This study traced Tertullian’s utilisation of history (or historical material) as a rhetorical instrument in one of his earliest works, the Ad Nationes. An in-depth analysis of the book identified this as a fundamental trajectory in the argument of Tertullian. The study casts a new perspective on the written work of this renowned Christian apologist and theologian. His use of history particularly to substantiate his arguments was compared with the contemporary primary sources, in order to assess the integrity or accuracy of his historical data. The prevailing rhetoric, as e.g. outlined by Quintilian, valued the message and intention of a text higher than the historical accuracy of the account. The same Quintilian, however, emphasized that historical accuracy would guarantee the message and intention of a text. The research concluded that Tertullian, who enjoyed a classical education and was therefore well acquainted with the rules of rhetoric, did pay sufficient attention to Quintilian’s insistence on historical accuracy in his utilisation of history. Tertullian was well aware of the significance of historical accuracy. On occasion he rightly criticised Tacitus (the famous historian) for historical inaccuracies in his work. In his Apologeticus (in which much of the Ad Nationes was reworked) he corrected some historical data. In the Ad Nationes he wrote a brilliant paragraph on the origin of rumours (fama) and also expressed his appreciation for careful investigation (in court procedures) in order to ascertain the truth (veritas) accurately. In the rhetorical utilisation of historical material, accurate historical knowledge did not play a crucial role. Of paramount importance was the intention and purpose of the immediate argument. / Thesis (MA (Latin))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

Etruscan art was greatly influenced by Greek art, which is especially apparent in the Etruscan funerary art. A common motif within Greek funerary art is the prothesis, the lying in state, which appears in Etruria during the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. However, the Etruscan scenes differ from the Greek scenes in that they portray a wider flexibility when it comes to gender roles. Women and men are not limited to gestures or positions within the scenes of prothesis. This in turn, along with other factors not discussed in this paper, has led to discussions of a more gender equal Etruscan society. Yet there is a specific gesture within the Etruscan scenes that is not found in the Greek material. The gesture in question, portrayed with both hands on the chest either in fists or placed one on top of the other, appears in other funerary art outside of the prothesis scenes. The aim of this thesis is to examine this gesture and its relation to gender and whether it is gender constricted. By analyzing and comparing funerary art limited to Chiusi and Vetulonia that includes the gesture, found in reliefs, statuettes as well as sculptures, this paper sets out to deepen our understanding of Etruscan gender roles. Since the material being examined is extremely restricted, the only thing an analysis of this size can determine is that there is indeed a gender constriction within the funerary art from the cities of Chiusi and Vetulonia, speaking to a possible wider occurrence within the entire Etruscan society. To delve deeper into the questions of gender roles and how they affect the Etruscan art, it is necessary to broaden the scope of material – both in form and origin.

L'histoire de l'arboriculture en Grèce est encore mal connue et seuls la vigne et l'olivier ont bénéficié d'un intérêt de longue date. L'objectif de ce travail est de comprendre les processus de mise en culture des arbres fruitiers en Grèce entre le Néolithique et l'époque romaine. Pour ce faire, le matériel carpologique (restes de graines et de fruits) publié de 56 sites a été pris en compte dans une synthèse. Les mentions de fruits et de fruitiers ont été inventoriées dans les documents épigraphiques en grec mycénien et classique, ainsi que dans les textes d'auteurs antiques. Une étude de morphométrie géométrique a été réalisée sur les pépins de vigne et les noyaux d'olive archéologiques. La confrontation de ces sources révèle une évolution du cortège des fruitiers utilisés : vigne, olivier et figuier dominent à toutes les périodes, l'importance de certains fruits sauvages décroît après l'âge du Bronze et nouveaux fruits sont alors introduits. Les premières vignes domestiques apparaissent à l'âge du Bronze, tandis qu'une même forme sélectionnée d'olivier est présente du Bronze ancien à l'époque romaine. Les premières formes d'arboriculture (haies, lisières et parcelles en partie défrichées) sont complétées, au Bronze récent, par des plantations de fruitiers. De grands vignobles apparaissent à l'époque classique, et l'époque romaine voit se développer une agriculture plus spécialisée où le souci du rendement se fait jour dans les traités d'agriculture comme dans la recherche de nouvelles variétés de vigne et d'olivier. Enfin, le recours à des formes peu sélectionnées ainsi que l'intégration de fruitiers sauvages aux cultures se maintiennent jusqu'à la période romaine. / Little is known concerning the history of arboriculture in Greece; only the grapevine and the olive tree have been a subject of interest for a long time. The aim of this work is to understand how fruit trees were cultivated in Greece between the Neolithic and the Roman period. This is why published archaeobotanical data (seeds and fruits) from 56 sites were taken into account in our synthesis. A survey of all references to fruits and fruit trees in epigraphic documents (Mycenaean and classic Greek) and in ancient authors has also been achieved. Archaeological pips and stones were submitted to Geometric Morphometry. Our approach reveals how fruit trees were used from the Neolithic up to the Roman period; while the grapevine, the olive tree and the fig tree predominate ail the time, it is clear that the importance of certain wild fruits decreases after the Bronze Age as new others are introduced. The first domesticated grapevines appear during the Bronze Age while a single selected variety of olive tree is present from the early Bronze Age to the Roman period. The first manifestations of arboriculture concern woodland edges and partially cleared land plots, real fruit tree plantations appear during the late Bronze Age, at the latest. Extensive vineyards appear during the Classical period, while a more specialized agriculture aiming at maximum profit characterizes the Roman period, as testified by the works on agronomy and the search for new varieties of olives and grapevines. Despite the search for higher yields, the use of less selected domesticates and wild fruits remains a reality until the roman period.

