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• The collapse of civilizations: 1177 BC
• Act I. Of arms and the man: the fifteenth century BC
• Act II. An (Aegean) affair to remember: the fourteenth century BC
• Act III. Fighting for gods and country: the thirteenth century BC
• Act IV. The end of an era: the twelfth century BC
• A "perfect storm" of calamities?
• Sea Peoples, systems collapse, and complexity theory
• The aftermath

From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, famine, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life a vibrant multicultural world, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires of the age and shows that it may have been their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse. Now revised and updated, 1177 B.C. sheds light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and eventually destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age-and set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece and, ultimately, our world today.
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• Introduction
• 1: Agathokles' Life and Times PART I: REPRESENTATIONS OF AGATHOKLES
• 2: Historiography
• 3: Telling Tales About the King
• 4: Coinage PART II: THE RULERSHIP OF AGATHOKLES
• 5: Tyrannosiculus Rex PART III: THE WORLD OF AGATHOKLES
• 6: Sicily
• 7: Carthage
• 8: Italy
• 9: Mainland Greece and the Diadochoi Conclusion: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King
• Appendix I: The Lokrian Tablets
• Appendix II: Coin Catalogue Bibliography Index.
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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important implications for our definition of the Hellenistic world and its relationship to both the western Mediterranean and earlier Greek history. However, he has tended not to feature in studies of the Hellenistic world or of ancient Sicily. In ancient discourse about him, in the coins he issued, in his interactions with the world around him, and in the way he ruled, Agathokles is simultaneously heir to a long tradition and actively engaged in his contemporary world. The failure to place Agathokles in both of these contexts up till now has contributed to the development of an excessively deep separation between the western and eastern Mediterranean and between the Classical and Hellenistic periods. This work - the first book-length study of Agathokles in English in over a century - places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in the eastern Mediterranean that mark the start of the Hellenistic era. The volume includes a narrative of his career, studies of his coinage and his representation in literary sources, and a series of explorations of important themes and regions.
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• Investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape' / Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington
• The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood / Nicola Harrington
• What is a child in Aegean prehistory? / Anne P. Chapin
• Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy : personhood between marginality and social inclusion / Elisa Perego
• Defining childhood and youth. A regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece : the case of Athens and Sparta / Lesley A. Beaumont
• The child in Etruscan Italy / Marjatta Nielsen
• Children and the Hellenistic period / Mark Golden
• Roman childhood revisited / Véronique Dasen
• From birth to rebirth : perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt / Lissette M. Jiménez
• Looking for children in Late Antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan
• From village to monastery : finding children in the Coptic record from Egypt / Jennifer Cromwell
• The child's experience of daily life in ancient Egypt / Amandine Marshall
• Changing states : daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece / Susan Langdon
• Children in early Rome and Latium / Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva
• Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece / Robert S.J. Garland
• The daily life of Etruscan babies and children / Larissa Bonfante
• Being a child in the Hellenistic world. A subject out of proportion? Christian Laes
• Different lives : children's daily experiences in the Roman world / Fanny Dolansky
• Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt / Myrto Malouta
• Daily life of children in Late Antiquity
• play, work and vulnerability / Ville Vuolanto
• "Child in the nest" : children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals / Kasia Szpakowska
• Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion / Ute Günkel-Maschek
• Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology / Erik van Rossenberg
• Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion : Active and passive ritual agency / Matthew Dillon
• Children in Etruscan religion and ritual / Jean MacIntosh Turfa
• Children's roles in Hellenistic religion / Olympia Bobou
• Children in Roman religion and ritual / Janette McWilliam
• Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt / Ada Nifosi
• The child in Late Antique religion and ritual / Beatrice Caseau
• Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record : exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (ca.4400-1650 BC) / Ronika K. Power
• "Do not say 'I am young to be taken'" : children and death in ancient Egypt
• Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period / Jessica Kaiser
• Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece / Chrysanthi Gallou
• Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily / Gillian Shepherd
• Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece / Vicky Vlachou
• Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy : a comparative approach / Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart
• Child death in the Hellenistic world / Nikolas Dimakis
• Death of a Roman child / Hugh Lindsay
• Death of a child : demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum / Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans
• Infant mortality, Michael Psellos, and the Byzantine demon Gillo / Lynda Garland
• The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity / Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox
• Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt : bioarchaeological perspectives / Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras
• "The greatest of treasures" : advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children / Chryssi Bourbou

"This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child's life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• 1. Prohibitions, Laws and Justice
• 2. Conversions
• 3. Working
• 4. Sharing Beliefs and Spaces
• 5. Attacking the Other
• 6. Eliminating the Other Conclusion.
