Wednesday, March 27, 2024

De musicis: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Ancient Greek and Roman Music

De musicis: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Ancient Greek and Roman Music
Founding Bibliographer (2000-2009):  Gianfranco Mosconi; bibliographies for the years 2000-2005 (lists revised and supplemented by Maggi Creese)
Current Bibliographer (from 2009):  Maggi Creese 

Notes to the user:

Many bibliographical entries include an abstract, whose author is indicated at the bottom of the summary itself, after the full stop, between square brackets (e.g. in this manner: '...end of the summary. [Gianfranco Mosconi]')

Sometimes, the summary is an abstract which was already available within the text of the item, or which was taken from some other source, such as another internet database; in these cases, the source of the abstract is also indicated in square brackets (e.g. '...end of the summary. [Gianfranco Mosconi]  [POIESIS]')

When an abstract is not included but available within the text of the item itself, this is indicated in the abstract field.  Page numbers are provided for abstracts that are printed elsewhere in the volume.

The bibliography is managed by Maggi Creese, MOISA Bibliographer; corrections and proposed additions may be addressed to her at bibl...@moisasociety.org .  Notice of forthcoming publications is welcome: please consider including a brief (c. 300-350 word) abstract of your work. 

Open Access Monograph Series: Suppléments au Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (recent volumes)

[First posted in AWOL 29 April 2020, update 27 March 2024]

Suppléments au Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (recent volumes)
ISSN: 0304-2456
SSN électronique : 2241-0112

École française d’Athènes
L’École française d’Athènes a créé en 1973 les Suppléments au Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Cette collection rassemble les ouvrages collectifs issus des programmes de recherches, des publications thématiques issues des recherches archéologiques, des monographies. Elle couvre une vaste chronologie allant de la préhistoire aux temps présents.
Many earlier volumes are here 

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Études critiques sur les inventaires de l’Indépendance délienne

Études critiques sur les inventaires de l’Indépendance délienne

 Au cours de la période de l’Indépendance, les hiéropes – magistrats de Délos chargés de gérer les biens sacrés – devaient chaque année rédiger un inventaire des offrandes consacrées à Apollon et à d’autres divinités. Ils les faisaient ensuite graver sur des stèles que les fouilleurs de l’École française d’Athènes ont exhumées bien des siècles plus tard. Publiés par Félix Durrbach, ces textes sont riches en données très diverses.
Dans une thèse soutenue en 1959, Jacques Tréheux a traité de tout ce qui concernait les collections de vases, ce qui l’a conduit à analyser de manière critique les inscriptions publiées en IG XI 2 puis dans la collection des ID. Son étude porte principalement sur les inventaires de l’Hiéropoion et de la Chalcothèque. J. Tréheux aurait souhaité étendre cette étude à l’ensemble des inventaires ; mais son travail est demeuré inachevé. Du moins les sept chapitres rassemblés ici en apprennent-ils beaucoup à la fois sur la gestion des offrandes, sur la rédaction des premiers inventaires et sur un certain nombre de termes employés par les hiéropes – dont il a su préciser le sens. Des addenda et corrigenda dus à Pierre Charneux ainsi que des indices détaillés en facilitent la lecture et la consultation.

  • Éditeur : École française d’Athènes
  • Collection : Suppléments du BCH | 65
  • Lieu d’édition : Athènes
  • Année d’édition : 2023
  • Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 26 mars 2024
  • EAN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-86958-566-9
  • EAN électronique : 978-2-86958-621-5
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.efa.15906
  • Nombre de pages : 402 p.
Véronique Chankowski
Préface
Pierre Charneux
Addenda et corrigenda

 

 

OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

[First posted in AWOL  15 November 2015, updated 27 March 2024]

OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
Photograph of a Safaitic inscription
The Arabian Peninsula lies at the heart of the Middle East. Today, it is of enormous strategic and commercial importance and this was also the case in antiquity. Yet, most of what we know about its ancient history, languages and cultures comes from contemporaries looking at it from outside, such as the Assyrians, Greeks, and Romans, or from much later reports on what was considered the "Age of Ignorance". Excavations and surveys have been undertaken in the rest of the Middle East for more than a century and a half, but the archaeological exploration of Arabia is still in a pioneering stage. For a brief history of Ancient Arabia and a timeline click here.
The western two-thirds of the Arabian Peninsula were home to numerous literate societies. Indeed, one of the two branches of the alphabet — the South Semitic script family — was used exclusively in ancient Arabia, and still exists in the vocalized alphabets used in Ethiopia. Throughout the Peninsula, literacy was extremely widespread, not only among the settled peoples but — exceptionally — also among the nomads, who covered the rocks of the deserts from southern Syria to Yemen with scores of thousands of graffiti, many of which give us a vivid picture of their daily life and emotions.

Scholars and travellers have been recording Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in what is now Syria, Jordan and Arabia since the 1858, and by now some 70,000 are known, with more being discovered every year. However, their finds have been published in hundreds of books and articles in numerous languages and many are extremely difficult to track down, even for the specialist. There are also very few research tools such as up-to-date lists of names, grammars, dictionaries, etc.

