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Esoteric sciences --- flying saucer activity --- extra-terrestrial phenomena --- mysterious flying objects --- old legends --- mythological scenes --- forgotten knowledge --- secrets of an age at the birth of civilisation --- the ancient world --- mythology --- patterns of flying saucer visitation

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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.

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Art, Ancient --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Romans --- Art antique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Romains --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Dura-Europos (Extinct city) --- Syria --- Doura-Europos (Ville ancienne) --- Syrie --- Religion --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- New York University. --- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University --- ISAW --- Doura (Extinct city) --- Doura-Europos (Extinct city) --- Dura (Extinct city) --- Dura-Europos (Ancient city) --- Dura-Europus (Extinct city) --- Europos (Extinct city) --- Europus (Extinct city) --- Religion. --- Europos (Syria : Extinct city) --- Exhibitions.

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Claudius Tiberianus represents a typical situation for the possibilities of Greco-Egyptians how to advance socially through the service in the Roman army and then how to obtain therefore the citizenship after having finished with the honesta missio. In the first place we see him as a speculator at the time of the rule of Trajan, later as a veteran: he had socially advanced and operated together with his companion veterans and also with the still serving soldiers in the navy and in the land army. His friends were for him economic and social partners, they had common affairs and common opinions. These documents open a view of the living in the country (Fayum and elsewhere) and in the city of Alexandria, which allow us to reconstruct a lot of private and public relations. Here even the nearly silent world of women informs us about economic and legal items. A very interesting tale concerns the murdering of a slave reported by the mother of the culprit. Another quite actual aspect of those days is represented by relations such as between patroni and their clientes. From a more technical point in the field of papyrological work it should be remembered that the results have been obtained through a continous interrogation of the archaeological background.

Soldiers --- Romans --- Soldats --- Romains --- History --- Sources --- Sources. --- Histoire --- Rome --- Army --- Military life --- Armée --- Vie militaire --- Armée --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Manuscripts, Latin (Papyri) --- Manuscripts, Latin --- Papyrologie. --- Papyrology, Roman History, Greek and Roman Egypt, Social and Economic History of the Ancient World. --- Rom /Geschichte. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Latin manuscripts --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Latin papyri --- Papyri, Latin --- Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Greek papyri --- Papyri, Greek --- Rome. Armée --- Militaires --- Égypte --- 2e siècle

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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at the relationship between empirical knowledge and textual transmission in early scientific thinking. The eleven contributions to the volume derive from a panel held at the American Oriental Society in 2013 and cover more than three millennia of historical development, ranging from Babylonian medicine and astronomy to the persistence of Mesopotamian lore in Syriac and Arabic meditations on the properties of animals. The volume also includes major contributions on the history of Mesopotamian “rationality,” epistemic labels for tested and tried remedies, and the development of depersonalized case histories in Babylonian therapeutic compendia. Together, these studies offer an overview of several important moments in the development of non-Western scientific thinking and a significant contribution to our understanding of how traditions of technical knowledge were produced and transmitted in the ancient world.

Science --- Technology --- Scientific literature --- Technical literature --- Reference books --- Empiricism in literature. --- Semitic literature --- Multilingualism and literature --- Learning and scholarship --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Literature and multilingualism --- Literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- Reference books, English --- Books --- Reference sources --- Engineering literature --- Technology literature --- Science literature --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- History --- History and criticism. --- Iraq --- Irak --- Rāfidayn, Bilād --- Bilād al-Rāfidayn --- Republic of Iraq --- Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah --- Intellectual life. --- Natural sciences --- compilation and redaction in the ancient world. --- early scientific thought. --- empiricism. --- infrastructural compendia.