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EDB: Knowledge Technologies for Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy [PDF]
, 2014 Classical Greek and Latin culture is the very foundation of the identity of modern Europe. Today, a variety of modern subjects and disciplines have their roots in the classical world: from philosophy to architecture, from geometry to law. However, only a small fraction of the total production of texts from ancient Greece and Rome has survived up to the
Fabio Fumarola +4 more
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Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 128-132, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Two well‐known texts on altars from Delos (RES 3952; M 349) dating to the period after 167 BC attest to contacts between the Aegean and Ancient Yemen. Reexamining these two important inscriptions, this article argues that both were set up by Minaeans.
Søren Lund Sørensen, Klaus Geus
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Knowledge and the Picturesque: Encountering Syria in the Eighteenth Century
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 365-383, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This essay looks at the West's engagement with Syria in the eighteenth century, through the writings of travellers and through the history of the publications they brought back from their travels. It argues that these publications provoked a rethinking of various tropes in the description of the Levant, helping to define attitudes to ruins as ...
Alexis Tadié
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Cities, Epigraphies, and Latinization
Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West, 2023 Abstract This chapter studies the role cities on the Iberian Peninsula played in the spatial diffusion of Latin within the peninsula using models from geo-linguistics. By combining the geo-linguistic models of contagious and hierarchical diffusion with the gravity model, the different factors that aided in the uptake and spread of Latin ...
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The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 249-262, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the phrase “light from light” in the 4th‐century Nicene and Nicene‐Constantinopolitan creeds. The article begins by presenting the earliest use of light as a metaphor for Christ and his agency, as well as examples of similar language outside “orthodox” Christianity. It goes on to examine the meaning and use of “light from
Maria Munkholt Christensen
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE (CEIPoM)
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2022 The 'Corpus of the Epigraphy of the Italian Peninsula in the 1st Millennium BCE' (CEIPoM) is a linguistic database which covers the Oscan, Umbrian, Old Sabellic, Messapic and Venetic languages, as well as epigraphic Latin up to 100 BCE.
Reuben J. Pitts
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Three votive plaques from Upper Moesia [PDF]
Balcanica, 2022 The article proposes a new reading and interpretation of three inscriptions engraved on small bronze plaques in the shape of tabula ansata from the Danubian limes in Upper Moesia - two from Pincum and one from Viminacium, associating the ...
Nikolić Dragana
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Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The linguistic study of Celtic divinities attested on Latin inscriptions has proved instrumental in disclosing a number of facts about ancient religion, the relationship with the Roman rule, and the spread of indigenous or syncretic cults. In fact, minor
Blanca María Prósper +1 more
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