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Hellenistic Attitudes Toward War
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The Rural Settlements of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia: an Archaeology of Indigenous Life under Colonial Rule
<p>Hellenistic Central Asia is among the most exoticized areas of study for Classical and Near Eastern archaeological research due to the discovery of ancient Greek colonies in the modern nations of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Most notable is the excavations of the Hellenistic “new …
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Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
… the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities devised a number of strategies aimed at negotiating the tension between maintenance of traditional …
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The Literary Past and the Hellenistic Symposium
… explores the presence of canonical texts in the Hellenistic period beyond individual reading habits. It utilises the interpersonal context of the symposium to understand the place and significance of literature as a social phenomenon. Methodologically, it combines art and text, synthesising …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
This thesis examines female voices in Hellenistic Poetry. It argues that fictions of female voices in Greek literature produced in this period assume unprecedented importance. Fictions of female voices of course appear within these poems in the form of character voices. They also, however, …
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Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese
The historical setting of the Hellenistic period in the Peloponnese has been covered in great detail in scholarly literature, as well as the scope of Hellenistic religion and the role of monumental temples during this period. However, the role of small extra-urban temples has been somewhat …
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Military Institutions and State Formation in the Hellenistic Kingdoms
… the history of the military institutions of the Hellenistic kingdoms. The kingdoms emerged after years of war-fighting, and the capacity to wage war remained central to state formation in the Hellenistic Age (323-31 B.C.). The creation of institutions and recruitment of populations sufficient to …
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Hellenistic astrology as a case study of 'cultural translation'
This dissertation approaches Hellenistic astrology as a case study for 'Cultural translation' in the Greco-Roman world. 'Cultural translation' denotes here the transition of ideas and knowledge from one culture to another, making them available in the recipient culture by the ‘translation’ in its …
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The Hellenistic and Roman Periods at Tell Hesban, Jordan
<p>The site of Tell Hesban, 9 km north of Madaba, Jordan, was excavated by Andrews University, in cooperation with the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (five seasons, 1968 to 1976).</p> <p>Evidence from the site suggests it was first occupied in Iron …
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The Dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-Speaking Areas
My thesis explores the dialect of Hellenistic Inscribed Epigrams from Doric-speaking areas, a corpus not yet analysed in its entirety. The aim of the research is twofold: to fill a gap in the scholarship, through a systematic and comprehensive description of the dialectal features from the …
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Studies in the Hellenistic Sculpture of the Island of Rhodes
<p>The study of Hellenistic sculpture is often based upon its division into local schools centering around Pergamon, Alexandria and Rhodes. The underlying premise of the present study is that if a distinctly Rhodian Hellenistic school of sculpture existed, it should be possible to define its …
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A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
… developed and operated during the Hellenistic period across Seleucid, Ptolemaic, Antigonid, Attalid and Roman contexts? The aims of this dissertation are threefold, firstly, to analyse the different border models in operation during the Hellenistic period; secondly, to assess …
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The oriental context for the end of Greek rule in the Hellenistic Age
… account of the decline of Greek power in the Hellenistic East can be justified nowadays by noting the relative antiquity of available works on the subject when archaeological and numismatic work has continued and has rendered dated such works as those by Bevan and Bouche-Leclerq although still …
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