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Bronze monsters and the cultures of wonder
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ISBN: 1477323635 1477323627 1477323619 9781477323625 9781477323618 Year: 2021 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press

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"Due to their proximity, the interactions between Greece and the Near East were regular throughout antiquity, but the period of the 8th/7th centuries BCE is generally called the "Orientalizing Age" (from the Greek perspective) because of the marked influence that the Near East had on Greek thought, myth, and art during this time. Many of the mythological monsters we today think of as Greek had their origins to the east, including the griffin, a hybrid creature usually composed of the body, tail, and rear legs of a lion and the head, wings, and sometimes talons of an eagle. During this period, griffins were frequently included as protomes on Greek cauldrons, that is, an adornment featuring the head of a creature along the rim of the huge vessel. These griffin cauldrons have been discovered over much of the Mediterranean region, from Cyprus to Burgundy and the Loire valley of France, especially in sanctuaries of all sizes and elite tombs. Papalexandrou explores the 7th century as a time of wonder and radical innovation in the material and visual cultures of the Mediterranean with the griffin cauldrons as his case study, examining the possible reasons for their popularity, how and by whom they were used, their religious significance, and how they traveled across the region"--

Housing in late antiquity : from palaces to shops
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ISSN: 15706893 ISBN: 1281936758 9786611936754 9047423275 9789047423270 9789004162280 9004162283 Year: 2007 Volume: v. 3.2 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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This book examines a number of themes relating to housing in Late Antiquity. Two extensive bibliographic essays provide an overview of published literature relating to housing in this period. A selection of thematic essays focus on episcopia, lighting, privacy vs. public access, and building regulations. These are complemented by regional syntheses covering Spain and Africa and case studies of recently investigated urban houses from across the Mediterranean, from Gaul to Jordan. Whilst being firmly based in Late Antiquity, the volume also looks forward to Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic housing, with papers on rock-cut houses in Cappadocia and a wealthy dar from Pella in Jordan, destroyed by earthquake, with its inhabitants inside, in A.D. 749.


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Classifying Christians : Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
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ISBN: 0520959884 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Classifying Christians investigates late antique Christian heresiologies as ethnographies that catalogued and detailed the origins, rituals, doctrines, and customs of the heretics in explicitly polemical and theological terms. Oscillating between ancient ethnographic evidence and contemporary ethnographic writing, Todd S. Berzon argues that late antique heresiology shares an underlying logic with classical ethnography in the ancient Mediterranean world. By providing an account of heresiological writing from the second to fifth century, Classifying Christians embeds heresiology within the historical development of imperial forms of knowledge that have shaped western culture from antiquity to the present.


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Food in time and place
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ISBN: 0520959345 9780520959347 0520277457 9780520277458 9780520277458 9780520283589 0520283589 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oakland, California

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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation. Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food cultures-from ancient Mediterranean and medieval societies to France and its domination of haute cuisine. Teachers, students, and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns, such as transfers of crops, conquest, colonization, immigration, and modern forms of globalization.


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L'enfant et la mort dans l'Antiquité. : actes de la table ronde internationale organisée à la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH) d'Aix-en-Provence, 20-22 janvier 2011
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ISSN: 11106441 1954863X ISBN: 9782701802909 2701802903 9782877725224 9782111286153 2877725227 211128615X 2491788012 Year: 2012 Volume: 12 Publisher: Arles: Errance,

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Ce volume rassemble les communications présentées à la troisième et dernière réunion scientifique organisée dans le cadre du programme "L'enfant et la mort dans l'Antiquité : des pratiques funéraires à l'identité sociale" (EMA), financé par l'Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) de novembre 2007 à novembre 2011. Les 26 contributions - rédigées en français, en italien ou en anglais - envisagent la question du matériel associé aux tombes d'enfants. Dépose-t-on autant d'objets auprès des tout-petits, des enfants de 6-7 ans et de 12-13 ans ? La nature de ces offrandes varie-t-elle en fonction du sexe ? Dans quelle mesure certaines d'entre elles - "biberons, vases miniatures, astragales, figurines en terre cuite - sont-elles caractéristiques des sépultures d'immatures ? Ces questions se posent-elles de la même façon dans les différentes régions du monde méditerranéen et tout au long des douze siècles environ que couvre notre enquête ? Les articles réunis ici envisagent ces problèmes dans un cadre plus large que celui du monde méditerranéen classique - Grèce et Rome -, en intégrant des études relatives à l'Égypte préhellénistique, à Carthage, au monde celtique du Midi et à la Gaule non méditerranéenne. Certaines de ces contributions présentent des découvertes récentes, partiellement ou entièrement inédites.


