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Peeters Archaeology of Punic Malta
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Peeters Publishers Le Bilinguisme Etrusco-Latin: Contribution a
Book SynopsisCet ouvrage se propose d'etudier les divers aspects du bilinguisme etrusco-latin. Ne des echanges politiques, culturels et commerciaux entre Etrusques et Latins, ce bilinguisme connut son age d'or a l'epoque de la romanisation de l'Italie et entraina progressivement l'extinction irremediable de la langue etrusque, au debut de l'ere chretienne, dans l'indifference generale. Pour analyser ce phenomene complexe, differentes sources sont ici mises a contribution: la litterature greco-latine, l'epigraphie etrusque et l'epigraphie latine d'Etrurie. Les auteurs anciens ne nous fournissent que quelques informations allusives sur les rapports linguistiques entre Latins et Etrusques. Les inscriptions etrusques nous offrent, en revanche, a travers les nombreux emprunts latins qu'elles renferment - onomastiques ou morphologiques-, des indices incontestables d'un bilinguisme sous-jacent. Quant aux inscriptions latines d'Etrurie, veritables temoins de la penetration du latin en terre etrusque, elles contiennent souvent de curieuses interferences qui trahissent de la part de leurs auteurs une connaissance reelle de l'une et de l'autre langues. Un chapitre important est enfin consacre aux inscriptions sans doute les plus emblematiques de ce bilinguisme: les bilingues etrusco-latines.
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Peeters Publishers Die Grabreliefs Aus Dem Bosporanischen Reich
Book SynopsisThe book discusses the grave stelai and grave reliefs from the Bosporan kingdom. Occupying the eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the northern shore of the Black Sea, this ancient Greek state was situated in an important contact zone of the ancient Greek world. The permanent interaction of Greeks and indigenous peoples (the Scythians, others and later the Sarmatians) in this region resulted in a dynamic local culture. Subjected to long-term acculturation processes, this culture reflected elements of Greek and indigenous traditions. In this respect, the grave stelai erected in Bosporan necropoleis and their numerous relief depictions dating from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD are a unique source: they provide us not only with pictorial evidence for local identities, but are, ultimately, also of great value for our understanding of the development and transformation of this local culture in general. The book deals with problems of typology, stylistic developments and the (re-)evaluation of the chronology of the reliefs. A major part focuses on analysis of imagery of relief stelai (mainly from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD) and the development and originality of the iconography compared with monuments from Greece, Asia Minor and the neighbouring Greek cities of the northern Pontic region (e.g. Chersonesos). Increasingly dominant local iconographic solutions, such as the famous depictions of horsemen or soldiers, are discussed and are interpreted in the context of role-models and value-systems. Particular attention is also paid to questions concerning the validity of ethnic interpretations and the reflexes and deliberate use of contemporary local material culture in iconography. In addition, an attempt is made to embed the monuments in the context of the local funerary culture, i.e. the contemporary Bosporan necropoleis with their manifold forms of sepulchral self-representation. Consideration of epigraphic and literary evidence seeks to shed further light on the cultural and social dimension of these developments and phenomena. A comprehensive catalogue of over 1200 published grave monuments, including detailed descriptions, bibliographical references and information about find-spots etc. (based on analysis of literature and study in relevant archives and museums) completes the publication.
