Despite the fact that postmodern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kind and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the canon. The essays explore a wide variety of texts, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the boundaries of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity.

The wealth of excavation in Cyprus conducted across a period of nearly a century and a half has revealed much evidence of ancient building of all functional categories. Whereas the earlier excavation concerned mainly funerary and religious contexts, more recent work has endeavoured to clarify the whole range of building in Cyprus. This picture extends over a vast range of time (ca. 10,000 years) since Cyprus is probably the place where the earliest substantial building known, the Neolithic round house style is better presented than anywhere else in the world. Certainly it was immeasurably longer lived in Cyprus than in any other region of the ancient world. This longevity of tradition became a proverbial aspect of the Cypriote character. It is the aim of this book to set forth and document this building tradition which hitherto has received no detailed exposition. After preliminary geographical and historical introductions the ancient building of Cyprus has been surveyed and analysed from the following view-points: its historical development; its design; its construction and its foreign connections. Because of the extensive and detailed coverage every effort has been made to facilitate the use of the book equally as a treatise and as a work of instant reference - e.g. by way of introductory precis, list of general references, running titles to pages and marginal rubrics. The book is also virtually a double treatment of the subject since a separate volume contains specially drawn illustrations arranged with captions on the facing pages which themselves constitute an incisive coverage of the subject matter. The book will fill several gaps in the library shelves at one and the same time: architectural history that presents all the archaeological evidence.

Entre 1350 et 1200, les palais myceniens qui regissaient le monde egeen sont successivement detruits et la progressive dissolution de l'administration palatiale entraine la disparition de ses principales manifestations (archives en lineaire B, architecture monumentale, arts mineurs). Il faut attendre le VIIIe s. pour voir l'ecriture reapparaitre, sous la forme nouvellede l'alphabet grec, et un modele politique inedit, celui de la cite-Etat grecque (polis), emerger progressivement alors. A l'issue de quelles mutations sociales, politiques, economiques et culturelles et selon quelle chronologie les communautes egeennes sont-elles passees d'un systeme etatique centralise, celui des palais myceniens, a un autre, celui de la cite-Etat grecque ? Terre nourriciere de la civilisation minoenne et carrefour des routes maritimes reliant le monde egeen a la Sicile et a l'Italie du Sud, a l'Anatolie et au Levant, a l'Egypte et a la Libye, la Crete represente un terrain particulierement riche pour repondre a cette question. L'un des objectifs de cette etude etant d'echapper aux cloisonnements thematiques traditionnels et de convoquer l'ensemble des sources disponibles sur le sujet, son cadre geographique est reduit a une unite pertinente et bien documentee de l'ile : le pourtour de la baie du Mirambello, region charniere entre la Crete centrale et la Crete orientale. Cette partie de l'ile, qui a fait l'objet d'une exploration archeologique intensive depuis la fin du XIXe s., a en particulier livre de tres nombreux sites dates entre la fin du Bronze Recent et le Premier Age du Fer et a vu se developper le centre urbain de sept poleis. En fonction des phases chronologiques identifiables et de la typologie des sites recenses, des schemas d'implantation peuvent etre degages et representes par une serie de cartes SIG. L'evolution des structures sociales, des strategies economiques, des orientations culturelles et des organisations politiques au cours de la periode peut egalement etre envisagee, a partir des vestiges de la culture materielle relevant du religieux, du funeraire, du residentiel et du politique. Au final, il apparait que c'est dans la premiere moitie du VIIe s. avt n. e. qu'il faut situer l'emergence de la cite-Etat grecque dans cette region de Crete et que celle-ci se produit au terme d'un long processus de formation, initie au lendemain de l'effondrement du Palais de Knossos. Si la naissance de la polis dans le Mirambello constitue bien une rupture majeure d'ordre politique, elle s'appuie en revanche sur des structures sociales et des elements culturels preexistants, qui trouvent leur origine a la fin du Bronze Recent. L'ensemble de la documentation rassemblee pour cette etude est proposee dans la Deuxieme Partie du volume : la presentation des sites inventories prend la forme de notices systematiques concues dans l'optique de la recherche et illustrees de cartes, de plans, de dessins et de photographies.