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This book examines the status that rulers of one faith conferred onto their subjects belonging to a different one, how the rulers handled relationships with them, and the interactions between subjects of the Muslim and Christian religions. The chronological arc of this volume spans from the first conquests by the Arabs in the Near East in the 630s to the exchange between Turkey and Greece, in 1923, of the Orthodox Christians and Muslims residing in their territories. Through organized topics, Berto analyzes both similarities and differences in Christian and Muslim lands and emphasizes how coexistences and conflicts took directions that were not always inevitable. Primary sources are used to examine the mentality of those who composed them and of their audiences. In doing so, the book considers the nuances and all the features of the multifaceted experiences of Christian subjects under Muslim rule and of Muslim subjects under Christian rule. Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the relationships between Christians and Muslims, religious minorities, and the Near East and the Mediterranean from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century.
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• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction by Aaron W. Irvin 1
• 1. The Beauty of the Oikumene Has Two Edges: Nurturing Roman Imperialism in the "Glocalizing" Traditions of the East by Ljuben Tevdovski
• 2. Triggered identity: the use of Macedonian ethnicity by Blaundos in confrontation with the Roman Empire by Luca Mazzini
• 3. The population of Siscia in the light of epigraphy by Ivan Radman-Livaja
• 4. Roman presence in Athens in light of the epigraphic evidence evidence by Aleksandar Simic
• 5. Global and Local in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods in Marathon: the construction of a Cultural Identity in Roman Greece by Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino
• 6. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria by Francesca Mazzilli
• 7. Macedonian, Greek, or Egyptian? Navigating the Royal Additive Identities of Ptolemy I Soter and Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Rachel J. Mittelman
• 8. Being Mithraist: Embracing 'Otherness' in the Roman Cultural Milieu by Nina Mazhjoo
• 9. "There are always two sides to every story": Roman rule, cultural continuities and ethnic identity in southern Hispania by Francisco Machuca Prieto
• 10. Unlocking ritual performances in the Romano-British countryside: How small finds and structured deposits enrich our understanding of provincial priesthoods by Alessandra Esposito
• 11. Purification Through Puppies: Dog Symbolism and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean World by Aaron W. Irvin and Jason Lundock
• 12. Communities at the Edges of the Roman World: The Perception of Identity in the Roman Iron Age Barbaricum by Kala Drewniak
• 13. Deconstructing "Balkan Latin" by Dragana Kun?er
• 14. The importance of being earnest: Why precise language matters by Kaja Stemberger Flegar
• 15. The dictatorship of identity: Soviet scholarship and Roman imperialism by Anton Baryshnikov.
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A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing of ideas was occurring in the time period, and applies modern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data. A new generation of international scholars challenge traditional views of Classical history and offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas-insights that resonate with similar issues today. This singular resource presents a broad, multi-national view rarely found in western collected volumes, including Serbian, Macedonian, and Russian scholarship on the Roman Empire, as well as on Roman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics include Egyptian identity in the Hellenistic world, cultural identity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, the provincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, and Soviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism. Serving as a synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the wider topic of identity and community, this volume: Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations Offers several views of metascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well as for those working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time. .
