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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1080

Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ancient religions are definitely complex systems of gods, which resist our understanding. Divine names provide fundamental keys to gain access to the multiples ways gods were conceived, characterized, and organized. Among the names given to the gods many of them refer to spaces: cities, landscapes, sanctuaries, houses, cosmic elements. They reflect mental maps which need to be explored in order to gain new knowledge on both the structure of the pantheons and the human agency in the cultic dimension. By considering the intersection between naming and mapping, this book opens up new perspectives on how tradition and innovation, appropriation and creation play a role in the making of polytheist...

The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

The Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost?

  • Categories: Art

In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics, held in Sardinia in October 2014, focused on the theme of cost, broadly considered, relating specifically to the preservation and presentation of the world’s mosaic heritage. This handsome, abundantly illustrated volume provides a comprehensive record of the conference. The volume’s sixty-seven papers and posters, comprising contributions from more than one hundred leading experts in the field, reflect th...

Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World

A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two millennia, exerting influence at key historical junctures. This book provides the first critical exploration of the role Persian cultures played in articulating the myriad ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the sixth century BCE and the ...

Imagining Telephus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Imagining Telephus

Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was wounded and then cured by Achilles, and led Agamemnon’s army to Troy. This book is the first comprehensive study on his myth. It investigates fragmentary artefacts and texts, offers new readings and interpretations, and frames the evidence in its socio-political, historical, and cultural contexts. What results is a view of an ever-changing myth embedded in diverse cultural milieux, a product and a catalyst of cross-cultural exchanges, and an instrument of soft power. After assessing the sources, this book provides a contextual history of the myth...

Eirene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 166

Eirene

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World

This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics that usually have a very low-level of visibility, such as the skillful gestures of the craftspeople involved, the organization of the ceramic production, the dynamics of apprenticeship and knowledge transfer as well as intra and inter-regional artisanal mobility, in the Graeco-Roman ‘communities of practice’. The papers promote interdisciplinary dialogues among various fields of study, such as archaeology, archaeometry, anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and digital humanities - such as Social Network Analysis, computational imaging, and big data analysis.

Etruscan Orientalization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Etruscan Orientalization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Etruscan Orientalization provides a historiography of the terms ‘orientalizing’ and ‘orientalization’ in eighteenth through twentieth century European scholarship on early Etruscan history as it sought to understand how civilizational knowledge transferred in antiquity from East to West. This original orientalist framing of cultural influence was influenced by notions of Italian nationalism and colonialism, all traits that can still be felt in modern understandings of ‘orientalizing’ as an art historical style, chronological period, and process of cultural change. This work argues that scholarship on Mediterranean connectivity in early first millennium BCE can provide new insights by abandoning the term ‘orientalizing’.

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 881

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy provides a comprehensive account of the many peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium BCE. Written by more than fifty authors, the book describes the diversity of these indigenous cultures, their languages, interactions, and reciprocal influences. It gives emphasis to Greek colonization, the rise of aristocracies, technological innovations, and the spread of literacy, which provided the urban texture that shaped the history of the Italian peninsula.

History of Universities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

History of Universities

This volume contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports and bibliographical information, which makes this publication useful for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter.

Monte S. Elena (Bergeggi - SV). Un sito ligure d'altura affacciato sul mare. Scavi 1999-2006
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 359

Monte S. Elena (Bergeggi - SV). Un sito ligure d'altura affacciato sul mare. Scavi 1999-2006

Il volume, frutto della collaborazione del Comune di Bergeggi con la Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici della Liguria e l’Università degli Studi di Genova, raccoglie organicamente la complessa mole di dati e materiali recuperati in otto anni di scavi sul sito denominato Castellaro di Monte S. Elena sulle alture di Bergeggi. L’indagine svolta ha permesso non solo individuare nuove strutture, ma anche di meglio chiarire cronologia e caratteristiche della frequentazione del sito e ottenere dati importanti per la ricostruzione dei commerci nel ponente ligure nel periodo della Romanizzazione e nei secoli immediatamente precedenti.