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This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them – heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future.

These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds.

This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text.

The archaeological investigation and the architectural survey conducted at Villa Arianna at Stabiae between 2010 and 2019 form the core of this book. The author's motivation to start on a large-scale study began with the wall constructions, paintings, and mosaics that have gradually been uncovered over the years. His book offers an in-depth comprehension of the history, the decorations, and the construction dynamics of the building from its foundation as country villa to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. For the first time it provides a synthesis of the archaeological evidence, the ancient texts and the journals of the Bourbon age excavations. The first part of the book is divided into four narrative chapters, which unearth essential environmental and historical-archaeological information. The second part consists of three chapters and the conclusion. They evaluate the results of the recent excavations and the evidence obtained from the study of the archaeological findings. The book offers a rare diachronic and synchronic biography of this unique villa. It offers students, scholars, and enthusiasts alike profound first-hand insights into Roman archaeology and one of its material manifestations, the Roman villa.

Authoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome.

This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats. The Late Roman Republic is the main focus, with a mix of large-scale thematic and analytical chapters paired with more detailed case studies, from some of the leading scholars in the field. Other chapters widen the scope, analysing comparable cases from ancient Athens to Napoleon to Hitler’s Germany and Franco’s Spain.

The book as a whole draws on contemporary political science scholarship on democratic decay and competitive authoritarianism. It shows that these concepts are not only applicable to modern states, but that we can properly use them to study past democratic collapses as well. This provides the tools for a more historically-informed understanding of how republics die, as part of a renewed conversation between historians and political scientists.

This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspectives.

This volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them – heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future.

These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds.

This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text.

The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ in reference to a tradition, heritage, ethic, civilization, faith etc. has been used in a wide variety of contexts with widely diverging meanings. Contrary to popular belief, the term was not coined in the United States in the middle of the 20th century but in 1831 in Germany by Ferdinand Christian Baur. By acknowledging and returning to this European perspective and context, the volume engages the historical, theological, philosophical and political dimensions of the term’s development. Scholars of European intellectual history will find this volume timely and relevant.

Following the horrific attack on October 7, support for a devastating military retaliation and resolution has taken center stage. Nevertheless, within Israel, numerous critical voices cast doubt on the sustainability of such approaches. They champion the principles of morality, legality, and common sense as the true keys to a lasting solution. This book focuses on these voices which are critical of Israeli government policies. They are deeply grieving and affected by the October 7 attack, while also able to hold both Palestinian and Israeli pain and aspirations not as mutually exclusive, but as an impetus for creating a better and more equitable future for all who inhabit the land. It chronicles the reactions of intellectuals and scholars to unfolding events. All the pieces in this volume were written within a few days to a few months of October 7 and comprise an archive of a particular discourse taking shape in Israel at this historical juncture.

The book is dedicated to the memory of Vivian Silver, who devoted her life to waging peace through valiant activism, and was murdered in her home on October 7. The editor’s royalties will go to support an annual lecture in her memory on the themes of peace and democracy.

Read the interview with Lihi Ben Shitrit on De Gruyter Conversations and learn more about the book and the editor!

With contributions by Shaul Arieli, Eva Illouz, Idan Landau, Yaniv Ronen, Yofi Tirosh, Assaf David, Ameer Fakhoury, Ghadir Hani, Eran Tzidkiyahu, Orit Kamir, Orly Noy, Noam Shuster-Eliassi, Jessica Ausinheiler, Meirav Jones, Tal Correm, Anwar Mhajne, David Kretzmer, Omer Bartov, Rawia Aburabia, Hannah Safran, Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Galit Cohen-Kedem, Avi Shilon, Hagar Kotef, Merav Amir, Ali Al-Awar, and Nicholas Kristof.

This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspectives.

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.

The second century BCE was a time of prolonged debate at Rome about the changing nature of warfare. From the outbreak of the Second Punic War in 218 to Rome’s first civil war in 88 BCE, warfare shifted from the struggle against a great external enemy to a conflict against internal parties. This book argues that Rome’s Italian subjects were central to this development: having rebelled and defected to Hannibal at the end of the third century, the allies again rebelled in 91 BCE, with significant consequences for Roman thought about warfare as such. These "rebellions" constituted an Italian renewal of the war against their old conqueror, Rome, and an internal war within the polity. Accordingly, we need to add 'internal war' to the already well-established dichotomy of foreign and civil war.

This fresh analysis of the second century demonstrates that the Roman experience of internal war during this period provided the natural stepping-stone in the invention of civil war as such. It conceives of the period from the Second Punic War onward as an 'antebellum' period to the later civil war(s) of the Late Republic, during which contemporary observers looked back at the last 'great war' against Hannibal in preparation for the next conflict.

This book is a re-edition and detailed study of a parchment codex from Egypt of the fourth century CE with Greek and Coptic recipes for healing through magic and pharmacology (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Library Ms. 136). A text and annotated translation were published in a brief journal article by William H. Worrell in 1935, but the codex has been understudied since then. This new edition offers advances in readings and interpretation, a thorough philological commentary, and accompanying studies on the ritual and medical traditions to which the codex belongs and its position in the linguistic landscape of Egypt. The recipes comprise magical rituals for healing and broader personal advancement, pharmacological and related medical recipes, and advice for the management of a household. Traditional Egyptian religion and ritual are illustrated in interaction with medical practices of Hellenic culture more recently introduced to Egypt, and the archaic, even poetic language of some of the Coptic invocations featuring the Egyptian gods Amun and Thoth share pages with an incantation constructed from the verses of Homer.