£999.99
Peeters Publishers Context and Meaning: Proceedings of the Twelfth
Book SynopsisThis volumes contains 81 contributions on ancient wall painting presented in the form of papers and posters during the twelfth triennial meeting of the Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique (AIPMA) held at Athens from September 16 through September 20, 2013. 120 participants were guests of Radboud University Nijmegen and the École Française d’Athènes, in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute at Athens, and the National Hellenic Research Foundation. In recent decades there has been a growing interest among researchers in the analysis of paintings in terms of their context rather than as expressions of art in and for itself. Therefore the conference focused on figural themes, and to the iconographical and iconological problems of paintings considered in relation to their specific contexts. Which messages images in wall painting, from the archaic to the late-antique period (ca 700 BC-AD 500) conveyed to contemporary viewers in specific contexts and how were they received? Many contributions in this volume zoom in on the rationale behind the use of specific motifs in wall paintings, the syntax of decorative systems in particular contexts, as well as specific fashions in the use of figural themes in determined areas or sites in the ancient world. Within the series of BABESCH supplements, this book is a sequel to the third one of 1993 which contains the proceedings of the fifth AIPMA conference in Amsterdam. The two editors have carried out extensive research in the field of ancient mural decorations, especially in the context of Roman houses, villas, and temples, and were members of subsequent AIPMA boards. While Eric Moormann was responsible for the organisation of the Amsterdam colloquium in 1992, Stephan Mols organised the Athens conference in 2013, the proceedings of which are presented in this BABESCH supplement. Both Mols and Moormann are members of the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Arts of Radboud University at Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
£115.00
Peeters Publishers Wasserwesen zur Zeit des Frontinus. Bauwerke -
Book SynopsisDer vorliegende Band ist die vierte von Gilbert Wiplinger, diesmal in Verbindung mit Wolfram Letzner, herausgegebene Publikation eines Frontinus-Symposiums als BABESCH-Supplementband zur historischen Wasserwirtschaft. Schon im Verlauf des Symposiums „DE AQUAEDUCTU ATQUE AQUA URBIUM LYCIAE PAMPHYLIAE PISIDIAE - The Legacy of Sextus Julius Frontinus“ (BABESCH-Suppl. 27) im Herbst 2014 stellte sich die Frage nach einer Folgeveranstaltung, für die sich Trier mit seinen römischen Großbauten und einer Verknüpfung zur Geschichte der Frontinus-Gesellschaft anbot. So konnte die Gesellschaft mit diesem Symposium hier auch ihr 40-jähriges Bestehen mit einer Festveranstaltung begehen. Im ersten Abschnitt des Bandes wird der Festakt zur Feier des 40-jährigen Jubiläums der Frontinus-Gesellschaft dokumentiert. Dieser beinhaltet die Erfolgsgeschichte der Gesellschaft, den Festvortrag, die Verleihung der Frontinus-Medaille mit der Laudatio sowie der Dankesrede des Geehrten mit neuen Forschungsergebnissen zum Değirmendere Aquädukt von Ephesos. Der zweite Abschnitt ist dem Veranstaltungsort Trier gewidmet: Die Geschichte der Stadt wird anhand der „Highlights“ der römischen Ausstellung im Rheinischen Landesmuseum erzählt und von deren urbanistischer Entwicklung berichtet. Die Trierer Ruwerleitung und die Barbara- bzw. Kaiserthermen sind dem Wasser gewidmet. Der dritte Abschnitt behandelt juristische Quellen sowie neue Forschungsmethoden in der Aquäduktforschung. Zum ersten Thema wird das moderne Wasserrecht den Texten von Frontinus gegenüber gestellt, dann wird die Herausforderung juristischer Quellen bei der Erforschung römischer Wasserversorgungssysteme aufzeigt. Zum zweiten Thema zählen die mit GPS und Photogrammetrie unterstützten Dokumentationsmethoden an den Aquädukten Roms und einfachere Methoden in Antiochia ad Cragum. Der vierte Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit Aquädukten und Qanaten: Die große Zahl an Fernwasserleitungen in der Türkei in Katalogform, eine Inschrift der Druckrohrleitung von Alatri in Latium, die Aqua Alexandrina in Rom, der römische Aquädukt von Lissabon, die Wasserleitungen und Bäder von Lebna auf Kreta, römische Münzen zu Aquädukten und zum Wassermanagement, das Almstollensystem im Mönchsberg in Salzburg sowie zwei Beiträge zu Qanaten in Luxemburg sind Themen dieses Abschnittes. Der nächste Abschnitt ist den Thermen, Nymphäen und anderen innerstädtischen Wassernutzungen gewidmet: Die Stabianer Thermen in Pompeji, die Caracallathermen von Rom, die römischen Heilthermen von Aqua Flaviae sind Beiträge zum ersten, die unter Nero und Domitian errichteten Nymphäen am Palatin, und die Nymphäen in den griechischen Provinzen vor Hadrian zum zweiten Thema, wozu auch noch das sog. Mettius-Modestos-Tor von Patara als Wassermonument zählt. Das Macellum von Sagalassos ist der einzige Beitrag zur innerstädtischen Wassernutzung. Im letzten Abschnitt sind verschieden Themen zusammengefasst: Wasserspeicherung in den römischen Goldbergwerken auf der Iberischen Halbinsel, Druckleitungen mit einem neuen Wasserturm aus Ostia und römische Wasserhähne, Wasserknappheit aus römischer Sicht in italienischen Regionen, Wasserversorgung im Libanon, Wassermühlen im Bereich des Rheinischen Braunkohleabbaus und medizinische Aspekte von trinkwasserbedingter Bleivergiftungen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Das Symposium wurde mit Exkursionen zu archäologischen Stätten und Museen nach Luxemburg, Frankreich und im Raum Trier abgerundet.
