scholarly journals Ritualizing the Use of Coins in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Lykke
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Related Material ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

AbstractThe article explores aspects of the monetization of the Greek sanctuaries, more specifically how space was created to accommodate coins as objects and their use within the sacred sphere. Except in a limited number of cases, our understanding is still quite fragmented. Where most research has focused on analyzing the coin material or the epigraphic evidence, the intention here is to look more widely at the archaeological evidence connected with coins and coin-related material. This is done in an attempt to appreciate the significance of the progressing monetization and ritualization of the use of coins and in extension to develop an understanding of the possible changes in human behavior in the sanctuaries based on this evidence.

Material Evidence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
Material Record

Unlike in the study of Roman slavery (Joshel and Peterson 2014), the analysis of archaeological evidence for Greek slavery is far more challenging (I. Morris 2011), if we hope to be able to identify slaves, their labour, and their living spaces, in the ancient material record. Rather than trying to identify figures in Greek art as unfree in status, locating their place of work and living quarters in excavated structures, or distinguishing slave burials in ancient Greek necropoleis, this essay proposes that we should look rather for the wider effects of their labour on changes in health, wealth, settlement and landscapes.

Britons on the Move

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Ivleva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
Roman Province

This chapter explores the migration patterns of those who were born in the Roman province of Britain and moved to the continental Europe in the late first–third centuries AD using epigraphic and archaeological evidence. Attention is given to the ways ethnic identity might have been projected by the mobile Britons, and the chapter shows how their identities were re-created and reused within the host societies. It shows that the epigraphic evidence consists of a considerable degree of variation in naming origin and that various choices were being made to express descent, although, in general, mobile British individuals still felt themselves to be connected with the province of their birth. Furthermore, the chapter deals with the occurrence of British-made brooches on the Continent and analyses how the contexts in which British brooches appeared reflect the diversity of their meanings and associations which emanated through their usage, considering that brooches are not evidence of the ethnicity of their users and wearers. It argues that the past was an important matter when brooches were put in specific contexts abroad. The desire to forget, reinvent, evoke, or project the past attests to the importance and value of memory in communities who travelled from Roman Britain to the Continent.

The Apotropaic Function of Music Inside the Sanctuaries of Asklepios

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Perrot
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Musical Performances ◽  
Votive Offerings

Music obviously played a strong role in ancient Greek ways of healing the human body. However, although scholars have studied some aspects, there still is no comprehensive enquiry on the relationships between music and sounds in Asclepios’ sanctuaries. The purpose of this paper is first to combine all the sources on the soundscape of famous and minor sanctuaries, and secondly to give some new perspectives on the specificity of Asclepian soundscapes. Is there any relationship between environmental sounds, anthropic sounds and cultic music, especially paeans? We may find some clues in the texts related to the cult of Asclepios but also in the archaeological evidence, because some votive offerings have been unearthed, like votive ears and musical instruments. By examining the soundscape of Asclepian sanctuaries, I would like eventually to ask especially whether the link between the musical performances and sounds could be understood as apotropaic.

scholarly journals Amphora-Handles from Antiparos

1885 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 192-194
Author(s):  
Percy Gardner
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Great Complexity

Mr. Bent has brought from Antiparos, and the British Museum has acquired, several of those stamped handles of diotae which have been the subject of numerous papers by various savants, and of a special work by M. Dumont (Inscriptions Céramiques).To record the find-spots of the several classes of these handles is a matter of some importance, because they furnish us with archæological evidence in a matter of great complexity, where archæological evidence is rare and desirable—in the matter of ancient Greek commerce, its marts and its course. The stamped handles which bear the names of Rhodian magistrates and potters are, as is well known, found in all parts of the Levant from Kertsch to Egypt and Sicily; those which derive from Cnidus are also found in many places; Thasian handles are found chiefly on the shores of the Euxine sea, but at Athens and elsewhere also. Why Rhodes, Cnidus, and Thasos should in Hellenistic times have almost monopolized the trade in wine, or why these states should have monopolized the custom of using stamps for handles of wine-jars, we do not know. But the latter statement at all events must be true: there are but very few other known sources of stamped handles.