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• Dudley Clarke, "A" Force, and the Development of Allied Military Deception
• Europe Bound: Strategic Planning for 1943
• The Dilemma of Sicily
• Rounding Out 1943 in Italy
• Tactical Maneuvering and Strategic Planning in 1944
• Diversionary Deception: Assisting Overlord from the Mediterranean with Plan Zeppelin
• The Climax of Plan Zeppelin: Vendetta and Turpitude
• "A" Force's Last Act.

"Explores how Britain's "A" Force, under the leadership of Dudley Clarke, orchestrated both strategic and tactical deception plans to create notional threats across the southern perimeter of Europe, with the chief objective of keeping the Germans pinned down across the Mediterranean during World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

• Methods. Dress and anthropology / Lynne Hume
• Materials. Greek dress from the inscriptional evidence / Laura Gawlinski
• Meanings. Clothes make the Jew : was there distinctive Jewish dress in the Greco-Roman period? / Joshua Schwartz.

"Explores methodological issues, materials, and a variety of contexts for the study of dress and religion within Mediterranean antiquity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Epigraphic habit, epigraphic culture, epigraphic curve: statement of the problem
• Krzysztof Nawotka
• 1. The epigraphic curve in Boiotia
• Lukasz Szelag
• 2. The epigraphic curve at Delphi
• Dominika Grzesik
• 3. Epigraphic Culture in Olympia
• Paulina Komar
• 4. The Epigraphic Curve in the Black Sea Region: a Case Study from North-West Pontus
• Joanna Porucznik
• 5. The Epigraphic curve in the Northern Black Sea region: a case study from Chersonesos and the Bosporan Kingdom
• Michal Halamus
• 6. Epigraphic curves in Western Asia Minor: the case studies of Miletos, Ephesos and Pergamon
• Krzysztof Nawotka
• 7. The Epigraphic Curve in Phrygia and its Borderlands
• Naomi Carless Unwin
• 8. The Epigraphic Curve in the Levant: The Case Study of Phoenicia
• Piotr Glogowski
• 9. The epigraphic curve in Egypt: the case study of Alexandria
• Agnieszka Wojciechowska
• 10. The Epigraphic Curve in the Fayum Oasis
• Joanna Karolina Wilimowska
• Conclusions: One or many epigraphic cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was one universal epigraphic culture in this area or a number of discrete epigraphic cultures. Chapters examine epigraphic culture(s) through quantitative analysis of 32,062 inscriptions sampled from ten areas in the Eastern Mediterranean, from the Black Sea coast to Greece, western to central Asia Minor, Phoenicia to Egypt. They show that the shapes of the epigraphic curves are due to different factors occurring in different geographical areas and in various epochs, including the pre-Greek epigraphic habit, the moment of urbanization and Hellenization, and the organized Roman presence. Two epigraphic maxima are identified in the Eastern Mediterranean: in the third c. BCE and in the second c. CE. This book differs from previous studies of ancient epigraphic culture by taking into account all categories of inscriptions, not just epitaphs, and in investigating a much broader area over the broadly defined classical antiquity. This volume is a valuable resource for anyone working on ancient epigraphy, history or the cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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• Introduction : Les étrangers sur les littoraux à l'époque moderne
• Diasporas de marchands et de négociants
• L'insertion des marchands espagnols à Bordeaux. L'exemple de Pierre del Poyo (1494-1505)
• Du commerce du sel à celui des Îles de l'Amérique. Les marchands étrangers à Nantes au XVIIe siècle
• Les communautés marchandes françaises dans les ports de l'Europe du Nord au XVIIIe siècle
• Des artisans et des marins
• Les indienneurs arméniens de Constantinople à Marseille (1669-1686)
• Les capitaines de navire étrangers en escale au "Pays des Isles" de Saintonge
• Les étrangers sur les corsaires malouins (1691-1712), une variable d'ajustement ?
• Essai de quantification
• Des populations singulières sur les littoraux européens
• Enterrer les "Turcs" à Livourne en 1762. Sépultures étrangères, espaces littoraux et ségrégation spatiale
• Anglais, Irlandais et Écossais dans les ports bretons durant la guerre de Sept Ans
• Les colons de Saint-Domingue dans les ports des États-Unis et de France (1791-1804). Exilés, réfugiés, étrangers ?
