scholarly journals Classical philosophy in Novosibirsk Scientific Center. The pages of history

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Ancient Civilization ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
Ancient Music ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Hellenistic Philosophy

Novosibirsk school of Classics is the most eastern Russian center for the study of the intellectual heritage of the Ancient civilization. At the same time, classical scholars of the Novosibirsk scientific center is well known beyond its borders. The interest of Novosibirsk philosophers covers many areas of classical problems, mainly focusing on their philosophical aspects as well as on ancient history, culture, and science. Among the topics and directions of research are ancient mythopoetic tradition, sophistic movement, Socrates, Plato and the Academy, Platonism in general, Aristotle and the Peripatetic tradition, Hellenistic philosophy, and Late Antiquity. Among the interests characteristic of the Novosibirsk community of classical scholars is the analytical approach to the study of Antiquity, as well as the exceptional attention to such rare for the Russian science topics as ancient music, navigation, and medicine

Post-Hellenistic Philosophy, Neoplatonism, and the Doxastic Turn in Religion: Continuities and Ruptures in Ancient Reflections on Religion

Numen ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 147-166
Author(s):  
Tuomo Lankila
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Main Line ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Historical Drama ◽  
The World ◽  
Hellenistic Philosophy

This article is inspired by Peter Van Nuffelen’s comparison between post-Hellenistic philosophy and Neoplatonism. The article defends the thesis of a fundamental break between ancient religions and new universal religions which became prevalent at the end of late antiquity. This break concerns not only fundamental doctrines but also the principles of how religious communities were constituted. There was a shift from the world of practice-oriented and reciprocally recognizing cults to the world of exclusive theocracies whose mindset emphasizes doctrinal confession. Some seeds of such a “doxastic turn” are to be seen in the post-Hellenistic philosophy and especially in the dogmatic tendencies of Middle Platonism. Thus, there is an observable route from the post-Hellenistic thought towards late ancient universal religions.Neoplatonism’s role in this historical drama is not that of precursor but, rather, it represents a deviation from the main line.

scholarly journals Люминесценция кристаллов BaBrI, активированных ионами Ce-=SUP=-3+-=/SUP=-

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 930
Author(s):  
Р.Ю. Шендрик ◽  
И.И. Ковалев ◽  
А.И. Русаков ◽  
Ю.В. Сокольникова ◽  
А.А. Шалаев
Keyword(s):  
Luminescence Spectra ◽  
Russian Science ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Trivalent Lanthanides ◽  
Scientific Equipment ◽  
The Government ◽  
Geochemical Studies ◽  
Transfer Mechanisms

The optical properties of BaBrI crystals doped with cerium ions were studied. The possible types of cerium-containing luminescence centers are established. Based on the experimental data obtained for trivalent lanthanides, a Dorenbos diagram was constructed. According to the results of the study of the luminescence spectra measured under X-ray excitation, possible energy transfer mechanisms are assumed. This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, a grant of the Russian Science Foundation 17-72-10084: spectroscopy of cerium and cerium-oxygen centers, determination of cerium concentration in crystals, analysis of the results obtained. Some of the crystals investigated in the article were grown as part of the government assignment 0350-2016-0024. The data in the work were obtained using the scientific equipment of the Collective Scientific Center "Isotope-geochemical studies" of the IHP SB RAS.

Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 457-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Mason
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Ancient Religion ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

AbstractThe very title of this journal reflects a commonplace in scholarly discourse. We want to understand "Judaism" in the Persian and Graeco-Roman periods: the lives and religion of ancient Jews. Some scholars in recent years have asked whether Ioudaioi and its counterparts in other ancient languages are better rendered "Jews" or "Judaeans" in English. This essay puts that question in a larger frame, by considering first Ioudaismos and then the larger problem of ancient religion. It argues that there was no category of "Judaism" in the Graeco-Roman world, no "religion" too, and that the Ioudaioi were understood until late antiquity as an ethnic group comparable to other ethnic groups, with their distinctive laws, traditions, customs, and God. They were indeed Judaeans.

Advancing Feminism Online

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Victoria Leonard ◽  
Sarah E. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Crowd Sourcing ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Tools

Can online tools address gender bias in classics? Through two case studies, this article explores the use of crowd-sourcing in order to develop digital tools that amplify women and provide them with a firmer online identity. The first, Wikipedia.org, is already entrenched in the popular research realm, and the second, WOAH (Women of Ancient History), is currently being developed as a reference tool. Wikipedia.org is the most influential source of knowledge in the world, but it has a stubborn gender bias against women. This distortion is particularly evident in the field of classics, where prior to 2017 only 7% of biographies of classicists featured women. Here, ‘classics’ is an inclusive term, and is broadly conceived to include the field of Late Antiquity. This short article details how the Women's Classical Committee (UK)'s Wikipedia editing initiative, #WCCWiki, and the development of WOAH, have successfully increased the visibility of women online. Consequently, it offers a model to mobilize change with few physical or financial resources, but rather facilitated by digital tools and social media. Through digital feminist activism, there is the potential to reverse the gender skew of classicists online and in the public discourse, while also creating an inclusive space that is professional, proactive, and accessible to all.

Athenian Twilight: A.D. 267–600

1959 ◽  
Vol 49 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homer A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Case History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Ancient Civilization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City

The excavations that have been conducted since 1931 by the American School of Classical Studies in the Athenian Agora have illumined virtually all phases in the development of the civic centre from its modest beginnings in the time of Solon to its dramatic end in the third century of our era. The exploration has also made it possible to trace the history of habitation in the area from Neolithic times down to the present day. One of the periods for which the excavations have yielded especially abundant documentation is late antiquity, more specifically the centuries from the third through the sixth. The new evidence has led to the correction of various misapprehensions that had arisen because of the paucity of evidence previously available for the study of this period. The results are the more interesting because our detailed knowledge of what happened in the Agora now helps in understanding contemporary developments in the city as a whole. Athens in fact has become a useful ‘case history’ for the study of the actual way in which ancient civilization went to pieces in one of the best known and most characteristic communities of the ancient world.

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