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Berossus and Manetho

By: John D Dillery

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Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio’s Other Sons considers why that is: why were these histories written at this point, and for what purposes? Berossus and Manetho operated at the crossings of several political, social, and intellectual worlds. They were members of native elites under the domination of Macedonian overlords; in their writings we can see suggestions that they collaborated in the foreign rule of their lands, but at the same time we see them advocating for their cultures. Their histories were written in Greek and betray active engagement with Greek historical writing, but at the same time these texts are clearly composed from native records, are organized along lines determined by local systems of time-reckoning, and articulate views that are deeply informed by regional scholarly and wisdom traditions. In this volume John Dillery charts the interactions of all these features of these historians. An afterword considers Demetrius, the approximate contemporary of Berossus and Manetho in time, if not in culture. While his associates wrote new histories, Demetrius’ project was a rewriting of an existing text, the Bible. This historiographical “corrective” approach sheds light on the novel historiography of Manetho and Berossus.

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Cosmopolitanism and Empire

Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

By: Myles Lavan,Richard E. Payne,John Weisweiler

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Cosmopolitanism and Empire

Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

By: Myles Lavan,Richard E. Payne,John Weisweiler

The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cultural techniques through which empires managed difference in order to establish effective, enduring regimes of domination. It focuses on the relations of imperial elites with culturally distinct local elites, offering a comparative perspective on the varying depth and modalities of elite integration in five empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. If cosmopolitanism has normally been studied apart from the imperial context, the essays gathered here show that theories and practices that enabled ruling elites to transcend cultural particularities were indispensable for the establishment and maintenance of trans-regional and trans-cultural political orders. As the first cosmopolitans, imperial elites regarded ruling over culturally disparate populations as their vocation, and their capacity to establish normative frameworks across cultural boundaries played a vital role in the consolidation of their power. Together with an introductory chapter which offers a theory and history of the relationship between empire and cosmopolitanism, the volume includes case studies of Assyrian, Seleukid, Ptolemaic, Roman, and Iranian empires that analyze encounters between ruling classes and their subordinates in the domains of language and literature, religion, and the social imaginary. The contributions combine to illustrate the dilemmas of difference that imperial elites confronted as well as their strategies for resolving the cultural contradictions that their regimes precipitated.

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Oxford University Press

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0190465670

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Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation

A Relevance Theory Approach

By: John W. Hilber

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Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation

A Relevance Theory Approach

By: John W. Hilber

In order to reconcile the discrepancies between ancient and modern cosmology, confessional scholars from every viewpoint on the interpretation of the early chapters of Genesis agree that God accommodated language to finite human understanding. But in the history of interpretation, no consensus has emerged regarding what accommodation entails at the linguistic level. More precise consideration of how the ancient cognitive environment functions in the informative intention of the divine and human authors is necessary. Not only does relevance theory validate interpretative options that are inherently most probable within the primary communication situation, but the application of relevance theory can also help disentangle the complexities of dual authorship inherent in any model of accommodation. The results also make a salutary contribution to the theological reading of Scripture.

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1532676212

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Xenophon And The History Of His Times

By: John Dillery

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Xenophon And The History Of His Times

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Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they are as histories. Through analysis of the complete corpus of Xenophon's work, and the writings of his contemporaries, Xenophon is shown to be very much a man of his times, concerned with topical issues ranging from panhellenism and utopia to how far the gods controlled human history. This book will be valuable reading for students on ancient history courses and for all those interested in Greek political and philosophical thought.

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Routledge

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1134874693

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

A detailed comparative analysis of speaker-audience interactions in Greek historiography, Josephus, and Acts that examines historians’ use of speeches as a means of instructing/persuading their readers and highlights Luke’s distinctive depiction of the apostles as adaptable yet frequently alienating orators.

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9004524037

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Polis

A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

By: John Ma

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Polis

A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

By: John Ma

The polis, the dominant political form around which ancient Greeks structured their lives and activities, is perhaps their most fundamental creation and enduring legacy. It was a highly successful form of social organization in which Greek culture thrived, including architecture, literature, and philosophy. In this book, ancient historian John Ma offers a new history of the polis from its origins in the Early Iron Age through its eclipse in Late Antiquity. He aims to answer a few big questions about it-Why did it emerge? What needs did it fulfill? How did it work? In addition, it is often assumed that the polis, along with the concomitant values of democracy and freedom, came to an end with the Classical period. Taking a contrary view, Ma explores how it endured under imperial control (the Persian Achaimenids, the Hellenistic kings, the Roman Empire), as well as why and how it eventually ended. In addressing these questions, Ma examines not only the most well-known ancient city-states like Sparta and Athens but also many lesser-known ones. He shows how complex the relations of power, access, and membership between the city, the territory, and the members of the polis were. Ma also examines the polis's significance as a social form and looks to the people who constitute the polis, from free adult men-stakeholders in institutional power, slaveowners, or heads of households-and elites to women, foreigners, and enslaved peoples, however disempowered. He draws on recent work on gender and slavery to evaluate the place of domination and violence in the polis. In doing so, Ma shows how the composition of the citizen body is both a political and social issue. The powerful combination of central political ideas and conflict around the issues of autonomy and social power led, Ma argues, to a "great convergence" of polis forms, producing a relatively uniform, stable organism, centred on communitarian, democratic forms and bargains between the community and its elites. This convergence led to the diffusion and harmonization of polis forms, both within and beyond the Aegean, and which allowed them to endure for almost a thousand years with an even longer legacy"--