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups, those of the Hittite Empire (c. 1400–1200 B.C.), and those of the Iron Age (c. 1000–700 B.C.),with a transitional period (c. 1200–1000 B.C.). One of the editor’s principal research efforts has been the establishment of reliable texts presented in facsimile copies and photographs. His Inscriptions of the Iron Age were published as Vol. I in 2000, and the great Luwian-Phoenician Bilingual in collaboration with Halet Çambel as Vol. II in 1999. Vol. III will present the Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire along with the newly discovered Iron Age inscriptions, thus completing the whole corpus. It will then make available to the scholarly world the Luwian language in its Hieroglyphic manifestation, which will be of importance to philologists and ancient historians alike.

In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a description of the Jewish religion and ceremonies as practised at the time. Over 50 years before Jews were permitted to settle in Sweden in 1782, the genre of Christian ethnographical writing about Jews and Jewish rituals had arrived in Sweden from Germany. In this volume, Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s "mirror" by looking at both the earlier history of Jews in Sweden and the phenomenon of ethnographical writing about Jews. The text of Speculum is presented in its original Swedish with a translation into English facing on the opposite pages. This edition includes notes explaining technical terms, identifying people and places, and translating Hebrew words and phrases. The volume also includes two works published in Sweden prior to Speculum: Bezelius’ Die Herrlichkeit des Christenthums (The Glory of Christianity [excerpts], 1684) and Seeligmann’s Jüdischer Ceremonien (On Jewish Ceremonies, 1725). The volume should be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish and Scandinavian history as well as the history of Jewish–Christian relations.

This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspectives.

The volume presents a critical edition and translation of the final part of the Byzantine text known as Theophanes Continuatus. Entitled 'Book VI' by previous editors, the text follows upon Books I-IV and the Vita Basilii which recount the reigns of the emperors from AD 813 to the death of Basil I in 886. 'Book VI' then brings the text down to the advent of Nicephorus II Phokas in 963. Tellingly, the first two parts are composed in a classicising style typical of the literary circle of the emperor Constantine VII; but this third part, undertaken after Constantine's death – presumably on the initiative of the high official Basil the parakoimomenos, an ally of Phokas – presents a strange mixture of stylistic and linguistic levels which points to a team of authors, apparently working in the imperial palace and assuming different roles in expanding and polishing the sources. Compiled in apparent haste, this third text is based on continuations of the Logothete Chronicle with various revisions, such as additional sections of text or glosses – often inserted in the wrong places – which were presumably taken over from marginal notes or leaves inserted in the prototype, providing examples of Middle Byzantine methods of textual re-writing.

Given Leopold Zunz’s difficult German style and the tight conciseness of his presentation, it is hardly surprising that no English translation of his Die Ritus (1859) has been published. The Hebrew edition of 2016 does not aim to place this pioneering work in the context of Jewish liturgical history, sometimes opts for a paraphrase, rather than a literal translation, and does not always make it easy to distinguish Zunz from later scholarship. There are undoubtedly English-speaking scholars in current academia who are unacquainted with German and Modern Hebrew but would benefit from reading this classic study. This volume therefore links Die Ritus with Zunz’s other scholarly works by way of a brief introduction, provides a faithful translation, without the result reading more like German than English. It reproduces Zunz’s footnotes in his own highly abbreviated form but offers as an appendix to the introductory essay a bibliographical list that explains references that may not be obvious even to a learned reader. Readers of English will now be able to reach their own conclusions about the stature of Zunz, about his contributions to the study of Jewish liturgy, and, indeed, about any shortcomings that there may have been in his scholarly, theological and political tendencies.

Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists.

Prostitution in the ancient Greek world was widespread, legal, and acceptable as a fact of life and an unavoidable necessity. The state regulated the industry and treated prostitution as any other trade. Almost every prominent man in the ancient world has been truly or falsely associated with some famous hetaira. These women, who sold their affections to the richest and most influential men of their time, have become legends in their own right. They pushed the boundaries of female empowerment in their quest for self-promotion and notoriety, and continue to fascinate us. Prostitution remains a complex phenomenon linked to issues of gender, culture, law, civic ideology, education, social control, and economic forces. This is why its study is of paramount importance for our understanding of the culture, outlook and institutions of the ancient world, and in turn it can shed new light and introduce new perspectives to the challenging debate of our times on prostitution and contemporary sexual morality. The main purpose of this book is to provide the primary historical study of the topic with emphasis upon the separation of facts from the mythology surrounding the countless references to prostitution in Greek literary sources.

The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.

The letter collections that the high-ranking court official Nikephoros Choumnos (c.1260–1327) compiled on the basis of his correspondence with the emperor, fellow intellectuals, clergymen and relatives, are an important testimony to the social and intellectual history of late Byzantium. They show how during this period of cultural revival and political crisis writers used letters not only as a medium for communication and networking within a small educated elite based primarily in Constantinople but also as a vehicle for self-representation through the publication of carefully curated manuscript collections.

The present book aims to make these different, yet closely intertwined layers of the 180 surviving letters of Nikephoros Choumnos accessible through a new critical edition with facing German translation. One of its main objectives is to present the individual collections the author commissioned as autonomous works of literary autobiography and to foreground textual fluidity on both the macrostructural level of the collections and the microstructural level of each letter. In addition to a short biography of the author, the introduction provides fundamental analyses of various aspects of the collections and of the individual letters preserved in them (transmission, formation and composition of the collections, prosopography, summaries with commentary, linguistic and literary elements), offers a detailed discussion of the orthography of the authorial manuscripts and explains the principles and methods applied in the edition and translation.

