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Dularidze, Tea. "Information Exchange and Relations between Ahhiyawa and the Hittite Empire." Studia Iuridica 80 (September 17, 2019): 89–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4785.

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The majority of scholars identify the long-disputed term Ahhiyawa found in the Hittite texts as Achaea of the Homeric epics. According to the Hittite texts, Ahhiyawa and Hittite relations can be dated from the Middle Kingdom period. The term was first used in the records of Suppiluliuma I (1380-1346). Documents discussed (the records of Mursili II and Muwatalli II) demonstrate that Ahhiyawa was a powerful country. Its influence extended to Millawanda, which evidently reached the sea. Especially interesting is the “Tawagalawa letter” dated to the 13th century BC, in which the Hittite king makes excuses for his blunder committed at an early age. The Hittite king takes a diplomatic step towards the resolution of the conflict and starts negotiations with a party (Ahhiyawa) that could act as a mediator. We can infer from the letter that Ahhiyawa had its representatives in Millawanda, while its relations with the Land of the Hatti were managed through envoys. The powerful position of Ahhiyawa is also evident from Tudhaliya IV’s letter to the ruler of Amurru, where he refers to the kings of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Ahhiyawa as to his equals. Thus, Ahhiyawa of the Hittite texts fully corresponds to Homeric Achaea. The invaders have three appellations in The Iliad: the Achaeans, the Danaans, and the Argives. The Achaeans can be found in Hittite documents, while the Danaans are mentioned in the Egyptian sources. Ahhiyawa is the land of the Achaeans, which laid the foundation for the development of the Hellenic civilization in the Aegean. It can be argued that the Greeks were actively involved in the foreign policy of the ancient Near East. The information conveyed by the Greek tradition is supported by the archeological finds confirming the rise of the Hellenes in the continental Greece from the 14th century BC. According to the tradition, the Mycenaeans went far beyond the Near East, reaching Colchis (The Argonaut legend).
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Angelakis, A. N. "Urban waste- and stormwater management in Greece: past, present and future." Water Supply 17, no. 5 (March 22, 2017): 1386–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2017.042.

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Urban wastewater and storm management has a long history which coincides with the appearance of the first organized human settlements (ca. 3500 BC). It began in prehistoric Crete during the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3200 BC) when many remarkable developments occurred in several stages known as Minoan civilization. One of its salient characteristics was the architecture and function of its hydraulic works and especially the drainage and sewerage systems and other sanitary infrastructures in the Minoan palaces and other settlements. These technologies, although they do not give a complete picture of wastewater and stormwater technologies in ancient Greece, indicate that such technologies have been used in Greece since the Minoan times. Minoan sanitary technologies were transferred to the Greek mainland in the subsequent phases of Greek civilization, i.e. in the Mycenaean, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, and present times. The scope of this article is the presentation and discussion of the evolution of waste- and stormwater management through the long history of Greece, focusing on the hydraulic characteristics of sanitary infrastructures. Also, the present and future trends of wastewater and stormwater management are considered. Practices achieved in prehistoric Greece may have some relevance for wastewater engineering even in modern times.
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Koutsoyiannis, D., N. Mamassi, and A. Tegos. "Logical and illogical exegeses of hydrometeorological phenomena in ancient Greece." Water Supply 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 13–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2007.002.

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Technological applications aiming at the exploitation of the natural sources appear in all ancient civilizations. The unique phenomenon in the ancient Greek civilization is that technological needs triggered physical explanations of natural phenomena, thus enabling the foundation of philosophy and science. Among these, the study of hydrometeorological phenomena had a major role. This study begins with the Ionian philosophers in the seventh century BC, continues in classical Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, and advances and expands through the entire Greek world up to the end of Hellenistic period. Many of the theories developed by ancient Greeks are erroneous according to modern views. However, many elements in Greek exegeses of hydrometeorological processes, such as evaporation and condensation of vapour, creation of clouds, hail, snow and rainfall, and evolution of hydrological cycle, are impressive even today.
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Akbar, Reza. "SEJARAH PERKEMBANGAN ILMU FALAK DALAM PERADABAN INDIA DAN KETERKAITANNYA DENGAN ISLAM." Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura 17, no. 1 (August 1, 2017): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.22373/jiif.v17i1.1511.

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Although it is acknowledged that Islamic astronomy developed very rapidly during the Abbasid period (750-1258 AD), it should be noted that before the advancement of astronomy of the Islamic world, Muslim scholars of the time were very incentive to translate astronomical books from other nations, one of them was from India. There were at least two factors that led to the emergence and development of astronomical science in pre-Islamic Indian civilization. The first, the teachings of Hinduism that made the sun as the ruler and source of life. The second, the influence of civilization from other nations such as Egypt, Persia, and Greece. In pre-Islamic times, there were a number of names of historical figures of Indian astronomy namely Lagadha, Yajnavalkya (800-900 BC), Aitareya Brahmana (about 900-800 BC), Aryabhata (476-550 AD), Varahamihira (499-587 AD) Brahmagupta (598-668 AD), Bhaskara II (1114-1185 AD), and Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544 AD). While in Islam, there was a number of names namely Mulla Farid, Mulla Chand, Mulla Tayyib, Mulla Mahmud Jaunpuri (1606-1651 AD), Ghulam Hussain Jaunpuri (1790-1862 AD) and others. The results of civilization of Indian astronomy is clearly visible with the ancient astronomical texts, the concept of the universe, the Hindu calendar, observatory, zij (astronomical tables), and astronomical tools such as gnomon, Yasti Yantra, Ghati Yantra, astrolabe, and others.
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Potter, Liz. "British Philhellenism and the Historiography of Greece: A Case Study of George Finlay (1799-1875)." Historical Review/La Revue Historique 1 (January 20, 2005): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.176.

