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Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. The new study by Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich (@meyer_schl) analyzes this quiet revolution.
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The #inscriptions collected in this volume #IG VII2 3 are from #Tanagra and from the ager Tanagraeus. This first volume, edited by Klaus Hallof, Ioannis Kalliontzis and Alexandra Charami, documents those that have been preserved in photographs. @bbaw_de
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This new volume by Olga Tribulato, Federico Favi and Lucia Prauscello is devoted to Atticism, a form of linguistic purism that sought to preserve the rules of the 5th-century Attic dialect against the evolution of Postclassical Greek.@ErcPura#newseries
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Ancient philosophy developed various influential modes of justification and explanation. The wide-ranging chapters in this new volume, edited by Sabine Föllinger, are guided by several questions and cover the entire period of Greco-Roman antiquity.
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This new volume by Martina Delucchi is the first comprehensive study on the myth of #Telephus. It investigates all extant evidence from the 7th to the 1st century BC, framing it in its socio-political, historical, and cultural contexts. #mythology
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#newissue: Chiron is a leading international journal of ancient history, edited by Christof Schuler, Rudolf Haensch and @simone_killen. The journal publishes articles on every area of ancient history, from the Mycenaean to the Early Byzantine periods.
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First volume of a #NewSeries: This new book, edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Eike Faber, develops an innovative approach to #corruption in Greek and Roman antiquity, focusing on the ways in which ancient sources have understood and defined corruption.
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Edited by Sebastian Prignitz and Veit Vaelske, this volume honors papyrologist Günter Poethke (1939–2020) with studies in Greek-Roman classics and Egyptology, exploring papyri, archaeology and texts, by shedding light on classical studies in the GDR.
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#Veranstaltungstipp: Bei der Hans-Lietzmann-Vorlesung am Freitag spricht Candida Moss (@unibirmingham) über römischen Sklavenhandel. Waren mehr und gebildetere Personen daran beteiligt, als gemeinhin bekannt ist? @bibelexegese @dg_classics@AntikeKolleg https://t.co/EI7J5L020K
This new volume, edited by Nicola Reggiani, collects contributions about recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by leading scholars involved in pioneering projects.
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What is an “emotional community,” and what does that have to do with #Classics?
From an interview with prof. Angelos Chaniotis (@the_IAS ) for “A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies” by @AnnaNovokhatko.
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“Any branch of #Classics can be cognitive.”
The study of cognition is closely intertwined with the study of the ancient world, argues Prof. Douglas Cairns (@EdinburghUni).
Excerpt from “A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies” by @AnnaNovokhatko.
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This new book, edited by María-Elena García-Peláez and David Lévystone, focuses on archaic #Greek thought and its reception to contemporary times taking us back to the origin of western #philosophy and displaying its uses into various times and lands.
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For her new book “A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies,” @AnnaNovokhatko interviewed pioneers of the study of emotions in #Antiquity.
Here’s an excerpt with the late Prof. David Konstan drawing parallels between color and emotion in the framework of cultural conditioning:
This new book by Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg analyzes, why the edition of the inscriptions failed in the case of #Delphi, but ended well in the case of #Delos, being an instructive example of the possibilities and limits of international co-operation.
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