Ancient history

Herodotus’s Scythians and Ptolemy’s Central Asia

Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

The present book deals with semasiological and onomasiological questions in Herodotus's (5th century B.C.) famous portrayal of the Scythians and in Ptolemy's description of the...

Selinus II

Die punische Stadt auf der Akropolis

In 409 BC, the Greek colonial town Selinous in Sicily was conquered by the Carthaginians and fell under Punic governance. Having primarily functioned as a military base during the...

Krise und Wandel

Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens

During the fourth and third centuries BC, Sicily and South Italy were the site of almost incessant conflicts between their indigenous peoples, Greek settlers, Punic colonists, and...

Die Akropolis von Athen im Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit

Internationales Kolloquium vom 16. bis 17. Juni 2006 in Bonn

In the Hellenistic and particularly the Roman Imperial period the Acropolis of Athens embodied the greatness of the “polis” in Classical times and must to an extent have attained...

Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie

Medien, Gruppen, Räume im politischen und sozialen System. Beiträge zu einem interdisziplinären Kolloqium in Freiburg i.Br., 24. bis 25. November 2006

This volume contains eight papers under a common focus: the complexity of image- and role- construction in classical Athens. The development of democracy came along with a growing...

Grabbauten des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts in den gallischen und germanischen Provinzen

Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums Köln 22. bis 23. Februar 2007

The present volume is based on an international colloquium held by the Institute of Archaeology of the University Cologne and the “Centre for Mediterranean Cultures”. Their aim...

Mensch und Tier in der Antike

Grenzziehung und Grenzüberschreitung

These conference proceedings explore the encounter of human and animal nature from a philological, historical and archaeological perspective in areas such as the body, myth,...

Stadtverkehr in der antiken Welt

Internationales Kolloquium zur 175-Jahrfeier des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom vom 21. bis 23. April 2004

This volume deals with a topic that has influenced much current research, but which has rarely been applied to Classical times – the complex phenomenon of "transport" and...

Original und Kopie

Formen und Konzepte der Nachahmung in der antiken Kunst

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Der Band versammelt 15 Aufsätze, die auf verschiedenen Feldern der antiken Kunst und Architektur dem Verhältnis...

Antike Musterblätter

Wirkkartons aus dem spätantiken und frühbyzantinischen Ägypten

The use of models and pattern sheets in Antiquity is still much discussed among scholars. While lost for other works of art, a considerable number painted on papyrus and used in...

Persistenz und Rezeption

Weiterverwendung, Wiederverwendung und Neuinterpretation antiker Werke im Mittelalter

The present volume is based on a colloquium held by two research centres of the Philosophical Faculty of Cologne University. i.e. the “Centre for Mediterranean Cultures...

Der imaginierte Nomade

Formel und Realitätsbezug bei antiken, mittelalterlichen und arabischen Autoren

When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the...

Statuen in der Spätantike

The investigation of late antique statuary lies at the intersection of various scholarly disciplines studying the ancient world. Statues set up in public are an important index of...

Kult und Kommunikation

Medien in Heiligtümern der Antike

Media research has become a common subject and method for various academic fields. But there is, so far, no such study dealing with media research in the field of archaeology....

Europas Spiegel

Die Antikensammlung im Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen

The collection of antiquities in the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum Aachen has hitherto been nearly unknown even among specialists. It mainly contains of vases and terracotta figurines,...

Bilder von der Vergangenheit

Zur Geschichte der archäologischen Fächer

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Als Archäologe sieht man sich derzeit mit einem Widerspruch konfrontiert: Auf der einen Seite erfreut sich die...

Nebensätze bei Aristophanes

Syntax, Semantik, Pragmatik

This book offers an analysis of all subordinate clauses of the eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes, informed by syntax, semantics and pragmatics; new perspectives are opened...

Medieval Painting in the Lebanon

Christians in Lebanon have been painting their churches ever since the time of Christ but their work is largely unknown. Presently, the larger study of Byzantine painting has...

Strategie der Selbstinszenierung

Das rhetorische Ich in den Reden Dions von Prusa

Taking as its starting point a new methodical approach, which differentiates between rhetoric I and biographic I, the author investigates the self-presentation of Dio of Prusa, an...

Spätantike Bauskulptur aus Oxyrhynchos

Lokale Produktion – äußere Einflüsse

The architectural sculpture produced at Oxyrhynchus, capital of the late Roman province of Arcadia in Middle Egypt, is analysed in detail and related to the development of the...