This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek ... more This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era.
Page 1. The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 BC - AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army Page ... more Page 1. The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 BC - AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. ... Page 7. THE MARRIAGE OF ROMAN SOLDIERS (13 BC -AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army BY SARA ELISE PHANG NtG/0 x^ J * * <A * «c -? ^Jl. ...
The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van ... more The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van Wees workshops or villains? was there much organised crime in classical Athens?, Nick Fisher condottieri and clansmen - early Italian raiding, warfare and the state, Louis Rawlings the revolt of the Boukoloi - geography, history and myth, Richard Alston native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus, Stephen Mitchell bandits between grandees and the states - the structure of order in Roman rough Cilicia, Keith Hopwood "you speculate on the misery of the poor" - usuary as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarca's second homily on Psalm 14, Susan R. Holman the violence of the circus factions, Michael Whitby crime and control in Aztec society, Frances F. Berdan.
This book has been written very quickly and with very modest aims. It has been a task additional ... more This book has been written very quickly and with very modest aims. It has been a task additional to other research work and has been very largely written in the evenings of the last year. I have accumulated various debts in the writing of this text. I give thanks to The Society for the ...
This essay argues that the engagement with Greece and Rome after The Will to Knowledge allowed Fo... more This essay argues that the engagement with Greece and Rome after The Will to Knowledge allowed Foucault to bring clarity to his conception of limited freedom in complex societies. The Classical fulfilled this function paradoxically by being jarringly different from and integral to the discourses of modern sexuality. Foucault’s engagement with the Classical in The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self continued his established method of uncovering the development of a discourse, or set of discourses, over time. He thereby demonstrated the historical specificity of understandings of sexuality and the self. It follows that if the ancient self was a historical construct, then the modern self must also be such. But Foucault’s Classical engagement leads him to an innovative position in which the disciplinary dynamics of ancient self-knowledge offer a practical philosophy. Foucault’s Greek philosophy could have effects through two related mechanisms: the care of the self through askesis...
... OF AMERICAN SOCIETY Harry M. Ward WAR AND THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Spain, the Dutch R... more ... OF AMERICAN SOCIETY Harry M. Ward WAR AND THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Spain, the Dutch Republic and ... MODERN WORLD, 14501815 Jeremy Black WARS OF IMPERIAL CONQUEST IN AFRICA, 18301914 Bruce Vandervort WESTERN WARFARE IN ...
What was the impact of oracles on the post-Classical city? To what extent could and did mantic re... more What was the impact of oracles on the post-Classical city? To what extent could and did mantic revelation contribute to the construction of civic identity? Th is article will examine the oracular cults in Roman Asia Minor in their relation to the polis, and focus on the role played by the key participants in oracular activity, that is to say the pilgrims as well as the priests. The decline of traditional oracles? Oracular activity in post-Classical Greece is known principally through the existence of the so-called 'theological oracles' 1 like the divine revelation quoted by Lactantius, which was attributed to the Apollo of Klaros: 2 Apollo is seen as divine, and especially as oracular, more than all other gods; when he spoke at Kolophon (where he went from Delphi because, I suppose, of the charm of Asia Minor), upon being asked who or what god really was, he replied in twenty-one verses. Here are the fi rst three: 'He is self-born, untaught, unmothered, unaff ectable, unnameable by any word, dwelling in fi re, god thus, and we his messengers are a little fraction of him.'
In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the ... more In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek to explain the continued importance of city politics in the changing political environments of antiquity. The contributors question long-established interpretative traditions and seek to establish new ways of understanding the politics of the Greek city after the Classical age.
In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the ... more In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek to explain the continued importance of city politics in the changing political environments of antiquity. The contributors question long-established interpretative traditions and seek to establish new ways of understanding the politics of the Greek city after the Classical age.
This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek ... more This volume investigates the complex and diverse developments in the religious cultures of Greek cities after the classical age. An international team of scholars considers the continuities of traditional Greek religious practices, and seeks to understand the impact of new influences on those practices, notably the deeper engagement with Judaism and how the emergence of Christianity redefined polis religion. The essays illustrate the inadequacy of 'decline' as a model for understanding Greek religion, exploring how dynamic change in religious life corresponded to the transformations in the Greek city. The volume explores how the citizens of the Greek city after the classical age used religion to construct their cultural identities and political experiences and how many of the features of traditional polis religion survived into and shaped the religious mentalities of the Christian era.
