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Meredith Warren deposited Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoPreview of Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature (SBL Press, 2019) https://secure.aidcvt.com/sbl/ProdDetails.asp?ID=064211C&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=SBL
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In her book, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature, Meredith J. C. Warren identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that she terms…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “Joc de Trons” a la universitat, una experiència docent in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoMaría Montes, musicologist expert in Medieval Music, interviewed me on April 6th, 2019 on my experience designing and teaching a course on Medieval Iberian Literature and History using the HBO Show “Game of Thrones” as a thematic axis.
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Ahuvia Kahane started the topic Feedback on the Chicago Homer for future development. in the discussion
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
We are writing to ask for some feedback about the Chicago Homer project http://homer.library.northwestern.edu/ in advance of some possible future updates/development.
We would be very grateful for comments by both experienced and new users, noting briefly, e.g.,
-What and how frequently have you used the Chicago Homer for?…[Read more]
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Gabriel Finkelstein deposited Haeckel and du Bois-Reymond: rival German Darwinists in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoErnst Haeckel and Emil du Bois-Reymond were the most prominent champions of Darwin in Germany. This essay compares their contributions to popularizing the theory of evolution, drawing special attention to the neglected figure of du Bois-Reymond as a spokesman for a world devoid of natural purpose. It suggests that the historiography of the German…[Read more]
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Philip Harland deposited Familial Dimensions of Group Identity: ‘Brothers’ (ΑΔΕΛΦΟΙ) in Associations of the Greek East in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle exploring the use of sibling language in associations beyond Judean or Christian groups.
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Philip Harland deposited Spheres of Contention, Claims of Preeminence: Rivalries Among Associations in Sardis and Smyrna in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA chapter exploring rivalries among groups in ancient Greek cities of Asia Minor.
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Philip Harland deposited Acculturation and Identity in the Diaspora: A Jewish Family and ‘Pagan’ Guilds at Hierapolis in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle exploring Jewish or Judean groups in the context of associations at Hierapolis.
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Philip Harland deposited Journeys in Pursuit of Divine Wisdom: Thessalos and Other Seekers in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle on ancient biographical or autobiographical stories regarding journeys in pursuit of wisdom.
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Philip Harland deposited Banqueting Values in the Associations: Rhetoric and Reality in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle on banqueting within associations.
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Philip Harland deposited Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society (second edition) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis is the complete second, fully revised edition of the book with links to inscriptions on the AGRW website. (First edition was published by Fortress in 2003).
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Philip Harland deposited Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Preliminary Case Study of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle surveying economic conditions within associations in Asia Minor and on Greek islands.
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Philip Harland deposited Dynamics of Identity in the World of the Early Christians: Associations, Judeans, and Cultural Minorities in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoBook that explores processes of identification within various small group situations in the Greco-Roman world.
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Philip Harland deposited “‘Do Not Deny Me This Noble Death’: Depictions of Violence in the Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts.” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle comparing representations of domestic, civic, and imperial violence in novels and in apocryphal acts.
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Philip Harland deposited Greco-Roman Associations: Texts, Translations, and Commentary. II. North Coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor. BZNW, 204. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014. in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoPDF of Bosporan section of work only in keeping with the publisher’s policy.
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Philip Harland deposited ‘These people are . . . Men Eaters’: Banquets of the Anti-Associations and Perceptions of Minority Cultural Groups in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle that explores stories of wild banquets within the context of ethnographic discourses.
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Philip Harland deposited Pausing at the Intersection of Religion and Travel in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoChapter introducing and surveying the intersection of the gods and travel in the Greco-Roman world.
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Philip Harland deposited The Declining Polis? Religious Rivalries in Ancient Civic Context in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoArticle exploring and challenging the notion of the decline of the city as a preliminary to the study of rivalries among associations.
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Juuso Tervo deposited Visual Arts Research Journal Invited Lecture: Dis-Appearances in the Present: On What Re-Turns in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this Visual Arts Journal Invited Lecture, I conduct a reading of art education historiography through two concepts, dis-appearance and re-turn, as an attempt to think philosophical research in art education historically and historical research in art education philosophically.
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Daniel Barber deposited PRESENCE AND THE FUTURE TENSE IN HORACE’S ODES in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoHorace is sometimes said to profess in the Odes a “poetics of presence”, a philosophical or aesthetic orientation that privileges the here and now. This paper examines how such an orientation toward the present might interact with the poet’s use of the future tense and especially with those future verbs that seem to postpone focal events. It is co…[Read more]
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Daniel Barber deposited Tui plenum: Horace in the Presence of the Gods in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn Books 1-3 of the Odes, Horace makes clear a hierarchy of divinity through the structures of lyric address and distinguishes the gods and goddesses of his poetic preference from the preeminent deities of Augustan state cult. Specifically, he equivocates masterfully as he approaches Apollo and Jupiter while elevating Mercury, a minor figure in…[Read more]
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