The present doctoral thesis is a study on women in Graeco-Roman Egypt and, in particular, it is aimed at investigating the social and legal status of women through the lens of women's reproduction.

Orientador: Alcides Hector Rodriguez Benoit / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T11:00:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PereiraFilho_Gerson_D.pdf: 13290018 bytes, checksum: a2fdc79aa291b09494dbcf826907d231 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: A proposta desta tese de doutoramento é promover uma investigação sobre o processo de fundação da cidade platônica no Diálogo Leis, procurando verificar como esse texto e esse processo estão vinculados ao conjunto dos Diálogos, permitindo-nos compreender que o autor filósofo estabelece um percurso teórico, conceitual e metodológico relacionado diretamente ao contexto de transformações históricas das cidades e regimes políticos gregos. Assim, nesse percurso histórico dos textos dialógicos, verificamos a elaboração, ainda que incipiente, de uma teoria da história em Platão / Abstract: The proposol of this thesis of doctorate is to promote an investigation on the foundation process of the platonic city in the Dialogue of Laws, seeking to verify how this text and this process are linked to the set of dialogues, allowing us to comprehend that the philosopher author establishes a theoretical, methodological and conceptual path directly related to the context of the historical transformations of the Greek cities and their political regimes. Therefore, in this historical route of the dialogical texts, we verify an elaboration, even though incipient, of a theory of history in Plato / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

A mulher brähmaëa (sacerdotisa) na Índia antiga é o um dos agentes principais e intermediários entre os homens e os deuses; sendo imprescindível aos rituais (sacrifícios de fogo solenes e públicos). Nas interações entre os humanos, as mulheres de todas as camadas da sociedade são privilegiadas como agentes dos ritos da hospitalidade, ou seja, da permuta da dádiva. Além disso, a mulher é o foco da maioria dos ritos de passagem, visto que estes são realizados antes do nascimento, durante a gestação, o que envolve, assim, a mãe diretamente. Ao mesmo tempo, a mulher relativiza o ideal ritual e social, variando a norma, de acordo com as circunstâncias e as escolhas pessoais. O objetivo dessa dissertação é discorrer sobre quais papéis rituais e sociais são delegados às mulheres na sociedade da Índia antiga. Para tanto, selecionamos, apresentamos e comentamos os ritos em que haja a inserção das mulheres, descrevendo suas funções, seus deveres e direitos, sua posição culturalmente estabelecida e a relações entre o âmbito ritual e a sociedade por extensão a partir das literaturas de cunho rituais e jurídico-religiosas, divididas em duas grandes categorias, de acordo com a tradição; quais sejam: Çruti e Småti, isto é, o ouvido e o lembrado. Nesse exercício analítico de cunho histórico-religioso, tentamos dar conta do nosso problema principal: qual o lugar da mulher na Índia antiga ritual e, por conseguinte, socialmente, conforme representada na literatura sânscrita. / The brähmaëa woman (priestess) in Ancient India is the main and intermediate agent between men and gods; being indispensable in rituals (fire sacrifices, both public and solemn). In the interactions between men, women of all social divisions are privileged as the agents of hospitality rites, i.e., in the exchange of gifts. Moreover, women are the object of most life-cycle rites, since they are performed before birth, during pregnancy, which involves the mother directly. Besides, women adapt the ideals of social and ritual actions, varying the norms, according to circumstances, and personal choices. The objective of this dissertation is to depict the ritual and social roles which are assigned to women in the society of Ancient India as they are culturally thought and created. In order to do so, we selected, presented and commented about the rites in which women are included, describing their functions, duties and rights; observing their socially and culturally established position in relation to the ritual and social realms, in the terms presented by the ritual and religious/law literature, divided in two major categories in the Indian tradition: Çruti e Småti, i.e., what has been heard and what is recalled. In this religious-historical attempt of analysis, we aim to answer, or at least, to point at and think over, the main problem we acknowledge: what is womens domain in Ancient India when it comes to ritual and social ideals as represented in the Sanskrit Literature.

