The Light and the Darkness

Paul Mirecki & Jason BeDuhn (ed.) - The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and Its World.

• The Light and the Darkness: Studies in Manichaeism and its world
• The Metabolism of Salvation: Manichaean Concepts of Human Physiology
• Didymus the Blind's Knowledge of Manichaeism
• The Division of Primordial Space in Anti-Manichaean Writers' Description of the Manichaean Cosmogony
• Prolegomena to a Study of Women in Manichacism
• The Reconstruction of Mani's Epistles from Three Coptic Codices (Ismant el-Kharab and Medinet Madi)
• Reconstructing Manichaean Book Paintings through the Technique of Their Makers: The Case of The Work of Religion Scene on MIK III 4974 recto
• The Authcnticity and Doctrine of (Ps.?) Mani's Letter to Menoch
• Manichaean Allusions to Ritual and Mlagic: Spells for Invisibility in the Coptic Kephalaia
• On Human Races, Semi-Human Beings and Monsters
• A Manichaean Liturgical Instruction on the Act of Almsgiving
• A Manichacan:rurkic Disputc in Runic Script
• Subject index
• Text Index

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The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Italian Renaissance Rulers

Margaret Ann Zaho - Imago Triumphalis. The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Italian Renaissance Rulers (2004)

Din acest volum, doar primele doua capitole se integreaza in segmentul de timp propus de AC:

• The History of the Roman Triumph
• Eastern Origins
• Greek Etymology
• Etruscan Influences
• The Roman Triumph
• The Triumphal Procession and Route
• Roman Triumphal Arches
• The Decoration of Triumphal Arches
• The End of an Ancient Tradition

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The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

Raffaella Cribiore - The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (2007)

• Preface
• A Note on References and Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Libanius and Rhetoric in Antioch
• Schools and Sophists in the Roman East
• The Network
• Admission and Evaluation
• Teaching the Logoi
• The Long and Short Paths to Rhetoric
• After Rhetoric
• Words and Silence
• Dossiers of Students
• Length of Students’ Attendance
• Concordance of Letters in Appendix One Translated into English
• Select Bibliography
• Index Locorum
• General Index
  

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Geoffrey Horrocks - Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers.

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A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I + Vol. II

A Companion to Ancient Egypt. Vol. I. Edited by Alan B. Lloyd. Blackwell, 2010.

N.B. Ambele volume sunt intr-un singur document!

Vol. I:

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chronology
• Maps
• The Land of Egypt
• The Physical Context of Ancient Egypt
• Historical Narratives
• Prehistory
• The Early Dynastic Period
• The Old Kingdom
• The First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom
• The Second Intermediate Period and the New Kingdom
• Libyans and Nubians
• Saites and Persians (664–332)
• The Ptolemaic Period
• The Roman Period
• State and Economic Structures
• The Pharaoh and Pharaonic Office
• Administration and Law: Pharaonic
• Administration and Law: Graeco-Roman
• Priests and Temples: Pharaonic
• Egyptian Temples and Priests: Graeco-Roman
• The Economy: Pharaonic
• The Economy: Graeco-Roman
• Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Pharaonic
• Settlements – Distribution, Structure, Architecture: Graeco-Roman
• Transport in Ancient Egypt
• Science and Technology: Pharaonic
• Science and Technology: Alexandrian
• Military Institutions and Warfare: Pharaonic
• Military Institutions and Warfare: Graeco-Roman
• The Social Order
• Social Structure and Daily Life: Pharaonic
• Social Structure and Daily Life: Graeco-Roman
• Religion in Society: Pharaonic
• Religion in Society: Graeco-Roman
• Bibliography

Vol. II:

• Language and Literature
• Language, Scripts, and Literacy
• Middle Kingdom Literature
• New Kingdom Literature
• Late Period Literature
• Coptic and Coptic Literature
• Greek Literature in Egypt
• The Visual Arts
• Temple Architecture and Decorative Systems
• Mortuary Architecture and Decorative Systems
• Early Dynastic Art and Iconography
• Old Kingdom Sculpture
• Sculpture of the Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom Sculpture
• Late Period Sculpture
• Ptolemaic and Romano-Egyptian Sculpture
• Pharaonic Painting through the New Kingdom
• Mosaics and Painting in Graeco-Roman Egypt
• Egyptian Art of Late Antiquity
• The Reception of Egyptian Culture
• The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Classical Antiquity
• The Reception of Egypt in Europe
• The Reception of Pharaonic Egypt in Islamic Egypt
• Ancient Egypt in the Museum: Concepts and Constructions
• Bibliography
• Index

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Archimedes and the roman imagination

Jaeger Mary - Archimedes and the roman imagination. The University of Michigan Pres, 2008.

• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• The “Eureka” Story
• Cicero at Archimedes’ Tomb
• Why Two Spheres? Coda to Part One. The Afterlife of the Spheres from the De republica
  
• A Sketch of Events at Syracuse
• Who Killed Archimedes?
• The Defense of Syracuse
• Coda to Part Two. Claudian on Archimedes
• Petrarch’s Archimedes
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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Bianca Kühnel - From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem [1987]

Bianca Kühnel - From the Earthly to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Representations of the Holy City in Christian Art of the First Millennium. [Rome-Freiburg/Br.-Vienna: Herder Verlag, 1987 (Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 42. Supplementheft).]

• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Written Sources:
• The Old Testament
• The Jewish Writings of the New Testament's Formation Period
• Jerusalem, the Earthly
• Jerusalem, the Future
• Jerusalem, the Heavenly
  
• The New Testament
• The Visual Representations:
• Through the Earthly the the Heavenly Jerusalem
• The Apse Mosaic of S. Pudentiana, Rome
• The Constantinian Volte-face
• The Patristic Exegesis on Jerusalem
• The Attitude Toward the Jewish Temple
• The Spiritual Concept of Christian Jerusalem
• The Building of the Holy Sepulchre and Its Segnificance
• Palestinian Art
• The Madaba Mosaic Map
• The Loca Sancta Eulogia
• The Cleveland Pyxis and Related Works
• A Parallel: The Representation of the Temple in Jewish Art
• Heavenly Jerusalem, a Revelation
• Historical Background and Methodological Confines
• The Continuity Aspect
• The Illustration of the Apocalypse of John
• The Illustration of the Beatus Commentary
• Carolingian and Ottonian Architectonic Images of Heavenly Jerusalem
• The Apocalypses of Trier and Cambrai
• The Apocalypses of Valenciennes and Paris
• The Bamberg Apocalypse
• Related Representations: The Crusaders Maps of Jerusalem
• "Civitas in quadro posita"
• The Beatus Manuscripts
• San Pietro al Monte sopra Civate
• The Sources: representations of the Temple and the Tabernacle
• The Psychomachia of Prudentius
• The Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes
• The Codex Granditor of Cassiodorus
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography and List of Abbreviations
• Index
• List of Illustrations
  

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