Text and the material world
Subtitle: essays in honour of Graeme Clarke
By: edited by Elizabeth Minchin and Heather Jackson
Series: Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature. Pocket-book -- 185; Studies in Mediterranean archaeology and literature -- 185.
Publisher: Astrom Editions
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Uppsala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9789170812194
Subjects: Archaeology; Church history; Hellenism; History; Primitive and early church
Description: "Graeme Clarke's research into aspects of the ancient world spans two significant areas: the archaeology of Syria and studies in early Christianity and patristics. This volume, in Graeme's honour, comprises contributions from scholars from across the world whose work has overlapped in significant ways with his. The contributors take us in time from Bronze Age Cyprus through the classical period in Greece and the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, to the growth of Christianity and the work of the Church Fathers, and, finally, 14th century AD France (a medieval manuscript). Although some essays consider specific sites, such as a tomb at Lapithos in Cyprus, or specific objects, such as a drinking vessel produced in Attica, they raise broader questions regarding archaeological publication, the tracking of aesthetic preferences, ethnic identity, cultural relations and social practices in the ancient world. A cluster of essays takes as their subject Jebel Khalid, the wider region of the Euphrates, and the Roman East more generally; others, following Graeme's work on easrly Christianity and on Cyprian, take us to North Africa and, ultimately, into the troubled world of the later Roman empire."
Notes: Festschrift.

Includes bibliographical references.

Essays in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Lapithos Tomb 322. Voice, context and the archaeological record  -- Jennifer M. Webb; title: Placing the dead: cemeteries, cities and society in the ancient Greek world  -- Gillian Shepher; title: Why Nikosthenes looked east (Berlin F2324)  -- Margaret C. Miller; title: Where to put the Twins? Torone's Dioskoureion  -- Tom Hillard and J. Lea Beness; title: Thucydides' Herodotean wise advisers  -- Roger Scott; title: Themistocles, his son Archepolis, and their successors (Themistocles V?): numismatic evidence for the rule of a dynasty at Magnesia on the Maeander  -- Kenneth A. Sheedy; title: Cretan arrowheads struck with a BE monogram  -- Nicholas Sekunda; title: Cicero's Greek and the New Testament  -- Neil O'Sullivan; title: Palaces-gardens-temples. Their relationships and legitimising role in the Hellenistic and early Roman Near East  -- Inge Nielsen; title: Filling the gaps: revealing early Hellenistic and early Roman Pella of the Decapolis  -- John Tidmarsh; title: The Middle Euphrates River in the Seleucid and Roman periods  -- Peter Edwell; title: Romans at Jebel Khalid? Where and when?  -- Heather Jackson; title: From Antioch to the Euphrates - the choice of routes to the east in the Roman period  -- Ross Burns; title: Zeus Olympios, Hadrian and the Jews of Antiochia-on-the-Chrysorrhoas-formerly-called-Gerasa  -- Rubina Raja; title: Naming tablewares: using teh artefactual evidence to investigate eating and drinking practices across the Roman world  -- Penelope M. Allison; title: Dem bones  -- Peter Garnsey; title: Early Christianity in Pisidia: assessing some problematic evidence  -- G.H.R. Horsley; title: Christianity in the hinterland of Roman and Ummayad Philadelphia: evidence and inference in the Belqa --; title: David Kennedy --; title: From Kallipolis to Gallipoli - what's in a name?  -- Samuel Lieu; title: Jews and Christians in Tertuliian's Carthage  -- Fergus Millar; title: Imperial letters in Latin from the time of Cyprian  -- Fergus Millar; title: La liste de Pointius a t-elle chance de refléter l'order chronologique des traités de Cyprien?  -- Michel Poirier; title: The apostle Peter in the Christianity of Roman Africa  -- J. Patout Burns, Jr.; title: Montanismand the cult of the martyrs in Roman North Africa: reassessing the literary and epigraphic evidence  -- William Tabbernee; title: Visualising virtuous victims: mosaics, martyrs and spectacles in Roman Africa  -- Robin M. Jensen; title: Synesius of Cyrene's Homily 1 and the Alexandrian exegetical tradition  -- David T. Runia; title: Letters, instructions, gifts: the embassies of Hormisadas, bishop of Rome (514-523), to Constantinople  -- Pauline Allen; title: Apocalypse then: dreams and visions in Byzantine apocalpytic in the context of conflict  -- Bronwen Neil; title: Manuscript leaves at the University of Melbourne -- John Burke.