Thursday, April 18, 2024

New Trends in the Research on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas

 Much has been written on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas since the work of Lipisus, Wright, and Bonnet. However, many of the crucial questions concerning the text remain still today open: When was the text composed? In which language was it written, Greek or Syriac? And most importantly, where in the ancient world did the text see the light? Also the nature and structure of the text remain in doubt: What is the nature of the text we have at our disposal? And how was it transmitted throughout the Middle Ages? The present volume intends to provide answers at least to some of these questions. Its title, New Trends in the Research on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, however, shows that it at the same time intends to break new ground in the analysis of the text, revising some old, vexed problems.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.
year: 2024
isbn: 9789042951815
e-isbn: 9789042951822
pages: XVIII-210 p.

 

Die Werkstätten der arretinischen Reliefkeramik

Die Werkstätten der arretinischen Reliefkeramik
Francesca Paola Porten Palange 
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Monographien des RGZM, Band 76,1 

Monographien des RGZM, Band 76,2 

Dem »Katalog der Punzenmotive in der arretinischen Reliefkeramik« (RGZM Kataloge Vor- und Früh geschichtlicher Altertümer 38, 1-2 [2004]) folgen nun diese beiden Bände über die Werkstätten, die von ca. 30 v.Chr. an in Arezzo und Umgebung Reliefkeramik produziert haben.
Im ersten Band werden insgesamt 22 Werkstätten analysiert, ergänzt durch ein Kapitel über den Töpfer Anteros, von dem wir noch nicht wissen, für welche Manufaktur er gearbeitet hat. Die Werkstätten sind völlig neu bearbeitet, und ihr Repertoire ist umfassender beschrieben. Hinzu kommen viele bis dato unbekannte Punzenmotive sowie gegenüber der bisherigen Forschung notwendige Neuzuweisungen, wodurch wir – obwohl das Material des Museums in Arezzo immer noch so spärlich veröffentlicht bleibt – von der Gattung ein deutlich klareres und genaueres Bild erhalten und das Repertoire der einzelnen Offizinen an Reichhaltigkeit gewinnt.
Der zweite Band enthält für jede Werkstatt in zeichnerischer Darstellung die Namensstempel und die bislang bekannten Profile, außerdem die wichtigsten Randmotive und die häufigsten vegetabilischen Ornamente, die für die korrekte und sichere Zuschreibung eine so entscheidende Rolle spielen. Ebenso sind – um die im ersten Band beschriebenen Figurenreihen besser nachvollziehen zu können – auch die bedeutungsvollen Zyklen anhand zahlreicher Bildkombinationen sowie bislang singulär überlieferte Zusammensetzungen figürlicher und ornamentaler Motive dargestellt.

 Zu Band 1

Zu Band 2

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The Apocalypse of Peter in Context

 editors: Maier D.C., Frey J., Kraus T.J.
“The Apocalypse of Peter in Context” offers scholarly inquiries into this complex and frequently overlooked early Christian text from different angles. By extending the boundaries of traditional analyses, this collection of essays elucidates the eschatological beliefs prevalent in nascent Christian communities and the formative influences that gave rise to perceptions of heaven and hell. Through new approaches to authorship, transmission, and materiality, it explores this early apocryphal text’s complex relationship with Jewish literature of the Second Temple period and its reception in (Late) Antiquity and the Middle Ages in various branches of Christianity. It also presents the first comprehensive English translation of the entire Ethiopic transmission context and further possible Ethiopic witnesses never critically edited and translated before. The result of a multidisciplinary conference, this collection provokes new insights and stimulates further research on this captivating witness to a distinct branch of apocalyptic thought within early Christianity.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here.
year: 2024
isbn: 9789042952089
pages: XVI-402 p.

 

odyCy

odyCy is a state of the art NLP library for Ancient Greek, capable of part-of-speech tagging, morphological analysis, dependency parsing, lemmatization and more.

It is based on the rightfully popular and widely used spaCy framework, which makes odyCy easy to use, scalable, reliable and modular.


 

Open Access Journal: Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East

[First  posted in AWOL 31 Januar 2022, updated 17 April 2024]
 
ISSN: 2752-3527 (Print)
ISSN: 2752-3535 (Online) 

Avar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Life and Society in the Ancient Near East is a bi-annual open-access journal dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship on Anatolia, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennia BCE that crosses and disrupts disciplinary boundaries. 

Submissions should explicitly seek to adopt, adapt, or integrate theories and methodologies from within the traditional fields of ancient studies (i.e. archaeology, Assyriology, biblical studies, Egyptology, Hittitology, etc.), as well as from socio-anthropological and scientific disciplines. 

Avar accepts traditional length articles and short notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Published: 2024-04-14

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023). Special Issue Topic: Knowledge Construction and the Ancient Near East

Guest Editor: Zachary Rubin

Published: 2023-12-28

 

Special Issue: Parenthood in the Ancient Near East
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2023)

Published: 2023-01-31

 

Articles

 

SEE AWOL'S FULL LIST OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN ANCIENT STUDIES

 

 

Album arheologic

Spartokos a lu

Album arheologic

Micu, I. (1948) : Album arheologic, Constanta.

Ce petit album publié en 1948 pour la réouverture du musée archéologique de Constanta rassemble un petit texte sur l’histoire du musée et des photographies d’artefacts (essentiellement des inscriptions et des sculptures) et de sites de Dobroudja.

Le livre en ligne :


 

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

A People's History of Classics

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.

This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war.

A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2020
eBook Published 17 March 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 670
eBook ISBN 9781315446608

 

part I|160 pages

Canons, media and genres

chapter 1|18 pages

Motives and methods

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chapter 3|28 pages

Working-class readers

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part II|108 pages

Communities

chapter 8|23 pages

Dissenting Classics

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chapter 9|21 pages

Adult education

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chapter 10|27 pages

Classics and class in Ireland

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chapter 11|20 pages

Scottish working Classics

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part III|114 pages

Underdogs, underclasses, underworlds

chapter 13|22 pages

Seditious classicists

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chapter 14|15 pages

Underdog professors

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chapter 15|16 pages

Ragged-trousered philologists

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chapter 16|17 pages

Hinterland Greek

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chapter 17|20 pages

Classical underworlds

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chapter 18|22 pages

Class and the classical body

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part IV|155 pages

Working identities

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chapter 20|20 pages

Shoemaker Classics

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chapter 21|20 pages

Pottery workers

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chapter 22|16 pages

Classics amongst the miners

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chapter 24|18 pages

Soldiers

Dai and Diomedes on the Somme

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chapter 25|19 pages

Theatre practitioners

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chapter 26|5 pages

Afterword

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