• Les débuts de la présence noire à La Rochelle (dernier tiers du XVIIe siècle)
• La nation française dans les échelles du nord de l'Afrique
• Les Français en Tunisie à la fin du XVIe siècle
• La communauté française de Tunis de la fin du XVIIIe siècle au début du XVIe siècle. Composition et éléments fédérateurs
• Être étrangers dans une Échelle du Levant. La nation française à Alexandrie au XVIIe siècle.

"Cet ouvrage propose une réflexion sur quatre types d'étrangers installés ou de passage sur les littoraux européens et méditerranéens entre la fin du XVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle : des marchands et des négociants installés à Bordeaux, à Nantes, à Hambourg et à Saint-Pétersbourg; des artisans et des gens de mer qui migraient dans l'espoir de trouver un emploi qu'ils n'avaient pas obtenu dans leur pays, ou pour exercer un art original, comme les indienneurs arméniens établis à Marseille ; des populations qui se singularisaient sur des littoraux d'Europe par leur religion ou leur statut politique, comme des musulmans morts à Livourne, des colons de Saint-Domingue venus chercher refuge à Nantes et à Bordeaux à partir de 1791, et des Britanniques considérés comme des suspects dans les ports bretons pendant la guerre de Sept Ans; des Européens installés à Tunis et à Alexandrie où la nation française formait une communauté de marchands et de résidents soucieux de défendre leurs intérêts commerciaux et juridiques."--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgements Illustrations
• Prologue: 21 June 2019
• Introduction: Mediterranean Captivities
• 1 Writing Captivity in Arabic
• 2 Between the Lands of the Christians and the Lands of Islam, Bilad al-Nasara and Bilad al-Islam
• 1 Qisas al-Asra, or Stories of the Captives
• 1 'Abd al-Karim al-Qaysi (fl. 1485)
• 2 Ahmad ibn al-Qadi (1553-1616)
• 3 Ahmad Baba al-Tinbakti (1556-1627)
• 4 Ta'liqat Mustafa ibn Jamal al-Din ibn Karama (9 July 1606)
• 5 Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Tayyib al-Tafilati al-Maliki (Early Eighteenth Century)
• 6 Sayyid 'Ali ibn al-Sayyid Ahmad (ca. 1713)
• 7 Fatma (1798)
• 8 Ibrahim Libris (1802)
• 9 Conclusion
• 2 Letters
• 1 Conclusion
• 3 Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic
• 1 Christian
• 2 Muslim
• 4 Conversion and Resistance
• 1 Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Zwawi al-Yusifi (1630s)
• 2 Muhammad al-Tazi and Bil-Ghayth al-Drawi (1656-1667)
• 3 Imam Ibn 'Abdallah al-Sa'idi (1718)
• 4 Conclusion
• 5 Ransom and Return
• 1 Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Ghazzal (1766)
• 2 Ibn 'Uthman al-Miknasi (1779-1783)
• 3 Conclusion
• 6 Captivity of Books
• Epilogue: Esclaves turcs in Sculpture
• Postscript: How Should the Sculptures Be Treated?
• Bibliography Index.
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Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 is the first book that examines the Arabic captivity narratives in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources in archives stretching from Amman to Fez to London and Rome, Matar presents the story of captivity from the perspective of the Arabic-speaking captives who have not been examined in the growing field of captivity studies.
