This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Webble World Summit, WWS 2013, held in Erfurt, Germany, in June 2013. The focus of the event is on Webble technology and its applications. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on challenging the Webble technology; Webble core technology; applications of Webble technology; outlook and vision; the big picture.

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about "personhood" or "self". The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.

This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about "personhood" or "self". The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.

In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie sich das von den Achameniden aufgebaute Weltreich bis zu seinem Untergang entwickelt beziehungsweise welche Vorgaben es bei der Errichtung eines Staates durch die ersten Seleukiden hinterlassen hat. Des Weiteren wird dargestellt, wie im seleukidischen Reich griechische, makedonische, achamenidische und sonstige altorientalische Traditionen zu einem lebensfahigen Ganzen verbunden wurden. Deshalb wird keiner der beteiligten Fachdisziplinen Altorientalistik, Iranistik und Alte Geschichte ein Vorrang eingeraumt, vielmehr sollen alle Forschungsbereiche nach den dort jeweils geltenden Kriterien fur Vollstandigkeit durchdrungen werden. Auf diese Weise soll die Frage beantwortet werden, inwiefern Sachzwange beziehungsweise historische Vorgaben die Entstehung dieser Staaten determiniert haben, beziehungsweise welche Bedeutung dem gestalterischen Freiraum von Grundern und massgeblichen Herrscherpersoenlichkeiten beizumessen ist.

In June 2014, to mark the appearance of volume 25 of the journal NIKEPHOROS, a conference was held in Graz on the theme of sport in antiquity. It documented, through the work of 32 established and young scholars from Denmark, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Croatia, The Netherlands, the USA and Austria, both the current interest in the theme of ancient sports and the increasing awareness of the importance of this specific aspect of culture in researching more general historical questions. The papers from the conference are published in edited form in volumes 27 and 28 of NIKEPHOROS.