Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and Wooden Tablets in the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum
Author: John C. Shelton
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 222
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Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and Wood Tablets in the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum
Author: John Christian Shelton
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOstraka Varia
Author: Vleeming
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-09
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9004427805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA large majority of the 65 ostraka published in this volume come from Egypt in the Third Century B.C. Some thirty are from Elephantine; these comprise a number of Greek and Greek-demotic receipts. Not unimportant new texts from Hermonthis and Thebes (among others, a fine example of a temple oath) add notably to the diversity of the volume. Although of course tax receipts predominate, these are present in a rich variety, and their commentaries add much to our knowledge of fiscal matters in this period. As a nouveauté the Greek and demotic texts are published on exactly the same footing, and a constant effort is made to merge the separate worlds of Greek and demotic papyrology. Hand-facsimiles facilitate the consultation of the individual texts; the whole is rounded off by photographic plates showing all texts in full.
Latin Loanwords in Ancient Greek
Author: Eleanor Dickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 1108897347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy, when, and how did speakers of ancient Greek borrow words from Latin? Which words did they borrow? Who used Latin loanwords, and how? Who avoided them, and why? How many words were borrowed, and what kind of word? How long did the loanwords survive? Until now, attempts to answer such questions have been based on incomplete and often misleading evidence, but this study offers the first comprehensive collection of evidence from papyri, inscriptions, and literature from the fifth century BC to the sixth century AD. That collection – included in the book as a lexicon of Latin loanwords – is examined using insights from linguistic work on modern languages to provide new answers that often differ strikingly from earlier ones. The analysis is accessibly presented, and the lexicon offers a firm foundation for future work in this area.
Catalog of Demotic Texts in the Brooklyn Museum
Author: George Robert Hughes
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLists the Brooklyn Museum's collection of 212 demotic Egyptian texts.
Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
Author: Alexander Jones
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13: 9780871692337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt. Through these documents we obtain the first coherent picture of the range of astronomical activity, chiefly in the service of astrology, during the Roman Empire. The astronomy of this period turns out to have been much more varied than we previously thought, with Babylonian arithmetical methods of prediction coexisting with tables based on geometrical models of orbits. Editions of the texts are accomp. by facing translations & explanatory & philological commentaries. The intro. provides the first comprehensive treatment of astronomical papyri, explaining their contents & purpose, the underlying astronomical theories, & strategies for analyzing & dating them. Tables & graphs.
The Future in Greek
Author: Theodore Markopoulos
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-11-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 019156169X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe future has exercised students of Modern Greek language developments for many years, and no satisfactory set of arguments for the development of the modern form from the ancient usages has ever been produced. Theodore Markopoulos elucidates the stages that led up to the appearance of the modern future in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He does so by focussing on the three main modes of future referencing ('mello', 'echo', and 'thelo'). He discusses these patterns in the classical and Hellenistic-Roman periods, the early medieval period (fifth to tenth centuries), and the late medieval period (eleventh to fifteenth centuries). The argument is supported by reference to a large and representative corpus of texts (all translated into English) from which the author draws many examples. In his conclusion Dr Markopoulos considers the implications of his findings and methodology for syntactic and semantic history of Greek.
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity
Author: S. R. Llewelyn
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2012-11-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0802845207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Collecting documentary evidence that appeared in publications between 1988 and 1992, volume 10 reproduces, translates, and reviews a selection of Greek inscriptions and papyri that focus on major social institutions of the time. A comprehensive series of indexes for volumes 6-10 offers a cumulative perspective on many topics."--p. 4 of cover.
A Companion to the Roman Army
Author: Paul Erdkamp
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1444393766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis companion provides an extensive account of the Roman army, exploring its role in Roman politics and society as well as the reasons for its effectiveness as a fighting force. An extensive account of the Roman army, from its beginnings to its transformation in the later Roman Empire Examines the army as a military machine – its recruitment, training, organization, tactics and weaponry Explores the relationship of the army to Roman politics, economics and society more broadly Considers the geography and climate of the lands in which the Romans fought Each chapter is written by a leading expert in a particular subfield and takes account of the latest scholarly and archaeological research in that area
Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity
Author: Ṭal Ilan
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13: 9783161496738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lexicon, Tal Ilan collects all the information on names of Jews in lands west of Palestine, in which Greek and Latin was spoken, and on the people who bore them between 330 BCE, a date which marks the Hellenistic conquest of East, and 650 CE, approximately the date when the Muslim conquest of East and the southern Mediterranean basin was completed. The corpus includes names from literary sources, but those mentioned in epigraphic and papyrological documents form the vast majority of the database. This lexicon is an onomasticon in as far as it is a collection of all the recorded names used by the Jews of the western Diaspora in the above-mentioned period. Tal Ilan discusses the provenance of the names and explains them etymologically, given the many possible sources of influence for the names at that time. In addition she shows the division between the use of biblical names and the use of Greek, Latin and other foreign names, and points out the most popular names. This book is also a prosopography since Ilan analyzes the identity of the persons mentioned therein. The lexicon is accompanied by a lengthy and comprehensive introduction that scrutinizes the main trends in name giving current at the time. A large part of it is devoted to the question of how one can identify a Jew in a mostly non-Jewish society.
