily accessible catalogue of their coinages exists. PELLA is designed to fill that gap, cataloguing the individual coin types of the Argead kings from Alexander I (ruled 498–454 BC), the first of the Macedonian kings to strike coins, down to Philip III Arrhidaeus (ruled 323–317 BC), the last of the titular kings to do so. Included as well as are the numerous posthumous civic and successor coinages struck in the names of the kings.
The current version of PELLA provides links to examples of the coinage (in the name) of Alexander the Great and Philip III Arrhidaeus present in a dozen collections located in the United States and Europe (see Contributors). The PELLA project currently focuses on the coinage (in the name of) Alexander III and Philip III, using reference numbers from Martin Price's  The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus  , London 1991, as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions. The next stage will focus on the coinage (in the name of) Philip II, using Le Rider,  Le monnayage d'argent et d'or de Philippe II frappé en Macédoine de 359 a 294 , 1977, as the means of organizing the coinages. Pella will then focus on the coinages of Alexander I to Perdiccas III using SNG ANS as the means of organizing the coinages from various institutions.
PELLA is made possible by stable numismatic identifiers and linked open data methodologies established by the Nomisma.org project. Coin type data are made available with an Open Database License. All images and data about physical specimens are copyright of their respective institutions. Please see the Contributors page for further details about individual licenses. The current version of PELLA uses the numbering system and typology originally created and published in Price (1991) with the addition of modifications that greatly enhance the volume’s usefulness as an online resource.

Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study

Krateros
Welcome to Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study.

The squeezes, which are three-dimensional, mirror image impressions of inscriptions, were created and donated to the Institute by the Epigraphical Museum in Athens and some of the greatest epigraphers of the twentieth century, including Louis Robert, Charles Edson, Sterling Dow, and David Moore Robinson. Stephen Tracy, Professor Emeritus of the Ohio State University and former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has written an introductory primer on the squeeze collection, and Christian Habicht, the late Professor of Ancient History at the Institute, has provided an overview of the Origin and Development of the squeeze collection. The digitization project is funded with generous gifts by the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and the Fowler Merle-Smith Family Trust.

The digitization of these squeezes is a work in progress, and thus new items will regularly be uploaded. The team’s current focus is on squeezes pertaining to Inscriptiones Graecae Volume II, second edition, i.e., IG II(2). These squeezes will be uploaded in more or less ascending order by their IG II(2) number. Please note: although conventional practice is to indicate the edition of a published work with a superscript Arabic numeral (so, e.g., the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae volume I would be IG I3), on this website and in the Krateros database we instead place the Arabic numeral in parentheses. Thus, the third edition of Inscriptiones Graecae volume I is rendered IG I(3). We have elected to take this approach for the sake of consistency, as the metadata fields in our database do not permit the use of superscript formatting.

Coming Soon: Online Open House | Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship, with Rachele Pierini

Online Open House | Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship, with Rachele Pierini
We are excited to welcome Rachele Pierini, University of Bologna for an Online Open House. The topic of the discussion is “Re-inventing Old Craftsmanship: Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design.” The event will be live-streamed on Thursday, November 7 at 11:00 a.m. EST, and will be recorded.

You might like to read “Reinventing Old Craftsmanship – Mycenaean Furniture and Today’s Design” for the event.

You can watch the event on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel, and the video recording will be posted here afterwards.
R

achele Pierini was trained in Classical Philology at the University of Bologna and in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Madrid. She is a philologist and a linguist who specializes in Bronze Age Aegean scripts, with a focus on Linear B. After having held several Post-Doctoral Fellowships (University of Bologna) and having spent a number of research periods abroad as Visiting Scholar in internationally renowned universities (Complutense University of Madrid; University of Cambridge), she is currently a Teaching Tutor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Bologna and has been recently awarded the prize of Cultural Ambassador by her native country. Her research mainly concerns the Greek language, both in its diachronic development (especially its initial stages, from the Proto-Indo-European origins to the earliest Linear B attestations) and in its relationship with substratum and nearby languages.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Open Access Monograph Series: Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard

[First posted in AWOL 7 July 2017, updated 30 Octrober 2019]

Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard
Dans les Cahiers du Centre Jean Bérard sont publiés les résultats d’une recherche ponctuelle, issue d’un séminaire, d’un colloque ou d’une monographie, sur un thème précis en histoire ancienne et en archéologie.

Dossier. Corps antiques : morceaux choisis: Ancient Bodies: Selected Pieces

Dossier. Corps antiques : morceaux choisis: Ancient Bodies: Selected Pieces
Le dossier « Corps antiques : morceaux choisis » s’intéresse aux représentations d’un membre ou d’un organe conçu dans sa singularité, aux dispositifs d’isolement et de distinction visuels et symboliques dans les discours, les images, les assemblages votifs grecs et romains, et les constructions muséographiques contemporaines.
  • Éditeur : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Daedalus
  • Collection : Mètis | N.S.17
  • Lieu d’édition : Paris-Athènes
  • Année d’édition : 2019
  • Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 30 octobre 2019
  • EAN (Édition imprimée) : 9782713228087
  • EAN électronique : 9782713231735
  • Nombre de pages : 294 p.

