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In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people's actions? Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history, post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly imagined description of how people of this time understood and navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette of imperial courts.
Intellectual life --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Ancient civilization --- Cultural life --- Culture --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Intellectual life. --- To 1500. --- 27 <08> --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- ancient civilization. --- ancient people. --- cognitive science. --- cultural history. --- epistemology. --- historical knowledge. --- historical thought. --- history of epistemology. --- history of science. --- history of theology. --- history of thought. --- imperial courts. --- intellectual history. --- knowing in ancient civilization. --- knowledge. --- late antiquity. --- nature of cognition. --- philosophical medicine. --- political history. --- post structuralism. --- post structuralist theory. --- problems of knowledge. --- social history. --- theories of knowledge.
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In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.
Antiquities. --- Archäologie. --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- Cities and towns, Ancient. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Greeks --- Greeks. --- Group identity --- Group identity. --- Social archaeology --- Social archaeology. --- History. --- Afghanistan --- Asia --- Asia, Central --- Asia, Central. --- Ay Khānom (Afghanistan) --- Bactria --- Ferner Osten. --- Hellenobaktrisches Reich. --- Indogriechisches Reich. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Garrisons --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Geography, Ancient --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Archaeology --- History --- Methodology --- Ay Khānom (Afghanistan) --- Aï Khanoum (Afghanistan) --- Ai Khanum (Afghanistan) --- Ay Khanum (Afghanistan) --- Baktrii︠a︡-Tokharistan --- Bactriane-Tokharistan --- Bactriana --- Zariaspa --- Battriana --- Central Asia --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Languages --- ai khanoum. --- alexander the great. --- alexandria on the oxus. --- ancient history. --- ancient people. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- archaeology. --- bactria. --- central asia. --- coins. --- conquests of alexander the great. --- eucratidia. --- extensively excavated. --- graeco bactrian kingdoms. --- greece. --- greek empire. --- greek garrison. --- hellenistic period. --- india. --- indigenous peoples. --- indo greek kingdoms. --- late fourth century. --- modern day afghanistan. --- multi ethnic. --- multi lingual. --- urban site.
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