Page 1. The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 BC - AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army Page ... more Page 1. The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 BC - AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. ... Page 7. THE MARRIAGE OF ROMAN SOLDIERS (13 BC -AD 235) Law and Family in the Imperial Army BY SARA ELISE PHANG NtG/0 x^ J * * <A * «c -? ^Jl. ...
The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van ... more The mafia of early Greece - violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, Hans Van Wees workshops or villains? was there much organised crime in classical Athens?, Nick Fisher condottieri and clansmen - early Italian raiding, warfare and the state, Louis Rawlings the revolt of the Boukoloi - geography, history and myth, Richard Alston native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus, Stephen Mitchell bandits between grandees and the states - the structure of order in Roman rough Cilicia, Keith Hopwood "you speculate on the misery of the poor" - usuary as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarca's second homily on Psalm 14, Susan R. Holman the violence of the circus factions, Michael Whitby crime and control in Aztec society, Frances F. Berdan.
This book has been written very quickly and with very modest aims. It has been a task additional ... more This book has been written very quickly and with very modest aims. It has been a task additional to other research work and has been very largely written in the evenings of the last year. I have accumulated various debts in the writing of this text. I give thanks to The Society for the ...
This essay argues that the engagement with Greece and Rome after The Will to Knowledge allowed Fo... more This essay argues that the engagement with Greece and Rome after The Will to Knowledge allowed Foucault to bring clarity to his conception of limited freedom in complex societies. The Classical fulfilled this function paradoxically by being jarringly different from and integral to the discourses of modern sexuality. Foucault’s engagement with the Classical in The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self continued his established method of uncovering the development of a discourse, or set of discourses, over time. He thereby demonstrated the historical specificity of understandings of sexuality and the self. It follows that if the ancient self was a historical construct, then the modern self must also be such. But Foucault’s Classical engagement leads him to an innovative position in which the disciplinary dynamics of ancient self-knowledge offer a practical philosophy. Foucault’s Greek philosophy could have effects through two related mechanisms: the care of the self through askesis...
... OF AMERICAN SOCIETY Harry M. Ward WAR AND THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Spain, the Dutch R... more ... OF AMERICAN SOCIETY Harry M. Ward WAR AND THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE Spain, the Dutch Republic and ... MODERN WORLD, 14501815 Jeremy Black WARS OF IMPERIAL CONQUEST IN AFRICA, 18301914 Bruce Vandervort WESTERN WARFARE IN ...
What was the impact of oracles on the post-Classical city? To what extent could and did mantic re... more What was the impact of oracles on the post-Classical city? To what extent could and did mantic revelation contribute to the construction of civic identity? Th is article will examine the oracular cults in Roman Asia Minor in their relation to the polis, and focus on the role played by the key participants in oracular activity, that is to say the pilgrims as well as the priests. The decline of traditional oracles? Oracular activity in post-Classical Greece is known principally through the existence of the so-called 'theological oracles' 1 like the divine revelation quoted by Lactantius, which was attributed to the Apollo of Klaros: 2 Apollo is seen as divine, and especially as oracular, more than all other gods; when he spoke at Kolophon (where he went from Delphi because, I suppose, of the charm of Asia Minor), upon being asked who or what god really was, he replied in twenty-one verses. Here are the fi rst three: 'He is self-born, untaught, unmothered, unaff ectable, unnameable by any word, dwelling in fi re, god thus, and we his messengers are a little fraction of him.'
In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the ... more In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek to explain the continued importance of city politics in the changing political environments of antiquity. The contributors question long-established interpretative traditions and seek to establish new ways of understanding the politics of the Greek city after the Classical age.
In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the ... more In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek to explain the continued importance of city politics in the changing political environments of antiquity. The contributors question long-established interpretative traditions and seek to establish new ways of understanding the politics of the Greek city after the Classical age.
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