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Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit
alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe
griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur
Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben
werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die
wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team
anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore
di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle
(University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of
California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova)
Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen)
Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael
D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard
University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke
wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der
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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.
This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and
literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the
Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma,"
"post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned
in ancient Greek culture.
Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose
authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world
as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with
the causes and course of the great wars that brought the Greek
cities into conflict with the empires of the Near East. Each
subsequent generation of historians has sought to use his text and
to measure their knowledge of these cultures against his
words.
This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in
Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and has now
been edited for English-speaking readers by Oswyn Murray and
Alfonso Moreno. It is designed for use alongside the Oxford
Classical Text of Herodotus, and will replace the century-old
historical commentary of How and Wells (1912) as the most
authoritative account of modern scholarship on Herodotus.
Books I-IV cover the history and cultures of Lydia, Egypt, Persia,
and the nomads of Scythia and North Africa, in their contacts with
the Greeks from mythical times to the start of the fifth century
BC; these themes, with many digressions, are woven into an account
of the expansion of the Persian Empire and its relations with the
Greeks.
The distinguished Russian archeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov's
study reveals how a field archeologist goes about determining and
writing prehistory. Over the course of his career, Okladnikov and
his wife Vera Zaporozhskaya travelled across Siberia from the Lena
River in the north to the Amur River in the south excavating
archaeological sites. During that time Aleksei and Vera found and
interpreted the rock art of the vast region from the Paleolithic
Era to the present day. Relying on petroglyphs and pictographs left
on cliffs and boulders, Okladnikov lays out in detail and
straightforward language the prehistory of Siberia by "reading"
these artifacts. This book permits the past to be told in its own
words: the art portrayed on the cliffs of Siberia.
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Redefining Dionysos
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Alberto Bernabe, Miguel Herrero De Jauregui, Ana Isabel Jimenez San Cristobal, Raquel Martin Hernandez
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This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek
god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30
studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of
specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult,
myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos
in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of
different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of
Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults,
literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late
antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in
each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is
involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing
theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the
focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean
finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more
nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in
antiquity.
This volume will include critical and collated editions of all the
inscriptions of the 1st-millennium Babylonian kings Nabopolassar
(626-605), Amel-Marduk (biblical Evil-Merodach, 561-560), and
Neriglissar (559-556). The editions will be preceded by an in-depth
study and followed by a glossary and concordance of the
inscriptions as well as complete indexes of toponyms, anthroponyms,
and theonyms. The volume includes a CD-ROM with high-definition
full-color digital images of the inscriptions.
The word "history" derives from the Greek word for "inquiry".
Combining his encyclopaedic interests and curiosity about the
customs and workings of humankind, the "Father of History" gives us
an unforgettable account of the great clash between Greece and the
Persian Empire. In his matchless study of persons, places, and
events, Herodotus recounts the rise of Lydia, and the ascendancy of
the kingdom of Persia under kings Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and
Xerxes; the exotic customs of Egypt; and the stirring events at
Thermopylae and Salamis.
For over threescore years Cyrus H. Gordon's scholarship and
teaching have provided new directions to the study of the ancient
Near East. This collection of 34 essays in honour of his 90th
birthday, edited by three of his former pupils, celebrates his
fascinating and remarkable achievements and reflects his broad
command of ancient studies. The global impact of his research can
be seen from the geographical dispersion of the outstanding
scholars who have written here on the following topics:
archaeology, Bible studies, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Arabic,
Egypto-Semitic, the cuneiform world, Indo-European, Samaritan, the
Graeco-Roman world, mediaeval studies. The inclusion of a complete
bibliography of Gordon's works is of singular value.
People have been speculating for centuries about how the ancient
Egyptians built the Great Pyramids.Few people have paid attention
to Herodotus and his writings about Egypt's intricate canal system,
but historian James V. Barr believes these played a critical role
in pyramid construction. Relying on years of research, he presents
the lock and canal system of construction.Barr also examines other
theories of pyramid construction such as the levitation theory and
the ramp theory. He explains why explanations of pyramid
construction that do not focus on the canal system are wrong and
why the canal and lock system makes the most sense.Barr hopes to
show Egypt both as it once was and as it is today, sharing entirely
new photographs, drawings, and maps. This is concise, informative
primer for anyone who wants to learn more about the methods
employed in pyramid construction.Discover the ingenuity of the
ancient Egyptians and dig deeper into some of their greatest feats
of engineering as you take a trip back in time on "The Floating
Stones of Egypt."
