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Sarah Bond deposited “Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago“Chapter 7: Maintaining the City Enslaved Labor and Trade in Roman Philippi” in Philippi, From Colonia Augusta to Communitas Christiana: Religion and Society in Transition, edited by Steven J. Friesen, Michalis Lychounas, and Daniel N. Schowalter (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
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Johannes Bernhardt deposited From Homer to Solon. Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term…[Read more]
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Stephen Beall deposited Christi Praecones: Advice for Latin Teachers from the First Jesuit Schools in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoA summary and contemporary application of the pedagogical handbook of Joseph Jouvancy, S.J. (1643-1719)
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Stephen Beall deposited Christi Praecones: Advice for Latin Teachers from the First Jesuit Schools in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoA summary and contemporary application of the pedagogical handbook of Joseph Jouvancy, S.J. (1643-1719)
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Of Word Families and Language Trees: New and Old Metaphors in Studies on Language History in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoFor a long time, metaphors have played an important role in depicting language history. In this study, we contrast early metaphors on language history, such as the family tree or the wave model, with recent metaphors that were popularized after the quantitative turn, such as forests of trees or phylogenetic networks. Speculating about metaphors…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Learning to spell in Linear B: orthography and scribal training in Mycenaean Pylos in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article analyses orthographic variation in the Linear B tablets from the Mycenaean palace of Pylos. Despite the general consistency in spelling found in Linear B texts from all sites, variation was in certain cases both permissible and entirely normal, even within the work of a single writer. Examining the patterns of orthographic variation…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Inscription on Nestors’ Cup (730 BCE) is not Greek but is Alphabetic Akkadian in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe text on Nestor’s Cup (750-700 BCE) is not Greek as many claim but is actually Alphabetic Akkadian. Its three-line text is a debate about the cause of a drought. The first line blames the life network goddess Ayu and her eagle vultures while the second line blames emotion magic with its owls (like the Athenian owl). Alphabetic Akkadian was t…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computational Approaches to Historical Language Comparison in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe chapter discusses recently developed computational techniques providing concrete help in addressing various tasks in historical language comparison, focusing specifically on those tasks which are typically subsumed under the framework of the comparative method. These include the proof of relationship, cognate and correspondence detection,…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Roman archaeology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe course provides an extensive survey of the archaeology of the Roman world, as well as an introduction to archaeological methods. Students will acquire the analytical skills necessary to interpret material culture and learn how to use archaeological remains to reconstruct various aspects of ancient societies. Emphasis for this class is on the…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited All Italia: City and Country in Ancient Italy in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis graduate seminar approaches the urban and rural landscapes of peninsular Italy from the Early Iron Age until the Gothic Wars, with the goal being to examine key points of intersection (and departure) between the spheres of ‘town’ and ‘country’. In adopting an holistic approach to these categories that are often juxtaposed, the seminar…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Troy and the Trojan War: the archaeology of an epic in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoTroy has long captured the human imagination. The story of its fall and the tales of both its inhabitants and besiegers have caught the attention of artists and their audiences from antiquity to post-modernity. It seems we are drawn to the struggle that is Troy and the Trojan War, to the paragons of virtue, and the archetypes of other, less noble…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited The archaic Mediterranean in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis course considers the archaeology and settlement history of the Mediterranean basin from the later ninth century B.C. to the middle of the fifth century B.C. in order to study, in a contextualized way, the interconnectedness of cultures and economies in this region. The interchange and exchange that occurred in the archaic Mediterranean world…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Archaeology of Athens in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe ancient city of Athens provides us with a wealth of archaeological and cultural information about the ancient world. Using Athens and its surroundings as our laboratory, this course will focus on the development and growth of the ancient city-state from the Bronze Age through to the third century A.D. The course will explore the archaeological…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited The archaeology of Mediterranean landscapes in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis course offers a survey of the archaeology of settled landscapes in the ancient Mediterranean world, including both the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean basin. In particular, the course will focus on city-country dichotomies in order to study the patterns of development, demography, and land use in selected case study areas. While the…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited The Health-Giving Cup: Cyprian’s Ep. 63 and the Medicinal Power of Eucharistic Wine in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian t…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited Blended with the Savior: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Pharmacology in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHumankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. As a result, the toxin of sin and death has been blended into the body and soul of each person, dispersing itself throughout the component parts of their nature. If eating and drinking initiated the spiritual and physical…[Read more]
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John Penniman deposited How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoReview of Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World
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John Penniman deposited Review of Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoReview of Seducing Augustine, by Virginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, and Mark Jordan (2010)
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David Olmsted deposited Heraklez (Hercules) Originated in Etruria as Revealed by Pottery Images having Bidirectional Alphabetic Akkadian Pottery Texts (550 BCE) in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHeroes and Demons entered the northern Mediterranean culture between 600 and 500 BCE when the culture was transforming from the magical Ancient Pagan Paradigm to a lordified Paradigm which forced deity personification making them lords in a royal pantheon instead of powers. This caused an explosion in the number of deities and other divine realm…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Introducing Demons – Reinterpretation of Images on Etruscan Tombs and Pottery Forced by Their Alphabetic Akkadian Translations (500-400 BCE) in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe past inability to translate Etruscan texts has meant that the interpretation of Etrucan art has been mostly speculation. This interpretation has been made even more difficult because this was the time when new demon imagery (Cyclops, Skadi) not seen in the past was being introduced as Etruscan religious culture was changing from the magical…[Read more]
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