The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia [OCIANA] aims to transform our knowledge of the history, languages and cultures of ancient Arabia. It is doing this by creating a digital corpus of all known pre-Islamic inscriptions in North and Central Arabia. It provides a reading of each text both in roman transliteration and in fonts reproducing the ancient letters, together with a translation in English, references to earlier readings, commentary where necessary, bibliography, and all known information about the inscription (provenance, carving technique, relationship to other texts or to rock drawings, structures, etc.). Photographs (when available) and facsimiles of each text will also be shown on each record and will eventually be downloadable free at publishable resolutions. The Corpus will be easily updatable as new discoveries are made and will be fully searchable for names, words, grammatical features and subjects.
OCIANA Preliminary Editions
The following pdf files contain preliminary editions of the corpora that are contained within OCIANA, and are available here as free downloads for use by researchers. Each pdf contains details of all of the inscriptions within that script family, along with their textual content and translations, commentaries, and provenance information.
Dadanitic Corpus
(858 pages, 8.3MB)

Hismaic Corpus
(1,316 pages, 9.1MB)

Safaitic Corpus
(10,105 pages, 79.8MB)

Taymanitic Corpus
(224 pages, 2.1MB)

Smaller Collections
(104 pages, 1.4MB)

Right-click on the pdf title and choose 'Save as' to download each file.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum: Die Beispiele Pompeji und Herculaneum

Fanny Opdenhoff
book: Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum
Volume 33 in the series Materiale Textkulturen

Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions of creation and situations that once confronted the ancient reader. This demonstrates in singular fashion the interconnections between the context, action, content, and materiality of the texts

  • Language: German
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Copyright year: 2021
  • Audience: Academics (Archaeology, Epigraphy, Ancient History)
  • Pages
    • Front matter: 24
    • Main content: 397
  • Illustrations
    • Illustrations: 56
    • Coloured Illustrations: 78
    • Tables: 5
  • Keywords: Wall Inscriptions; Pompeii; Herculaneum
eBook
  • Published: March 8, 2021
  • ISBN: 9783110722758
Hardcover
  • Published: March 8, 2021
  • ISBN: 9783110722697

Theatre and Metatheatre: Definitions, Problems, Limits

Edited by: Elodie Paillard and Silvia Sueli Milanezi
book: Theatre and Metatheatre
Volume 11 in the series MythosEikonPoiesis

The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. In fact, ‘theatre’ as well as ‘metatheatre’ are used in many different, sometimes even contradictory, ways by modern scholars.
Through a series of papers examining questions related to ancient Greek theatre and dramatic performances of various genres the use of those two terms is problematized and put into question.
Must ancient Greek theatre be reduced to what was performed in proper theatre-buildings? And is everything was performed within such buildings to be considered as ‘theatre’? How does the definition of what is considered as theatre evolve from one period to the other?
As for ‘metatheatre’, the discussion revolves around the interaction between reality and fiction in dramatic pieces of all genres. The various definitions of ‘metatheatre’ are also explored and explicited by the papers gathered in this volume, as well as the question of the distinction between paratheatre (understood as paratragedy/comedy) and metatheatre.
Readers will be encouraged by the diversity of approaches presented in this book to re-think their own understanding and use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ when examining ancient Greek reality.

  • Language: English
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • Copyright year: 2021
  • Audience: All those interested in ancient Greek theatre.
  • Pages
    • Front matter: 9
eBook
  • Published: November 22, 2021
  • ISBN: 9783110716559
Hardcover
  • Published: December 6, 2021
  • ISBN: 9783110637410

 

 

 

 

Open Access Journal: Antaeus

 [First posted in AWOL 28 July 2022, updayed 26 March 2024]

 Antaeus 
ISSN: 0238-0218

Az "Antaeus" évente megjelenő periodika, amely angol és német nyelven közli a magyar, valamint a nemzetközi régészettudomány és társtudományainak fontos, új eredményeit.
Az intézeti évkönyv első kötete 1970-ben jelent meg. 1970 és 1985 között a "Mitteilungen des Archäologischen Instituts der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften" című évkönyvből 14 kötet, és a konferenciák tanulmányait publikáló Beiheftből 3 látott napvilágot. 
Az intézeti évkönyv 1986-tól "Antaeus: Communicationes ex Instituto Archaeologico Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae" címmel jelenik meg, 2002-től A4 formátumban.
Antaeus 38 (2022) 

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 37 - 2021. ISSN 0238-0218

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 35-36 - 2018. ISSN 0238-0218

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 34 - 2016. ISSN 0238-0218

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 33 - 2015. ISSN 0238-0218

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 31-32 - 2010.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 29-30 - 2008.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 28 - 2006.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 27 - 2004.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 26 - 2003.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 25 - 2002.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 24 - 1998.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 23 - 1996.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 22 - 1995.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 21 - 1992.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 19-20 - 1991.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 17-18 - 1989.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 16 - 1987.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, B3 - 1986.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 15/2 - 1986.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 15/1 - 1986.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 14 - 1985.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 12-13 - 1983.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, B2 - 1981.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 10-11 - 1981.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 8-9 - 1979.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 7 - 1977.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 6 - 1976.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 5 - 1975.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 4 - 1973.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 3 - 1972.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, B1 - 1971.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 2 - 1969.

Antaeus - MittArchInst, 1 - 1968.



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