This book examines the talmudic writings, politics, and ideology of Y.I. Halevy (1847-1914), one of the most influential representatives of the pre-war eastern European Orthodox Jewish community. It analyzes Halevy’s historical model of the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, which, he argued, was edited by an academy of rabbis beginning in the fourth century and ending by the sixth century. Halevy's model also served as a blueprint for the rabbinic council of Agudath Israel, the Orthodox political body in whose founding he played a leading role.　

Foreword by Jay M. Harris, Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of How Do We Know This? Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism, among other works.

Zwei Jahre nach dem ersten Faszikel des Corpus der attischen Weihinschriften (IG II/III³ 4, 1), der die öffentlichen Dedikationen des athenischen Staates, seiner Demen, Phylen und Magistrate, ferner der Epheben, der Choregen und Athleten, sowie Weihungen von öffentlichen und privaten Vereinen umfasst, legt Jaime Curbera den zweiten Faszikel vor (IG II/III³ 4, 2), der die mehr als eintausend privaten Weihinschriften aus der Zeit von 403/2 v.Chr. bis zum 3. Jh. n.Chr. enthält. Sie sind nach den Gottheiten, denen sie geweiht sind, geordnet. Von besonderer Relevanz sind die Weihungen an Athena, Asklepios, Aphrodite, Dionysos und Zeus. Erstmals werden alle Inschriften, soweit erhalten, photographisch abgebildet.

Der abschließende dritte Faszikel (IG II/III³ 4, 3), der die tituli sacri und die Inschriften auf den Sitzen des Dionysos-Theaters sowie die Indices zu den drei Faszikeln enthalten wird, ist in Vorbereitung.

Die Publikation versammelt 25 Beiträge von Freunden, Weggefährten und Kollegen zu Ehren von Heinrich Beck, dem 2019 verstorbenen Herausgeber des Reallexikons der Germanischen Altertumskunde und Mitbegründer der Reihe Ergänzungsbände zum RGA sowie von G(ermanische) A(lterumskunde) O(nline) mit Themen aus dem Bereich der frühmittelalterlichen Archäologie, der altgermanistischen und altnordistischen Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft, der Namenkunde, der Runologie sowie der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Skandinaviens. Zudem enthält der Band zwei biographische Skizzen sowie ein vollständiges Verzeichnis der Schriften Heinrich Becks.

The idea that God reveals himself to human beings is central in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but differs in regard of content and conceptualization. The first volume of the new series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses points out similarities and differences of “revelation”. KCID aims to establish an archeology of religious knowledge in order to create a new conceptual platform of mutual understanding among religious communities.

Erratum: Wenzel Maximilian Widenka is co-author of the epilogue (pp. 195-206).

The ascent to the One lies at the heart of Plotinus' philosophy and of the Neoplatonism which started with him. The realisation that such an ascent already plays a central role in Plato is one of the most important insights of recent work on Platonic thought. This book draws the consequences of that discovery, and redefines the relationship between Plato and Neoplatonism. It combines the first comprehensive account of Plotinus' theory of the Absolute with a reconstruction of Plato's henology. In doing so it reveals the close relationship between the two thinkers and also demonstrates the enduring philosophical relevance of the topic.

Mit dem 4. Faszikel des Bandes IG XII 4, 4 wird die Edition der antiken Inschriften von der Insel Kos abgeschlossen. Er enthält die Grabinschriften aus den koischen Demen, Varia (Inschriften auf Mosaiken, Katasterinschriften, jüdische und christliche Inschriften), Graffiti, Inschriften unbekannten Inhalts, Fragmente sowie die nach Kos verschleppten Inschriften (Nr. 3054-3867). Es folgen die Inschriften von den sog. Milesischen Inseln Leros, Lepsia und Patmos (Nr. 3868‒3932), die durch einen separaten Index erschlossen und, soweit erhalten, abgebildet werden. Die Edition wird mit den Inschriften der Insel Kalymnos (IG XII 4, 5) fortgesetzt.

Drei Jahre nach den ersten beiden Bänden (IG XII 4, 1 und 2) erscheint der dritte von sechs Bänden, die die antiken Inschriften der Insel Kos sowie der Nachbarinseln Kalymna, Leros, Lepsia und Patmos enthalten. Der Band IG XII 4, 3 enthält die mehr als 1800 Grabinschriften (darunter mehr als 300 inedita) aus der Stadt Kos und ihrer näheren Umgebung. Sie vermitteln ein eindrucksvolles Bild von der Attraktivität der Polis für die ostägäische Region und ihrer Bedeutung vor allem in späthellenistischer und frührömischer Zeit. Die Inschriften sind nach archäologischen Gesichtspunkten geordnet. Charakteristisch für Kos sind die aufwendig geschmückten Rundaltäre.

CIL IV dokumentiert die Kursivinschriften der im Jahre 79 n. Chr. vom Vesuv verschütteten Städte Pompeji, Herculaneum, Stabiae und Oplontis. Das neue Supplement ist speziell den Graffiti und Dipinti dieser Orte gewidmet und enthält ausführliche Addenda und Corrigenda zu bereits zuvor publizierten Inschriften, zahlreiche seit Veröffentlichung des letzten Supplements hinzugekommene Neufunde, einen Index sowie erstmals auch detailliertes Kartenmaterial.

