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Greek Lexicography in the Papyri
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
The prolegomena examine how humans are portrayed as deliberately procuring invisibility in purportedly historical and fictional accounts and in doing so, attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found in the extant invisibility spells. How does the practitioner envision …
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STUDI SULLA TRADIZIONE ESEGETICA ED ERUDITA INTORNO AGLI IDILLI DI TEOCRITO.
… with a detailed examination of most of the papyri which feature traces of commentaries to the poetic text. A key achievement of the project is the creation of comprehensive entries for each papyrus, including critical editions, physical descriptions, and line-by-line analysis. These entries …
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Writing Practical Mathematics in Greek and Roman Antiquity
… 4 considers the surviving corpus of mathematical papyri, which contain a number of geometrical ‘problem-texts’, frequently characterised as ‘algorithmic’. While they are far from homogeneous, the general style of these texts is functionally similar to those found in the ps-Heronian corpora of …
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P. Herc. 1570 Pieces 4, 5, 6a, 6b: [Philodemi] [De divitiis]
… in Naples, Italy. Like many of the Herculaneum papyri, <em>P. Herc.</em> 1570 has remained unedited largely because of the great difficulty with which traces of letters can be discerned on its surface. It was unrolled more than fifty years after its discovery, as one of ca. 1,100 papyri that …
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Das Dorf Samareia im griechisch-römischen Ägypten. Eine papyrologische Untersuchung
In über 40 griechische Papyri aus Ägypten unter ptolemäischer und römischer Herrschaft wird ein Dorf namens Samareia mit einem hohen jüdischen Bevölkerungsanteil erwähnt. Diese Dokumentation wird in der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit systematisch ausgewertet. Hauptthemen sind die Lage, die Gründung …
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Hostes deum: Magic in the literature of the Neronian period
… comparison with the magical texts of the Papyri Graecae Magicae and the defixionum tabellae as well as Pliny’s Historia Naturalis; such collation with other texts allows us to underline structural as well as verbal similarities. A large part of the study is dedicated to each author’s …
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Hesiod Unveiled: The 'Other Poet' among the Exegetes
… of the physical artifacts of exegesis like papyri and scholia, including new transcriptions of unpublished material. Its third and fourth chapters show the discourse developing between Christians and polytheists in late antiquity over the stakes of exegesis of canonical poetry. Arguing for …
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How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate
… mentioned only occasionally in the extant papyri. The autourgia, he asserts, generated the great bulk of the surplus, which could then be sold on the open market. In contrast to Sarris, Todd Hickey argues that the estate was autarkic, focusing his argument on viticulture, the agricultural …
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ΔΙΟΙΚΗΤΙΚΗ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟΥ ΜΕΤΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΡΑΒΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΚΤΗΣΗ. ΟΜΟΙΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟ ΠΡΟΤΥΠΟ
… USE OF ARABIC SOURCES IN COMBINATION WITH THE PAPYRI AND OTHER SOURCES, BECAUSE OF THE INCORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARAB HISTORIOGRAPHY AND INTENTION OF THE ARAB ISLAMIC HISTORIANS BY THE WESTERN RESEARCH WORKERS. IT IS CLEAR THAT, IN THE FIRST YEARS OF THE ARAB ADMINISTRATION, THE USE OF: …
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
… I will draw on non-literary sources such as papyri and inscriptions. My overarching goal is to shed light on the intersections between rhetorical education, juristic reasoning, and social norms, as well as to elucidate the role that declamation played in the expansion and professionalization …
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Unit sizes in the Late Roman army
… in cash and kind recorded in the Panopolis papyri have been used to extrapolate sizes for units in Diocletianic Egypt. Some units - especially cavalry - may have been quite under-strength relative to Principate norms but too many uncertainties surround the calculations involved to allow …
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The Use and Abuse of Authority: an Investigation of the ἐξουσία Passages in Revelation
… usage of ἐξουσία in nonbiblical (Greco-Roman, Papyri and Inscriptions, Jewish apocalyptic, Qumran, Hellenistic Jewish, Rabbinic) and biblical (LXX, Biblia Hebraica, Greek NT) literary sources that are linguistic backgrounds to the meaning of the term. The Greco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish …
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The figurative use of "son(s) of" in the New Testament
… writings, coins and inscriptions, and the papyri and ostraca. Chapter 3 surveys the use of υἱός in the NT. Chapter 4 explores the father-son relationship in the social context of the NT in order to distill the major features of the father-son relationship into an interpretive framework …
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Idolatry and authority: a study of 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1 in the light of the Jewish diaspora
… Diaspora Jewish literature, inscriptions and papyri, and finally the NT passage. And this reveals that while there is a package of definitions of idolatry, these definitions do not always operate as a package. Jews adopted different definitions and so carved out spaces for themselves. Some …
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Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C.
… in Greek and Egyptian language), inscriptions, papyri, and iconography are used to set an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. Major attention is paid to the social contexts where ideological motifs originate and spread; to the link between media, genres and consensus making; to the …
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… the soul and female intimate parts in magic papyri and engraved gems. The second part of the chapter deals with the butterfly’s connection with lovesickness, as the cutaneous rash caused by its wings was deemed to be one of the symptoms of excessive erotic desire in ancient Greece. In Chapter …
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Contract Norms and Contract Enforcement in Graeco-Roman Egypt
… being the primary locus of study, since the papyri afford us the most complete access to ancient individuals and organizations using contracts to organize transactions. After the theoretical and methodological discussion, there follow explorations of several important social values and norms …
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