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• Mediterranean Cities as Cultural Crossroads: An Introduction
• The Medieval City as a Cultural Crossroad
• "A Dragon with Nine Heads": The Changing Reputation of Crusader Acre, c. 1191
• c. 1291
• Jews in Famagusta: Spatial and Visual Seclusion Under Italian Rule in the Levant
• Economic Migrants or Commuters? : A Note on the Crews of Genoese Galleys in the Medieval Mediterranean, 14th
• 15th Centuries
• The Cultural Transformation of Genoese Galata from the Byzantine to the Ottoman Rule and its Reflection on the Church of San Domenico
• The Multi-Ethnic Dimension of Early Modern "Metropolises"
• Integrating the Foreigner: The Strategy of Inclusion in Renaissance Venice
• Polytopos in Early Modern Venetian Imagery
• Mediators, Translators, Interpreters
• The Hero of Two Worlds: Politics, Archeology and Passion for the Antique in the "Cultural Mediation" of Cyriac of Ancona between East and West, with a Note on the Birth of Venus by Botticelli
• Spanish Rome and Roman Spain: Reconstructing the Past of Rome and Cordova in Early Modern Rome
• The Career of Alfonso Ulloa (1529
• 1570) in Early Modern Venice: A Cosmopolitan Outlook of the 16th-Century Book Trade
• Migration and the Continuity of a City: Lluis Pons d'Icart's Libro de las grandezas de Tarragona (1572)
• Genoa in the Travel Diaries of Jehan Lhermite (1587) and Cesare Magalotti (1625): A City from "Paradise on Earth" to "Fury of Mars"

• Part I: Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean
• 1. Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world.
• Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Muller
• Part II: Egypt and the Nile Valley
• 2. The King's Mother in Old and Middle Kingdoms
• Lisa Sabbahy
• 3. Regnant Women in Egypt
• Martina Minas-Nerpal
• 4. The Image of Nefertiti
• Athena Van der Perre
• 5. The God's Wife of Amun: Origins and Rise to Power
• Mariam F. Ayad
• 6. The Role and Status of Royal Women in Kush
• Angelika Lohwasser
• 7. Ptolemaic Royal Women
• Anne Bielman Sanchez and Giuseppina Lenzo
• 8. Berenike II
• Sabine Muller
• 9. Royal Women and Ptolemaic Cults
• Stefan Pfeiffer
• 10. Ptolemaic Women's Patronage of the Arts
• Silvia Barbantani
• 11. The Kleopatra Problem: Roman Sources and a Female Ptolemaic Ruler
• Christoph Schafer
• Part III: The Ancient Near East
• 12. Invisible Mesopotamian Royal Women
• Sebastian Fink
• 13. Achaimenid Women
• Maria Brosius
• 14. Karian Royal Women and the Creation of a Royal Identity
• Stephen Ruzicka
• 15. Seleukid Women
• Marek Jan Olbrycht
• 16. Apama and Stratonike: the first Seleukid basilissai
• Gillian Ramsey
• 17. Seleukid Marriage Alliances
• Monica d'Agostini
• 18. Royal Mothers and Dynastic Power in Attalid Pergamon
• Dolores Miron
• 19. Hasmonean Women
• Julia Wilker
• 20. Women at the Arsakid Court
• Irene Madreiter and Udo Hartmann
• 21. Women of the Sasanid Dynasty (224-651 CE)
• Josef Wiesehoefer
• 22. Zenobia of Palmyra
• Lucinda Dirven
• Part IV: Greece and Macedonia
• 23. "Royal" Women in the Homeric Epics
• Johannes Heinrichs
• 24. Royal Women in Greek Tragedy
• Hanna M. Roisman
• 25. Argead Women
• Sabine Muller
• 26. Women in Antigonid Monarchy
• Elizabeth D. Carney
• Part V: Commonalities
• 27. Transitional Royal Women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila
• Elizabeth D. Carney
• 28. Women and Dynasty and the Hellenistic Imperial Courts
• Rolf Strootman
• 29. Royal Brother-Sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise
• Sheila L. Ager
• 30. Jugate Images in Ptolemaic and Julio-Claudian Monarchy
• Dimitris Plantzos
• Part VI: Rome: Late Republic through Empire
• 31. Octavia Minor and Patronage
• Katrina Moore
• 32. Livia and the Principate of Augustus and Tiberius
• Christiane Kunst
• 33. Julio-Claudian Imperial women
• Francesca Cenerini
• 34. The Imperial Women from the Flavians to the Severi
• Kordula Schnegg
• 35. Portraiture of Flavian imperial women
• Annetta Alexandridis
• 36. The Faustinas
• Stefan Priwitzer
• 37. Women in the Severan Dynasty
• Riccardo Bertolazzi
• 38. Women in the Family of Constantine
• Michaela Dirschlmayer
• Part VII: Reception from Antiquity to Present Times
• 39. Semiramis: Perception and Presentation of Female Power in an Oriental Garb
• Brigitte Truschnegg
• 40. Tanaquil and Tullia in Livy as Roman Caricatures of Greek Mythic and Historic Hellenistic Queens
• Judith P. Hallett and Karen Klaiber Hersch
• 41. Roman Empresses on Screen: an Epic Failure?