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Peeters Publishers Le origini di Pompei: La città tra il VI e il V
Book SynopsisIl libro affront lo studio della fase arcaica di Pompei (VI-V secolo a.C.) con particolare attenzione al terma della configurazione urbanistica della città. Gli aspetti tenuti in considerazione spaziano dalla storia della scoperta di Pompei preromana, alla descrizione degli elementi caratterizzanti il paesaggio urbano, ai culti praticati dentro e fuori le mura. Il lavoro – fondato sia su materiale edito, che su dati d’archivio inediti – ha incluso la realizzazione di una carta archeologica di fase, approntata tramite il riposizionamento planimetrico delle evidenze pertinenti all’orrizonte cronologico in esame. Si è inteso così realizzare uno strumento di fondamentale importanza per il prosieguo della ricerca sulle fasi pre-romane di Pompei.
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Peeters Publishers Le anfore puniche dalle necropoli di Himera:
Book SynopsisLo studio sulle 277 anfore puniche rinvenute nelle necropoli di Himera che si presenta in questo volume è frutto di una ricerca approfondita condotta a partire dei dati di scavo e attraverso un’attenta analisi e classificazione dei singoli contenitori, senza tralasciare le opportune analisi archeometriche ed epigrafiche. La possibilità di incrociare elementi diversi, con riferimenti cronologici spesso molto precisi grazie all’associazione con i corredi funerari, ha consentito di andare ben oltre la redazione di un semplice catalogo, seppure completo, restituendo uno straordinario complesso di materiali nella loro prospettiva storica e nel significato del quadro dei commerci tirrenici di età arcaica e classica. Le anfore studiate coprono un quadro cronologico molto preciso, dalla seconda metà del VII sec. a.C. al 409 a.C., data della distruzione di Himera, attestando forme di contatto e scambio di merci tra la colonia e i vicini emporia punici della Sicilia Occidentale: Mozia, Palermo e Solunto che dista da Himera solo poche decine di chilometri. Tuttavia, è attestato l’arrivo in questa città greca di anfore da trasporto provenienti da tutto il mondo punico: Sicilia, Cartagine, Sardegna e Spagna, con una notevole varietà di tipi che conferma la grande vitalità degli scambi marittimi e della circolazione delle merci che costituì uno dei fattori fondamentali di sviluppo e di prosperità per i centri costieri della Sicilia centro-settentrionale. In sostanza, fin dai primi decenni di vita, e con intensità crescente, i Greci ebbero rapporti “commerciali” con gli emporia punici e con la stessa Cartagine, come documentato dalla presenza di tipi di anfore rinvenuti in questa colonia greca, ma non ancora individuati nelle città puniche di Sicilia. Sappiamo dalla storia che le vicende di Himera sono segnate dai grandi scontri con Cartagine, dalla battaglia del 480 a.C. alla distruzione del 409 a.C., momenti di grande intensità che evidenziano forti conflitti, ma nello sviluppo quotidiano delle relazioni, che sono conseguenza anche degli scambi commerciali, l’intensa presenza di prodotti punici, lungo tutto l’arco di vita della colonia, sembra raccontare, eloquentemente, un sistema di legami molto solido. Greci e Punici entrarono si in contrasto militare, quando gli equilibri strategici e politici si incrinavano, ma sostanzialmente l’arrivo di prodotti, trasportati dalle navi che battevano la costa tirrenica dell’isola, è indice di un assetto generale molto meno conflittuale e duraturo rispetto a quanto gli episodi di guerra suggeriscono.
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Peeters Publishers Discours des personnages féminins chez Sénèque:
Book SynopsisDans les tragédies de Sénèque, la femme est depuis longtemps un objet d’étude. Plusieurs aspects ont été abordés, mais, aujourd’hui, une étude des discours féminins de ce corpus théâtral fait défaut. Dans ce contexte, il convient de mettre en place une méthode de recherche pour répondre, notamment, aux questions suivantes: Est-il possible de dégager une façon féminine ou masculine de s’exprimer sur scène? Si oui, quelles seraient les raisons d’une telle différenciation discursive et quelles en seraient les conséquences sur l’action dramatique? Quelle est l’influence de l’interlocuteur sur lesdits discours? Des héroïnes prennent-elles la parole comme des hommes, ou inversement? Voici autant de pistes explorées dans le présent ouvrage. Pour traiter ce sujet à la croisée des études du discours et des études sur la femme, nous avons recours à la logométrie. Cette recherche s’inscrit donc aussi dans une profonde réflexion méthodologique, puisque de nouveaux outils sont utilisés pour traiter ces questions inédites.
