Pakistan Archaeology ISSN: 0078-7868 Most recent online volume: Pakistan Archaeology Number 33- 2018 See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies   ..read more

Die abgetrennte Zunge: Sex und Macht in der Antike neu lesen Katharina Wesselmann Die griechisch-römische Antike hat die westlichen Kulturen stark beeinflusst – auch im Hinblick auf Frauen- und Männerbilder. Wer kennt sie nicht, die Sagen von Göttern, die schöne Nymphen verführen? Die Begeisterung eines Apoll für seine Daphne oder die Verzweiflung der verlassenen Dido finden sich ähnlich auch heute in Filmen oder Songs wieder: can’t live, if living is without you! Doch sind die Texte von Homer, Ovid & Co. noch zeitgemäß – ja, sind sie überhaupt noch salonfähig? Ist Apoll eigentlich ..read more

TOPIARIA ACADEMICA: Beiträge zu aktuellen Trends und Problemen in der Klassischen Archäologie  Pascal Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Annika Stöger (Hrsg.)   Wie ein Baum mit vielen Ästen, kann die Klassische Archäologie im Angesicht der Herausforderungen dieses Jahrhunderts nur florieren, wenn alle ihre verschiedenen Aspekte gleichermaßen gepflegt und gefördert werden. Dieser Band versammelt eine Reihe junger NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen der Klassischen Archäologie, die über Europa verteilt, doch über ihre gemeinsame Mentorin Caterina Maderna vereint sind. Darin werden aktuelle Forschu ..read more

ORAEC's New Unicode Texts Hi folks. As you know, our focus is on Unicode. Our first blogs were about converting reusable digital data of Egyptian texts to Unicode and publishing recommendations for using Unicode hieroglyphs. Among other things, we took the great repository of JSesh texts and converted them to Unicode. In the meantime, a lot has happened in this repository: new texts have been added and existing texts have been licensed under a free license. So we decided to update it. In this blog we explain the results: The repository formerly-mdc-now_unicode now contains 16 new texts, name ..read more

Revue de pédagogie des langues anciennes ISSN: 2967-4034 Notre publication s’intéresse à la didactique des langues anciennes et propose une réflexion pédagogique sur la façon de les enseigner, du Secondaire au Supérieur (Collège, Lycée, CPGE, Université). La revue pourra aussi se faire écho d’expériences de classe au niveau du Primaire. Convaincue que les approches pédagogiques d’un degré d’enseignement sont très souvent transférables aux autres, l’équipe de cette publication vise en même temps à favoriser le dialogue entre tous les enseignants de langues anciennes, indépendamment des appa ..read more

The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy: Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander Edited by: Kostas E. Apostolakis and Ioannis M. Konstantakos   Volume 154 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111295282 Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets ..read more

Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World Andrew Gardner (Editor), Edward Herring (Editor), Kathryn Lomas (Editor)  Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions ..read more

The Afterlife of Apuleius F. Bistagne (Editor), C. Boidin (Editor), R. Mouren (Editor)  Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements Published in association with: Institute of Classical Studies Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope. The volume gather ..read more

Material Culture of Mesopotamia and Beyond 1: People and their Environment in First Millennium BCE Babylonia editors: Cousin L., Quillien L., Ramez M.     Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 319 This volume is dedicated to the material culture of Babylonia and its neighbouring regions as documented in cuneiform texts. It presents the results of research conducted in the framework of the Franco-Austrian collaborative project ANR-FWF Material Culture of Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC (MCB). The case studies presented here cover different aspects of the materi ..read more

The Nag Hammadi Codices and their Ancient Readers: Exploring Textual Materiality and Reading Practice Paul Linjamaa, Lunds Universitet, Sweden Since their discovery in 1945, the Nag Hammadi Codices have generated questions and scholarly debate as to their date and function. Paul Linjamaa contributes to the discussion by offering insights into previously uncharted aspects pertinent to the materiality of the manuscripts. He explores the practical implementation of the texts in their ancient setting through analyses of codicological aspects, paratextual elements, and scribal featur ..read more