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Despite the interest that has been shown by classicists and assyriologists in the economy of Lower Mesopotamia during the two centuries of Macedonian rule over the region (331-129 B.C.), no synoptic study has previously been published, even though abundant sources are available: several thousand cuneiform tablets survive from this period, as well as more than 25,000 Greek seals, not to mention the testimony of classical sources and rich numismatic and archaeological materials. This book aims to present an accessible synthesis of the topic, in the form of a regional study that takes into account all available sources as well as the weight of Mesopotamia's heritage. The reader will find not only clear overviews of complex questions (including the impact of Alexander's reign, the nature of Seleucid policy, the evolution of prices, and the development of banking) but also new research on issues such as the 'Diadochi crisis', the introduction of coinage, the evolution of the prebendary system, and the disappearance of local temples, shedding new light on the economy of one of the most richly documented parts of the Hellenistic World. Malgré l'intérêt porté par les hellénistes et les assyriologues à l'histoire économique de la Basse Mésopotamie durant les deux siècles de domination macédonienne (331-129 av. J.-C.), on ne peut que constater l'absence d'étude systématique sur le sujet. Les sources, pourtant, ne manquent pas : on compte en effet plusieurs milliers de tablettes cunéiformes pour cette période, auxquelles viennent s'ajouter plus de 25 000 sceaux inscrits en grec, le témoignage des auteurs classiques, ainsi que les riches données numismatiques et archéologiques. Cet ouvrage propose pour la première fois une synthèse accessible de cette documentation, à travers une étude d'histoire régionale prenant en compte l'ensemble des sources disponibles et le poids des héritages mésopotamiens. Le lecteur y trouvera non seulement des points de synthèse commodes sur des dossiers complexes (impact du règne d'Alexandre, politique séleucide dans la région, évolution des prix, développement des activités bancaires etc.) mais aussi des études nouvelles (effets de la « crise » des Diadoques, introduction du monnayage compté, évolution du système prébendaire, disparition des sanctuaires traditionnels etc.) qui jettent un jour nouveau sur l'économie de l'une des régions les plus richement documentées du monde hellénistique.
Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian --- Economic conditions --- Iraq --- Civilization --- Economic conditions. --- Alexander the Great. --- Ancient Economy. --- Babylonia. --- Hellenistic Period.
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This volume presents the results of the excavations conducted by the University of Copenhagen at Pontecagnano (Prop. Avallone), located some 8 km southeast of Salerno in the northern part (the Ager Picentinus) of the Sele Plain in Campania. The excavations revealed a part of the residential zone of the ancient town with two main phases of occupation, the first belonging to the late Classical/early Hellenistic period (second half of 4th to early 3rd century BC) and the second to the late Republican period (2nd to first half of 1st century BC). Both phases represent crucial periods in the history of Southern Italy. The first is a period of turmoil due to the Roman penetration southwards, while the second period falls after a period of crisis after the Second Punic War. The structures of the first phase form part of a general reorganization of the Etruscan-Campanian settlement and testify to a community of some wealth. A habitation unit provided with a stone-paved courtyard and polychrome stucco illustrates this. In the second phase the zone was only partly reoccupied. During Imperial times the area was frequented in a sporadic manner. The book adds considerably to our knowledge of the settlement of ancient Pontecagnano. It is the most complete work on a habitation context published so far, and it offers a fine selection of all groups of archaeological material from this important site.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- Pontecagnano (Italy) --- Pontecagnano (Italie) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- 937.7 --- History Ancient world Italy Southern Italy --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Pontecagnano Faiano (Italy) --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Italy - Pontecagnano - Catalogs --- Pontecagnano (Italy) - Antiquities - Catalogs --- habitat --- Hellenistic period --- archaeology --- votive repository --- Roman period --- necropolis --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Italie
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Turkey's northern edge is a region of contrasts and diversity. From the rugged peaks of the Pontic mountains and hidden inland valleys to the plains and rocky alcoves of the Black Sea coast, this landscape shaped and was shaped by its inhabitants' ways of life, their local cultural traditions, and the ebbs and flows of land-based and maritime networks of interaction. Between 2009 and 2011, an international team of specialists and students of the Cide Archaeological Project (CAP) investigated the challenging landscapes of the Cide and Şenpazar districts of Kastamonu province. CAP presents the first systematic archaeological survey of the western Turkish Black Sea region. The information gathered by the project extends its known human history by 10,000 years and offers an unprecedented insight into the region's shifting cultural, social and political ties with Anatolia and the Circumpontic. This volume presents the project's approach and methodologies, its results and their interpretation within period-specific contexts and through a long-term landscape perspective.