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Peeters Publishers Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from
Book SynopsisSeleukos I (312-281) was the strongest among the Successors of Alexander the Great, and his territory extended as far as Thrace in the West and Pakistan in the East for over a century. His kingdom reached a new pinnacle under Antiochos III (223-187), who combined military vigour with political skill, but also bears responsibility for its harsh defeat at the hands of the Romans, the ascending superpower in the Mediterranean. This failure did not yet trigger the dynasty's collapse albeit. It was resilient and re-established itself as the leading power in the Near East under Antiochos IV (175-164), who was able to maintain friendship with Rome. Gradually, however, Seleukid rule was reduced to Syria or parts thereof by 129. The book tries to redress the balance of Seleukid weaknesses and strengths. Case studies either focus on power, politics and ideology of the Seleukid centre, or on continuity and change in 2nd-century Anatolia, Judaea and Babylon, before trying to integrate into a braoder picture the factors that led to Seleukid disintegration.
£84.00
Peeters Publishers North Tunisian Red Slip Ware: From Production
Book SynopsisThis study addresses issues regarding the classification of African Red Slip Ware and the identification of different North Tunisian production centers by applying standardized fabric description – an archaeological method to classify pottery according to the microscopic features of the sherd. It is based on survey finds from the North Tunisian workshops of Bordj el Djerbi, Henchir el Biar, Oudna and Pheradi Maius that were visited by the Dutch archaeologist J.W. Salomonson during survey campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s. The pieces from Salomonson’s survey collection are of clear provenance and are therefore used to define the microscopic features of a production site.
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Peeters Publishers De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Sextus Iulius
Book SynopsisThe present volume is the fifth publication of a Frontinus-conference edited by Gilbert Wiplinger as a BABESCH supplement volume on historical water science. At the place of activity of Sextus Iulius Frontinus as curator aquarum and the capital of the Roman Empire it was probably one of the most important and challenging events of this congress series. For the first time a new path was taken, as the organizer and publisher wanted to approach the topic water from the artistic side. This was realized in the opening lecture with the presentation of a novel in which Frontinus plays the main character and a photo exhibition at the Austrian Historical Institute about the integration of the Aqua Claudia and the Aqua Anio Novus in the new building of the waterworks of Limburg (Holland). In eight sections 33 contributions are published in this volume. The first section deals with the different approaches to the topic of water. The second section is dedicated to the award of the Frontinus Medal to Hubertus Manderscheid, who was honoured during the conference for his fundamental research on the history of ancient water supply over many decades. The third section is dedicated to the aqueducts of Rome. After a general introduction, Colle Papese in Tivoli, the Aqua Alsietina and the distribution of the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus within the city were discussed. The next section was devoted to aqueducts and water supply outside of Rome, presenting Pompeii, Tauromenion (Italy), Spalato (Croatia), Parion, the Şirince Aqueduct of Ephesus, Syedra (Turkey), Gerasa (Jordan), Sepphoris (Israel) and the pre-desert areas along the African Limes. The topic of the fifth section are toilets and baths: the toilets of Rome, the latrines of the baths of Caracalla, public baths in Late Antique Rome and the Roman baths of Parion (Turkey). Fountains was the topic of the sixth section with supply devices and water effects in Roman Imperial nymphaea, a fountain of a triclinium near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, fountains in the Terrace Houses of Ephesus and the multi-sensory effects of water in Roman and Late Antique elite houses. The seventh section deals with hydraulic engineering: Frontinus' quinaria, the Nîmes aqueduct and castellum and planning and building an aqueduct without the use of surveying instruments. In the last section various topics were summarized with the feeling of water in Trajanian times, downdrains in Ostia and water machines in Medieval Arabic texts. The conference programme was impressively complemented by several full-day and half-day excursions. It offered the opportunity to visit monuments that are otherwise not accessible to the public. Once again it became clear that neither a lecture, nor a publication or pictures can replace the encounter with real archaeological findings. The presentation of new research results on ancient hydraulic engineering and the enhancement of knowledge by visiting comparative examples on site is the declared aim of this conference series.
