By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending citizenship to ethnic Syrians generated new semiotic frameworks for the performance of Greekness and Syrianness. Within these, Syria's inhabitants reoriented and interwove idioms of diverse cultural origins, including those from the Near East, to express Greek, Roman and Syrian identifications in innovative and complex ways. While exploring a vast array of written and material sources, the book thus posits that Greekness and Syrianness were constantly shifting and transforming categories, and it critiques many assumptions that govern how scholars of antiquity often conceive of Roman imperial Greek identity, ethnicity and culture in the Roman Near East, and processes of 'hybridity' or similar concepts.

Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World

The Renaissance humanists’ quest for the perfect Latin style formed the central element in their views of literature and history and contributed fundamentally to the genesis of their cultural values. In order to establish the ideal Latin, the humanists searched the treasures of Antiquity and formed the critical standards necessary to judge and use ancient writers. As a consequence Renaissance Latin prose was dynamic, although within definite limits. It changed according to the increased knowledge and sophistication of both its practitioners and their audience. This essay will describe the changes that Latin prose (Latin poetry will be discussed only in passing) experienced in Italy in the last decades of the Quattrocento and first years of the Cinquecento. It will review the major schools of Latin prose composition—the eclectic, the strict imitative, and the “archaizing“— and concentrate on the last of these in an attempt to explain why some Italian humanists followed certain ancient but uncommon Latin models in their writing and, thereby, rejected, at least implicitly, a number of basic elements in the view of the Latin language and its history that was accepted during the Quattrocento.

The Progress of Renaissance Latin Prose: The Case of Apuleianism

A companion to the Roman Empire , A companion to the Roman Empire , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)

A companion to the Roman Empire

In this study of the world of ancient Greek mariners, the relationship between the natural environment and the techniques and technology of seafaring is focused upon. An initial description of the geology, oceanography and meteorology of Greece and the Mediterranean, is followed by discussion of the resulting sailing conditions, such as physical hazards, sea conditions, winds and availability of shelter, and environmental factors in sailing routes, sailing directions, and navigational techniques. Appendices discuss winter and night sailing, ship design, weather prediction, and related areas of socio-maritime life, such as settlement, religion, and warfare. Wide-ranging sources and illustrations are used to demonstrate both how the environment shaped many of the problems and constraints of seafaring, and also that Greek mariners' understanding of the environment was instrumental in their development of a highly successful seafaring tradition.

The role of the physical environment in ancient Greek seafaring

Introduction Carl A. Huffman 1. Pythagoras Geoffrey Lloyd 2. Philolaus Daniel W. Graham 3. Archytas Malcolm Schofield 4. Sixth-, fifth- and fourth-century Pythagoreans Leonid Zhmud 5. The Pythagorean Society and politics Catherine Rowett 6. The Pythagorean way of life and Pythagorean ethics M. Laura Gemelli Marciano 7. Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek religion Gabor Betegh 8. The problem of Pythagorean mathematics Reviel Netz 9. Pythagorean harmonics Andrew Barker 10. The Pythagoreans and Plato John Palmer 11. Aristotle on the 'so-called Pythagoreans': from lore to principles Oliver Primavesi 12. Pythagoreanism in the academic tradition: the early Academy to Numenius John Dillon 13. The Peripatetics on the Pythagoreans Carl A. Huffman 14. Pythagoras in the historical tradition: from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus Stefan Schorn 15. The pseudo-Pythagorean writings Bruno Centrone 16. From Nigidius Figulus to Alexander of Abonouteichos: Pythagoreans in Rome and Asia Minor around the turn of the Common Era Jaap-Jan Flinterman 17. Diogenes Laertius' Life of Pythagoras Andre Laks 18. Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras Constantinos Macris 19. Iamblichus' On the Pythagorean Life in context Dominic J. O'Meara 20. Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Andrew Hicks 21. Pythagoras in the early Renaissance Michael J. B. Allen.

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A History of Pythagoreanism

SEG LXI covers the publications of the year 2011, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2010 but pertaining to material from 2011.

Michiel Van Den Hout

Papers

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

Studies in Early Greek Letter-Writing Ii

On the Text and Language of Fronto. Ii