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ISBN: 9783110209990 , 9783110238570

Serie: Image & Context , 2

Inhalt: Die höchste Ehre, die ein römischer Bürger sich erhoffen konnte, war eine Porträtstatue auf dem Forum seiner Stadt. Während der Kaiser und hohe Senatsbeamte regelmäßig mit solchen Statuen geehrt wurden, war die Konkurrenz unter den Wohltätern der Städte um diese Ehrung groß: ging es doch um nicht weniger, als die Erinnerung an den geehrten Patron und seine Familie über Generationen hin öffentlich zu verkünden und zu verewigen. Zwar gab es viele Möglichkeiten, sich eine Porträtstatue zu verdienen; die lokalen Honoratioren mussten jedoch oft bis nach ihrem Tod warten, bevor ihre Hoffnung darauf von der Öffentlichkeit erfüllt wurde. Jane Fejfer weist zum ersten Mal nach, wie grundsätzlich unser Verständnis und unsere Wahrnehmung von römischen Porträtstatuen erweitert werden, wenn wir folgende Faktoren einer systematischen Analyse unterziehen: den historischen Kontext, die ursprüngliche Aufstellung, die Entsehungsbedingungen von Herstellung und Stil - und den Sockel, auf dem in vielen Fällen ein Text angebracht war, der die suggestive Wirkung des Bildes durch eine eigene Rhetorik ergänzte.

Inhalt: The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family for generations. There were many ways to earn a portrait statue but such local figures often had to wait until they had passed away before the public finally fulfilled their expectations. It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , Introduction -- , Part One: Public Honours and Private Expectations -- , The so-called Roman Private Portrait -- , Corporates Spaces, Houses, Villas and Tombs -- , Part Two: Modes of Representation -- , The Material of Roman Portraits -- , Statuary Body Types of Roman Men: All About Status? -- , Abbreviated Formats -- , Selves and Others: Ways of Expressing Identity in the Roman Male Portrait -- , Part Three: The Empress and her Fellow Elite Women -- , Roman Women in Public -- , Part Four: The Emperor -- , Representing the Roman Emperor -- , Epilogue -- , Power, Honour, and Memory -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Geschichte

DOI: 10.1515/9783110209990

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ISBN: 9783110215403 , 9783110621099

Serie: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts , 4

Inhalt: This book provides the first full edition and commentary of the Oxyrhynchus Glossary (POxy 1802 and 4812). This is a unique document both for the history of Greek lexicography and for the study of the cultural and linguistic exchange between the Greeks and the "others" in the Hellenistic near East. The fragment contains a fully alphabetized glossary with lemmas defined as "Persian," "Babylonian," and "Chaldaean", as well as lemmas taken from Greek dialects or common Greek. The entries are rich in "ations from ancient authorities including Berossus, Apollodorus and Erasistratus. This glossary had never been analyzed in depth previously. Francesca Schironi provides a comprehensive introduction and commentary that places the Oxyrhynchus Glossary into the wider context of Greek lexicography and scholarship, discusses its interest for non-Greek languages and the problems related to linguistic exchanges in the Near Eastern areas, and shows the uniqueness and value of this document. The Oxyrhynchus glossary and this study will be of interest to classicists, papyrologists, comparative philologists, and scholars interested in the history of Greek lexicography and scholarship.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Table of Contents -- , 1. Introduction -- , 2. The Manuscript -- , 3. Content -- , 4. Dating and Origin -- , 5. Near Eastern Glosses and the Problem of their Acquisition -- , 6. The Oxyrhynchus Glossary and Greek Glossography -- , 7. Authorship -- , 8. Edition -- , 9. Commentary -- , 10. Conclusions -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110215403

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ISBN: 9783110220810 , 9783110621099

Serie: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte , 98

Inhalt: Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon's works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth's edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon's work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of "Skeptical aesthetics" that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chapter 1 - The Lives of Timon and Pyrrho -- , Chapter 2 - Timon and Pyrrho: The Pytho and the Indalmoi -- , Chapter 3 - Timon's Silloi: Organization and Principle Fragments -- , Chapter 4 - The Silloi in its Literary Context -- , Chapter 5 - Timon's Reception in Hellenistic Literature -- , Chapter 6 - Skepticism in Hellenistic Literature -- , Conclusion - An Aesthetics of Skepticism -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Philosophie , Altertumswissenschaften

DOI: 10.1515/9783110220810

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ISBN: 9783110218312 , 9783110238570

Serie: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 3

Inhalt: Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction. A semiotician at the circus -- , Chapter 1. The production of circus space -- , Chapter 2. The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts -- , Chapter 3. In what sense is a circus animal performing? -- , Chapter 4. Horses' feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors -- , Chapter 5. Circus and cycles -- , Chapter 6. The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics -- , Chapter 7. The logic of clown faces -- , Chapter 8. Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus -- , Chapter 9. There's no business like show business: the marketing of performance -- , Chapter 10. The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances -- , Conclusion. Circus in perspective -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110218312

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Ausgabe: 2nd rev. ed.