Greek Festivals in the Hellenistic Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Zahra Newby
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Near East ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
New City

The Hellenistic era incorporated new city foundations in Egypt and the Near East, as well as the ancient Greek cities of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, and Magna Graecia. This chapter examines Greek festivals and athletic contests amid the struggles of cities and individuals for recognition and self-identity. Relying especially on epigraphic and archaeological evidence, it will look at the Olympic Games during this period, and at the widening geographical origins of its victors. New festivals were established and played crucial roles in inter-city politics; note especially the new isolympic and isopythian games such as the Ptolemaia in Alexandria and the festival of Artemis Leucophyene at Magnesia on the Maeander. The guilds of performers played important roles in the Hellenistic period. We consider how the experience of an athletic victor now compared with that in the past.

scholarly journals Philosophy and Hippocratic Ethic in Ancient Greek Society: Evolution of Hospital - Sanctuaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 3353-3357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucrezia Bottalico ◽  
Ioannis Alexandros Charitos ◽  
Nikolaos Kolveris ◽  
Donato D'Agostino ◽  
Skender Topi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
New Perspective

The aim of this paper is to offer a new perspective of the Hippocratic thought and how it influenced the evolution of the medical art till now, highlighting the ethical aspects and hospital born from ancient temples and sanctuary. Ethics is defined as a set of values, principles, and rules that regulate human behavior and relate to how human actions can significantly affect not only their own lives but also the lives of others. The essence of a culture can be perceived by the philosophy and the means by which is placed against the illness and its treatment. In this sense, the medical anthropology of every age is an indicator of its culture and help us understand its basic dimensions such as life and death.

Inscriptions, Synagogues and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277
Author(s):  
Fergus Millar
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence ◽  
A Current

AbstractThe numerous works of “rabbinic” literature composed in Palestine in Late Antiquity, all of which are preserved only in medieval manuscripts, offer immense possibilities for the historian, but also present extremely perplexing problems. What are their dates, and when did each come to be expressed in a consistent written form? If we cannot be sure about the attribution of sayings to individual named rabbis, how can we relate the material to any intelligible period or social context? In this situation, it is natural and right to turn to contemporary evidence, archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic. The primary archaeological evidence is provided by the large (and increasing) number of excavated synagogues. But, it has been argued, rabbinic texts are not centrally concerned with synagogues or the congregations which met in them. So perhaps “rabbinic Judaism” and “synagogal Judaism” are two separate systems. Alternatively, the epigraphic evidence attests individuals who are given the title “rabbi,” and these inscriptions, on stone or mosaic, include some which derive from synagogues. But perhaps “rabbi,” in this context, was merely a current honorific term, and these are not the “real” rabbis of the texts? It will be argued that this distinction is gratuitous, and that in any case the largest and most important synagogue-inscription, that from Rehov, both is “rabbinic” in itself and mentions rabbis as religious experts.

Mathematical Generality, Letter-Labels, and All That

Phronesis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-75
Author(s):  
F. Acerbi
Keyword(s):  
Geometric Proof ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Ontological Commitments ◽  
Mathematical Proposition ◽  
Epigraphic Evidence

AbstractThis article focusses on the generality of the entities involved in a geometric proof of the kind found in ancient Greek treatises: it shows that the standard modern translation of Greek mathematical propositions falsifies crucial syntactical elements, and employs an incorrect conception of the denotative letters in a Greek geometric proof; epigraphic evidence is adduced to show that these denotative letters are ‘letter-labels’. On this basis, the article explores the consequences of seeing that a Greek mathematical proposition is fully general, and the ontological commitments underlying the stylistic practice.

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