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Peeters Publishers The Archaeology of Mithraism: New Finds and
Book SynopsisOver the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material record—including cave-like sanctuaries and images of Mithras stabbing a bull—the cult has long been examined to reconstruct the thought-systems of Mithraism, its theology, through such monumental trappings. This volume starts from the premise that, like much “religion” in the Roman world, the cult of Mithras must be examined through its practices, the ritual craft knowledge which enabled those rites, and the social structures thus created. What did Mithras-worshippers do? How do we explain the unity and diversity of practices observed? Archaeology has the potential to answer these questions and shed new light on Mithras-worship. Presenting new discoveries, higher resolution archaeological data on finds and assemblages, and re-evaluations of older discoveries, this volume charts new paths forward in understanding one of the Roman Empire’s most distinctive cults.
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Peeters Publishers Le combat de cavalerie dans le monde romain
Book SynopsisCe livre consacré à l’histoire de la cavalerie romaine s’intéresse principalement à l’évolution du recrutement, de l’organisation, du déploiement tactique et des modes de combat des troupes montées entre la fin de l’époque républicaine et le VIe siècle ap. J.-C. L’importance croissante de la cavalerie marque en effet une rupture essentielle dans l’histoire de l’art militaire romain. Au primat des guerres offensives, de la bataille rangée et de l’infanterie lourde succède progressivement celui de la temporisation, de la guérilla frontalière et des cavaliers-archers. Ces changements, qui n’ont jamais fait l’objet d’une analyse approfondie, sont remis en perspective dans le temps long. Le dialogue des sources narratives, techniques, figurées et archéologiques permet de dégager un schéma évolutif cohérent, un «développement organique des formes de combat» (Hans Delbrück), que l’auteur prend soin de réinscrire dans le contexte plus large de l’évolution de la société romaine et des contacts entre Rome et sa périphérie «barbare».
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Peeters Publishers Poétique(s) des commentaires antiques: Actes du
Book SynopsisLes commentaires des textes poétiques sont dans l’Antiquité l’un des fondements de la technè grammatikè depuis la période hellénistique et leur usage s’est prolongé jusque dans l’Empire byzantin pour le monde grec, et en Occident au-delà de la chute de l’Empire romain. Ils ont été les promoteurs d’une transdisciplinarité avant l’heure; l’explication du texte proprement dite était l’occasion d’aborder toute sorte de savoirs: grammaire, rhétorique, mythologie, histoire, droit, religion, etc. Parmi ces savoirs, le présent volume s’intéresse aux différentes formes de poétique dans les commentaires antiques, grecs et latins. Les 17 contributions qu’il réunit expliquent comment, selon leurs schémas de pensée, les commentateurs ont compris et mis en valeur l’art poétique de leurs auteurs «scolaires» et comment la pratique et la lecture des poèmes antiques leur permettaient de décrypter les phénomènes d’écriture et les intentions du poète. Ainsi, l’exégèse constituait en soi une réception du texte dans les milieux «professionnels» de l’éducation antique et elle mobilisait, selon les besoins, les composants et outils stylistiques, narratologiques ou rhétoriques: on peut ainsi envisager le commentaire comme l’illustration de méthodes d’analyse littéraire, mais aussi comme le lieu de leur élaboration ou de leur transformation sous l’impulsion de grammatici à la recherche de la spécificité poétique, autant que de l’efficacité pédagogique.
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Peeters Publishers Janus Pannonius, Épigrammes: Traduites et
Book SynopsisJanus Pannonius (1434-1472), poète hongrois de langue latine, a été envoyé très jeune à Vérone pour étudier auprès de Guarino. C’est en Italie qu’il compose une bonne partie de sa production poétique. De retour en Hongrie, il est fait évêque puis chancelier par le roi Mathias Corvin. Ses Épigrammes sont certainement son œuvre la plus intéressante. Ces 456 pièces, dont il n’a pas organisé lui-même la publication, abordent des sujets variés ; une majorité d’entre elles est de nature satirique. Nous en proposons ici une édition-traduction. Le texte latin est emprunté, avec quelques corrections, à l’édition de Mayer (Budapest, 2006). La traduction est entièrement originale. L’annotation est conçue de telle sorte que l’ouvrage puisse être accessible à un public cultivé qui dépasse le seul cercle restreint des érudits. Pannonius, au-delà de ses qualités littéraires, est intéressant par l’éclairage nouveau qu’il apporte sur l’Italie et la Hongrie du XVe siècle, et sur le premier humanisme.
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Brepols Publishers Renovatio, Inventio, Absentia Imperii: From the
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