Rethinking the other in antiquity /
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Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other -- Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners -- frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. Erich Gruen demonstrates how the ancients found connections rather than contrasts, how they expressed admiration for the achievements and principles of other societies, and how they discerned -- and even invented--kinship relations and shared roots with diverse peoples. -- From publisher description
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xiv, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-384) and indexes. :
9780691156354
069114852X :
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Noura
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) /
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"In Staging Holiness. The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004444225
9789004436855
Coins in Rhodes : from the monetary reform of Anastasius I until the Ottoman conquest (498-1522) /
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'Coins in Rhodes' presents the Byzantine and medieval coins collected by Greek archaeologists in Rhodes over a period of more than sixty years. It includes lists of excavated land plots, stray finds, an illustrated catalogue of all the Byzantine and local coins up to 1309, and a representative sample of the Hospitaller petty coins as well as all the Western coins found.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (vi, 444 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784918422 (ebook) :
[symbol of Greek letter Pi]otamikon : sinews of Acheloios : a comprehensive catalog of the bronze coinage of the man-faced bull, with essays on origin and identity /
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This work, 'Potamikon', presents an investigation into the origin and identity of the man-faced bull, as well as a catalogue of coins.
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"Title appears on resource with symbol for Greek letter Pi as the first letter."
Previously issued in print: 2016. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) :
Specialized. :
9781784914028 (ebook) :