This collection of twenty-eight essays by emerging and established scholars presents work that deeply engages with the materiality and history of Greek and Roman artworks, artifacts, and monuments. Dedicated to Prof. John Pollini in honor of his contributions to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume reflects the broad range of his scholarship, from sculpture (especially portraiture) and its ancient contexts to material studies, iconographic analysis, and the complex ways that religious and political change both shape and are shaped by material culture. The contributions assembled in this volume highlight the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars construct interpretations of visual art based on a deep understanding of the ancient world, precise attention to detail and technique, and rigorous research into the historical contexts of objects, myths, literature, and iconography. Through their interdisciplinary approaches, the contributors offer new insights on artistic production, viewer reception, and social history, with an emphasis on the theme of "transformation" as objects, artworks, and ideas journey through time and from one culture to another.

Defining corruption is an incredibly difficult task. Being at the same time a concept identifying illegitimate and illegal behaviors, mostly connected to positions of power, and a word indicating a process of (moral) degeneration, corruption is hard to tackle and disentangle – especially when one considers how it is perceived and discussed in public discourse. As deviance from the norm, corruption shifts continuously: different cultures recognize different kinds of behavior as "corrupt". Nonetheless, earlier studies on corruption in Greek and Roman antiquity have often tried to define which periods were "more" or "less corrupt", or how corruption influenced the demise of political orders (for example in the late Roman republic or in late antiquity). This volume develops a different approach, focusing on the ways in which ancient sources – literary texts, papyri, laws, etc. – have understood and defined corruption, to gain an emic perspective of corruption in different moments and contexts of Graeco-Roman Antiquity. The volume thus provides an innovative and comprehensive perspective on corruption and anti-corruption in Greek and Roman antiquity, thus providing relevant tools also for today’s discussions about a topic which is and was always current.

Seit etwas mehr als 100 Jahren wurden die nubischen Kulturen Gegenstand übergreifender Darstellungen. An keinem Fundplatz war es jedoch bislang möglich, eine kontinuierliche Sequenz für die Zeit des 4.- 2. Jtds. v. Chr. vorzulegen. Die vollständige Zerstörung des unternubischen Raumes durch die Staudämme des 20.Jahrhunderts hat die letzte Chance für eine diachrone Darstellung der Geschichte des Grenzraumes in das angrenzende Südägypten verlegt. Die ungestörte Abfolge von Siedlungsschichten auf der Insel Elephantine eröffnet hierzu die einmalige Möglichkeit. Die Hauptquelle der Darstellung ist die nubische Keramik, die in den Ausgrabungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abt. Kairo, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schweizerischen Institut für Ägyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, gefunden wurde. Die Funde und Befunde werden im Kontext des aktuellen Forschungsstands zu weiteren Fundplätzen und Textquellen betrachtet. Anhand dieses vielfältigen und quantitativ aussagekräftigen Materials wird eine Neubewertung der Äußerungen von Ethnizität und der Realität des ägyptisch-nubischen wie auch innernubischen Kulturkontakts an einer Schnittstelle politischer und wirtschaftlicher Räume in Nordostafrika vorgestellt.

Im zweiten Faszikel des Supplements zu CIL IV bieten Heikki Solin, Antonio Varone und Peter Kruschwitz sowohl ausführliche Addenda und Corrigenda zu den seit langem bekannten und erstmals bereits von Karl Zangemeister und August Mau vor über 100 Jahren edierten Pinselaufschriften und Graffiti auf den Wänden der Gebäude in den antiken Vesuv-Städten. Dazu kommen ferner zahlreiche neu entdeckte Wandaufschriften. Die kritische Dokumentation der lateinischen Inschriften aus den Vesuv-Städten folgt modernen Editionsprinzipien und stellt den Texten in ihrer Lesung und Kommentierung jeweils Bilder gegenüber. Die Arbeit ist die Frucht aus vier Jahrzehnten Forschungstätigkeit der Autoren.

Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame of reference for the Ugaritic texts. The aim of this work is to offer a comprehensive study of the consonantal (Ugaritic) as well as the syllabic (Akkadian) incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ras Shamra as a unified corpus. These texts, dealing with impending dangers (mainly snakebites) and witchcraft attacks, are placed in the context of Ancient Near Eastern magic literature. A discussion of general topics, including magic and religion, the Ugaritic gods of magic, and the definition of incantation, is followed by a new collation and translation of the Akkadian texts, as well as new photographic material for both series. The main focus of this book is the close reading of the consonantal texts in the context of the much larger and better analyzed corpus of Akkadian magic literature.

The Satyrica of Petronius, one of the fictional key texts in ancient literature, have been the focus of international research since the 1960s. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that modern commentators have only concentrated on the central part of the work, the famous Cena Trimalchionis. This defect is now remedied with Habermehl’s commentary on the especially neglected second half of the work (a second volume, on Sat. 111’141, is scheduled to follow in about two years’ time). The commentary provides the reader with all the necessary apparatus for understanding the language, the factual elements and the action of the text. In addition, it includes critical discussion of the novel as an exemplar, and thus renders a contribution of fundamental importance to the interpretation of the Satyrica in their entirety, which are still the subject of much controversy.

This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving increased interest in English-language scholarship, with a new awareness of the important contribution that sarcophagi can make to the study of the social use and production of Roman art. The book will therefore be a timely addition to existing literature. Metropolitan sarcophagi are the main focus of the volume, which will cover a wide time range from the first century AD to post classical periods (including early Christian sarcophagi and post-classical reception). Other papers will look at aspects of viewing and representation, iconography, and marble analysis. There will be an Introduction written by the co-editors.