This special issue of Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1, entitled 'Space in the Ancient Novel', brings together a collection of revised papers, originally presented at the International conference under the same title organized by the Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete and held in Rethymnon, on May 14-15, 2001. This conference inaugurated what is hoped to become a new series of biennial International meetings on the Ancient Novel (RICAN, Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel) which aspires to continue the reputable tradition of the Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, established by Heinz Hofmann and Maaike Zimmerman. Ancient Narrative Supplementum 1 includes two additional contributions by Catherine Connors and Judith Perkins, both originally presented in ICAN 2000 at Groningen in July 25-30, 2000 and included here in revised form, and an article by Stelios Panayotakis, which closely relates to the theme of the Rethymnon conference.

The impact of long-distance exchange on the developing cultures of Bronze Age Greece has been a subject of debate since Schliemann's discovery of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae. In Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce, and the Formation of Identity, Bryan E. Burns offers a new understanding of the effects of Mediterranean trade on Mycenaean Greece by considering the possibilities represented by the traded objects themselves in their Mycenaean contexts. A range of imported artifacts were distinguished by their precious material, uncommon style and foreign writing, signaling their status as tangible evidence of connections beyond the Aegean. The consumption of these exotic symbols spread beyond the highest levels of society and functioned as symbols of external power sources. Burns argues that the consumption of exotic items thus enabled the formation of alternate identities and the resistance of palatial power.

This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN 2) under the same title, held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, on May 19-20, 2003.Though research into metaphor has reached staggering proportions over the past twenty-five years, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to the subject of metaphor in relation to the ancient novel. Not every contributor takes into account theoretical discussions of metaphor, but the usefulness of every single paper lies in the fact that they explore actual texts while sometimes theorists tend to work out of context.

Sicily, with its abundant presence of historical waterworks, served as background for the 10th international conference on the history of water management and hydraulic engineering in the Mediterranean region in May 1998. The conference addressed five themes as a basis for discussion and as a stimulus for new debate and for finding new directions for research. The first topic dealt with the conditions imposed by nature, their influence upon human behaviour and, consequently, the development of water management. The tangible results of human responses to these parameters set by nature were the subject of the second and third theme respectively, that is to say, on the building of aquaducts and the water management of Roman baths. Themes four and five went beyond a mere examination of the archaeological realia: they dealt with the questions whether there was a water shortage or a water surplus in Roman cities and whether the Romans had a hygienic lifestyle. These issues were tabled in order to improve our understanding of the context of ancient water management. These proceedings contain the papers given at the conference, many of them presenting cases from Sicily. There are contributions by archaeologists, historians, geologists, hydraulic engineers and urban historians, all specialists in the field of historical water research. The volume is richly illustrated.

The islands of Malta are geographically small, but there is nothing diminutive about their past relics and monuments. Maltese antiquarians saw in these monuments testimonies of the ebb and flow of social groups and individuals, and often claimed special connections, real or otherwise, with landmark events in human history. Seeking a tangible link to their heritage, collectors, especially those of the 18th and 19th centuries, gathered pottery and other artefacts for their shelves. Many of these private collections of antiquities held in Malta are vast, but for the most part unknown beyond its shores. Although the majority of artefacts are of the Punic period, they do reflect the island's contacts with other ancient cultures and markets of the Mediterranean. This volume presents well over a thousand antiquities and is an extensive resource for those interested in Malta's rich cultural heritage. It forms a companion volume to C. Sagona's "The Archaeology of Punic Malta" (2002, Peeters), consolidating further the evidence presented in that detailed study.

Inscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants' intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking. The seasonality of these rituals suggests that they were focused on the cycle of life: fertility, birth, death and renewal. Offerings left with the vessels suggest that these rituals also addressed other, more personal concerns. As for Linear A itself: the language behind the script appears to contain a fairly standard phonemic inventory, though there are hints of additional, more exotic phonemes. The morphology of the language appears to involve affixation, a typical mode of inflection in human languages. The presence of significant prefixing tends to rule out PIE as a parent language, while the word-internal vowel alternations typical of Afroasiatic verbal inflection are nowhere to be found in this script. In the end, Linear A appears most likely to represent a non-IE, non-Afroasiatic language, perhaps with agglutinative tendencies, and perhaps with VSO word order.

To coincide with the publication of his large monograph 'Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia', we are reprinting a series of 15 of Professor Fossey's previously published papers. These papers, scattered across many periodicals, were written during the preparation of the monograph; the latter, in its turn, makes frequent ref-erence to the papers. In this way, the two works complement each other; the papers also treat of detailed problems which could not have received the same full discussion in the monograph. The papers are divided into four sections: testimonia, Mykenaian Boiotia, Sites and History of Boiotia from Protohistoric to Classical Times, and Roman Boiotia.

This volume presents the results of the Argolid Exploration Project, an archaeological, historical and geological survey of a part of the Peloponnese of Greece. It is a study in human ecology that analyses the dynamic relationship between human communities and their environments, both cultural and natural. Before 8,000 years ago, particularly during the last Ice Age, the most important determinant of landscape evolution was climate change. However, in the last 8,000 years, human settlement and land use have had drastic effects upon the land, resulting in deforestation and erosion. For this period a cyclical pattern of settlement growth and decline that correlates with successive episodes of catastrophic damage to the soils and environment is revealed. A shorter study of the Project intended for the general reader has already been published (Beyond the Acropolis by van Andel and Runnels, Stanford, 1987), and at least two other volumes will continue to set out the findings.

In dieser Arbeit werden die zukunftigen und gewesen Konsuln in der Zeit von Commodus bis zum Tode des Severus Alexander (180-235) untersucht. Wegen des unvermindert hohen Prestiges des Konsulates konnen die mit diesem Amt ausgezeichneten Senatoren der Elite des Senatorenstandes zugerechnet werden, wahrend wiederum ein Teil von ihnen, wegen der Bekleidung der hochsten Aufgaben in der Zivil- und Militarverwaltung des romischen Kaiserreiches, als die tatsachliche senato-rische Fuhrungsschicht angesehen werden kann. Die Grundlage dieser Studie bildet eine Prosopographie, in der die in der Reichsverwaltung dieses Zeitraums tatigen Senatoren erfat sind.

Nach zehn Jahren folgt hier ein zweiter, abschliessender Band zur Sammlung Ennetwies. Er stellt wiederum antike Kunstwerke ganz unterschiedlicher Herkunft und Epochen vor. Sie stammen aus Agypten, Griechenland und Italien und verteilen sich auf einen Zeitraum von der Archaik bis zur Schwelle der Spatantike. Einige Stein- und Tonplastiken sind in Grossgriechenland und Etrurien entstanden. Aber die besondere Vorliebe des Sammlers gilt, wie schon der erste Band erkennen liess, den antiken Bildnissen und den Personlichkeiten, die sie abbilden. So stehen beispielsweise zwei Kopfe Alexanders des Grossen in der Sammlung Ennetwies, ein unterlebensgrosser hellenistischer aus Ton und ein kolossaler in spatantoninisch-severischer Zeit entandener Marmorkopf. Die Geschichte dieses Alexanderportrats lasst sich vom Rom des 18. Jhs. bis zu seinen wechselnden Schicksalen in englischem Adelsbesitz verfolgen.Doch die meisten Bildnisse stellen Romer dar, unter ihnen so beruhmte Personlichkeiten wie ein - lange fur verschollen gehaltener - kleiner Pompeius, Caesar oder Julia Domna.Alle Stucke sind in dem heutigen Standard entsprechenden Fotografien dokumentiert und ausfuhrlich beschrieben. Auf dieser Grundlage konnten sie wissenschaftlich bestimmt und in ihr stilistisches und kulturelles Umfeld eingeordnet werden.