Alcman's Partheneion has a deserved reputation as an ambiguous and allusive fragment of Greek poetry; it has engendered a great amount of debate regarding every facet of the poem. This thesis investigates the ritual context and the propitiated deity of the Partheneion from an inter-cultural perspective. I integrate the relationship which flourished between Greece and the Near East with Alcman's poetry. This approach aims to situate the poem in the larger world of the Eastern Mediterranean and connect it to traditions of female goddesses worshiped in biblical Israel, Phoenicia and ancient Babylon. I also demonstrate that there are connections between the ritual context of Alcman's poetry, sung and danced by a chorus of young women, to similar cults celebrated by cultures throughout the Near East, both contemporaneous as well as more ancient.

This thesis examines the marking of Roman glass and ceramic vessels with stamps in the period from the first century B.C. through the second century A.D. The thesis establishes the context for the study of such makers' marks by first examining the early history of Roman glass. the changes brought on by the introduction of glassblowing, and the organization and working conditions of the industry. Next the thesis examines the roles played by stamps on glass in the ancient world. Then the organization and conditions of the ceramics industry are examined and the same questions are posed regarding the roles of stamps and what they can tell us. These stamps show us how the two industries were organized and reveal that Roman makers' marks served not only as proto-brand identifiers and artists signatures, but also as tools for industrial organization.

Thesis Univ. College London, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 267-283). Also available on the Internet.

The Exodus story of the Israelites' slavery in Egypt and subsequent redemption was central to Jewish accounts of their national origins and was an important component of Jewish self-identification in antiquity. Although Greek and Latin sources appear ignorant of the Exodus story, ancient ethnographies of the Jews in non-Jewish sources claim that the Jews were originally Egyptian. This thesis examines how Josephus presents the Exodus story of the Jews' servile national origins in Egypt to a Roman audience who had biases against slaves, freedmen, and Egyptians, and little knowledge of Jewish origins apart from reports that they were Egyptian by origin. Josephus's first work Jewish War, a politico-military history, includes tangential remarks about Jewish origins, but implies in the proem that the Jews were originally Egyptian. Jewish Antiquities, which rewrites the biblical account of Jewish origins, explicitly denies that the Jews were originally Egyptian and deliberately omits mention of the Jews' servitude in Egypt at important points in the narrative where it would have been expected. In Against Apion, an apologia, Josephus subtly uses keywords and the rhetorical technique of insinuatio to prove that the Jews were not originally Egyptian without stating openly that this is a goal of the work. Several factors explain these results. Aristotle's theory of natural slavery, which posits that slaves are innately defective, was part of the ideological assumptions of first century CE Roman elites. Romans were also ambivalent about their own partly-servile origins in Romulus's asylum. Influenced by Augustan propaganda about Actium, first-century Roman sources deride Egyptians with a range of negative stereotypes. Josephus denies that the Jews were Egyptian and omits their servile origins at important points in the narrative where the Bible mentions it in order to portray the Jews as favorably as possible.

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This thesis is a regional history of Lesbos and the adjacent regions of Troas and Aiolis in NW Turkey during Greco-Roman antiquity. This area represents a zone of transition between the Mediterranean and inland Asia Minor, and therefore provides us with a case study of how regions which lie at the margins or beyond the theoretical framework of Horden and Purcell's The Corrupting Sea (2000) function. Rather than defining the area of study simply in terms of physical geography, I instead argue that we can identify a region which I term the coastal interface that is characterized by the overlapping and intermingling dynamics of the maritime and terrestrial worlds. This zone of transition can extend out to sea to include nearby islands which are orientated towards the mainland, for example Lesbos in the case of my thesis, or equally it can stretch inland up river valleys or along other routes of communication to places which, although out of sight of the sea, were nevertheless profoundly influenced by their connection to the maritime world. The chapters of the thesis aim to demonstrate that the concept of the coastal interface can help illuminate the social and economic history of communities living within this region, with Chapters 1-3 focusing on the Troad and Chapters 4-7 looking at Lesbos. The subjects covered include Hellenistic Ilion and the koinon of Athena Ilias (Chapter 1), Theophrastos as a source for the social and economic history of the forests of Mt. Ida (Chapter 2), large-scale state-directed horse breeding in the middle Skamander valley (Chapter 3), Mytilene's peraia in coastal Anatolia from the seventh century down to 427 (Chapter 4), Mytilene's minting of billon and electrum coinage in the fifth century (Chapter 5), the refoundation of the Lesbian koinon in the early second century BC (Chapter 6), and the Aiolian aspect of Mytilenaian identity in the first centuries BC and AD (Chapter 7).

