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Showing 1 to 20 of 269 for “"Archaic"”.
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Archery in Archaic Greece
Despite a renewed interest in scholarship about archaic warfare, hoplites, Homeric society, and several other related areas, archery in Archaic Greece has managed to escape comprehensive study for half a century. Scholarship on the subject stands in urgent need of update and revision. Certain …
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State interactions in archaic Greece
… economy operated, and about shipping routes in archaic Greece. I conclude that, contrary to the long-held belief by scholars, political activity did not determine other forms of networking between city-states, nor are political interactions readily visible in the archaeological record. …
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The entry of Orpheus into archaic Greek society.
Although absent from early Archaic sources by the sixth century BCE Orpheus the poet had become synonymous with poetry and inspiration. This work will examine the emergence of the myths of Orpheus in Archaic Greece with a view to understanding his place in society. This will entail the exploration …
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
Since the publication of Jonathan Shay's 'Achilles in Vietnam' in 1994, classicists have increasingly searched for evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the ancient world. Yet, despite rapid developments in the field of psychology and psychiatry, assumptions about war, trauma and …
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Post-Traumatic Stress in Archaic and Classical Greece
Since the publication of Jonathan Shay's 'Achilles in Vietnam' in 1994, classicists have increasingly searched for evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the ancient world. Yet, despite rapid developments in the field of psychology and psychiatry, assumptions about war, trauma and …
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Patterns of Archaic Hominin DNA in Modern Human Genomes
… of a method for identifying introgressed archaic haplotypes. I then present the application of this method to several populations. In 15 African hunter-gatherer genomes, I identify signatures of introgression from an unknown archaic hominin with an apparent divergence time with modern …
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Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy
From the second half of the seventh century and through the sixth century BC, monumental building complexes were erected in proto-urban settlements in Etruria and Latium. Located on prominent positions within settlements and comprising large central courtyards and surrounding building wings, the …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
… concerns of this thesis are to compare the way Archaic Greek and Kalanga wisdom literatures resort to animal imagery in the dissemination of moral lessons. The study evaluates the way animals are deployed as metaphors to signify and express human actions and human attitudes in oral thought. In a …
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The Emergence of Ceramic Roof Tiles in Archaic Greek Architecture
This dissertation considers the origins of roof tiles in Greek architecture. The primary focus is the Protocorinthian tile system, including the first archaeologically dated roof from the Old Temple at Corinth as well as similar roofs from Isthmia and Delphi. The manufacturing techniques of the …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
This dissertation examines Archaic Greek epigram in its context (cultural, historical, physical, etc.), with particular focus on its ancient reading and reception. My study contributes to our understanding of the performance culture of Archaic Greece, whereby, scholars have argued, poems and their …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
… early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars have explored how Roman …
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Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Archaic and Classical Athens
<p>My dissertation, “Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Classical Athens,” seeks to rescue the history of these foreigner residents by studying how they represented themselves on grave markers and how they integrated themselves into the city and its cemeteries. By analyzing …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
“Adventures in the Archaic” unearths a revivalist sensibility that flourished in France in the first years of the Anthropocene. After the Second World War, four like-minded intellectuals cultivated archaic folkways in the fields of prehistory, ethnopsychiatry, rural sociology, and the history of …
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Pre-Archaic Occupations in the West Arm of the Black Rock Desert
The relationship between humans and the environments in which they lived is a major topic of interest to archaeologists in the Great Basin. Many early archaeological sites occur on remnant shorelines of ancient lakes and marshes, suggesting a reliance on wetland resources within the region. …
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Sedentism among the Archaic fisher-folk of northern Chile: A malacological perspective
Oxygen isotope analysis of shell material from the Camarones West Shell Midden and from the site of Quiani has revealed that year-round collection of shellfish for food by the people of the Chinchorro Culture was not practiced. Additional shell demographics from the site of Quiani further support …
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