Archaeology, Turkey, Black Sea, CAP, Cide, Senpazar, Anatolia, Prehistoric assemblages, Obsidian exchange networks, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Byzantine period, Ottoman period, Pottery, Landscape archaeology, Petrographic study, Field methodology, Archaeological field survey. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Cide (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Black Sea Coast (Turkey) --- Antiquities. --- Aegialis (Turkey) --- Jidde (Turkey) --- Jiddeh (Turkey) --- Karaağaç (Turkey) --- Kara-Agach (Turkey)
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The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wide-ranging exploration of current discoveries and questions. The twelve essays emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period, in contrast to more conventional focuses on politics, society, or economy. The result of original research by some of the leading scholars in Hellenistic history and culture, this volume is an exemplary illustration of the cultural richness of this period. Paul Cartledge's introduction contains an illuminating introductory overview of current trends in Hellenistic scholarship. The essays themselves range over broad questions of comparative historiography, literature, religion, and the roles of Athens, Rome, and the Jews within the context of the Hellenistic world. The volume is dedicated to Frank Walbank and includes an updated bibliography of his work which has been essential to our understanding of the Hellenistic period.
Hellenism. --- Hellenism --- Greece --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Mediterranean Region --- Civilization. --- ancient greece. --- ancient history. --- ancient literature. --- asia history culture. --- athens. --- complex culture. --- culture ancient near east. --- essay collection. --- fascinating time period. --- greek societies. --- hellenistic history. --- hellenistic period. --- hellenistic scholarship. --- jewish history. --- judaism. --- rich culture. --- rome. --- sociology of the ancient world. --- world history.
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Au cœur d’un espace phrygien géographiquement mal défini dans l’Antiquité, l’installation de colons militaires, d’anciens soldats et de troupiers encore en activité, répondait à des objectifs stratégiques parfaitement identifiés pour les Achéménides, les monarques hellénistiques ou encore les Romains. Il s’agissait de contrôler un espace essentiel pour les communications terrestres entre l’intérieur du plateau anatolien d’une part et l’Égée d’autre part, mais aussi entre cette même côte et la Cilicie, puis au-delà la Syrie. Sur un plan tactique, cette présence militaire devait servir à protéger plateau et vallées phrygiens de la convoitise de populations voisines mal contrôlées comme les Pisidiens. S’appuyant sur de très nombreuses sources archéologiques, numismatiques et épigraphiques, examinant chaque communauté au cas par cas, cet ouvrage étudie les conséquences de l’installation de ces militaires sur la réalité locale, que ce soit au niveau économique, culturel, religieux ou social. Parcourant un temps long allant du IVe siècle avant J.-C. jusqu’à la fin de la dynastie des Sévères, il s’efforce de peser les évolutions liées à la présence de ces soldats allogènes. Entre la Phrygie achéménide et celle hellénistique puis romaine, le faciès de la région, essentiellement rurale au départ, a progressivement évolué : dès l’époque hellénistique, on observe un phénomène de poliadisation important, rendant le réseau de communication plus dense et le contrôle des populations locales plus complexe. At the heart of a geographically ill-defined Phrygian space during Antiquity, the installation of military settlers, former soldiers and troupiers still in operation, met perfectly identified strategic objectives fromthe Achaemenids, the Hellenistic monarchs or the Romans. It was to control a space essential for terrestrial communications between the interior of the Anatolian plateau on the one hand and the Aegean on the other, but also between this same coast and Cilicia, and…
History --- Phrygie --- Asie Mineure --- époque achéménide --- époque hellénistique --- époque impériale romaine --- armée perse --- armées hellénistiques --- armée romaine --- poliadisation --- contrôle territorial --- maintien de l’ordre --- échanges culturels et religieux --- Phrygia --- Asia Minor --- Achaemenid period --- Hellenistic period --- Roman imperial period --- Persian army --- Hellenistic armies --- Roman army --- poliadization --- territorial control --- policing --- cultural and religious exchanges --- History, Military. --- Antiquites. --- Phrygien
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Le second volume de cet ouvrage se donne pour but de présenter au lecteur l’ensemble des très nombreux documents sur lesquels s’est basée cette réflexion historique. Il ne prétend point à l’exhaustivité mais cherche à fournir de la façon la plus aisée possible, c’est-à-dire communauté par communauté, toutes les données épigraphiques et numismatiques, très dispersées au départ, que l’auteur a pu rassembler. Une brève présentation au début de chaque corpus permettra de bien saisir le système de classification de ces textes et monnaies. The second volume of this book intends to present to the reader all the very many documents on which this historical reflection was based. It does not claim to be exhaustive but seeks to provide in the easiest way possible, that is, community by community, all the epigraphic and numismatic data, very scattered at the outset, that the author was able to gather. A brief presentation at the beginning of each corpus will help to understand the classification system of these texts and coins.