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<p>This article offers a case study of George Finlay, a British philhellene whose intellectual make-up deserves more attention than it has previously been given (1). Unlike many Western European philhellenes who returned home disillusioned with Greece, Finlay spent his life in Athens (2); and unlike the overwhelmingly classicising Hellenism of his British contemporaries, his was a Hellenism that insisted on the interest and instructiveness of the history of Greece from the Roman period onwards (3). From a study of his <em>History of Greece BC 146 to AD 1864 </em>(4), and an analysis of its influences (5) and its uses (6), the article portrays Finlay as a complex, supple and interesting thinker. He is of particular interest to the nineteenth-century historian of political ideas for the ways in which he inherited and re-shaped ideas associated with civic virtue, philosophic history and contemporary liberalism.</p>
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Pettegrew, David. "D. Graham J. Shipley, The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese: Politics, Economies, and Networks 338-197 BC. pp. xxxii+355, 1 ill., 9 maps, 7 tables. 2018. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 2018978-0-521-87369-7, hardback $120." Journal of Greek Archaeology 5 (January 1, 2020): 610–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/jga.v5i.464.

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The ‘decline’ of the polis in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods numbers among the stock elements of historical narratives of ancient Greece. In the conventional rendition baked into old textbook descriptions of Greek civilization, the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War marked the end of a golden age as city-states devolved into a downward cycle of power play, hegemonic contest, and warfare that ended only with the conquests of Philip II and Alexander. The polis thereafter lost its autonomy, political directive, and ideological essence. As one popular textbook of western civilization put it recently: ‘With the advent of Macedonian control, once-independent poleis became subject cities whose proud political traditions were no longer relevant.’ This picture of decline, decay, and irrelevance remains common today despite a range of recent scholarship reappraising the early Hellenistic period in Greece.
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Tarasevych, Viktor. "Antique civilization: the birth of a polis state." Ekonomìčna teorìâ 2022, no. 1 (April 20, 2022): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/etet2022.01.005.

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This article continues the series of publications on the universum evolution of ancient civilization, its subcivilizations and is devoted to the consideration of controversial socio-economic and political processes in the Athenian area of Ancient Greece in the second half of the 8th - the first half of the 4th century. BC e. Attention is focused on the characteristics of the important stages of state formation in Athens. It is shown that the accelerated development of market and commodity-money relations in the 7th - 6th centuries. BC e., catalyzed, among other things, by the great colonization, multiplies the ranks of unborn, but rich artisans, merchants, merchants, usurers, debtor fetes, contributes to the displacement of patriarchal slavery by the classical one. The deepening gap between the changed and growing economic role of these clusters and their political lack of rights, as well as the split of Eupatrides into marketers and traditionalists, stimulated important pro-state reforms, including the codification of customary law, the establishment of courts, the beginning of the formation of administrative-territorial districts that do not coincide with the tribal territorial division. It is shown that the decomposition of the tribal system took place with the participation of the tribal nobility itself, pursuing selfish interests, which led to the victory of the diacrii and the emergence of the state. The role of Solon’s political activity in the formation of the Athenian state, the tyranny of Peisistratus, the reforms of Cleisthenes-Pericles, which contributed to the birth of the polis-state, are analyzed. And if in the overwhelming majority of cases political regimes drift from democracy to authoritarianism and totalitarianism, then in Athens, on the contrary, democratization dominates. It is concluded that it is with the reforms of Pericles in Athens that the formation of a democratic system in its classical form is completed.
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Rutter, Jeremy. "Margaretha Kramer-Hajos. Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age." Journal of Greek Archaeology 3 (January 1, 2018): 451–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/jga.v3i.541.

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Diachronic surveys of Mycenaean civilization, our term for the material culture that flourished above all on the central and southern Greek mainland during the six or seven centuries (ca. 1700/1600-1000 BC) we assign to the Late Bronze Age, typically and understandably focus on the regional cores of that culture in the northeast (Argolid and Corinthia) and southwest (Messenia) Peloponnese where it arose and has been most extensively documented. The overview of this culture provided by Margaretha Kramer-Hajos (hereafter MK-H) is refreshingly different in its spatial focus on the Euboean Gulf region of east-central Greece (figs. 1.1-1.2) as well as in its conceptual emphasis on certain aspects of network theory and human agency.
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Ahmed, Abdelkader T., Fatma El Gohary, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, and Andreas N. Angelakis. "Egyptian and Greek Water Cultures and Hydro-Technologies in Ancient Times." Sustainability 12, no. 22 (November 23, 2020): 9760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229760.

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Egyptian and Greek ancient civilizations prevailed in eastern Mediterranean since prehistoric times. The Egyptian civilization is thought to have been begun in about 3150 BC until 31 BC. For the ancient Greek civilization, it started in the period of Minoan (ca. 3200 BC) up to the ending of the Hellenistic era. There are various parallels and dissimilarities between both civilizations. They co-existed during a certain timeframe (from ca. 2000 to ca. 146 BC); however, they were in two different geographic areas. Both civilizations were massive traders, subsequently, they deeply influenced the regional civilizations which have developed in that region. Various scientific and technological principles were established by both civilizations through their long histories. Water management was one of these major technologies. Accordingly, they have significantly influenced the ancient world’s hydro-technologies. In this review, a comparison of water culture issues and hydro-structures was adopted through the extended history of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. The specific objectives of the work are to study the parallel historical cultures and hydro-technologies, assessing similarities and differences, and to analyze their progress since primitive times. The tools adopted for the research include visits to historical aeras and museums, comments, consultations, correlation and exhibitions available in the cyberspace. Review results herein showed that dams and canals were constructed in ancient Egypt to manage the flood of the Nile river and develop irrigation systems from ca. 6000 BC. In the second millennium BC, Minoans managed the flow of the streams via two dams, to protect arable land from destruction after intense rainfall and to irrigate their farms. Additional results showed that ancient Egyptians and Greeks invented many devices for lifting water for plant irrigation such as the shadouf, sakia and tympanum and pumps, of which some were already in use in Mesopotamia for irrigating small plots. The ancient Egyptians were the first who discovered the principle and the basis of coagulation (after ca. 1500 BC). They used the alum for accelerating the settlement of the particles. Additionally, the ancient Greeks developed several advanced water treatment technologies since the prehistoric times. To sum up, the study captured many similarities between two civilizations in water technologies. In addition, it confirmed the sustainability and durability of several of those hydro-technologies since they are still in use up to now in many places.
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Liddel, Peter. "Liberty and obligations in George Grote’s Athens." Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 23, no. 1 (2006): 139–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/20512996-90000090.