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Ceramics, cuisine and culture : the archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world
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ISBN: 9781782979470 1782979476 9781782979487 1782979484 9781782979494 1782979492 9781782979500 1782979506 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford: Oxbow books,

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"The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social, political and economic contexts. Structured around main themes concerning technical aspects of pottery production; cooking as socio-economic practice; and changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters, a range of social economic and technological models are discussed on the basis of insights gained from the study of kitchen pottery production, use and evolution. Much discussion and work in the last decade has focussed on technical and social aspects of coarse ware and in particular kitchen ware. The chapters in this volume contribute to this debate, moving kitchen pottery beyond the Binfordian 'technomic' category and embracing a wider view, linking processualism, ceramic-ecology, behavioural schools, and ethnoarchaeology to research on historical developments and cultural transformations covering a broad geographical area of the Mediterranean region and spanning a long chronological sequence"--Publisher's information.

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Pottery, Ancient --- Cookware --- Cooking --- Material culture --- Social archaeology --- Céramique antique --- Batterie de cuisine --- Cuisine --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- History --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Kitchen utensils --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Manners and customs --- Social archaeology. --- Social change --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Céramique antique --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Cookery --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cooking utensils --- Household goods --- Household utensils --- Kitchenware --- Ancient pottery --- Pottery --- Methodology --- Equipment and supplies --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region --- Pottery, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Kitchen utensils - Mediterranean Region - Congresses --- Material culture - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500. --- Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Ethnoarchaeology - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cookware - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Cooking - Social aspects - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Mediterranean Region - Social life and customs --- Cooking - Social aspects

The poems of exile
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ISBN: 0520931378 9780520931374 0520242602 9780520242609 0140444076 9780140444070 1322401543 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile-permanently, as it turned out-at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages. The two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's impressions of Tomis-its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and sporadic raids by barbarous nomads-as well as his aching memories and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to intercede on his behalf. While pretending to have lost his old literary skills and even to be forgetting his Latin, in the Poems of Exile Ovid in fact displays all his virtuoso poetic talent, now concentrated on one objective: ending the exile. But his rhetorical message falls on obdurately deaf ears, and his appeals slowly lose hope. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured at Tomis.

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Poets, Latin --- Epistolary poetry, Latin --- Complaint poetry, Latin --- Exiles --- Romans --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Latin complaint poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin poets --- Ovid, --- Nasó, P. Ovidi, --- Naso, Publius Ovidius, --- Nazon, --- Ouidio, --- Ovide, --- Ovidi, --- Ovidi Nasó, P., --- Ovidiĭ, --- Ovidiĭ Nazon, Publiĭ, --- Ovidio, --- Ovidio Nasón, P., --- Ovidio Nasone, Publio, --- Ovidios, --- Ovidiu, --- Ovidius Naso, P., --- Owidiusz, --- P. Ovidius Naso, --- Publiĭ Ovidiĭ Nazon, --- Publio Ovidio Nasone, --- Ūvīd, --- אוביד, --- Constanța (Romania) --- Tomes (Romania) --- Constantza (Romania) --- Kustenji (Romania) --- Kustendjie (Romania) --- Constanța, Romania (City) --- Tomis (Romania) --- Tomi (Romania) --- Κωνστάντζα (Romania) --- Kōnstantza (Romania) --- Κωνστάντια (Romania) --- Kōnstantia (Romania) --- Кюстенджа (Romania) --- Ki︠o︡stendzha (Romania) --- Констанца (Romania) --- Konstant︠s︡a (Romania) --- Köstence (Romania) --- Ovid --- Ovidius Naso, Publius, --- ancient mediterranean. --- ancient rome. --- ancient world. --- augustus. --- banned books. --- barbarians. --- black sea letters. --- black sea. --- censorship. --- classical literature. --- classicism. --- classics. --- constantza. --- empire. --- epics. --- epistulae ex ponto. --- exile. --- lamentations. --- latin literature. --- latin. --- letters. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- nomads. --- ovid. --- poems of exile. --- poet. --- poetry. --- political prisoner. --- raids. --- rhetoric. --- roman empire. --- roman literature. --- roman poetry. --- romania. --- rome. --- theocratic age. --- tomis. --- tristia. --- violence. --- war.


