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      Archaic Greek historyArcheobotanyArchéologieVine and Wines History
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      HomerAncient PhilosophyArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek History
This paper addresses the construction of a " national " identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons (561/0-511/0 BCE 1) mainly through a series of religious practices, such as the... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaic Greek historyArchaic GreeceAthens and Attica (Neolithic to Archaic)
In the Early Iron Age the Eastern Mediterranean gradually turned into a complex network of systematic contacts among the Aegean, Cyprus, Egypt, Syro-Palestine and areas of the Near East. From the tenth century BC onwards relations between... more
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      Ancient Egyptian ReligionAncient HistoryEgyptologyEgyptian Archaeology
De Tirteu, poeta espartano arcaico do século VII a.C., restaram-nos apenas poemas elegíacos fragmentários. Seus fragmentos dividem-se entre aqueles que narravam a história e os preceitos espartanos, instituídos por reis descendentes dos... more
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      ClassicsGreek LiteratureArchaic PoetryGreek Lyric Poetry
This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification, and interpretation of the surviving... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyMaritime ArchaeologyClassics
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Kinyras: The Divine Lyre is also available online through the CHS website: http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/6329. The web version, however, does not have page numbers, so that internal... more
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      PhilologyReligionAncient Egyptian ReligionSumerian Religion
Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é categorizar os tipos de aedos apresentados nos poemas homéricos e pensar a relação destas categorias com os possíveis aedos históricos de períodos identificados como o homérico. Discutiremos,... more
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      Archaic Greek historyAncient Greek History
Any building can be perceived as the summation of specific actions surrounding the gathering and construction of a precise volume and variety of materials. By working backwards and quantifying its individual aspects, a structure can be... more
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      Virtual ArchaeologyGreek ArchaeologyArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek History
Non-destructive analysis by means of portable X-ray flourescence (pXRF) and Raman spectroscopy of color traces on sculptures and architectural parts from the Delphi Museum, Phokis, Greece, are presented. These sculptures and architectural... more
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      Cultural StudiesClassical ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMuseum Studies
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyRoman HistoryGreek Epigraphy
The case of Wahibreemakhet, son of Alexikles and Zenodote, is the most prominent example for the high status that Greeks – as mercenaries or advisors – could attain in Egypt under the Saite pharaohs. The present article argues that his... more
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      Archaic Greek historyLate Period in ancient EgyptGreeks in EgyptSaqqara necropolis
The much shorter Archaiologikon Deltion for the single year of 2005 invariably offers far fewer reports on the work of the Archaeological Service than the four-year volume with which we were presented last year. This, in itself, is no bad... more
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      Ancient numismatics (Archaeology)Archaic Greek historyAncient Greek NumismaticsArchaic Greece
Counselors, councilors and ambassadors are often complementary figures, but from Homeric Greece to classical Sparta we know of certain characters like the hero Odysseus or the Spartiate Lichas who perform all of these tasks (i.e.... more
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      Diplomatic HistorySpartaArchaic Greek historyHomeric poetry
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      Archaic Greek historyGreek SicilyGreek SculptureArchaic Italy
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      ArchaeologyMaritime ArchaeologyIconographyAnatolian Archaeology
Die Geschichte des Ionischen Aufstandes und der Perserkriege (5. Jh. v. Chr.) ist von dem antiken Geschichtsschreiber Herodot überliefert worden. Eine unreflektierte Übernahme seiner Erzählung ist jedoch nicht möglich. Allerdings läßt... more
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      Ancient HistoriographyAncient PersiaArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek History
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      Archaic Greek historyPisistratus
Debts were a structural factor in the lives of peasants throughout the ancient world. In Archaic Greece, Solon of Athens took the unique measure to cancel all debts, abolish debt slavery, and bring back those individuals who had been sold... more
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      Greek ArchaeologyArchaic Greek historyGeometric and archaic GreeceGreek symposion
The paper argues that Cleisthenes’ military reforms were not improvised. The general view of war in Archaic Athens as a series of skirmishes between small contingents recruited on an almost private basis must be qualified, as there are... more