ISBN: 9783110214307 , 9783110238570

Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 218

Inhalt: Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chapter 1. Introduction -- , Chapter 2. The discovery of Indo-European -- , Chapter 3. Writing: Its history and its decipherment -- , Chapter 4. Sound change -- , Chapter 5. Analogy and change in word structure -- , Chapter 6. Syntactic change -- , Chapter 7. Semantic change -- , Chapter 8. Lexical borrowing -- , Chapter 9. Lexical change and etymology: The study of words -- , Chapter 10. Language, dialect, and standard -- , Chapter 11. Dialect geography and dialectology -- , Chapter 12. Language spread, link languages, and bilingualism -- , Chapter 13. Convergence: Dialectology beyond languageboundaries -- , Chapter 14. Pidgins, creoles, and related forms of language -- , Chapter 15. Language death -- , Chapter 16. Comparative method: Establishing language relationship -- , Chapter 17. Proto-World?: The question of long-distance genetic relationships -- , Chapter 18. Historical linguistics, history, and prehistory: Linguistic paleontology and other applications of our methods -- , Chapter notes and suggested readings -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Schlagwort(e): Einführung ; Einführung

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Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 159

Inhalt: In Modularity in Language, Etsuyo Yuasa investigates exceptions and idiosyncrasies in various complex clauses in Japanese and English within the framework of multi-modular approaches to grammar. She proposes original analyses of various complex clauses in Japanese and English, which deviate from the norms of other complex clauses in the same language or in other languages, and shows how these cases of syntax-semantics mismatch justify the independence (or 'autonomy') of different levels of grammatical structures. Yuasa's significant contribution is the incorporation of the notion of 'construction' from Construction Grammar into multi-modular approaches to grammar. She claims that the idiosyncratic cases examined in this study are instances of constructional and categorial mismatches where a syntactic representation of a prototypical construction is paired with a semantic representation of another prototypical construction. Modularity in Language is aimed at those interested in grammatical theories in general, the parallel architecture of grammar (including Lexical-Functional Grammar, Autolexical Grammar, Representational Modularity), Constructional Grammar, syntax/semantics interface, and Japanese linguistics.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chapter 1. Introduction -- , Chapter 2. Correspondence and mismatch -- , Chapter 3. The coordination-subordination mismatch -- , Chapter 4. Dependency mismatch: Nonrestrictive relative clause -- , Chapter 5. Dependency mismatch II: Performative adverbial clauses -- , Chapter 6. Categorial msimath -- , Chapter 7. Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen , Anglistik

Schlagwort(e): Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

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Serie: Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies : Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. / Studies in the Culture and History of the First Millennium C.E. , 5/1

Inhalt: In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as on those from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).

Inhalt: International führende Experten analysieren die Strukturen und wirtschaftlichen Funktionen nicht-agrarischer Zentren zwischen ca. 500 und 1000 n. Chr.: ihre Handelsbeziehungen, das Hinterland ihrer Siedlungen, ihr landwirtschaftliches und kulturelles Umfeld. Die einunddreißig Beiträge befassen sich mit neuen archäologischen Erkenntnissen aus Mitteleuropa (Bd.1) und von Südeuropa bis Kleinasien ( Bd. 2).

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Chapter I. The Franks, Italy and Spain. -- , Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100 -- , Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia -- , Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and μ-Raman spectrometry -- , Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age -- , Rome in the ninth century: the economic system -- , Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century) -- , The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany -- , Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley? -- , Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade -- , The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century -- , Chapter II. Emporia ot the North and the Carolingian East -- , Recent archaeological research in Haithabu -- , Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850 -- , Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100 -- , Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects -- , Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg -- , Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods -- , Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd -- , Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times -- , Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda - ein "monasterium in solitudine". Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten -- , New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary) -- , Chapter III. Eatern Central Europe -- , "Tribal" societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries) -- , Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe -- , Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia? -- , Ninth-century Mikulčice: the "market of the Moravians"? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia -- , Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion -- , On "Orient-preference" in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians -- , Backmatter , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): History.

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Ausgabe: 2nd ed. [with a new preface] 2003

ISBN: 9783110220964 , 9783110636970

Serie: Mouton Textbook

Inhalt: This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on. By contrast to such approaches, which can be of no use in crosscultural communication and education, this book is both theoretical and practical: it shows that in different societies, norms of human interaction are different and reflect different cultural attitudes and values; and it offers a framework within which different cultural norms and different ways of speaking can be effectively explored, explained, and taught. The book discusses data from a wide range of languages, including English, Italian, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Walmatjari (an Australian Aboriginal language), and it shows that the meanings expressed in human interaction and the different "cultural scripts" prevailing in different speech communities can be described and compared in a way that is clear, simple, rigorous, and free of ethnocentric bias by using a "natural semantic metalanguage", based on empirically established universal human concepts. As the book shows, this metalanguage can be used as a basis for teaching successful cross-cultural communication and education, including the teaching of languages in a cultural context.

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ISBN: 9783110223521 , 9783110238570

Serie: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 407

Inhalt: The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a common cosmological and ideological outlook generated similarities in ethical thinking. In all three societies, the mythological traditions surrounding creation reflect a strong connection between war, kingship and the establishment of order. Human kings' military activities are legitimated through their identification with this cosmic struggle against chaos, begun by the divine king at creation. Military violence is thereby cast not only as morally tolerable but as morally imperative. Deviations from this point of view reflect two phenomena: the preservation of variable social perspectives and the impact of historical changes on ethical thinking.The research begins the discussion of ancient Near Eastern ethics outside of Israel and Judah and fills a scholarly void by placing Israelite and Judahite ethics within this context, as well as contributing methodologically to future research in historical and comparative ethics.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110223521

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Serie: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 145

Inhalt: Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle's influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive understanding of creation and humanity's place therein. The Jewish writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col 1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH 1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional rubric "Gnosticism", draw from Platonism to describe how creation is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.

Anmerkung: Dissertation University of Notre Dame 2005. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Theologie/Religionswissenschaften

Schlagwort(e): Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9783110212143

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