Inner Affinity: Ovid, Titian, Philip of Spain Corpataux J.-F.  Studies in Iconology, 23  The title of this little book is inspired by Erwin Panofsky’s remarks on the “inner affinity” between Ovid and Titian. But this inner affinity between the Latin poet and the Venetian painter also extends to Philip of Spain, for whom Titian painted the famous cycle of canvases that he referred to in his letters as the “Poesie”. To explore this kinship of spirit among the poet, the painter, and the king, this study examines the dynastic fecundity that results from the effects of works of art ..read more

New Trends in the Research on the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas editors: Muñoz Gallarte I., Roig Lanzillotta L.  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 transmitt ..read more

Die Werkstätten der arretinischen Reliefkeramik Francesca Paola Porten Palange  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 Manufak ..read more

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 relation ..read more

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. Documentation: Installation Basic Usage Performance Individual Tasks Corpora Speed Pipeline Architecture Transformer Parser Morphologizer Lemmatizer Small Pipeline Getting Started Differences   ..read more

Spartokos a lu Album arheologic Publié le 17 avril 2024 par Th. Castelli 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 : album-arheologic-micu-1948Télécharger   ..read more

A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939  By Edith Hall, Henry Stead 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 th ..read more

Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Library at Wellcome Collection in London Edited ByPetros Bouras-Vallianatos This book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. The content of these manuscripts ranges from medicine, including theories on diagnosis and treatment of disease, to astronomy, philosophy, and poetry. With texts dating from the ancient era to the Byzantine and Ottoman worlds, each manuscript provides its own unique story, opening a window onto different social and cultu ..read more

The University of Pennsylvania Collection of Sumerian Lexicography This dataset is available unter the terms of the following Creative Commons LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0 Abstract Published here is the Sumerian lexicography collection housed in The Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The collection was digitized in May 2023 by Dr Anna Glenn on behalf of the Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, with the kind permission of Prof. Steve Tinney and Dr Philip Jones. Further information on the crea ..read more

Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West Vihervalli, Ulriika Desire and Disunity explores the struggles of Christianising late ancient sexuality in the late Roman West. Through an examination of fourth to sixth century sermons, letters, laws, and treatises in Latin-speaking communities, the difficulties of late antique clerics in moving ascetically influenced sexual ideals into wider practice become evident. Western clerics faced challenges on several fronts: the dedication and devoutness of lay Christians varied, while the military-political uph ..read more