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Greco-roman associations : texts, translations, and commentary : II. North coast of the Black Sea, Asia Minor
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ISSN: 01716441 ISBN: 9783110340143 9783110340846 9783110253450 9783110253467 3110253453 3110340143 9786613400260 128340026X 3110253461 3110382512 3110340844 9783110382518 6613400262 9783110707687 3110707683 9783110710397 9783110710441 3110710390 Year: 2014 Volume: 246 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement. This second volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations based on the North Coast of the Black Sea and in Asia Minor, published with English translations, brief explanatory notes, commentaries and full indices. This volume is essential for several areas of study: ancient patterns of social organization; the organization of diasporic communities in the ancient Mediterranean; models for the structure of early Christian groups; and forms of sociability, status-displays, and the vocabularies of virtue.

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902 <392> --- 902 <393> --- 225.08*8 --- Archeologie--Westelijk Klein-Azië: Troje Mysië Frygië Pergamon Lydië Smyrna Efese Halicarnassus Milete Bithynië Pisidië PamfyliëArcheologie --- -Archeologie--Oostelijk Klein-Azië: Pontus Cappadocië Cilicië, Galatië --- Theologie van het Nieuwe Testament: relatie met de klassieke oudheid --- Greece --- Rome --- Social conditions --- Latin inscriptions --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Associations --- Social structure --- Civilization, Greco-Roman --- Inscriptions, Greek. --- Inscriptions, Latin. --- Sources --- Associations. --- Inscriptions grecques. --- Inscriptions latines. --- Civilisation classique. --- Structure sociale. --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Greek inscriptions --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Greco-Roman civilization --- Civilization, Classical --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Institutions, associations, etc. --- Networks (Associations, institutions, etc.) --- Organizations --- Voluntary associations --- Voluntary organizations --- Social groups --- Voluntarism --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Griechenland --- Grèce --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Collèges (Rome) --- Asie Mineure --- Grèce --- Mer Noire, Côte de la. --- Conditions sociales --- Archeologie--Westelijk Klein-Azië: Troje; Mysië; Frygië; Pergamon; Lydië; Smyrna; Efese; Halicarnassus; Milete; Bithynië; Pisidië; PamfyliëArcheologie --- -Archeologie--Oostelijk Klein-Azië: Pontus; Cappadocië; Cilicië, Galatië --- Associations, institutions, etc --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Civilisation classique --- Structure sociale --- Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- Social history. --- Social structure. --- History --- To 30 B.C. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire). --- Civilisation gréco-romaine --- Inscriptions grecques --- Inscriptions latines --- Mer Noire, Côte de la --- Conditions sociales. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Egypt --- 22.08*9 --- 22.08*9 Bijbelse theologie: relatie met het hellenisme --- Bijbelse theologie: relatie met het hellenisme --- United Arab Republic --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- Sources. --- Associations, institutions, etc - Greece - Sources --- Associations, institutions, etc - Rome - Sources --- Social structure - Greece - Sources --- Social structure - Rome - Sources --- Greece - Social conditions - To 146 B.C. - Sources --- Rome - Social conditions - 510-30 BC - Sources --- Ancient Greece. --- Collegia. --- Epigraphy. --- Anatolia. --- ancient associations. --- social history. --- Ancient Sources. --- Ancient Mediterranean. --- Social organization.

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