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In this article it is suggested that George Grote’s History of Greece (1846–56) employed a narrative history of Greece in an attempt to resolve the philosophical problem of the compatibility of individual liberty with considerable obligations to society. His philosophical achievement has been largely ignored by modern classical scholarship, even those who follow his lead in treating fifth-century Athens as the epitome of Greek civilization. The present reading of Grote’s History is informed by John Stuart Mill’s use of Athenian examples. Outlining the evidential, moral and spatial parameters of Grote’s fifth-century Athens, it is argued that Grote understood fifth-century Athens to be amodel intellectual and liberal society, in which the performance of obligations by citizens coexisted with individual and political liberty. Grote explained the decline of Athenian power in the fourth century BC by reference to the neglect of obligations, and in doing so, married historical explanation to political theory.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Greece Civilization To 146 BC"

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Golightly, Paul. "The Light of Dark-Age Athens: Factors in the Survival of Athens after the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799552/.

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When looking at Dark Age Greece, one of the most important sites to consider is Athens. The Dark Age was a transitional period between the fall of Mycenaean Greece of the Bronze Age, and Archaic Greece of the Iron Age. This period is called the Dark Age because the palaces that ruled the Mycenaean age collapsed, and with them fell civilization in mainland Greece. Writing, fine art, massive architecture, trade, and luxury goods disappear from mainland Greece. But Athens survived the fall of the Mycenaeans. In order to understand the reason why Athens survived one must look at what the causes of the fall of the Mycenaeans were. Theories range from raiders and invasion, to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, droughts, and plagues. One must also examine Greece itself. The landscape and climate of Greece have a large impact on the settlement of the Greeks. The land of Greece also affects what Greek communities were able to do economically, whether a city would be rich or poor. It is because Athens is located in Attica that it survived. Attica had the poorest soil in the Mycenaean world, and was the poorest of the major cities, therefore, when looking at the collapse of the Mycenaeans being caused by people, there would be no reason for said people to raid or invade Athens and Attica. It is because Athens survives that it is such an important site. Athens survived the fall of the Mycenaeans and in doing so acts as a refugee center and a jumping off point for the remaining Mycenaeans to flee east, to the Aegean islands and Anatolia. Athens also stayed occupied during the Dark Age and because of this it was able to make some advancements. In particular Athens was a leader in mainland Greece in the development of iron. Not only this, but Athens became a cultural center during the Dark Age, inventing both proto-geometric and geometric pottery. These styles were adopted by the rest of the Greek world, and Athens was looked to as the influence for these styles. It is because Athens was the poorest city and Attica the poorest area during the Mycenaean age that it survived. Because it survived it was able to continue to develop and in turn influence the rest of mainland Greece.
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Willey, Hannah Rose. "Law and religion in the archaic and classical Greek poleis." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607836.

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Tsipotas, Dimitrios. "Reviving Greek furniture : technological and design aspects through interdisciplinary research and digital three-dimensional techniques : the prehistoric period." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714453.

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Arvanitakis, Jan Alexandros. "The emergence of palatial society in Late Bronze Age Argolis." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26250.

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This thesis proposes to evaluate the impact of factors such as trade, circumscribed resources, and growing militarism upon the development of social complexity in LBA Argolis, and to what extent these factors may be invoked as triggering mechanisms--or prime movers--in the rise of palatial society in the Argive plain towards the end of the 15th century B.C., during the LH III A-B period.
It is argued that the most plausible model for the rise of palatial society in LBA Argolis is one which acknowledges the interrelations and processes of feedback between these factors, of which trade and militarism may have been original motivating factors.
Finally, it is suggested that the need to organize resource procurement and distribution were instrumental in the emergence of the Mycenaean palatial centers of LBA Argolis.
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Klinck, Anne L. (Anne Lingard). "Women's songs and their cultic background in archaic Greece." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26286.

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This thesis applies to Archaic Greek literature the medievalist's concept of "women's songs," that is, love-poems given to a female persona and composed in a popular register. In the Greek context a distinct type can be recognised in poems of women's affections (not necessarily love-poems as such) composed in an ingenuous register and created for performance, choral or solo, within a women's thiasos. The poems studied are those of Sappho, along with the few surviving partheneia of Alcman and Pindar. The feminine is constructed, rather mechanically by Pindar, more subtly by the other two, from a combination of tender feeling, personal and natural beauty, and an artful artlessness.
It is not possible to reconstruct a paradigmatic thiasos which lies behind the women's songs, but certain characteristic features merge, especially the pervasiveness of homoerotic attachments and the combination of a personal, affective, with a social, religious function. In general, women's groups in ancient Greece must have served as a counterbalance to the prevailing male order. However, while some of the women's thiasoi provide a vehicle for the release of female aggression, the function of the present group is essentially harmonious and integrative.
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Rhodes, Anthony. "Jacob Burckhardt: History and the Greeks in the Modern Context." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/279.

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In the following study I reappraise the nineteenth century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897). Burckhardt is traditionally known for having served as the elder colleague and one-time muse of Friedrich Nietzsche at the University of Basel and so his ideas are often considered, by comparison, outmoded or inapposite to contemporary currents of thought. My research explodes this conception by abandoning the presumption that Burckhardt was in some sense "out of touch" with modernity. By following and significantly expanding upon the ideas of historians such as Allan Megill, Lionel Gossman, Hayden White, Joseph Mali, John Hinde and Richard Sigurdson, among others, I am able to portray Burckhardt as conversely inaugurating a historiography laden with elements of insightful social criticism. Such criticisms are in fact bolstered by virtue of their counter-modern characteristic. Burckhardt reveals in this way a perspicacity that both anticipates Nietzsche's own critique of modernity and in large part moves well beyond him. Much of this analysis is devised through a genealogical approach to Burckhardt which places him squarely within a cohesive branch of post-Kantian thought that I have called heterodox post-Kantianism. My study revaluates Burckhardt through the alembic of a "discursive" post-Kantian turn which reinvests many of his outré ideas, including his radical appropriation of historical representation, his non-teleological historiography, his various pessimistic inclinations, and additionally, his non-empirical, "aesthetic" study of history, or "mythistory," with a newfound philosophical germaneness. While I survey the majority of Burckhardt's output in the course of my work, I invest a specific focus in his largely unappreciated Greek lectures (given in 1869 but only published in English in full at the end of the twentieth century). Burckhardt's "dark" portrayal of the Greeks serves to not only upset traditional conceptions of antiquity but also the manner in which self-conception is informed through historical inquiry. Burckhardt returns us then to an altogether repressed antiquity: to a hidden, yet internal "dream of a shadow." My analysis culminates with an attempt to reassess the place of Burckhardt's ideas for modernity and to correspondingly reexamine Nietzsche. In particular, I highlight the disparity between Nietzsche's and Burckhardt's reception of the "problem of power," including the latter's reluctance - which was attended by ominous and highly prescient predictions of future large-scale wars and the steady "massification" of western society - to accept Nietzsche's acclamation of a final "will to power." Burckhardt teaches us the value of history as an active counterforce to dominant modern reality-formations and in doing so, his work rehabilitates the relevance of history for a world which, as Burckhardt once noted, suffers today from a superfluity of present-mindedness.
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Gillihan, Yonder Moynihan. "Socratic tradition in the fourth Gospel : appealing to popular notions of piety in the Hellenistic age." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115756.