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0691155380

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol II

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol II

Embedded Speeches, Audience Responses, and Authorial Persuasion

By: John M. Duncan

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9004524053

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Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC

By: John Buckler

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Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC

By: John Buckler

This book covers the political, diplomatic, and military history of the Aegean Greeks of the fourth century BC, raising new questions and delving into old disputes and controversies. It includes their power struggles, the Persian involvement in their affairs, and the ultimate Macedonian triumph over Greece. It deals with the political concept of federalism and its relations to the ideal of the polis. The volume concludes with the triumph of Macedonian monarchy over the polis. In dealing with the great public issues of fourth-century Greece, the approach to them includes a combination of sources. The usual literary and archaeological information forms the essential foundation for the topographical examination of every major site mentioned in the text. Numismatic evidence likewise finds its place here.

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9047400100

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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

By: John Marincola

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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

By: John Marincola

This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference, It engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience.

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Persian Interventions

The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450−386 BCE

By: John O. Hyland

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Persian Interventions

The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450−386 BCE

By: John O. Hyland

In this book, Hyland examines the international relations of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenid Empire) as a case study in ancient imperialism. He focuses in particular on Persian's relations with the Greek city-states and its diplomatic influence over Athens and Sparta. Previous studies have emphasized the ways in which Persia sought to protect its borders by playing the often warring Athens and Sparta off each other, prolonging their conflicts through limited aid and shifts of alliance. Hyland proposes a new model, employing Persian ideological texts and economic documents to contextualize the Greek narrative framework, that demonstrates that Persian Kings were less interested in control of the Ionian region where Greece bordered the empire than in displays of universal power through the acquisition of Athens or Sparta as client states. On the other hand, the establishment of "Pax Persica" beyond the Aegean was delayed by Persian efforts to limit the interventions' expense, and missteps in dealing with fractious Greek allies. This reevaluation of Persia's Greek relations marks an important contribution to scholarship on the Achaemenid empire and Greek history, and has value for the broader study of imperialism in the ancient world."--Provided by publisher.

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1421423707

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"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

By: John M. McManamon

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"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

By: John M. McManamon

In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew “neither letters nor swimming.”

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9004446192

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Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water

By: John M. McManamon

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Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water

By: John M. McManamon

Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken ships for 800 years. Having no idea of the size of the objects he was attempting to recover, Alberti failed. For most of the next 500 years, various attempts were made to recover the vessels. Finally, in 1928, Mussolini ordered the draining of the lake to remove the vessels and place them on the lake shore. In 1944, the ships burned in a fire that was generally blamed on the Germans. John M. McManamon connects these attempts at underwater archaeology with the Renaissance interest in reconstructing the past in order to affect the present. Nautical and marine archaeologists, as well as students and scholars of Renaissance history and historiography, will appreciate this masterfully researched and gracefully written work.

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1623494397

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Ignatius and Concord

The Background and Use of the Language of Concord in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch

By: John-Paul Lotz

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Ignatius and Concord

The Background and Use of the Language of Concord in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch

By: John-Paul Lotz

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Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion

By: John M.G. Barclay

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Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion

By: John M.G. Barclay

This is the first English commentary on Josephus’ Against Apion, his apologetic treatise which rebuts Egyptian and Hellenistic slurs on the Judean people. Accompanied by a new translation, the commentary provides full analysis of the historical, literary, and rhetorical features of the treatise, and analyses its engagement with the cultural politics of the ancient world.

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904740405X

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Greek Historians

By: John Marincola

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Greek Historians

By: John Marincola

This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.

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Book's by John D Dillery

Clio's Other Sons

Clio's Other Sons

Cosmopolitanism and Empire

Cosmopolitanism and Empire

Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation

Old Testament Cosmology and Divine Accommodation

Xenophon And The History Of His Times

Xenophon And The History Of His Times

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I

Polis

Polis

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol II

Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol II

Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC

Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC

Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras

Persian Interventions

Persian Interventions

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

"Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving

Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water

Caligula's Barges and the Renaissance Origins of Nautical Archaeology Under Water

Ignatius and Concord

Ignatius and Concord

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion

Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10: Against Apion

Greek Historians

Greek Historians

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