This comprehensive geographical encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 A.D., catalogues some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers, waters and peoples from the ancient world. Particular attention is paid to the etymology of names and the grammatical derivations of the Ethnika . For cultural historical information – here with the evidence of the attributed quotations – Stephanos is often the sole source. This new critical edition replaces A. Meineke’s long obsolete edition of 1849. The text of the directly recorded epitomes is accompanied by an apparatus of parallel terms which takes account of both the sources of the encyclopaedia and its later users. This first translation of the encyclopaedia in a modern language and the notes (particularly on language, onomastics and topography) open up the work to a wide circle of scholars engaged in studies of antiquity.

Das Werk stellt erstmals die umfangreichen Einflüsse des über Byzanz vermittelten römischen Rechts im ersten geschriebenen Recht der Isländer dar. Nach einem chronologischen Überblick über die Gesetzgebungsgeschichte auf Island während der Freistaatszeit (930-1262/4) wird die Person des Goden Hafliði Másson näher dargestellt, der maßgeblich bei der Abfassung des später Grágás genannten Gesetzbuches im Winter 1117/1118 war. Hafliði Másson kann auch mit der ersten Klostergründung sowie der Errichtung des zweiten Bischofsstuhls auf Island in Verbindung gebracht werden.

Im ersten Hauptteil der Arbeit wird der Einfluss des römischen Rechts auf den juristischen Wortschatz, die Gesetzgebungstechnik und einzelne Rechtsinstitute der Grágás wie beispielsweise die Popularklage dargestellt. Im zweiten Hauptteil werden einzelne Tatbestände analysiert, die durch das römische Recht sowie durch alttestamentliche Normen geprägt sind. Weiterhin werden einige Parallelen zum langobardischen Recht festgestellt.

Das Buch ist damit sowohl für die Rechtsgeschichte als auch für die Germanistik (insbesondere Nordische Philologie), Byzantinistik und Kirchengeschichte von Interesse.

This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity.

The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.

Die Meilensteine der Iberischen Halbinsel eröffnen in der Folge der Faszikel von CIL XVII (Miliaria Imperii Romani) den geographischen Rundgang durch den Orbis. Die textkritische Edition aller Inschriften von Meilensteinen ist dabei im Kontext der sog. Reichsstraßen (viae publicae) des Imperium Romanum dargestellt. Der erste Faszikel von CIL XVII umfasst das epigraphische (und zum Teil anepigraphische) Material aus dem Raum der Provinz Hispania citerior – von den Pyrenäen bis zum Kantabrischen Meer und entlang der Mittelmeerküste, im Binnenland bis zum Duero (Durius), der Sierra Morena (Iuga Oretana) und dem Guadalquivir (Baetis). Er schließt damit im Norden an den bereits im Jahre 1986 vorgelegten Band zu den gallischen und germanischen Provinzen von Gerold Walser an (CIL XVII/2).

Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting „Heil Hitler!“ and Swastika flags were hoisted at the German consulates in Mandatory Palestine. It was in November 1931 when a non-Jewish German made the initial contact with Nazi officials in Germany that led to the establishment of a miniature Third Reich with local NS groups, Hitler Youth program, and associations for women, teachers, and others in Palestine. Approximately 33% of all Palestine-Germans (Palästina-Deutsche) participated in the NS movement. Until today no extensive research written in English has been done on this bizarre „footnote“ in history. While previous publications in German mainly concentrated on the members of the Temple Society, this work includes Protestant and Catholic Germans as well. It focuses on the relationship of Palästina-Deutsche with local Arabs and Jews. It covers the period of 1933 to 1948 as well as the years between the establishing of the State of Israel and the departure of the last group of Germans in 1950. At the end of the book, the reader will find a list with more than seven hundred names of those who joined the NS groups.

45 Jahre nach dem Corpus der Inschriften der makedonischen Stadt Thessaloniki (IG X 2, 1, ed. Charles Edson, 1972) erscheint der erste Teil der Supplemente zu diesem Band. Er enthält die zwischen 1960 und 2015 neu gefundenen Inschriften aus der antiken Stadt und ihrem Territorium. Von den etwa 650 Inschriften werden hier knapp 200 erstmals ediert. Bemerkenswert sind neben der großen Zahl von Grabinschriften, darunter viele aus spätantiker und christlicher Zeit, mehrere lange Texte aus den Jahren zwischen 250 und 260 n.Chr., die zu Gladiatorenspielen einladen.

Der Band wird durch ausführliche Indices erschlossen. Alle Inschriften werden photographisch abgebildet.

Der vierte Band des Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae umfasst die Inschriften der Gebiete Iudaeas und Idumaeas von der Zeit Alexanders bis zum Ende der byzantinischen Herrschaft im 7. Jahrhundert in allen Sprachen, die damals für Inschriften verwendet wurden: Griechisch, Latein, Hebräisch, Aramäisch, Samaritanisch, Christlich-Palästinisches Aramäisch, Georgisch, Armenisch. Die mehr als 1300 Texte sind geographisch nach den Fundorten in etwa von Lydda im Nordwesten bis Masada im Südosten geordnet. Der Band erfasst u.a. Städte wie Bethlehem, En Gedi, Eleutheropolis, Emmaus, Hebron, Herodion, Jericho, Maresha.