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This study presents a systematic analysis of motifs, literary devices, and language in the Fourth Gospel that resemble similar motifs, literary devices, and language in Socratic tradition. The persistent recurrence of words and patterns of thought in the Fourth Gospel which are common to Platonic philosophy, Socratic progymnasmata, and well-known descriptions of Socrates’ moral heroism and martyr’s death lead me to conclude that the Johannine authors imagined Socrates’ life as a “pagan prophetic theme” which Jesus fulfilled; their use of Socratic tradition in the Fourth Gospel is subtle but obvious, and was used to appeal to a pagan or highly hellenized audience intimately familiar with Socratic tradition as the embodiment and articulation of social and religious values in the Hellenistic period. Much of the study is devoted to literary analysis of the Fourth Gospel, and draws upon the rhetorical criticism models developed by George Kennedy. Through rhetorical criticism the educational background of the Johannine writers becomes clear, as do their evangelical motives in appropriating Socratic tradition for their invention of Jesus’ speeches and martyrdom.
Department of Modern Languages and Classics
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Duplouy, Alain. "Le prestige des élites: recherches sur les modes de reconnaissance sociale en Grèce entre les Xe et Ve siècles avant J.-C." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211382.

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Brisart, Thomas. "Un art citoyen: recherches sur l'orientalisation des artisanats en Grèce proto-archaïque." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210339.

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Cette thèse cherche à mettre en évidence les raisons qui ont amené une large part des ateliers grecs à orientaliser leurs productions durant la "période orientalisante" (VIIe siècle avant J.-C.). La méthode déployée pour répondre à cet objectif consiste en une contextualisation sociale des artisanats orientalisants, laquelle s'effectue par le biais de l'analyse d'un certain nombre de contextes archéologiques et de textes. Une fois le rôle des objets orientalisants dans la société proto-archaïque mis en évidence, leurs raisons d'être apparaissent plus clairement.

Le développement de la citoyenneté en Grèce à partir de la seconde moitié du VIIIe siècle avant J.-C. a donné lieu à une extension du pouvoir politique et militaire à une part plus importante de la population des cités. La propagation de ce qui constituait autrefois les principaux modes de reconnaissance a amené les élites à développer de nouvelles façons de se distinguer dans le paysage social. Dans un même temps, les citoyens de chaque cité ont développé des institutions communales, telles que les cultes civiques et les repas en commun, afin d'unifier le groupe qu'ils formaient et de renforcer le fossé qui séparait celui-ci du reste de la société. Le travail de contextualisation entrepris dans cette thèse a montré que l'art orientalisant constituait un outil facilitant la mise en place de ces deux évolutions.

D'une part, parce qu'ils faisaient explicitement allusion aux cultures du Proche-Orient, dont les richesses exerçaient une réelle fascination sur les Grecs de cette époque, les objets orientalisants permettaient de rehausser le prestige de leurs propriétaires. Autrement dit, ils constituaient des modes de reconnaissance sociale particulièrement efficaces. De nombreuses données archéologiques et textuelles ont permis de confirmer ce point de vue, mettant en évidence que les objets orientalisants étaient utilisés lors de banquets prestigieux, comme offrandes ostentatoires aux dieux et aux morts, ou encore pour contenir de précieux parfums.

D'autre part, en tant qu'esthétique nouvelle, complètement libérée des formes géométriques utilisées durant les siècles précédents, l'art orientalisant figurait également au rang des pratiques censées unifier la citoyenneté. Cette seconde conclusion a été mise en évidence au travers de l'étude du cas de la Crète, où, au VIIe siècle, l'art orientalisant a en grande partie été utilisé dans le cadre d'institutions civiques :les banquets publics, les cultes civiques, et les guerres.

This dissertation aims at the understanding of the reasons lying behind the orientalization of artefacts in Greece during the so-called "Orientalizing period" (i.e. the 7th cent. BC). In order to achieve this goal, the author focused on archaeological contexts and textual information. They allowed him to replace the orientalizing objects back in their original social context and to understand their initial purposes.

The birth of the citizenship in Greece at the end of the 8th cent. BC gave rise to the extension of the political and military power to a wider part of the population. This created a need for the former elite to develop other means of social distinction. Conversely, the communities of citizens developed communal institutions, like civic cults, communal dinners, etc. meant to cement and to level the group, and to reinforce the gulf that separated it from the rest of the society. This thesis showed that orientalizing art contributed to the setting up of these changes.

On one hand, because Greek orientalizing artefacts explicitly alluded to Near Eastern cultures, that were indeed perceived as being particularly rich at that time by the Greeks, they could enhance the individual prestige of the people using them. Archaeological research confirmed this hypothesis, showing that Greek orientalizing objects were used during conspicuous banquets, as lavish offerings for the dead and the gods, and for containing precious perfumes.