This thesis shall identify the date origin of the composite bow within Mesopotamia and Elam. and both identify and quantify the design factors which lead to increased performance possible with composite construction. To accomplish this, the thesis begins by summarizing the problems and flaws that currently exist in the field of history as it applies specifically to archery and bow use. With problems identified, the thesis will then introduce the reader to the basics of bow mechanics, thereby laying the basis for physical testing. This in turn will empirically demonstrate flaws in the current iconographical method of bow identification. The thesis will then devise a new method for iconographic identification of composite construction that has greater proven accuracy, based upon proportional length, which will link extant artifacts with both physical test results and iconographic evidence. The reader shall then be led through a complete reevaluation of iconographical evidence for Mesopotamia and Elam starting at the beginning of the second millennium BCE and working backwards using this new method of iconographic evaluation to determine the point at which composite bow technology first appears in the ancient Near East. The thesis will finish with an overview of the above accomplishments and their potential impact on the study of ancient and military history. / Classics and World Languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (Classical Studies)

Orientador: Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T02:57:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leite_LetticiaBatistaRodrigues_M.pdf: 1418684 bytes, checksum: dcba9242e98f69da82780d668c4d90bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O objetivo central desta dissertação é problematizar como a relação linguagem/discurso aparece intimamente relacionada à questão do sexo/gênero, no âmbito dos trabalhos dos estudiosos que se propuseram a tratar dos fragmentos poéticos de Safo. Para tanto, realizase um exercício de tradução e leitura analítica de quatro fragmentos da poetisa grega Safo de Lesbos (VII-VI a.C.). Exercício este, que visa destacar alguns aspectos formais e de conteúdo presentes nestes fragmentos, tendo em vista que alguns estudiosos buscam, a partir destes, sublinhar uma singularidade presente nos compostos sáficos, que seria atribuível ao fato de que estes dariam a ouvir uma voz feminina. Nessa perspectiva, buscarse-á, também, apontar e problematizar os principais pressupostos teóricos que, em diferentes medidas, perpassam os trabalhos destes estudiosos - no que diz respeito as suas concepções da relação linguagem/discurso e sexo/gênero daquele que enuncia. Para tanto, propor-se-á, aqui, uma discussão acerca das maneiras pelas quais as questões relativas à linguagem, em interface com as discussões de caráter feminista, aparecem, sobretudo, no âmbito da disciplina histórica e da literatura. Assim como, chamar a atenção para as particularidades que devem ser levadas em consideração, no trato com as composições gregas de caráter poético produzidas no Período Arcaico (VIII - VI a.C.) / Abstract: The main objective of this dissertation is to discuss how the relation between language/discourse is closely connected with the question of sex/gender, in the work of scholars who seek to study the fragments of Sappho's poems. To accomplish this, there will be an exercise in translating and analytically reading four fragments by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos (VII-VI BC). This exercise aims to highlight some formal and contentoriented aspects present in these fragments, since some scholars have sought to stress a singularity in this sapphic compositions, owing to the fact that they would allow us to hear a female voice. Accordingly, this research wants to emphasize and study the theoretical assumptions that, in different ways, permeate the work of these scholars - regarding the conceptualization of the liaison between language/discourse and sex/gender of who enounces. In order to do so, a discussion will be held on the manners in which the issues of language, in interface with the discussions of feminist character, appear, especially in History and literature, drawing attention to the particularities that should be taken into account when dealing with the Greek poetic compositions produced in the Archaic period (VIII - VI BC) / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História

This thesis examines the stone-carved architectural spiral fluted column from second-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia to the fourth-century A.D. Roman Empire, and establishes its relationship to technological devices such as water screws, screw presses, and other machines. Evidence from literary sources and archaeological records shows the increasing architectural use of the helical spiral during that time, particularly in structures such as theatres, nymphaea, colonnades and decorative gateways. The use of spiral designs on coins, sarcophagi, pottery and wall paintings is also discussed. The thesis presents: the mathematics of the spiral as applied in Mesopotamian architecture; spiral use in the Aegean Bronze and Iron Ages and the Greek and Roman worlds; and its use in technology and mechanical devices, specifically those of Archimedes and Hero. The conclusion summarises the evidence, demonstrating that the construction of the spiral fluted column evolved from that of the Archimedean water screw. / Graduate / 2018-08-20 / 0324 / 0346 / 0579 / ghenders@uvic.ca