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Ancient World (ancient + world)

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Selected Abstracts

Food in the Ancient World

AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2006
STACIE M. KING
Food in the Ancient World. Joan P. Alcock. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 276 pp. [source]

Adults as Children: Images of Childhood in the Ancient World and the New Testament (Religions and Discourse 17).

THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2010
By James M. M. Francis
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Technological innovation and economic progress in the ancient world: M. I. Finley re-considered

ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 1 2000
Kevin Greene
First page of article [source]

The Roman,Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 3 2000
David Aberbach
The Roman-Jewish wars of 66,70, 115,17 and 132,35 CE destroyed the territorial, social and political bases of militant Jewish nationalism. Successive defeats brought a Roman ban on Jewish residence in Jerusalem and on proselytisation. Most of the Jewish population of Judaea, in southern Palestine, was annihilated or exiled. The creative heart of Judaism shifted to Galilee, where the study of rabbinic law and homiletics flourished, mostly in Hebrew, and the Mishna - the basis of the Talmud - was edited by the Tannaim (Mishna teachers). This culture was an implicit rejection of Graeco-Roman civilisation and values in favour of a more exclusivist religious-cultural nationalism. It is argued in this paper that this form of nationalism, though rare in the ancient world, anticipates more recent national movements of defeated peoples. [source]

From jellied seas to open waterways: redefining the northern limit of the knowable world

RENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2007
Margaret Small
In the ancient world, the northern limits of Europe were unknown, and believed to be unknowable. Geographers constructed a mental framework for the continent that restricted human inhabitation to more southerly regions. The constituents of this frame were: a region of monstrous creatures, a zone of uninhabitable wastelands, and ultimately, limitless ocean. By the sixteenth century, classically educated Europeans were sailing into the unknown Arctic regions in search of a north-east passage, but their descriptions and even goals for exploration were still influenced by the classical preconceptions. The three elements of the classical frame were altered, but persisted in European geographical thought even after fifty years of northern exploration. [source]

THE IMPORTANCE OF COLOUR ON ANCIENT MARBLE SCULPTURE

ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2009
MARK BRADLEY
This article explores the significance of paint and pigment traces for understanding the aesthetics and artistic composition of ancient marble architectural and statuary sculpture. It complements the pioneering technical and reconstructive work that has recently been carried out into classical polychrome sculpture by approaching the subject from the perspective of the cultural history of colour and perception in the ancient world. The study concentrates in particular on the art of imperial Rome, which at the present time is under-represented in the field. By integrating visual material with literary evidence, it first reviews some of the most important pieces of sculpture on which paint traces have survived and then assesses the significance of sculptural polychromy under four headings: visibility, finish, realism and trompe-l'oeil. Finally, it considers some of the ways in which polychromy can enrich our understanding and interpretation of the Prima Porta statue of Augustus. [source]

The State in World History: Perspectives and Problems

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2002
Gregory Melleuish
This paper investigates the role of the state in world history and analyses some of the major issues confronting such an investigation with a particular focus on the relationship between the modern European state and the other historical forms of the state. Firstly it considers the problems raised by the fact that the terminology of state analysis is derived from a discourse that arose to explain the particularity of European state development. Secondly it considers the problem of the origins of the state. It examines two major issues: van Creveld's argument that only modern European states are real states and the chiefdom/state distinction. It argues that new political forms occurred both with the emergence of civilisation and the "state" in the ancient world and with the development of the modern European state after 1300. Thirdly it considers the issue of a typology of states through an examination of the model developed by Finer in his The History of Government. It argues that this model is only really effective in dealing with pre,modern political forms and that the modern European state needs to be understood as a deviant from the Eurasian norm of the agrarian empire. [source]