On the other hand, as artefacts decorated in a new style, completely freed from the geometric aesthetics displayed in the previous centuries, orientalizing objects also figured among the practices developed for strengthening the citizens’ corps. This second conclusion was reached through the study-case of Crete, where orientalizing art of the 7th cent. seems nearly exclusively used in a context of civic institutions :public banquets, civic cults and festivals, and wars.


Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Grousset, Gauthier. "L'historien et le peintre: représentations croisées de l'altérité en Grèce ancienne." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210216.

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Nous nous proposons d’étudier, dans ce travail de thèse, le regard porté par les Grecs sur les étrangers, les « barbares », afin d’y déceler, en creux, quelques-uns des mécanismes de la construction de leur propre identité. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi de nous intéresser à certains des aspects de la représentation du monde, des contrées, des peuples et des individus, tels qu’ils apparaissent dans les Histoires d’Hérodote, ainsi qu’à la manière dont les peintres de céramique attique ont figuré les Noirs.

Lorsque l’on se place du point de vue de la perception et de la représentation d’un objet, l’étude de ces deux supports particuliers offre des angles d’approches distincts, mais néanmoins complémentaires, sur une même problématique. En effet, il apparaît que l’horizon social d’Hérodote et celui des artisans du Céramique d’Athènes diffèrent grandement, ce qui induit naturellement une appréhension de l’altérité qui est propre à chacun d’eux et qui transparaît dans leurs productions. Les deux vecteurs de diffusion (littéraire et pictural) des représentations de l’Autre sont, quant à eux, soumis à des contraintes qui leur sont spécifiques et qui varient en fonction de la nature du support, entraînant une différence dans le niveau d’accès aux structures mentales individuelles et collectives propres à leurs auteurs. Les variations d’échelles à partir desquelles nous choisissons d’envisager la représentation de l’altérité possèdent des pertinences distinctes puisqu’elles permettent de faire apparaître des phénomènes jusqu’alors invisibles, en déplaçant l’accent des stratégies collectives à celles individuelles. Un questionnement qui prendrait en compte ces différents facteurs aboutit à l’approfondissement des conclusions sur les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans la construction des identités de l’Autre et donc de Soi, ouvrant ainsi une fenêtre sur l’histoire intérieure de l’« homme grec », figure multiple et mouvante que le changement d’éclairage que nous opérons (de l’individuel au collectif) permet de cerner avec un peu plus de finesse.

Dans notre étude sur les logiques de construction de l’altérité à l’œuvre dans les Histoires, nous avons choisi d’interroger les mécanismes qui prennent part à l’élaboration des identités à plusieurs niveaux, en progressant du général vers le particulier, depuis les structures les plus larges de l’image du monde, jusqu’à la mise en scène des individus, en passant par celles des contrées et des peuples. Chacun des niveaux interrogés présentant des problématiques distinctes, les solutions apportées ont logiquement divergé, dévoilant chaque fois des mécanismes de représentation différents. La pertinence de cette approche qui met l’accent, dans un premier temps, sur la géographie, réside dans le fait que pour Hérodote, un individu est indissociable du milieu physique dans lequel il évolue qui, par un système de déterminisme environnemental tempéré par le régime politique (selon qu’il est libre ou soumis, par exemple, au Grand Roi) influe profondément sur sa personnalité et son caractère. Il semble évident que le modèle abstrait qu’est la représentation géographique qui transcrit l’espace terrestre par l’acte du graphein, est tout autant une description qu’une interprétation ou une explication du monde. Il s’appuie sur des processus sociaux de sémantisation de l’environnement, qui sont le produit toujours particulier et contextuel d’un acte individuel, liés à la perception et à l’imagination structurante d’Hérodote. Nous avons ainsi d’abord souligné le poids de l’héritage des penseurs ioniens, et en particulier d’Hécatée de Milet, dans le type de regard et de questionnement posé par l’enquêteur sur le monde et les réalités qui le composent. De ce point de vue, son inscription dans une tradition « disciplinaire », possédant ses propres particularismes et présupposés inconscients, détermine de façon importante une grande part non seulement de sa méthodologie mais aussi de sa problématique. Nous avons également insisté sur l’omniprésence du politique dans la vision du monde d’Hérodote. En cela, l’attirance à peine voilée vers un bipartisme Europe/Asie dans le découpage de l’oikoumenê, illustre parfaitement le fait que le discours hérodotéen rend compte d’une géographie humaine qui traduit la réalité d’un monde tel qu’elle est vécue par les peuples et les individus, en se faisant le témoin des bouleversements géopolitiques qu’ont entraînées les Guerres Médiques. Nous nous sommes également penché sur les transformations opérées dans le réel qui visent à rendre la représentation du monde significative sur le plan structurel, mais également intelligible sur le plan purement cognitif. La schématisation géographique à laquelle est soumis l’espace à décrire, qui se lit dans les symétries et les alignements orientés par des facteurs narratifs et discursifs, permet au public de reconstituer une image cohérente du monde ou d’un territoire à partir de la représentation qui en est donnée. L’étude du tracé de certaines frontières, ou encore de la représentation de la Libye, nous a permis de mettre en lumière quelques-uns de ces mécanismes. Nous nous sommes ensuite tourné vers la représentation des peuples, des ethnê, en nous intéressant tout d’abord aux raisons qui ont poussé l’enquêteur à se consacrer plus spécifiquement aux nomoi et à l’histoire de certains d’entre eux et pas à ceux des autres. L’étude des listes de peuples nous a permis de mettre au jour les catégories employées par l’auteur afin de différencier et d’individualiser les ethnê à l’intérieur des ensembles plus vastes qui les englobent. Nous avons alors constaté que l’élaboration des identités collectives, grecque comme étrangères, s’effectuait par le jeu de certains critères (culturels, géographiques, ethniques, etc.) dont le choix et la variation d’intensité sont profondément liés au contexte de rédaction des Histoires et aux buts idéologiques que s’est fixés Hérodote à travers son récit des Guerres Médiques. Le premier point repose sur l’affrontement entre Athènes et Sparte, le second tient, entre autres choses, à la définition de la grécité en tant qu’idéologie universalisante qui met l’accent sur une vision supra-civique de la Grèce. Nous nous sommes enfin penché sur les différents aspects de la représentation du Lydien. Dans un passage spécifique des Histoires (I, 155), nous avons montré que le Lydien prend l’apparence d’un anti-modèle du citoyen isonomique, et permet à Hérodote de tenir un discours idéologique engagé visant à rendre compte des comportements anti-démocratiques de certains individus qui devaient faire débat dans l’Athènes contemporaine de la rédaction des Histoires. Enfin, l’étude des principaux personnages lydiens (Crésus et Pythios), de leurs actions et de leurs propos, nous a permis de conclure que ces individus ne sont mis en scène qu’en tant que personnages fictifs, d’une part garants de la logique structurelle narrative qui les dépasse, d’autre part incorporant ou intériorisant une catégorie sociale, marquant par là le déni de tout comportement individualisé.

