Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn’t? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in ...terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments.
An introduction to a collection of nine papers on contempt, bringing contemporary philosophical approaches to the phenomenon into relation with its construction and presentation in the four classical ...cultures of China, Greece, India, and Rome. The introduction offers a brief summary of the papers and places the issues that they explore in the wider research context of the historical and cross-cultural study of emotion.
In this volume, scholars from different fields examine the temporality of festivals of the past. They show that we can use astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts to recover how people ...in the past structured and experienced festive time, shedding new light on festive time in general: on how it is distinguished from everyday time and on why it can be such a rich and special experience of time.
Sts. Cosmas and Damian, the twin patron saints of medicine, were once among the most recognized saints in Christendom. In today’s secularized society their prominence is much less known. The saints ...were beheaded during the violent persecutions of Christians in the Roman Empire in the end of the 3rd century and the first years of the fourth. Their story, however, is more than miracles and martyrdom. The history of Sts. Cosmas and Damian show the connection between medicine of Classical Greece and the worship of doctor-saints in early Christendom, and the tradition of charity to the poor in medical care.
Heavenly mathematics Van Brummelen, Glen
2012., 20121223, 2012, 2013-01-01
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Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject ...in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught.Heavenly Mathematicstraces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth. Glen Van Brummelen explores this exquisite branch of mathematics and its role in ancient astronomy, geography, and cartography; Islamic religious rituals; celestial navigation; polyhedra; stereographic projection; and more. He conveys the sheer beauty of spherical trigonometry, providing readers with a new appreciation for its elegant proofs and often surprising conclusions.
Heavenly Mathematicsis illustrated throughout with stunning historical images and informative drawings and diagrams that have been used to teach the subject in the past. This unique compendium also features easy-to-use appendixes as well as exercises at the end of each chapter that originally appeared in textbooks from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
This contribution consists of two parts: the first section is dedicated to Athens, the second one to Delphi. Through the examination of some short sections of two long epigraphic texts (the stele of ...the Demotionidai; the cippus of the Labyadai), very well known and discussed as significant for the structure of the community «minor units», but neglected by Moderns with regard to prebends and sacrifices and their relation to the polis, the contribution focuses on the sacrificial procedures and the prebends associated with them (IG II2 1237, col. I, ll. 4-8; CID I 9, face D, ll. 29-43) in order to highlight, in this way, the relationship between individual citizens and their minor units, the minor units and the polis, and, although examining different sacrificial contexts, finds various points of contact between the mechanisms operating in the two poleis.
Resumen Desde la Grecia clásica hasta nuestros días, muchos han sido los pensadores que secundando las teorías pitagóricas han reflexionado sobre la estrecha relación existente entre la arquitectura ...y la música, llegando a la conclusión de que se fundamenta en las matemáticas. Reputados investigadores de los últimos tiempos han identificado la materialización de esta relación en gran parte de los referentes arquitectónicos construidos a lo largo de la historia, explicando la composición de sus fachadas y la distribución de sus volúmenes, a partir de reglas matemáticas que también se utilizaron para componer música. Sin embargo, teniendo en cuenta que la arquitectura no solo comprende el arte de construir edificios, sino también el de diseñar y levantar una ciudad resulta sorprendente que a día de hoy, nunca se haya planteado la materialización de esta relación, en la composición y trazado de una ciudad. En este punto empieza la presente investigación que pretende demostrar que la relación entre la arquitectura y la música también se materializó, desde sus orígenes, en el trazado de las ciudades. Y para ello se detiene en el estudio de la ciudad de Mileto, evidenciando que su trazado fue diseñado en base a reglas de composición musical.
Resumo Desde a Grécia clássica até hoje, muitos foram os pensadores que, secundando as teorias pitagóricas, refletiram sobre a estreita relação existente entre a arquitetura e a música, chegando à conclusão de que se fundamenta na matemática. Reputados pesquisadores dos últimos tempos identificaram a materialização desta relação em grande parte dos referentes arquitetônicos construídos ao longo da história, explicando a composição de suas fachadas e a distribuição de seus volumes, a partir de regras matemáticas que também foram usadas para se compor música. No entanto, tendo em conta que a arquitetura não só compreende a arte de construir edifícios, mas também a de desenhar e construir uma cidade, é surpreendente que, até hoje, nunca tenha sido colocada a materialização desta relação na composição e no traçado de uma cidade. Neste ponto, começa a presente pesquisa, que pretende demonstrar que a relação entre a arquitetura e a música também se materializou, desde suas origens, no traçado das cidades. E, para isso, se detém no estudo da cidade de Mileto, evidenciando que seu traçado foi desenhado com base em regras de composição musical.
Abstract From classical Greece to the present day, many were the thinkers who supported the Pythagorean theories and that reflected on the close relationship between architecture and music, concluding that it is founded in mathematics. Renowned researchers of recent times have identified the materialization of this relationship in large part of the architectural references built throughout history, explaining the composition of their facades and the distribution of their volumes, from mathematical rules that were also used to compose music. However, bearing in mind that architecture includes not only the art of building buildings, but also the art of designing and building a city, it is surprising that to this day, the materialization of this relationship has never been considered, in the composition and layout of a city. Thus, this is the starting point of this research, which aims to show that the relationship between architecture and music has also materialized, since its origins, in the layout of cities. And for that it stops at the study of Miletus city, evidencing that its layout was designed based on rules of musical composition.
Les funérailles en Grèce ancienne ne manquent pas d’intérêt au regard des études qui ont été consacrées sur le sujet. Néanmoins, force est de constater que ces travaux ne se sont pas penchés sur la ...question de l’évolution des rites funéraires privés. En s’appuyant sur les données textuelles, archéologiques, épigraphiques et iconographiques, l’article présente l’essentiel des rites funéraires tout en mettant l’accent sur leur évolution pendant une époque ou d’une époque à une autre. Malgré la discontinuité et le caractère parcellaire des sources, l’article aboutit à la conclusion selon laquelle ces pratiques funéraires privées ne sont pas restées figées durant la période étudiée.
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