The insular nature of the Maltese archipelago provides a unique opportunity to explore trade and cultural change from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages in the central Mediterranean. I hypothesize that, during the period in which the Maltese islands were experiencing a form of isolation—owing either to their distance from Sicily and other populated regions, to the collective formation of an inwardly-focused culture, or to a combination of these factors—it is unlikely that pottery played a significant role as either an import or export in the archipelago’s exchange relationships with other communities in the central Mediterranean. I accordingly propose that ceramics were only significant in the interaction networks between Malta and its neighbors during periods when the archipelago was culturally connected to Sicily. Except for a limited number of archaeometric studies (Barone et al. 2015; Molitor 1988; Mommsen et al. 2006), analysis of similarities among ceramic wares produced in Malta and elsewhere that allow archaeologists to draw conclusions about the nature of Malta’s connectivity to other communities has been based on macroscopic observation. The present study builds on the few archaeometric studies by determining the provenance of ceramic samples based on their trace elemental composition. Included in this study were both clay samples and ceramic artifacts representing each of Malta’s chronological phases from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages. Specifically, in order to address the question of the role that pottery played in the prehistoric trade of the Maltese islands, 392 Maltese ceramic sherds were analyzed using a Bruker III-V handheld portable X-ray fluorescence device, which revealed the relative abundance of six trace elements, namely thorium, rubidium, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, and niobium. The trace elemental composition of the Maltese pottery was compared with that of 18 Sicilian ceramic sherds and clay samples from both Malta and Sicily. The results of this research support my hypothesis in part, suggesting that neither ceramics nor raw clay materials played a significant role in overseas trade during Malta’s period of cultural isolation, which extended from the Ġgantija phase to the end of the Tarxien phase. On the other hand, ceramics played a more active role in Malta’s interaction networks during periods of connectivity with Sicily, for instance in the Neolithic Age. This study also provides the first chemical evidence that Malta exported pottery to Sicily during the Bronze Age and that Malta’s contact with Mycenaeans was indirect in nature. The findings presented here thus contribute to understanding Malta’s role in trade and interaction networks from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages and point to new approaches to exploring the cultural change that becomes apparent in the Maltese Temple Period.

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Compreender como se efetiva esse relacionamento entre modalidades distintas de saberes docentes é um desafio que interessa a um amplo universo de áreas de conhecimento distintas. A presente tese trata dessa questão mais abrangente a partir de uma abordagem específica que incorpora reflexões teóricas oriundas do campo do Ensino de História e da própria natureza do conhecimento histórico, principalmente no que se refere à História Antiga, a fim de perceber como a compreensão da História Antiga, bem como suas implicações em relação à compreensão de tempo e conhecimento histórico se modifica no jovem futuro professor ao longo do curso de Graduação. Para que essas alterações pudessem ser visualizadas, foi necessário estabelecer uma análise comparativa entre os conceitos expressos nos discursos dos alunos iniciantes e concluintes. Tal levantamento foi realizado entre os anos de 2011 e 2014 com discentes do curso de História da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. As vozes desses alunos foram captadas através de questionários (sistematizados pela ferramenta wordle disponível na internet) e atividades propostas em sala de aula com alunos ingressantes e formandos. Também foi realizado um grupo focal com alunos concluintes para debater como eles avaliam as transformações ocorridas de seus saberes, principalmente como eles (re)constroem os sentidos que atribuem à Antiguidade como período histórico e de que forma a associam às discussões que envolvem o significado do Ensino de História. Para embasar as reflexões que foram desenvolvidas nessa pesquisa, foi necessário estabelecer um diálogo com autores como Maurice Tardif, no que se refere à questão dos saberes docentes; Walter Benjamin a respeito das múltiplas possibilidades de articulação entre as dimensões temporais do presente, passado e futuro; François Hartog, Jacques Revel e Fernando Catroga sobre do conceito de usos políticos do passado e Reinhard Koselleck, acerca do conceito moderno de História. Na análise dos discursos dos alunos acerca dos sentidos de Antiguidade foi essencial a inclusão de conceitos de Mikhail Bakhtin. / Future teachers, during their professionalization process, constantly (re)elaborate their knowledge, which should be considered as teachers' knowledge in development. For the beginning of the Undergraduate course, they bring previous, socially built knowledge that starts to coexist and confront other knowledge, characteristic of their discipline. Understanding how this relationship is effective between different modalities of teacher knowledge represents a challenge that concerns a broad universe of different knowledge areas. The present dissertation addresses this broader issue from a specific approach that incorporates theoretical reflections originating from the field of History Teaching and the own nature of historical knowledge, especially with regard to Ancient History, in order to realize how the understanding of Ancient History, as well as its implications for the understanding of time and historical knowledge changes in the young future teacher during the course of Undergraduate Studies. For these changes to be seen, it was necessary to establish a comparative analysis between the concepts expressed in the speeches of beginners and graduating students. This survey was conducted between 2011 and 2014 with students from the course of History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The voices of these students were heard through questionnaires (systematized by wordle, a tool available on the internet) and proposed activities in the classroom with entrant and senior students. A focus group was also conducted with senior students to discuss how they evaluate the changes occurring in their knowledge, especially regarding how they (re)construct the meanings that contribute to Antiquity as being a historical period and how they associate it to the discussions involving the meaning of History Teaching. To support the reflections that were developed in this study, it was necessary to establish a dialog with authors such as Maurice Tardif, with regard to the issue of teacher knowledge; Walter Benjamin, about the multiple possibilities of articulation between the temporal dimensions of the present, past and future; François Hartog, Jacques Revel and Fernando Catroga, on the concept of political uses of the past; and Reinhard Koselleck, about the modern concept of history. In the analysis of the students' discourse regarding the sense of antiquity, it was essential to include concepts of Mikhail Bakhtin.