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      Archaic Greek historyAthens and Attica (Neolithic to Archaic)Ancient Greek WarfareAncient Athens
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Esposizione di approfondimento per studenti liceali e di laurea triennale. Atene è l"altro polo nella gamma di possibili forme della polis greca. Il cammino di Atene è per certi versi opposto a quello di Sparta: se a Sparta l"ordine... more
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      Ancient HistoryAthenian DemocracyDemocracyArchaic Greek history
New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare brings together essays from specialists in ancient history who employ contemporary tools and approaches to reveal new evidence and increase knowledge of ancient militaries and warfare. In-depth... more
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This course presents a broad survey of historical forces at work over the past 6,000 years, examining the manners in which human societies have organized themselves along categories of race, ethnicity, class, and gender to meet the... more
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This new companion (edited by Patrick Finglass and Adrian Kelly) aims to incorporate the newest finds of Sappho's poetry into an overall study of her importance in the ancient world and her reception into the modern. The cast list and... more
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      Latin LiteratureArchaic PoetrySex and GenderEarly Modern History
"L’itinerario dell’eroe Philoktetes, nel ‘Catalogo delle navi’ signore arciere e capo di arcieri in partenza per l’impresa troiana, ha origine nella penisola di Magnesia. La fisionomia mitica del personaggio è completa. Essa riflette,... more
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      Archaic Greek historyPhiloctetesPhiloctetes - Greece and West
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      ArchaeologyGreek HistoryStraboGreek Archaeology
Archaic owl tetradrachms form an important subset of our research into Early Attic coinage. This paper analyses their physical characteristics and silver content based on measurements of 424 owl tetradrachms and 81 owl obols for... more
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      NumismaticsArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Numismatics
ENGLISH: Is it possible to talk about politeness in ancient Greece? Modern sociology defines politeness as a system of rules, which set behavioural patterns in accordance with different social situations. Ancient Greek thought never... more
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      HomerLinguistic PolitenessArchaic Greek historyPoliteness theory
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      Gift ExchangeArchaic Greek historyHerodotusArchaic Greece
Archaiologhìa è il titolo con cui è nota la sezione iniziale dell’opera di Tucidide. Il grande storico ateniese, per dimostrare ai suoi lettori la portata epocale della guerra del Peloponneso, da lui vissuta in prima persona e fatta... more
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      Hellenistic HistoryArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek HistoryAncient Greek Literature
Neoanalysis and narratology in their different ways allow the poet to comment upon well-kown, distinct oral or written texts which are not subject to continuous change. This liberates the poets from both the almost compulsory... more
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      Ancient HistoryHomerComparative HistoryNarratology
L’itinerario dell’eroe Philoktetes, nel ‘Catalogo delle navi’ signore arciere e capo di contingenti di arcieri in partenza per l’impresa troiana, ha origine nella penisoletta di Magnesia. Il personaggio mostra una fisionomia mitica... more
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      Archaic Greek historyPhiloctetes - Greece and West
This volume is the edited collection of the papers from a conference we hosted in Oxford in 2017, drawing together specialists from the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States, to examine afresh the relationship between... more
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      HomerAkkadian LanguageHittiteHesiodic Poetry
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An analysis on land-reform and wealth amongst the Spartiates of Ancient Lacedaemon
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      PhilosophyArchaic Greek historyHeraclitusAncient Greece
The exploration of Didyma began during the Renaissance, since then many travellers have arrived to visit and examine the ruin of the world’s largest temple dedicated to Apollo. The excavations continue to this very day and have brought to... more
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      ArchaeologyClassicsGreek EpigraphyTurkey
Το 1972 οι αρχαιολόγοι Βαγγέλης και Όλγα Κακαβογιάννη αποκάλυψαν ένα ζευγάρι αρχαϊκών επιτύμβιων αγαλμάτων, έναν κούρο και μια κόρη (τη γνωστή «Φρασί- κλεια»). Η ανακάλυψη οδήγησε στη διαπίστωση ότι οι αρχαϊκοί αττικοί επιτύμβιοι κούροι... more
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      Archaic Greek historyAncient Greek HistoryArchaic Greek Sculpture
Hellenika kaina: Bedeutende Neuentdeckungen der griechischen Literatur FS 2022
Di. 16-18, hybrid (mit Zoom-online-Zuschaltung)

You receive the link via Marlene Thurm (m.thurm@unibas.ch).
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      ClassicsArchaic Greek historyAncient Greek HistoryGreek Papyrology