Petronius' Satyrica, one of the most authoritative fictional texts of ancient literature, has been the focus of international research since the 1960s. For a long time, only the central part of this text, the famous Cena Trimalchionis, was analysed in modern commentaries.

The commentary presented here remedies this situation for the particularly neglected second half of the work. It provides the reader with everything they need to understand the language, the realia and the plot. In addition, it analyses the scholarly discussion of the novel in an exemplary manner and thus makes a fundamental contribution to the still controversial interpretation of the Satyrica as a whole.

At the centre of the exegesis is the famous novella of the "Widow of Ephesus", whose controversial discussion in modern secondary literature is examined as well as its role in the context of the novel.

Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

Die vorliegende Publikation versucht die Auswertung und Rekonstruktion des Bild- und Textprogramms aus der sogenannten "Weltkammer" im Sonnenheiligtum des Pharao Ne-user-Re aus der V. Dynastie. Dieser bisher einzigartige Befund wurde 1899ff. von W.v. Bissing und L. Borchardt in Abusir erhoben. Die Texte und Darstellungen mit einer ausführlichen Schilderung der Fauna und Flora im Wechsel der Jahreszeiten konnten 1974 durch E. Edel und St. Wenig in Zeichnung und Photographie vorgelegt werden (Mitteilungen aus den Ägyptischen Sammlungen, Bd. VII). Nach Einzeluntersuchungen durch Edel kann hier erstmalig ein gesamter Rekonstruktions-Versuch vorgelegt werden, der die über 1000 dekorierten Fragmente in einen Sinnzusammenhang zu stellen sucht, dessen Essenz darin besteht die vielfältigen Produkte des Landes, durch Vermittlung Pharaos, dem Sonnengott Re in dessen Heiligtum darzubringen. Einzigartig sind die detaillierten bildlichen und textlichen Ausführungen des Wandels im Ablauf des Jahreszeiten vor allem anhand der Fisch- und Vogelzüge sowie der listenähnlichen Erfassung der jeweiligen Natur(produkte).

Disputes lie at the heart of the sagas. Consequently, literary texts have been treated as sources of legal practice – narrations of law – while the sagas themselves and the handling of legal matters by the figures adhere to ‘laws of narration’. The volume addresses this intricate relationship between literature and social practice from the perspective of historians as well as philologists. The contributions focus not only on disputes and their solution in saga literature, but also on the representation of law and its history in sagas and Latin historiography from Scandinavia as well as the representation of laws and norms in mythological texts. They demonstrate that narrations of law provide an indispensable insight into legal culture and its connection to a wider framework of social norms, adjusting the impression given by the laws. The philological approaches underline that the narrative texts also have an agenda of their own when it comes to their representation of law, providing a mirror of conduct, criticising inequity, reinforcing the political and juridical position of kings or negotiating norms in mythological texts. Altogether, the volume underlines the unifying force exerted by a common fiction of law beyond its letter.

Der Band IG XV umfasst die griechischen Inschriften der Insel Zypern, deren Zahl etwa auf 5.000 geschätzt wird. Knapp ein Drittel sind im sog. Kyprischen Syllabar geschrieben, das vom 8. – 4. Jh. v.Chr. in Gebrauch war. Diese Inschriften werden im ersten Teil (IG XV 1), die Alphabetinschriften im zweiten Teil (XV 2) des Corpus ediert; es sind jeweils mehrere Faszikel geplant.

Der Faszikel IG XV 1, 1 enthält die in epichorischer Schrift verfassten Inschriften aus den Stadtgebieten von Amathous, Kourion und Marion an der Süd– und Westküste Zyperns sowie die eteokyprischen Inschriften und einige Bilinguen. Aufgenommen wurden alle Inschriften auf Stein, Keramik, Metall und auf Münzen. Soweit erhalten, sind sie in Zeichnung und Foto dokumentiert. Zahlreiche Abklatsche heute verlorener Inschriften konnten in der Universtätsbibliothek Strassbourg wiederentdeckt werden. Die 410 Inschriften werden durch Indices vollständig erschlossen.

Der erste Faszikel des Corpus der Alphabetinschriften (IG XV 2, 1) wird 2020 erscheinen.

Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.

Im zweiten Faszikel des von Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón und Géza Alföldy (†) herausgebenen Bandes CIL II2²/13 erfolgt die kritische Edition und bildliche Dokumentation von 650 lateinischen Inschriften des nördlichen Teils des conventus Carthaginiensis, der Gebiete der heutigen Provinzen Cuenca, Albacete und Valencia im südöstlichen Zentralspanien umfasst. Es werden u. a. die lateinischen Inschriften aus dem Umland (ager) von Segobriga sowie von Valeria bis Ilugo in Gegenüberstellung mit entsprechenden Fotos ediert. Der Band stellt die vollständige, modernen Editionsprinzipien folgende kritische Dokumentation der lateinischen Inschriften eines weiteren Teils der römischen Provinz Hispania Tarraconensis dar. Sie ist die Frucht aus mehr als drei Jahrzehnten Forschungstätigkeit von Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón und Géza Alföldy (†).

