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

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

Preface: kicking the habit? Part I: 1. Words and pictures in a post-Lutheran age 2. Towards an older Laocoon? Reviewing the 'limits' of painting and poetry in the Graeco-Roman world Part II: 3. Materialising ecphrasis: image and word in the Sperlonga Grotto 4. Speaking for pictures? Images, texts and modes of visual-verbal response in the 'House of Propertius' at Assisi Part III: 5. Cyclopian iconotexts: the adventures of Polyphemus in image and text 6. The art of nature and the nature of art: visual-verbal interactions in the consumption of Roman 'still-life' paintings Envoi: the bigger picture.

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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

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.

W. J. W. Koster

Papers

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