En progressant dans notre étude du général au particulier, nous avons été frappé par le réseau de dépendances qui se tisse entre les différents niveaux superposés que nous avons tenté d’isoler :monde, territoire, peuple et individu. L’oikoumenê est perçu comme la juxtaposition de territoires définis par les populations qui y vivent, elles-mêmes constituées d’individus. Le climat influe sur la structure générale du monde, sur celle des territoires, ainsi que sur le caractère des populations selon un déterminisme environnemental que nous avons mis en lumière. Ce même déterminisme est toutefois tempéré par le jeu du politique, les peuples libres et ceux assujettis à des rois n’étant pas égaux devant leur environnement géographique ou climatique respectif. C’est encore le politique qui, tout en fixant les contraintes de construction individuelle, les personnages n’ayant pas d’autonomie propre, influe sur le découpage du monde qui voit s’affronter l’Europe et l’Asie.

Nous avons consacré la seconde partie de notre travail à l’image du Noir dans la céramique, car de tous les étrangers que les peintres de vases ont choisi de figurer, le Noir a cela de particulier qu’il est le seul à présenter une altérité physique patente. En effet, quel que soit son vêtement, son armement ou le contexte dans lequel il est représenté, il ne fait aucun doute que nous avons affaire à un étranger. Nous avons découpé notre corpus de vases en différentes séries que nous avons étudiées successivement, ce qui nous a permis d’en souligner la logique et d’en faire ressortir le sens. Nous avons tout d’abord remarqué que les scènes de vie quotidienne montrent le Noir sous les traits de l’esclave, mais d’un esclave au statut iconique particulier, puisqu’il semble être mis en scène afin de souligner l’aisance financière de son propriétaire. Nous nous sommes ensuite intéressé aux représentations des personnages mythiques d’origine éthiopienne, au premier rang desquels Memnon, Andromède et Céphée. Hormis ce dernier, qui est caractérisé à une seule reprise par un faciès non-grec, il apparaît que les imagiers les ont généralement représentés avec une physionomie grecque, comme si leur ascendance divine empêchait de les affubler de traits négroïdes. Si Memnon est généralement figuré sous les traits paradigmatiques de l’hoplite héroïque des cycles épiques, les autres sont souvent vêtus « à l’orientale ». Les compagnons de Memnon, les guerriers éthiopiens, représentent une large part du corpus des scènes figurées. Ils apparaissent en grand nombre sur les alabastres du Groupe des Alabastres au Noir, qui sont construits sur un schéma pictural très répétitif, et pour lesquels il est possible d’expliquer leur présence, entre autres raisons, par une adéquation entre le support (vase à parfum renvoyant à l’Egypte) et le décor exotique. Sur les autres types de vases, nous avons constaté qu’en tant que combattant marginal, non-hoplitique, l’Ethiopien est cantonné, sans surprise, dans un registre voisin, mais pas confondu, de celui des Scythes ou des Amazones, desquelles il est proche sur le plan de certains contextes narratifs (liés à l’épisode troyen), mais également des catégories de la guerre (en particulier dans la série du Groupe des Alabastres au Noir). Les grandes variations dans son équipement et dans son apparence, suggèrent toutefois qu’il n’est pas un modèle de référence habituellement utilisé par les peintres qui l’ont bien souvent employé dans un rôle contextualisant, par exemple en tant qu’attribut de Memnon qu’il permet d’identifier. Nous montrons ensuite que les raisons de la grande popularité de la figure du Noir sur les vases moulés en forme de têtes humaines étaient diverses et variées. A l’instar des alabastres, sa présence sur les aryballes est probablement à mettre sur le compte d’une adéquation du contenu et du contenant, l’individu négroïde faisant référence, dans l’imaginaire collectif, à ces contrées éloignées d’où provenaient les parfums. Extrapolé sur les vases liés au banquet, canthares, mugs et oinochoai, il donne l’opportunité aux artisans d’explorer le registre de l’altérité face auquel le citoyen athénien affirme son identité. Que sa présence s’explique par une assimilation du vase à celui qui le manipule, comme c’est le cas pour la femme, ou qu’il repose sur un jeu de mots basé sur un épithète du vin (aithops), le commentateur moderne doit garder à l’esprit que bon nombre des raisons qui ont poussé les artisans à représenter ce motif sur ce type particulier de vase nous sont perdues à jamais. En effet, hors de tout contexte narratif, ces têtes restent ce qu’il y a de plus proche du pur motif décoratif pour lequel les interprétations devaient être multiples. Enfin, cette exploration de l’image du Noir dans la céramique n’aurait pas été complète sans une étude de la figure de l’Egyptien. En effet de nombreux exemples illustrent le fait que les artisans athéniens ont souvent représenté les Egyptiens sous des traits négroïdes, qu’il s’agisse de l’individu dévoré par un crocodile sur les vases-statuettes de Sotades, ou de celui suppliant un Grec sur le col d’un autre vase plastique de ce même artisan, mais surtout des prêtres ayant pris part à l’épisode mythique opposant Héraclès au pharaon Bousiris, épisode au cours duquel ils endossent le rôle du mauvais sacrificateur, sacrilège et cannibale. Dans tous les cas, les Egyptiens, bien que représentés sous des traits négroïdes comme le sont les guerriers éthiopiens mythiques, sont des anti-combattants, des individus qui brillent par leur lâcheté et qui jamais ne prennent les armes. Ainsi, quel que soit le contexte, le spectateur ne peut en aucun cas confondre ces deux peuples qui n’ont en commun que la morphologie.