The Marrano phenomenon is a still unexplored element of Western culture: the presence of the borderline Jewish identity which avoids clear-cut cultural and religious attribution and – precisely as such – prefigures the advent of the typically modern "free-oscillating" subjectivity. Yet, the aim of the book is not a historical study of the Marranos (or conversos), who were forced to convert to Christianity, but were suspected of retaining their Judaism "undercover." The book rather applies the "Marrano metaphor" to explore the fruitful area of mixture and cross-over which allowed modern thinkers, writers and artists of the Jewish origin to enter the realm of universal communication – without, at the same time, making them relinquish their Jewishness which they subsequently developed as a "hidden tradition." The book poses and then attempts to prove the "Marrano hypothesis," according to which modern subjectivity derives, to paraphrase Cohen, "out of the sources of the hidden Judaism": modernity begins not with the Cartesian abstract ego, but with the rich self-reflexive self of Michel de Montaigne who wrestled with his own marranismo in a manner that soon became paradigmatic to other Jewish thinkers entering the scene of Western modernity, from Spinoza to Derrida. The essays in the volume offer thus a new view of a "Marrano modernity," which aims to radically transform our approach to the genesis of the modern subject and shed a new light on its secret religious life as surviving the process of secularization, although merely in the form of secret traces.

Im vierten Faszikel des Supplements zu CIL IX bietet Marco Buonocore für rund 820 neu gefundene lateinische Inschriften der Regio Italiae quarta (Sabini) eine kritische Edition samt bildlicher Dokumentation. Der Band enthält ferner ausführliche Addenda und Corrigenda zu den bereits im 19. Jahrhundert bekannten und 1883 von Theodor Mommsen edierten Inschriften, jetzt erstmals in Gegenüberstellung mit Fotos, abschließend einen Kurzindex und eine Übersichtskarte. Das Gebiet der Sabiner umfasst u. a. die antiken Städte Amiternum, Nursia, Reate, Forum Novum, Trebula Mutuesca und Cures Sabini. Es besitzt reiches und für die Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Römischen Imperiums bedeutendes epigraphisches Quellenmaterial. Diesem vierten Faszikel folgt nach den 2018, 2019 und 2020 erschienenen Faszikeln ein fünfter, der die Indizes zum gesamten Supplement zu CIL IX enthalten wird. Die modernen Editionsprinzipien folgende kritische Dokumentation der lateinischen Inschriften der römischen Regio quarta ist die Frucht aus drei Jahrzehnten Forschungstätigkeit von Marco Buonocore.

This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs?

Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c).

For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic.

For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors.

Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.

The Old English Genesis is the sole illustrated Anglo-Saxon poem. In full appreciation of this unique concurrent execution of visualization and versification in a single manuscript, this multidisciplinary work explores the pictorial (Vol. 1) and the metrical (Vol. 2) organization from both synchronic–structural and diachronic–comparative perspectives. Among the most significant findings of each volume are: The first twenty-two images in the Old English Genesis originated on the whole from the Touronian Bibles; and the underlying classical Old English and Old Saxon meters were interactively reshaped through mutual adaptation and recomposition aimed at their firm integration into a synthesized Old English Genesis. While each part is solidly embedded in the respective scholarly tradition and pursues its own disciplinary concerns and problematics, vigorous formal and cognitive reasoning and theorizing run commonly through both. By way of mutual corroboration and integration, the twin volumes eventually converge on the hypothesis that the earliest portion of the extant Old English Genesis (lines 1–966) derived from the corresponding episodes of an illustrated Touronian Old Saxon Genesis in both pictorial and metrical terms.

A central, much-studied feature of the poetry of 3rd cent. BCE Alexandria is the artistic treatment of the cultural past, the reception of earlier Greek poetry and artwork in the artistic creations of a new, Greco-Egyptian world deracinated both geographically and temporally from the heroes and models of Archaic and Classical Greece. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has devoted a 30+ year professional scholarly career to the study of this reception, one of both imitation and variation, which took place concurrently with the massive collection and categorization of earlier Greek literature in the work of the scholars gathered under royal patronage at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria, a truly revolutionary new effort of cultural memorialization. The poets of this period, among them Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius and Posidippus, vied in their efforts to compose works that at once celebrated their poetic heritage and at the same time marked their own poetry as original artistic creation and as critical commentary upon their earlier models. This collection will be of interest not only for readers of Archaic and Hellenistic poetry, but also for readers interested in the later reception of the Alexandrians at Rome.

This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics that usually have a very low-level of visibility, such as the skillful gestures of the craftspeople involved, the organization of the ceramic production, the dynamics of apprenticeship and knowledge transfer as well as intra and inter-regional artisanal mobility, in the Graeco-Roman ‘communities of practice’.

The papers promote interdisciplinary dialogues among various fields of study, such as archaeology, archaeometry, anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and digital humanities - such as Social Network Analysis, computational imaging, and big data analysis.

The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment in the afterlife, as well as allowing them to join the entourages of different deities and participate in their worship. Spells referring to or enabling the deceased’s transformations occur in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. But it is not until the Graeco-Roman Period that we find entire compositions devoted to this theme. Two of the most important are P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162, both written in hieratic and dating to the 1st century AD. Both texts have been known to Egyptologists for more than a century, but neither is currently available in an up-to-date comprehensive edition. This book provides such an edition, including high-resolution images of the manuscripts, hieroglyphic transcriptions, translations, descriptions of their material aspects, studies of their owners, their titles, and their families, reconstructions of their context of usage, analyses of their orthography and grammar, and detailed commentaries on their contents.

Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This volume, instead, addresses a meso-scale of urbanity: the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities. Its temporal focus is on Late Republican and Imperial Italy, and more specifically the cities of Pompeii and Ostia. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods and city quarters as basic categories of design and experience. With the terms ‘neighbourhood and ‘city quarter’ the volume proposes two different methodological approaches: Neighbourhood here refers to the face-to-face relation between people living next to each other – thus the small-scale environment centred around a house and an individual. Neighbourhoods thus do not constitute a (collectively defined) urban territory with clear borders, but are rather constituted by individual experiences. In contrast, city quarters are understood as areas that share certain characteristics.

Laevius is the only pre-Catullan Latin love poet whose work can still be reconstructed. This book collects and discusses approximately 50 fragments from his Erotopaegnia, a collection of narrative poems dealing with various themes from Greek myths. Through comprehensive studies and a detailed interpretative commentary, this publication not only illuminates the significance of Laevius himself but also sheds new light on republican poetry as a whole: The Erotopaegnia are not an example of 'neoteric' poetry, but rather serve as an important representative of archaic Latin love poetry, differing significantly from Catullus and the love elegiacs in both content and style.

How can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time ‘special’, to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from ‘normal’, everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it?

While a lot of research has been done on festivals from the point of view of several scholarly disciplines, the specific temporality of festivals has not yet attracted sufficient attention. In this volume, scholars from different fields provide answers to the questions raised above, based on a fresh analysis of astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts. Cultures as diverse as ancient Babylon, Greece and Rome, and medieval China all share a sense of calendrically recurring festive time as something special that needs to be carefully mapped out and preserved, often with great sophistication, and that gives us precious insights into the broader religious, political, and social dimensions of time within past cultures.

Hermupolis Magna, die Stadt des Gottes Thot/Hermes, war nach römischer Auffassung keine echte Polis. Überhaupt wird dem antiken Ägypten von der modernen Forschung ein Stadtproblem attestiert. Im. 3. Jh. n. Chr. werden Hermupolis wie auch andere Gaumetropolen der Provinz allerdings selbstverständlich zu den Poleis der Mittelmeerwelt gezählt. Wie lässt sich diese Diskrepanz erklären? Wie ist die Kategorie „Stadt" vor einem solchen Hintergrund zu bewerten? Anhand eines Blicks auf die gesellschaftlich-mentalen Strukturen der lokalen Einwohnerschaft von Hermupolis, ihrer repräsentativen Ansprüche und einer akteursorientierten Perspektive auf den Ort wird die städtische Entwicklung der Gaumetropole zwischen ptolemäischer Zeit und dem 5. Jh. n. Chr. nachgezeichnet. Der Begriff „Stadt" erweist sich dabei als fluide und wird je nach Standpunkt und gesellschaftlichen Umständen anhand neuer Kriterien definiert. Mit diesem Ansatz wird zugleich die Definition der Kategorie „Polis" am Beispiel Hermupolis aus einer unkonventionellen Perspektive betrachtet.

Der Faszikel IG II/III³ 1, 4 enthält 291 Gesetze und Dekrete aus der für die athenische Geschichte äußerst turbulenten Zeit von 300/299 bis 229/8 v.Chr. Da für diese Jahrzehnte literarische Quellen weitgehend fehlen, kommt den epigraphischen eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Sie bezeugen die innere Verfassung der Stadt, ihre Abhängigkeit von verschiedenen hellenitischen Königen und ihren beständigen Kampf um Unabhängigkeit.
Die Inschriften sind durch Indices erschlossen und werden, soweit erhalten, fotographisch abgebildet.

In Vorbereitung:
IG II/III³: Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Ed. tertia.
Pars IV: Dedicationes et tituli sacri.
Fasc. 1: Dedicationes publicae.

The second volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae covers the inscriptions of Caesarea Maritima and the coastal region of the Middle Coast from Tel Aviv in the south to Haifa in the north from the time of Alexander to the Muslim conquest. The approx. 1,050 texts comprise all the languages used for inscriptions during this period (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, Samaritan, Syrian, and Persian) and are arranged according to the principal settlements and their territory. The great majority of the texts belongs to Caesarea, the capital of the province of Judaea/Syria Palaestina. No other place in Judaea has produced more Latin inscriptions than this area, reflecting the strong Roman influence on the city.

This is the editio princeps, based on new papyrus discoveries, of a Greek poem on astrology by an author whose notorious collaborations with Simon Magus is novelistically recounted in the Clementina. A versified handbook of horoscopes and introduction to the sciences, it is the only Greek astrological poem to have been written in elegiac couplets, and ist a new accession to the corpus of didactic poetry in the tradition of Aratus' Phaenomena, Manilius' Astronomica, and Ovid's Fasti. The edition offers a collection and complete re-edition of the remains of the poem's original four books: published and unpublished papyri, plus fragments and testimonia preserved in the secondary tradition.

Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and illuminate more familiar works in the corpus, both extant and fragmentary. This is the first full-scale study of the two plays, which sheds light on plot-patterns, key themes and aspects of Euripidean dramatic technique (e.g. his rhetoric, imagery, stagecraft), as well as matters of reception and transmission of both tragedies, by taking into account newly related evidence. The cautious recovery of the two lost plays based on the available evidence and the detailed commentary on their fragments seek to complement our knowledge of Euripidean drama by contributing to an overview and more comprehensive picture of the dramatist's technique, as the extant corpus represents only a small portion of his oeuvre.

This volume presents the wall inscriptions carved in Latin and Greek from the Vesuvian towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae, and includes an extensive epigraphic, philological, linguistic, and historical commentary. More than half of these inscriptions had not been edited until now. Antonio Varone is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of Latin epigraphy.