Troy 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]

This 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]

This 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]

The 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]

This 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]

This 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]

Spanish abstract: Los sistemas de organización de la información se van desarrollando en la primera era de la imprenta, en el Renacimiento, en las obras de consulta impresas, y en los métodos de catalogación bibliotecaria, con ciertos paralelos a la manera en que luego lo hicieron en un nuevo entorno de tratamiento de textos—en la infor…[Read more]

Pop Art * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Junk food * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Spicy stuff * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Meat Market * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Mascot * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Bye-bye, Sailor! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Sailor’s Bar * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Hay Bar * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Pop corn * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]

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ZombieZ * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Although the TEI has traditionally been used for encoding text, its combination of structured and semi-structured data has made it a compelling choice for born-digital, linked-data resources as well. Our intent here is to demonstrate the advantages it offers for digital prosopographies along with a model that can be used for them. Syriac Persons,…[Read more]