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  • When was Early Greece?

  • Catharine Judson
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Hellenic Studies / Volume 145 / November 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    28 July 2025, pp. 115-134
    Print publication:
    November 2025
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  • This article investigates the boundaries of the chronological-cultural unit of ‘Early Greece’, a phrase widely used in scholarship but which has little taxonomic meaning. I argue that the phrase, and the values that it encodes, continues to exist in a traditional evolutionary framework of cultural development within the Greek world. Through a bibliographical case study, I further demonstrate that there are different chronological understandings of ‘Early Greece’ within different subdisciplines, with material-based scholarship applying it predominantly to the Early Iron Age and text-based scholarship predominantly to the Archaic period. Following this, the article connects ‘Early Greece’ with protohistory, particularly through the lens of Homer references, and explores the ways in which the positionality of ‘Early Greece’ emphasizes the authority of textual sources over material ones and continues to articulate an under-defined vision of Greece centred on the fifth century BCE.

Hieratic

Hieratic
  • An Ancient Egyptian Cursive Script
  • Fredrik Hagen
  • Published online:
    25 July 2025
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    14 August 2025
  • Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, in contrast to hieroglyphs which was effectively a monumental script. The surviving papyri, ostraca and writing boards attest to the central role of hieratic in Egyptian written culture, and suggest that the majority of literate people were first (and not infrequently only) trained in the cursive script. This Element traces the long history of hieratic from its decipherment in the nineteenth century back to its origins around 2500 BC, and explores its development over time, the different factors influencing its appearance, and the way it was taught and used.

  • References

  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
    Published online:
    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 270-303
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  • Conclusion

  • from Part III - Faking the Gods
  • Tatiana Bur, Australian National University, Canberra
  • Book:
    Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion
    Published online:
    04 September 2025
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    24 July 2025, pp 258-269
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  • Summary

    This book began with a set of propositions about how the ancient Greek religious system worked, particularly in relation to divine manifestation. I set out to explore how technology featured and functioned with(in) those propositions which mediated between human and supernatural realms. Including the mechanical in the discourse on divine epiphany and religious experience is not intuitive. Karel Čapek’s satiric vision of a machine that creates practically free energy but spurts out a numinous by-product known as the Absolute is both very relevant and utterly alien to the ancient context. It is alien in that Čapek’s novel is focalised through (relatively) modern preconceptions of technology and religion as antithetical. The protagonist’s invention is strictly a machine of science fiction. That a sense of the numinous might be created by mechanical technology is entertained in the story as imaginatively (and metaphorically) compelling but remains impossible in practical terms.

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