L’image du Noir qui est donnée à voir dans la céramique attique n’est pas homogène, car elle entre dans un système complexe d’oppositions qui n’a pas pour finalité de tracer un portrait de lui, mais plutôt de définir l’identité du citoyen. Ainsi, le Noir, comme n’importe quel autre étranger, n’est pas en lui-même l’objet final du discours, puisqu’il participe toujours à la mise en scène de valeurs ou de catégories sociales qui le dépassent et qui, à travers lui, visent un but autre.

Au terme de cette étude, nous avons constaté que dans les deux discours (littéraire et pictural) le regard sur l’étranger vise une utilité politique, puisque la représentation de l’Autre participe à l’identification des membres d’un même groupe social autour d’une série de critères communs, ou de valeurs sociales partagées. Cependant chaque support possède ses spécificités propres qui offrent des éclairages différents sur la problématique que nous avons étudiée.

En premier lieu, nous sommes face à des sources qui permettent un accès différent aux structures mentales individuelles et collectives de leurs auteurs.

D’un côté, la nature du texte des Histoires, par sa longueur, sa richesse et la diversité des thèmes qui y sont abordés permet de décrypter quelques-unes des stratégies individuelles d’un auteur conscient de l’utilité sociale de son œuvre et du rôle politique qui est le sien. Cependant, l’absence d’équivalent aux Histoires dans la production littéraire contemporaine ne nous permet que difficilement de juger de la part de généralisable du discours hérodotéen. D’un autre côté, le format même de la céramique attique à décor figuré ne permet pas le type de discours à l’œuvre dans les Histoires, et plus généralement dans les œuvres littéraires « savantes », puisque l’imagerie fonctionne sur un système de modèle et de contre-modèle par rapport à la norme grecque dont elle permet de dégager les structures sociales et culturelles fondamentales. Ajoutons à cela que cette céramique est produite en masse par des artisans que nous arrivons, certes, à identifier, mais au sujet desquels, pris individuellement, nous ne savons pratiquement rien. Ainsi, ce support offre un potentiel de généralisation optimal, puisque l’on observe des schémas identiques dans la production de nombreux peintres, et parfois également leur persistance sur plusieurs décennies.

En second lieu, la différence de formation intellectuelle entre Hérodote et les peintres de céramique est perceptible dans le type de regard et de questionnement que chacun pose sur l’étranger.

La grande complexité de l’image du monde des Histoires suggère un savoir particulier propre à l’enquêteur qui n’est certainement pas partagé par l’ensemble de la population athénienne et notamment les artisans du Céramique. Cependant, même si ces derniers ne possédaient pas le même horizon social que l’historien d’Halicarnasse, pas plus que son héritage intellectuel spécifique issu de la tradition des penseurs ioniens, il n’en demeure pas moins que la diversité des épisodes mythiques qu’ils ont représentés sur les vases témoigne de leurs connaissances relativement étendues dans ce domaine. En cela, la céramique à décor figuré se fait probablement l’écho d’une culture populaire basée sur la connaissance des divers épisodes des cycles épiques, ou encore des grands mythes, notamment à travers la poésie. En tant que support très largement diffusé, qui s’adresse à toutes les couches de la population, la céramique se nourrit des opinions générales, reflétant en quelques sortes le pouls de l’ensemble des Athéniens et pas seulement les considérations d’une petite portion qui aurait été plus éduquée, ou plus au fait de certaines réalités étrangères lointaines.

L’étude croisée de ces deux sources, presque complémentaires en tous points, nous permet de comprendre que de la même manière qu’il est vain de vouloir définir l’ « homme grec », il est impossible d’essentialiser la représentation de l’étranger en Grèce ancienne à une période donnée. Il convient plutôt d’en apprécier l’ensemble des aspects, qui sont autant de fenêtres ouvertes sur l’histoire intérieure des hommes grecs.


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Geometric Greece: 900-700 BC. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2003.

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Greece in the making, 1200-479 BC. London: Routledge, 1996.

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Art and identity in dark age Greece, 1100--700 BC. New York, N.Y: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Dillon, Matthew. Ancient Greece: Social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Socrates (c. 800-399 BC). London: Routledge, 1994.

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Culture contact in Southern Mediterranean France: 7th to 2nd centuries BC. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010.

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The complex past of pottery: Production, circulation and consumption of Mycenaean and Greek pottery (sixteenth to early fifth centuries BC): proceedings of the ARCHON International Conference, held in Amsterdam, 8-9 November 1996. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1999.

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Mitchell, Lynette G. Greeks bearing gifts: The public use of private relationships in the Greek world, 435-323 BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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1957-, Osborne Robin, ed. Classical Greece, 500-323 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Powell, Anton. Greece: 1600-30 BC. New York: F. Watts, 1987.

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ill, Shone Rob, ed. Greece: 1600-30 BC. New York: F. Watts, 1987.

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"5. The conquest of Gaul, Greece, and Spain." In Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC, 176–210. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748629992-011.

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Barker, Graeme. "Transitions to Farming in Europe: Ex Oriente Lux?" In The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199281091.003.0014.

