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Ernest Metzger deposited Roman Law in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Romans developed a sophisticated body of law over one thousand years. The law was consulted and used in medieval and modern Europe, and from Europe it was exported around the world. Many modern legal systems are based, or partly indebted to, Roman law. The Roman legal tradition endured, even as specific rules fell away. The success of the…[Read more]
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Ernest Metzger deposited Roman Law in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe Romans developed a sophisticated body of law over one thousand years. The law was consulted and used in medieval and modern Europe, and from Europe it was exported around the world. Many modern legal systems are based, or partly indebted to, Roman law. The Roman legal tradition endured, even as specific rules fell away. The success of the…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Grecja i jej historia w twórczości Cypriana Norwida in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe book is dedicated to the presence of Greek history in the works of Cyprian Norwid. According to the poet, the Greek origins contributed to the creation of mechanisms that make it possible to diagnose the spiritual condition of the contemporary times through analyzing its relation to the Greek myth of the “Golden Age”. Ideologization of the way…[Read more]
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Jonathan Groß deposited On the Transmission of Paeanius in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoFor Paeanius’ Greek translation of Eutropius’ Breviarium, a single manuscript, Iviron 812 (12th cent.), is found to be the only independent witness for establishing the text.
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Jonathan Groß deposited On the Transmission of Paeanius in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoFor Paeanius’ Greek translation of Eutropius’ Breviarium, a single manuscript, Iviron 812 (12th cent.), is found to be the only independent witness for establishing the text.
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Carol Atack deposited Imagined Superpowers: Isocrates’ Opposition of Athens and Sparta in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIsocrates has been comparatively neglected as a source for political and cultural history and theory. However, the many works of his long career show a continuing
engagement with Athenian political culture and the education of its political class, and his assessment of Sparta is significant for both of these. He imagines and explores the struggle…[Read more] -
Carol Atack deposited Imagined Superpowers: Isocrates’ Opposition of Athens and Sparta in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoIsocrates has been comparatively neglected as a source for political and cultural history and theory. However, the many works of his long career show a continuing
engagement with Athenian political culture and the education of its political class, and his assessment of Sparta is significant for both of these. He imagines and explores the struggle…[Read more] -
Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
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Carol Atack deposited “Cyrus appeared both great and good”: Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agon this chapter, Atack argues that Xenophon’s depiction of the performance of kingship by Cyrus (Cyropaedia), Agesilaus (Hellenica, Agesilaus), and other kings contains an evaluative model that explores alternative techniques a ruler can use to persuade others to be ruled. By deploying frameworks of performativity and spectacle derived from J…[Read more]
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Carol Atack deposited “Cyrus appeared both great and good”: Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agon this chapter, Atack argues that Xenophon’s depiction of the performance of kingship by Cyrus (Cyropaedia), Agesilaus (Hellenica, Agesilaus), and other kings contains an evaluative model that explores alternative techniques a ruler can use to persuade others to be ruled. By deploying frameworks of performativity and spectacle derived from J…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Vandalisches oder römisches Recht? Betrachtungen zu Recht und Konsens im vandalischen Nordafrika am Beispiel der Verfolgungsgeschichte Victors von Vita in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWir verfügen insgesamt über wenige Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte und dem
Rechtswesen im vandalischen Nordafrika. Die vorherrschende Sicht lässt sich in etwa
folgendermaßen zusammenfassen: Das vandalische Afrika war ein zweigeteiltes Gemeinwesen.
›Germanische‹ Vandalen und ›Romanen‹ lebten nebeneinander und jede dieser
Gru…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Vandalisches oder römisches Recht? Betrachtungen zu Recht und Konsens im vandalischen Nordafrika am Beispiel der Verfolgungsgeschichte Victors von Vita in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWir verfügen insgesamt über wenige Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte und dem
Rechtswesen im vandalischen Nordafrika. Die vorherrschende Sicht lässt sich in etwa
folgendermaßen zusammenfassen: Das vandalische Afrika war ein zweigeteiltes Gemeinwesen.
›Germanische‹ Vandalen und ›Romanen‹ lebten nebeneinander und jede dieser
Gru…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Vandalisches oder römisches Recht? Betrachtungen zu Recht und Konsens im vandalischen Nordafrika am Beispiel der Verfolgungsgeschichte Victors von Vita in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWir verfügen insgesamt über wenige Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte und dem
Rechtswesen im vandalischen Nordafrika. Die vorherrschende Sicht lässt sich in etwa
folgendermaßen zusammenfassen: Das vandalische Afrika war ein zweigeteiltes Gemeinwesen.
›Germanische‹ Vandalen und ›Romanen‹ lebten nebeneinander und jede dieser
Gru…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Das Tiroler Inntal in vor- und frührömischer Zeit in the group
Classical Tradition on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAus historischer Sicht sind genauere Definitionen, Abgrenzungen und ethnische Zuweisungen der
Bevölkerung des Alpengebiets in vorrömischer Zeit ausgesprochen schwierig, umstritten und problematisch.
Die einschlägigen Diskussionen drehen sich meist um die Kategorien „Kelten“ oder „Räter“
3. Beide Zuordnungen sind jedoch seit der Antike unsc…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Das Tiroler Inntal in vor- und frührömischer Zeit in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAus historischer Sicht sind genauere Definitionen, Abgrenzungen und ethnische Zuweisungen der
Bevölkerung des Alpengebiets in vorrömischer Zeit ausgesprochen schwierig, umstritten und problematisch.
Die einschlägigen Diskussionen drehen sich meist um die Kategorien „Kelten“ oder „Räter“
3. Beide Zuordnungen sind jedoch seit der Antike unsc…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Die Bischofssitze Rätiens und Noricums vor ihrem historischen Hintergrund – Bruch und Kontinuität in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Ethnische Identität und die Meistererzählung von der Wanderung. Probleme der Frühgeschichte in Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoZusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Ethnonyme
über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in Gebrauch
sein konnten. Im Falle der Veneder verschob sich
die Bedeutung. Sie galt nicht mehr nur für eine bestimmte
Gruppe, sondern bezog sich auf die Gesamtheit
der Fremden, die im Wahrnehmungsbereich der
eigenen Sprachgemeinschaft lagen. So wie man de…[Read more] -
Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
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