In the ancient religious imagination, catastrophic events – plagues, droughts, natural disasters – were frequently seen as manifestations of divine wrath that necessitated extraordinary ritual responses to quell. These responses frequently consisted in intensified forms of sacred violence, the most extreme of which was human sacrifice. The corpus of Greek literature is rife with myths of human sacrifice. In spite of this rich mythic repertoire, Greek artists produced scenes of human sacrifice rather infrequently and drew upon an extremely restricted range of subjects. The extant corpus of human sacrificial images totals fewer than 50 specimens and almost all of them feature the maidens Polyxena or Iphigeneia as the victim. In the Archaic era (700-480 BCE), painters and sculptors were almost exclusively interested in the sacrificial fate of Polyxena. Archaic representations of Polyxena’s sacrifice are remarkable for their overt treatment of the physical violence to which the maiden was subjected, in some cases going so far as to visualize the blood gushing forth from her perforated neck. Interest in the violent and gory aspect of the sacrificial ritual diminishes in the closing decades of the Archaic period. The title of the proposed talk, bad blood, has a twofold sense; both senses refer to the underlying subject of belief and to the main arguments of this paper: The first sense is idiomatic and indicative: Polyxena’s sacrifice was a matter of bad blood, since it resulted from the need to placate the wroth and aggrieved ghost of Achilles, who denied the Greeks safe passage home until he was granted the spoils due to him (cf. Eur. Hek. 35-44; Quint. Smyr 14.324-338). The second, more literal sense is interrogative: To wit, was the shedding of Polyxena’s blood bad per se? While Greek authors of the Classical period and beyond suggest that human sacrifice was universally condemned as an unthinkably barbaric offense and a violation of ritual norms, earlier extant literary sources offer no such clear ruling. However, this situation changes when the small yet iconographically remarkable group of pre-Classical visual representations of human sacrifice are considered. In these images, one may detect a diversity of attitudes or positions on the ritual of human sacrifice, individual as well as collective, that range from acceptance to outright repudiation. This range of attitudes is not, however, neatly confined to the proverbial frame of the image or the mythical context of the event. Like the mythic cast of characters, contemporary ancient viewers were meant to participate in the discursive dynamic, bringing their individual beliefs and attitudes to bear on the scene and its significance. In other words, these representations imply a multiplicity of attitudes (and the beliefs that inform them) among the implied viewers of these artworks.

Cette thèse porte sur l’étude des sanctuaires antiques arméniens depuis la période hellénistique jusqu'à la période chrétienne, qui marque le changement de religion et l’abandon progressif des temples païens. Ce travail est basé sur l’étude des sources historiques et sur les données de fouilles archéologiques. Il s’agit de savoir où se trouvaient les temples païens en Grande Arménie. En corollaire, différentes interrogations sont venues progressivement s’ajouter à cette première question. Il fallait, une fois ces temples identifiés, les étudier en les classant par catégorie et par type afin de comprendre leur statut dans la société païenne. Enfin, leur disparition pose la question de leur destinée et engage à étudier plus généralement la destruction des sites païens lors de la christianisation de l’Arménie. / This thesis deals with the study of ancient Armenian sanctuaries from the Hellenistic to the Christian period, which marks the change of religion and the gradual abandonment of pagan temples. This work is based on the study of historical sources and data from archaeological excavations. The question is knowing where the pagan temples stood in Great Armenia. As a corollary, various questions have gradually been added to this first one. Once these temples had been identified, they have to be studied by classifying them by category and type in order to understand their status in the pagan society. Finally, their disappearance raises the question of their destiny and commits to study more generally the destruction of the pagan sites during the Christianization of Armenia.