Classics --- History --- Phrygie --- Asie Mineure --- époque achéménide --- époque hellénistique --- époque impériale romaine --- armée perse --- armées hellénistiques --- armée romaine --- poliadisation --- contrôle territorial --- maintien de l’ordre --- échanges culturels et religieux --- Phrygia --- Asia Minor --- Achaemenid period --- Hellenistic period --- Roman imperial period --- Persian army --- Hellenistic armies --- Roman army --- poliadization --- territorial control --- policing --- cultural and religious exchanges
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Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, at the expense of the independent seer. Investigating a sequence of literary texts, Foster explores the tactics the Greeks devised both to leverage and suppress the extraordinary cultural capital of seers. The first cultural history of the seer, The Seer and the City illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.
Prophets --- Oracles, Greek. --- Religion and politics --- History. --- Hero --- Greece --- Colonies. --- ancient greece. --- ancient greek politics. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- archaic greece. --- archaic. --- classical greece. --- classical world. --- classical. --- colonial discourse. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- culture. --- delphi. --- divination. --- greek culture. --- greek politics. --- hellenistic period. --- ideological. --- ideology. --- literary analysis. --- literary texts. --- oracle. --- politics. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- seercraft. --- seers.
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Le présent volume procède d'un colloque organisé à Oxford à l'été 2006. Rassemblant linguistes, archéologues, épigraphistes, numismates et historiens, il fut l'occasion d'échanger des idées sur une période de transition fondamentale dans l'histoire de la Carie : le ive siècle et les deux siècles qui suivirent la conquête d'Alexandre. Cette période fut en effet d'abord marquée par la présence et la visibilité des satrapes, mais aussi ensuite par une intense activité civique et une conscience politique accrue des communautés cariennes. La symbiose entre les îles du Dodécanèse, en particulier Rhodes et Cos, et le littoral carien constitue un autre thème important. Plusieurs communications se rattachent enfin à une orientation de recherche sur les cultures anatoliennes qui est aujourd'hui en plein essor, celle de l'étude des interactions culturelles entre Grecs et Anatoliens depuis la fin de l'âge du Bronze et le début de l'âge du Fer, dont on perçoit encore les échos aux époques plus récentes. The conference on which the present volume is based took place in Oxford in the summer of 2006. It brought together linguists, archaologists, epigraphists, numismatists and historians and allowed them to exchange ideas about a period of major transition in Karian history: the fourth century and the two centuries after Alexander. This was first a period of great starapal visibility and presence, but then alsol of intense civic engagement and increased political awareness among Karian communities. The symbiotic relationship between the islands of the Dodekanese, in particular Rhodes and Kos, and the coastal regions of Karia forms another major theme. Finally, a number of papers pick up on a major recent trend in the study of Anatolian culture, namely the investigation of cross-cultural Greeak-Anatolian interactions in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages and their echoes in later periods.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Carian language --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Carien (Langue) --- Villes antiques --- Hecatomnus, --- Caria --- Greece --- Turkey --- Carie (Région ancienne) --- Grèce --- Turquie --- Relations --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Carians --- Dodekanesos (Greece) --- Language --- Conferences - Meetings --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Carie (Région ancienne) --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Carie --- Karya --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Language. --- Classical Greek studies --- Classics --- History --- Antiquité grecque --- période hellénistique --- satrapie --- culture anatolienne --- Hellenistic period --- Antiquity --- military campaign --- Hellenistic civilization --- Carie (Turquie ) --- Antiquité
