Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation – serie
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Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)
The Anchors of the Fisherman
Inbunden, 2020
2429 kr
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The apostle Peter gradually became one of the most famous figures of the ancient world. His almost undisputed reputation made the disciple an exquisite anchor by which new practices within and outside the Church could be established, including innovations in fields as diverse as architecture, art, …
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Inbunden, 2021
1887 kr
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Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a …
Canonisation as Innovation
Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE
Inbunden, 2022
2115 kr
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Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Roman) as case studies. It focuses on …
Agents of Change in the Greco-Roman and Early Modern Periods
Ten Case Studies in Agency in Innovation
Inbunden, 2023
1747 kr
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Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the ‘superspreader’ of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp contribute to architectural innovation in …
Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia
Objects, Appropriation and Cultural Change
Inbunden, 2023
1539 kr
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Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating this phenomenon in terms of appropriation and cultural change. In-depth …
Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism
Inbunden, 2024
1828 kr
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Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. This collection of essays advocates for understanding them as interconnected …
Materia Philosophiae. Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy
Inbunden, 2025
2294 kr
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Ever since Thales fell into the well, popular imagination has pictured philosophers as abstracted from everyday reality. Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy counters that view. Philosophy in ancient Greece grew out of and remained closely connected to the material …
Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Inbunden, 2024
2024 kr
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This collection of essays explores processes of innovation in Greco-Roman technology and science. It uses the concept of ‘anchoring’ to investigate the microhistories of technological and scientific practices and ideas. The volume combines broad, theoretical essays with more targeted case studies …
Social Psychology and the Ancient World
Methods and Applications
Inbunden, 2025
2096 kr
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Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between classics and social psychology. Classicists use modern social-psychological insights to interpret ancient texts, while social psychologists engage with classical case studies to refine …
480 BCE. The Persian Attack on Athens and its Impact on the Study of Ancient Greece
Inbunden, 2025
2183 kr
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In 480 BCE, during their invasion of Greece, the Persians began the destruction of Athens. How has this event shaped our understanding of Greek history? This interdisciplinary volume investigates the commemoration of the attack in Antiquity and how it became anchored in modern scholarship as a …
Meteorology Beyond Borders
Ancient and Modern Reflections
Inbunden, 2025
2671 kr
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Ancient meteorology was not just about predicting the weather but a broader notion involving the study of phenomena that belong under such disciplines as astronomy and geology today. This collective volume deals with meteorological phenomena in a wide variety of texts from classical antiquity: …
Return of the Golden Age from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Receptions of a Classical Motif
Inbunden, 2026
2015 kr
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This book represents the first reception history of the classical myth of the “Golden Age” from Antiquity up until the present. The introduction proposes “Golden Age thinking” as a set of connected ideas about the flexible organization of time, morality and divine interventions. The case-studies …
Itinerant Greek Sculpture in Roman Italy and Greece and the Temple of Apollo Sosianus on the Campus Martius in Rome
Inbunden, 2026
2351 kr
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In Roman Italy there were many sculptures and architectural elements from the Greek world, sometimes already centuries old. These objects had been transferred to the Italic peninsula where they became an integrated part of Roman society and culture. The Greek statues that were made part of the …
Cinna the Poet
Appropriation and Innovation in Late Republican Rome
Inbunden, 2026
1872 kr
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This book examines the life and works of Catullus’ friend and fellow poet Gaius Helvius Cinna (d. 44 BCE) within the context of Rome’s expansion. Far from being a learned imitation of remote foreign sources, Cinna’s poetry engaged profoundly with the political contingencies of his time. Close …