• Anja Wieber.
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This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.
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• Chapter 1: History and historiography of the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 2: Diaspora and the origins of the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 3: Mobility and the Syro-Anatolian culture complex during the early first millennium
• Chapter 4: On the edge of empire: middle-ground interactions with Assyria
• Chapter 5: Space and power in the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 6: Defining the Syro-Anatolian culture complex

This book presents a new model for understanding the collection of ancient kingdoms that surrounded the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea from the Cilician Plain in the west to the upper Tigris River in the east, and from Cappadocia in the north to western Syria in the south, during the Iron Age of the ancient Near East (ca. 1200 to 600 BCE). Rather than presenting them as homogenous ethnolinguistic communities like "the Aramaeans" or "the Luwians" living in neatly bounded territories, this book sees these polities as being fundamentally diverse and variable, distinguished by demographic fluidity and cultural mobility. The Syro-Anatolian City-States sheds new light via an examination of a host of evidentiary sources, including archaeological site plans, settlement patterns, visual arts, and historical sources. Together, these lines of evidence reveal a complex fusion of cultural traditions that is nevertheless distinctly recognizable unto itself. This book is the first to specifically characterize the Iron Age city-states of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, arguing for a unified cultural formation characterized above all by diversity and mobility and that can be referred to as the "Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex.".
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• Chapter 1: History and historiography of the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 2: Diaspora and the origins of the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 3: Mobility and SACC suring the early first millennium
• Chapter 4: On the edge of empire: middle ground interactions with Assyria
• Chapter 5: Space and place in the Syro-Anatolian culture complex
• Chapter 6: Defining the Syro-Anatolian culture complex

This book presents a new model for understanding the collection of ancient kingdoms that surrounded the northeast corner of the Mediterranean Sea from the Cilician Plain in the west to the upper Tigris River in the east, and from Cappadocia in the north to western Syria in the south, during the Iron Age of the ancient Near East (ca. 1200 to 600 BCE). Rather than presenting them as homogenous ethnolinguistic communities like "the Aramaeans" or "the Luwians" living in neatly bounded territories, this book sees these polities as being fundamentally diverse and variable, distinguished by demographic fluidity and cultural mobility. The Syro-Anatolian City-States sheds new light via an examination of a host of evidentiary sources, including archaeological site plans, settlement patterns, visual arts, and historical sources. Together, these lines of evidence reveal a complex fusion of cultural traditions that is nevertheless distinctly recognizable unto itself. This book is the first to specifically characterize the Iron Age city-states of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, arguing for a unified cultural formation characterized above all by diversity and mobility and that can be referred to as the "Syro-Anatolian Culture Complex.".
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• Intersecting religion and urbanity in late antiquity / Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
• A tale of no cities / Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli
• The children of Cain / Clifford Ando
• Faith and the city in the 4th century CE / Teresa Morgan
• Intellectualizing religion in the cities of the Roman Empire / Heidi Wendt
• The city of the dead or: the making of a cultural geography / Lara Weiss
• A new "topography of devotion" / Michele Renee Salzman
• City of prophecies / Paroma Chatterjee
• Creating a city of believers: Rabbula of Edessa / Hartmut Leppin
• Sacred spaces and new cities in the Byzantine East / Michael Blömer
• Roman baths as locations of religious practice / Dirk Steuernagel.

"Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with 'lived religion' in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their material and ideational dimensions. However, this approach, if duly historicized, can be also fruitfully applied to antiquity. Aim of the volume is the analysis of the entanglement of religious communication and city life during an arc of time that is characterised by dramatic and even contradicting developments. Bringing together textual analyses and archaelogical case studies in a comparative perspective, the volume zooms in on the historical context of the advanced imperial and late antique Mediterranean space (2nd-8th centuries CE)." -- Provided by publisher, back cover

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments
• Part One: Casting Off
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Connected (Hi)stories: The Cervantine, Literary, and Affective Mediterranean
• The Historical Mediterranean The Literary Mediterranean The Affective Mediterranean Contesting a Sea of Discourses Deviations from Reason in a Sea of Diversity
• Part Two: Quixotic Passages
• 3. Shadows of the Inquisition: Honour, Shame, and a Cervantine View of Mediterranean "Values"
• Anthropologies of Mediterranean Honour and Shame Visual Topographies of Shame Shame Punishments and Cervantes Blood Purity and the Art of Infamy in Don Quijote's Encagement Conclusion
• 4. A Mediterranean (Tragi)comedy: Sancho, Ricote, and the Emotional Politics of Laughter
• Gelotological Genealogies The Emotional Effects of Laughter, and Laughter as Affect Sancho and Schadenfreude, or Courtly Comedics From Sadism to Satire Laughing with Sancho and Ricote Conclusion
• Part Three: Other Ports of Call
• 5. Suspended Admiration: Wonder, Surprise, and Emotional Exemplarity in La espanola inglesa
• Aesthetics of the Unexpected Early Modern Cultures of Suspension Tempering Fears, Tempering Sails 153 Ethical Solutions through Admiratio Conclusion
• 6. Aporias of Love: Articulating the Ineffable in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda
• Beyond Sentimentalism Aporias Ineffability Materiality Conclusion
• Afterword
• Notes Bibliography Index.
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For Miguel de Cervantes, to narrate a Mediterranean experience is to necessarily speak of an emotional experience. Affective Geographies takes as its point of departure the premise that literature is as influential in constructing the Mediterranean as are its geographic, climatic, or economic features. As the writer with the most vast and varied Mediterranean experience of his era, Cervantes is exceptionally well-suited for the critical task of recovering the literary Mediterranean. Engaging with the interdisciplinary fields of Mediterranean studies, affect theory, and the history of emotion, Paul Michael Johnson reads Cervantes's texts alongside the affective structures that inscribe the Mediterranean as a space of conflict, commerce, expansion, and empire. In particular, he argues that Cervantes's writing, with its uncommon focus on the Moorish, Islamic, and North African experience, can serve to realign misconceptions about the Mediterranean we have inherited today. Affective Geographies proposes that, with a more than four-hundred-year history of impacting the hearts and minds of readers, Cervantes's works constitute a literary longue duree, ramifying beyond fiction to alter the popular imaginary and long-term cultural landscape.
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Over the course of the second century CE, worship of the Persianate god Mithras swept across the whole of the Roman Empire. With its distinctive traces preserved in the material record-including cave-like sanctuaries and images of Mithras stabbing a bull-the cult has long been examined to reconstruct the thought-systems of Mithraism, its theology, through such monumental trappings. This volume starts from the premise that, like much "religion" in the Roman world, the cult of Mithras must be examined through its practices, the ritual craft knowledge which enabled those rites, and the social structures thus created. What did Mithras-worshippers do? How do we explain the unity and diversity of practices observed? Archaeology has the potential to answer these questions and shed new light on Mithras-worship. Presenting new discoveries, higher resolution archaeological data on finds and assemblages, and re-evaluations of older discoveries, this volume charts new paths forward in understanding one of the Roman Empire's most distinctive cults.
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• 1. Interpreting the Mediterranean--
• 2. Chronologies and Histories--
• 3. The Movement of People--
• 4. Contacts and Exchanges--
• 5. Urbanisation--
• 6. Written Words--
• 7. Conclusions.
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The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.
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