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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.
Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and
mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable
essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and
thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the
hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's
Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis. Through systematic readings of
a wide range of seemingly unrelated texts, the author offers a
cohesive picture of heroic character in a variety of literary
genres. Her characterization of Achilles, Odysseus, and Heracles is
artfully supported by a comprehensive overview of the theme of
descent to the underworld in Homer, Bacchylides, and Euripides.
Aimed at the specialist as well as the general reader, Greek Heroes
in and out of Hades brings innovative Classical scholarship and
insightful literary criticism to a wide audience.
This book brings solutions to a very great list of hitherto
unsolved chronological and synchronisation problems. The reason why
those solutions could be found lies in the extensive research the
author made in old and often rare texts instead of limiting himself
to the near exclusive source of the Bible. Ample use has been made
of information that is available in works like the Books of Enoch,
The Apocrypha, The Legends of the Jews, The Seder Olam, the Book of
Jasher and many more, as well as in the texts from known historians
like Herodotus and the famous Jewish historian and priest Flavius
Josephus Just a few of the many special findings are: The real
reason why Joseph was so popular with the Pharaoh. Sarah was not
Abraham's (half)-sister. Moses was uncircumcised and even forbade
the ritual for 40 years. Terah was not 70 years old when he begat
Abraham. The exact period of the Judges: when they started and when
they ended. A solution for the verse of the "about 450 years" of
Paul's speech. Why did the Lord God give form and then blew life
into Adam? Eve was not made out of Adam's rib but from another body
part A solution to the "impossible synchronism" of Judah and his
sons. Enoch made not one but 4 trips to Heaven. The definitive
answer: why did King Josiah attack Necho II? Why did King Ahab not
fight at Qarqar? And many more. The book has a unique style. It has
nothing of the "study book," difficult to understand texts. The
subject is serious, well researched, and treated with respect. But
that does not mean that it cannot be presented at a fast moving
pace, in easy to read style with here and there even a bit of
humour. The purpose of the book is to prove that the promise that
the Lord God made to Adam was kept. It held that there would be
exactly 5500 years between the arrival of Adam in this world and
the arrival of Christ. Every person who was of importance in that
timespan has been visited. For every single one there are his years
of birth and death or the years of his rule. Every person has a
short story about some important part of his life, his actions or
the influence he had on the history of the Hebrew people that lived
in that period.
In his utopian novel Hiera Anagraphe (Sacred History) Euhemerus of
Messene (ca. 300 B.C.) describes his travel to the island Panchaia
in the Indian Ocean where he discovered an inscribed stele in the
temple of Zeus Triphylius. It turned out that the Olympian gods
(Uranos, Kronos, Zeus) were deified kings. The travels of Zeus
allowed to describe peoples and places all over the world.
Winiarczyk investigates the sources of the theological views of
Euhemerus. He proves that Euhemerus' religious views were rooted in
old Greek tradition (the worship of heroes, gods as founders of
their own cult, tombs of gods, euergetism, rationalistic
interpretation of myths, the explanations of the origin of religion
by the sophists, the ruler cult). The description of the Panchaian
society is intended to suggest an archaic and closed culture, in
which the stele recording res gestae of the deified kings might
have been preserved. The translation of Ennius' Euhemerus sive
Sacra historia (ca. 200 - ca. 194) is a free prose rendering, which
Lactantius knew only indirectly. The book is concluded by a short
history of Euhemerism in the pagan, Christian and Jewish
literature.
The ongoing digitisation of the literary papyri (and related
technical texts like the medical papyri) is leading to new thoughts
on the concept and shape of the "digital critical edition" of
ancient documents. First of all, there is the need of representing
any textual and paratextual feature as much as possible, and of
encoding them in a semantic markup that is very different from a
traditional critical edition, based on the mere display of
information. Moreover, several new tools allow us to reconsider not
only the linguistic dimension of the ancient texts (from exploiting
the potentialities of linguistic annotation to a full consideration
of language variation as a key to socio-cultural analysis), but
also the very concept of philological variation (replacing the
mono-authorial view of an reconstructed archetype with a dynamic
multitextual model closer to the fluid aspect of the textual
transmission). The contributors, experts in the application of
digital strategies to the papyrological research, face these issues
from their own viewpoints, not without glimpses on parallel fields
like Egyptology and Near Eastern studies. The result is a new,
original and cross-disciplinary overview of a key issue in the
digital humanities.
The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle
involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably
discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the
office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship
has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the
scholarship. The book contains a study of the quaestorship
throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome)
and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office,
an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger
importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography
of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the
literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence. The quaestorship was
always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political
career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate.
Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great
significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and
supervision of Rome's finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship
was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.
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
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The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human
history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can
there be a permanent society, or are all doomed to decline? In the
first part of this book, the author constructs several arguments
based on parallels he observed in civilizations of antiquity. The
reasons for the rise of various civilizations, and the forces which
contribute to their success, are discussed. Hubbard proceeds to
establish points surrounding human nature and racial identity,
religious adherence, and the prevalence of rationality and reason:
these attributes of mankind, when in harmony, establish
sophisticated and prospering civilizations. For the author, when
these traits are upset - as in conflicts between individual values
and the requirements of the state - decline will set in. The
overemphasis of the competitive traits of man likewise lead to a
decline in moral and social cohesiveness.
In the past 20 years, a new paradigm has emerged around the
study of festive dining as a seminal social practice that
functioned as the matrix for the social formation of a variety of
groups in the Greco-Roman world, including earliest Christianity
and pre-Rabbinic Judaism. Most recently, an international team of
scholars, organized as the Society of Biblical Literature Seminar
on Meals in the Greco-Roman World, has developed this paradigm in a
series of groundbreaking studies. This volume provides a collection
of those studies in four areas of focus: The Typology of the
Greco-Roman Banquet; The Archeology of the Banquet; Who Was at the
Greco-Roman Banquets?; and The Culture of Reclining. Together they
establish festive meals as an essential lens into social formation
in the Greco-Roman world.
Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) was a fourth-century Roman
historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account
surviving from Antiquity. His work chronicled in Latin the history
of Rome from 96 to 378, although only the sections covering the
period 353-378 are present in this book. His entire work, including
the missing first thirteen books, is a history of the Roman empire
from the accession of Nerva (96) to the death of Valens at the
Battle of Adrianople (378), in effect writing a continuation of the
history of Tacitus.
Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and
aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the
area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in
various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings.
This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a
Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented
at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN
IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary
approach and putting together different methodological tools
(intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a
illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in
the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole
demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth
and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be
considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on
the quintessential question of love.
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.
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