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24162 results in Ancient history

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  • Chapter 4 - The Imperial Cosmopolis

  • Peter Fibiger Bang, University of Copenhagen
  • Book:
    The Roman Empire and World History
    Published online:
    31 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025, pp 86-118

  • Summary

    The courts of universal emperors presided over the spread of cosmopolitan elite cultures, literary, artistic and conspicuous. The Indologist Sheldon Pollock has studied this phenomenon for classical Sanskrit, but his vision of cosmopolitan and classical language cultures can easily be extended across Afro-Eurasia to comprise Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian and Classical Chinese, among others. Starting from the Alexander Romance and the image of Orpheus, the chapter explores how Greco-Roman literary culture created an elite language cosmopolis, much as the other examples mentioned here. Rather than studying Greek and Latin, as is often done, as the precursor of the modern Romance and national languages, it is rather in this context of imperial civilizational cosmopoleis that they should be analyzed. Themes include the formation of classical canons and elite distinction, the size of literary cultures based on manuscript rather than the printing press, and the development of transcendental and monotheist forms of religious belief such as Christianity, Buddhism and Islam.

The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods
  • Globalization, Christianization and Resilience
  • Rebecca Sweetman
  • Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025
  • The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through analysis of the material culture produced from the late first century BCE through to the seventh century CE, however, Rebecca Sweetman offers a fresh interpretation of Cycladic societies across this diachronic period. She demonstrates that the Cyclades remained vibrant, and that the islands embraced the potential of being part of wider political, economic and religious networks that were enabled as part of the Roman Empire. Sweetman also argues that the Cyclades were at the forefront of key social developments, notably, female social and physical mobility, as well as in the islands' early adoption of Christianity. Drawing on concepts related to Globalization, Christianization, and Resilience, Sweetman's analysis highlights the complex relationships between the islands and their Imperial contexts over time. The gazetteer of archaeological sites will be fundamental for all working on archaeology of the Roman and Late Antique periods as well as those interested in the Mediterranean.

  • Chapter 1 - Introduction

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    This chapter sets the stage for the work to come, posing the central question about how to understand ancient Assyrian identity in the second millennium bce and how it changed over time. It critiques the concept of ethnicity and explains why grappling with Assyrianness requires a new approach to identity.

  • Chapter 4 - Aššur, King of the Gods

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 158-259

  • Summary

    This chapter offers an overview of the Middle Assyrian social world and the construction of Assyrian identity within it. The chapter finds that in the Middle Assyrian period, Assyrianness was an incidental identity with permeable boundaries.

  • Chapter 5 - Conclusion

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 260-268

  • Summary

    This chapter summarizes and brings together all the work conducted in the book. It offers an answer to the original question concerning what it meant to be Assyrian in the second millennium bce and how this changed over time.

Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond
  • Edited by Rubina Raja
  • Published online:
    21 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025
  • Palmyra is one of the most famous sites of the ancient world and played a major role in the overland trade between the Mediterranean and the East. This volume explores fascinating aspects of Palmyrene archaeology and history that underline the site's dynamic relations with the Roman world, whilst simultaneously acknowledging its extremely local nature. The chapters explore Palmyra as a site, but also Palmyrene society both at home and abroad – as travellers in the then known world and contractors and businesspeople as well as innovative political and military leaders of their time. They illuminate Palmyra's and Palmyrene society's negotiations, struggles, benefits and disadvantages from being part of the Roman Empire, situated on the fringes between the East and the West, and their use of this location to recreate themselves as a central power player – at least for a time – within a rapidly changing world.
Between Yahwism and Judaism

Between Yahwism and Judaism
  • Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)
  • Yonatan Adler
  • Published online:
    18 October 2025
    Print publication:
    04 December 2025
  • This Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea and the diaspora, during the Early Hellenistic period (332–175 BCE). It asks if this period signals cultural continuity with the Yahwism of the past, or cultural rupture with the emergence Judaism as known from later times. It investigates: administrative structures, whether Torah was widely observed, how and where Judeans performed cultic worship of YHWH and if this had become exclusive of other deities, adoption of Greek cultural elements and what literature was well-known and influential, including “Biblical” literature. It concludes that while no rupture is evident, and the Early Hellenistic period marks a strong degree of continuity with the Yahwism of Persian times, in some senses the era paved a way for the subsequent transition into the Judaism of the future.

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