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"First-person poetry is a familiar genre in Latin literature. Building on the Greek poetic tradition of performed poetry, Latin poets such as Propertius, Catullus, Horace, and Ovid positioned their speakers both as participants in the poem's narrative and as narrators standing outside the poem and shaping its discourse. This book offers a model for understanding the ubiquitous use of a first-person voice in Latin poetry, taking on several of the central debates in the field of Latin literary studies-- including the inheritance of the Greek tradition, the shift from oral performance to written collections, and the status of the poetic "I-voice"--through close readings of Catullus, Propertius, Horace, and (in the epilogue) Ovid. Moving beyond debates about how closely the textual speaker replicates the historical author, McCarthy analyzes poetic structure, showing how the poet draws the reader in by narrating scenes of address from which the reader is, paradoxically excluded, as if leaning in to listen to an overheard conversation"--
First person narrative. --- Latin poetry --- Point of view (Literature). --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Horace --- Horace. --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius. --- Propertius, Sextus --- Propertius, Sextus. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- First person narrative --- Point of view (Literature) --- Self in literature --- Criticism and interpretation --- Latin poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Horace - Criticism and interpretation --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius - Criticism and interpretation --- Propertius, Sextus - Criticism and interpretation --- poetic address, lyric, Hellenistic period, Roman period, Latin poetry.
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La mission archéologique syro-française de Qinnasrin a mené ses travaux de 2008 à 2010 sur le site d'al-'Iss (Syrie du Nord, région d'Alep), dans l'ensemble du bourg et dans ses environs immédiats, grâce aux financements de la Commission des fouilles du ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, de la Fondation Max van Berchem, du CNRS et de la Direction générale des Antiquités et Musées de Syrie. Attestée depuis la fin du IIIe millénaire avant notre ère, Qinnasrin est un nœud routier et militaire important, qui domine une plaine fertile, aux confins de la steppe et des zones d'agriculture irriguée. Renommée Chalcis par les Grecs, elle est, à l'époque romaine, le siège d'une royauté et frappe monnaie. Elle joue un rôle essentiel dans le système de fortification de la Syrie du Nord mis en place par Justinien face aux Perses, puis lors de la conquête de la Syrie du Nord par les armées de l'islam. Étroitement liée à Alep, elle décline, à son profit, à partir du milieu du xe siècle et tombe dans l'oubli vers le XIVe siècle. Cet ouvrage dresse un état des lieux et une synthèse des sources textuelles et archéologiques. Il présente la documentation constituée par les prospections pédestre et géophysique, les premières fouilles archéologiques jamais menées sur le site, l'inventaire des blocs architecturaux et la collecte de matériel. Plusieurs découvertes permettent de rendre compte de l'importance acquise par la ville, tant aux périodes les plus anciennes qu'aux époques grecque, romaine ou islamique. Pour la première fois, un scénario de l'évolution morphologique de la ville et de ses transformations est proposé. Ce second volume de la série consacrée à Qinnasrin livre un portrait inédit d'un site remarquable et largement méconnu.
Fouilles archéologiques --- Chalcis ad Belum (ville ancienne) --- Excavations (Archeology) --- Architecture, Ancient --- Syria --- Antiquities --- Archaeology --- archéologie --- épigraphie --- morphologie urbaine --- Syrie du Nord --- âge du Bronze --- période hellénistique --- Empire romain --- Antiquité tardive --- période omeyyade --- période abbasside --- Moyen Âge --- églises d’Orient --- conquête musulmane --- fortification --- céramique --- sigillée --- archaeology --- epigraphy --- urban morphology --- Northern Syria --- Bronze Age --- hellenistic period --- roman empire --- Late Antiquity --- umayyad period --- abbasid period --- Middle Age --- oriental churches --- muslim conquest --- pottery --- sigillata --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Antiquité tardive. --- Qinnasrīn (Extinct city) --- Antiquities.
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