Dossier : Corps antiques : morceaux choisis

Florence Gherchanoc et Stéphanie Wyler
Après les corps en morceaux : morceaux choisis, morceaux de choix, en Grèce et à Rome

“Bodies in Pieces”: Selected Pieces, Finest Excerpts, in Greek and Roman Worlds

Olivier de Cazanove
Pieds et jambes

Enquête sur une catégorie « banale » d’offrandes anatomiques

Feet and Legs. An Inquiry into a “Trivial” Category of Anatomical Offerings

Laurent Haumesser
Faire des pieds et des mains

Quelques remarques sur les représentations de parties isolées du corps dans l’Antiquité et sur leur réception à l’époque moderne

Finding their Feet. Considerations on the Representations of Isolated Body Parts in the Ancient World and their Modern Reception

Véronique Dasen
La mémoire au coin de l’oreille

Memory and Ear Lobe

Nikolina Kéi
Du corps mutilé aux membres magnifiés

From Body in Fragments to Body Fragments

Varia

Eric Driscoll
Beazley’s Connoisseurship: Aesthetics, Natural History, and Artistic Development

L’expertise de Beazley : esthétique, histoire naturelle et développement artistique

Sandra Boehringer et Claude Calame
Sappho au début du xxie siècle : genre et poésie érotique

Sappho in the 21th Century: Gender and Love Poetry

Dylan Kenny
The Force of Description in Alcaeus Fr. 140 V

Le pouvoir de la description dans le fragment d’Alcée 140 V

Adrien Zirah
Le nom chez Thucydide

Éléments pour une compréhension anthropologique des idées linguistiques à la fin du ve siècle avant notre ère

The Name in Thucydides: Elements of an Anthropological Approach to Linguistic Thoughts from the late 5th Century BC

Edoarda Barra
Philoxène l’Anaxagoréen

Philoxenus the Anaxagorean

Despina Chatzivasiliou
Retour sur l’arkteia : lieux de culte et pratiques rituelles en Attique

Reconsiderations of arkteia: Sanctuaries and Rituals in Attica

Lavinia Foukara
The Apollonian Triad, the Symposion, and Athenian Elite

La triade apollinienne, le symposion et l’élite athénienne

Alain Petit
Dionysos et la libération de l’âme dans la tradition philosophique orphique

Dionysos and the Liberation of the Soul in the Orphic Philosophical Tradition

Nicole Belayche
Antinoos divinisé : des mots grecs pour l’écrire

Antinous Divinized: the Greek Words to Express it


Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World

Value of Colour. Material and Economic Aspects in the Ancient World
David Warburton, Shiyanthi Thavapalan (eds.)
 
Reihe: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 70
Jahr: 2020
Seiten:
DOI: 10.17171/3-70
Shortlink: www.edition-topoi.org/books/details/1595
In The Value of Colour,  an interdisciplinary group of scholars come together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours. Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this volume highlight the fact that in earliest human history, colours appear in contexts of prestige (value) and com-merce. Acquisition, production, labour, circulation and consumption are among the issues discussed by individ-ual authors to show how colourful materials acquired meaning in the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Spanning the Palaeolithic to the early Imperial Rome, the contributions also demonstrate the many questions asked and approaches used by historians in the growing fi eld of Colour Studies



Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition

Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition
Author: Richard Hope Simpson
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About This Book


Richard’s intention, after over 60 years of study and field work, was to publish his final thoughts on the subject and make them readily available for all scholars to use, free of cost, wherever they may live. Knowing that his time was limited, and that he would be unable to respond to reviewers’ comments, he chose, of necessity, not to submit his manuscript for peer review. It was his wish that the book be offered as-is.
This open textbook has been published openly using a Creative Commons license and is offered in various e-book formats free of charge.
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Mycenaean Greece and Homeric Tradition by Richard Hope Simpson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This open textbook has been published openly using a Creative Commons license and is offered in various e-book formats free of charge.

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Open Access Journal: Σχολή: Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition : A Journal of the Centre for Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition

[First posted in AWOL 26 August 2013, updated 29 Octoberr 2019]

Σχολή. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция: Журнал Центра изучения древней философии и классической традиции -- Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition : A Journal of the Centre for Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
ISSN: 1995-4336 (Online)
ISSN: 1995-4328 (Print)
http://www.nsu.ru/classics/schole/schole-cover.JPG

Volume XIII (2019)

 



 

Volume XII (2018)

 


The Peripatetic Tradition

School Traditions


 

Volume XI (2017)

 



 

Volume X (2016)

 



 

Volume IX (2015)

 


The Natural and Human Sciences in Antiquity


From the analytical point of view: Law and philosophy

 

Volume VIII (2014)

 


The Platonic Tradition


Choice. Law. Power. Argument

 

Volume VII (2013)

 


Kosmos and Psyche


 

Volume VI (2012)

 

Issue 1

Ancient Music




Ancient Psychology

 

Volume V (2011)

 



Cosmology and Astronomy

 

Volume IV (2010)

 


History and Philosophy of Law


Iamblichus of Chalcis

 

Volume III (2009)

 


The Neopythagoreans


 

Volume II (2008)

 



 

Volume I (2007)

 



 

Том XIII (2019)

 



 

Том XII (2018)

 


Перипатетическая традиция

Школьные традиции


 

Том XI (2017)

 



 
Том X (2016)

 



 
Том IX (2015)

 


Науки о природе и человеке в античности


С аналитической точки зрения: право и философия

 

Том VIII (2014)

 


Платоническая традиция


Выбор. Право. Власть. Аргумент

 

Том VII (2013)

 


Космос и душа


 

Том VI (2012)

 

Выпуск 1

Античная музыка




Античная психология

 

Том V (2011)

 



Космология и астрономия

 

Том IV (2010)

 


История и философия права


Ямвлих Халкидский

 

Том III (2009)

 


Неопифагорейцы


 

Том II (2008)

 



 
Том I (2007)