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Ever since the speculations of the Victorians about the inexorable progress of Man from the savagery of foraging to agriculture and civilization, Europe has been one of the main theatres of debate about transitions from foraging to farming (Chapter 1). The dominant model in the twentieth century, first developed explicitly by Gordon Childe in The Dawn of European Civilization (1925) and The Danube in Prehistory (1929), has been that of ex oriente lux, ‘light from the Near East’. According to this theory, farming began in Europe because it was introduced by Neolithic farmers from South-West Asia, who brought with them domesticated plants and animals together with a new technology that included pottery and polished stone tools. They colonized a land thinly occupied by Mesolithic foragers except at the coastal margins. In southern Europe, the first farmers would have ‘taken to their boats and paddled or sailed on the alluring waters of the Mediterranean to the next landfall—and the next’ (Childe, 1957: 16). In temperate Europe, expansion was facilitated by ‘slash-and-burn’ (swidden) agriculture practised by the first farmers: they arrived at a particular location, cleared the forest, burnt the cut timber, and planted their crops, and then moved on after a few years. The first suite of 14C dates from European Neolithic sites obtained in the 1960s astonished archaeologists, because the (uncalibrated) dates of c.6000 bc from Greek Neolithic settlements such as Nea Nikomedeia and Knossos (Fig. 9.1) were 3,000 years older than Childe’s suggested date for the beginning of the European Neolithic: c.3000 BC. He established the latter by an elaborate process of cross-dating European prehistoric sites with historically dated cultures in the eastern Mediterranean, in turn dated by links to Pharaonic Egypt. At the same time, the 14C data appeared to confirm Childe’s ex oriente lux theory, because there was a clear trend of increasingly younger dates with distance from South-West Asia (J. G. D. Clark, 1965; Fig. 1.7). The dates of c .6000 BC in south-east Europe were in the same time-frame as dates for PPNB Neolithic settlements in South-West Asia, dates in central Europe and the Mediterranean were of the order of 4500 BC, and dates from Early Neolithic sites on the Atlantic margins of Europe were nearer 3000 BC.
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Beckeld, Benedict. "Oikophobia in Ancient Greece." In Western Self-Contempt, 15–31. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501763182.003.0002.

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This chapter emphasizes that Western civilization rests on two pillars: the Greco-Roman and the Judeo-Christian. Noting that the West begins with Greece, the chapter traces the first clear case of oikophobia. It delves into the period of the city-states, because apart from archaeological remains, the culture of the so-called Mycenaean Greeks survives only in the tales told by Homer several centuries later, in the Iliad and Odyssey, and these are only weak reflections of that culture. The chapter then analyses how Archaic Greeks developed and moved slowly from myth to science and rationalism through the work of the pre-Socratic philosophers in the sixth and early fifth centuries BC. The chapter reveals a repetitive pattern, namely that with wealth comes an unwillingness to die for one's civilization, and with that unwillingness, oikophobia goes hand in hand. The chapter elaborates on the first very clear trace of oikophobia that appears in the later Classical era: in the time of Socrates and his entourage.
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Feuer, Bryan. "Modeling Differential Cultural Interaction in Late Bronze Age Thessaly." In Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056883.003.0003.

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On the northern border of Mycenaean civilization and encompassing several ecological zones, the province of Thessaly represents an opportunity to test the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model involving processes such as acculturation and ethnogenesis in a border/frontier zone. In the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC) southeastern Thessaly, with a climate and topography similar to the Mycenaean core zone of southern and central Greece, was in direct contact with the centers of Mycenaean civilization and evolved in a similar manner, while in the inner plains further north, a transition zone between the Mediterranean environment of the coast and the Continental environment of southeastern Europe, local elites selectively adopted some aspects of Mycenaean culture, and in the mountainous zone further to the north and west nomadic pastoral tribes had little contact with the Mycenaean world and were even more selective borrowing cultural elements.
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Mitchell, Peter. "The Classical World." In The Donkey in Human History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749233.003.0011.

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Donkeys are the quintessential Mediterranean animal. This chapter explores the first two millennia and more of that association. It starts with the Bronze Age societies of the Aegean, but principally emphasizes the donkey’s contribution to the Classical world of the Greeks and Romans, a topic richly informed by literary, as well as archaeological, evidence. Summarizing that contribution, Mark Griffith noted that ‘Without them there would have been no food for the table or fuel for the fire; nor would the workshops, markets, and retail stores have been able to conduct their business’, while the Roman writer and politician Cicero simply observed that it would be unduly tedious to enumerate their services. Around 4,000 years ago urban, state-organized societies centred on large, multiroom ‘palaces’ were already active on the island of Crete. By the mid-second millennium bc similar societies had emerged on the Greek mainland in the form of the Mycenaean kingdoms. Bronze Age societies further west, however, were organized at a less complex level and did not use writing. The same holds true of Greece itself once Mycenaean civilization collapsed: only after 800 BC did the material culture and city-state political systems characteristic of the Classical period emerge. Without discussing the latter’s archaeology or history in detail, it is worth remembering that the Classical Greek world was far more extensive than the modern country, a result of early settlement of the west coast of Turkey, followed by large-scale migration into southern Italy and Sicily (‘Magna Graecia’ or ‘Greater Greece’) and smaller scale colonization elsewhere along the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Greeks—and the Phoenician merchants who preceded them—were attracted into the western Mediterranean by opportunities for trade as much as settlement. Of the region’s indigenous populations Italy’s Etruscans were among the first to engage with them, undergoing a rapid process of urbanization and increasing political and economic complexity from about 800 BC. On the Etruscans’ southern periphery emerged Rome. Through luck, strategy, and a geographically central location, by the third century BC it dominated the Italian Peninsula. Moreover, following wars with Carthage, an originally Phoenician city in Tunisia, and with the Macedonian kings who succeeded Alexander the Great, its sway extended across the whole of the Mediterranean by the time Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC.
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"description whether the adyton was part of the temple or a different structure altogether. Near where the temple of Palaimon should have been according to Pausanias, excavators found the foundations of an earlier stadium, as well as the concrete foundation of a Roman building. An earlier cult place for Melikertes was probably located somewhere in this area, but all remains were obliterated during the destruction of Corinth by Mummius (146 BC). Elizabeth Gebhard has tentatively identified an area located immediately to the south of the temple of Poseidon as a temenos for Melikertes, dating from the classical period.3 The earliest remains, however, that can be directly linked with Melikertes are from two sacrificial pits from the 1st century AD filled with animal bones, pottery, and lamps of a unique shape unknown anywhere else in Greece. The Palaimonion was rebuilt in the Roman period, and the temple as it stood in the second century AD has been reconstructed from the few remains found and from representations on coins from the Isthmus and Corinth. The reconstructed temple has eleven columns, with an opening leading to a passageway under the temple. From the foundations, the height of the passage can be estimated at about 1 m 90, high enough to allow a person to stand upright. The passage was completely underground, and a bend in the tunnel would have prevented light to penetrate inside the underground chamber. What about the cult, then, and the lament that is both “initiatory and inspired?” Philostratos is not our only source for this aspect of the ritual. Plutarch also mentions the cult in his life of Theseus:." In Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity, 396–98. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203616895-53.

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