The theme of leadership played an important role in ancient Israel
and its discourse. It was explored time and again through memories
of proper, improper and in-between leaders and through memories of
particular institutions like monarchy, priesthood, and prophethood.
The ways in which this theme was shaped, reflected and explored
through social memory and how, in turn, those memories played a
socializing role within the community is the focus of this
collection of essays. Although the nature and limitations of
kingship, both native and foreign, is a central theme of many of
the essays, the volume includes discussions of both official and
unofficial local leadership within an empire setting, alternatives
to royal leadership like theocracy, charismatic judgeship, and
Greek-style tyrants, as well as considerations of Greek political
discourse on the best type of leadership.
Eusebius of Caesarea (d. 339) is our major historical witness to the triumph of Christianity in the early fourth century. His commentary on the Book of Isaiah has only been available to modern scholars since 1975. The present book, the first comprehensive study, examines how Eusebius interpreted Isaiah in the context of Constantine's conversion.
Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit
alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe
griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur
Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben
werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die
wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team
anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore
di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle
(University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of
California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova)
Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen)
Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael
D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard
University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke
wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der
Bibliotheca Teubneriana parallel zur gedruckten Ausgabe auch als
eBook angeboten. Die alteren Bande werden sukzessive ebenfalls als
eBook bereitgestellt. Falls Sie einen vergriffenen Titel bestellen
moechten, der noch nicht als Print-on-Demand angeboten wird,
schreiben Sie uns an: [email protected] Samtliche in
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Texte sind in der Datenbank BTL Online elektronisch verfugbar.
The elements of music, musical values, the relationship of music
to the other ancient arts--all of these subjects are explored as
Polin discusses the musical heritage of the ancient Near East.
Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit
alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe
griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur
Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben
werden durch eine lateinische oder englische Praefatio erganzt. Die
wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team
anerkannter Philologen: Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore
di Pisa) Marcus Deufert (Universitat Leipzig) James Diggle
(University of Cambridge) Donald J. Mastronarde (University of
California, Berkeley) Franco Montanari (Universita di Genova)
Heinz-Gunther Nesselrath (Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen)
Oliver Primavesi (Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen) Michael
D. Reeve (University of Cambridge) Richard J. Tarrant (Harvard
University) Vergriffene Titel werden als Print-on-Demand-Nachdrucke
wieder verfugbar gemacht. Zudem werden alle Neuerscheinungen der
Bibliotheca Teubneriana parallel zur gedruckten Ausgabe auch als
eBook angeboten. Die alteren Bande werden sukzessive ebenfalls als
eBook bereitgestellt. Falls Sie einen vergriffenen Titel bestellen
moechten, der noch nicht als Print-on-Demand angeboten wird,
schreiben Sie uns an: [email protected] Samtliche in
der Bibliotheca Teubneriana erschienenen Editionen lateinischer
Texte sind in der Datenbank BTL Online elektronisch verfugbar.
Luke-Acts contains a wealth of material that is relevant to
politics, and the relationship between Jesus and his followers and
the Roman Empire becomes an issue at a number of points. The
author's fundamental attitude toward Rome is hard to discern,
however. The complexity of Luke's task as both a creative writer
and a mediator of received tradition, and perhaps as well the
author's own ambivalence, have left conflicting evidence in the
narrative. Scholarly treatments of the issue have tended to survey
in a relatively short scope a great amount of material with
different degrees of relevance to the question and representing
different proportions of authorial contribution and traditional
material. This book attempts to make a contribution to the
discussion by narrowing the focus to Luke's depiction of the Roman
provincial governors in his narrative, interpreted in terms of his
Greco-Roman literary context. Luke's portraits of Roman governors
can be seen to invoke expectations and concerns that were common in
the literary context. By these standards Luke's portrait of these
Roman authority figures is relatively critical, and demonstrates
his preoccupation with Rome's judgment of the Christians more than
a desire to commend Roman rule.
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