Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Type "Book Chapter"
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Badges: Abzeichen als sprechende Objekte
(De Gruyter, 2017-05)This article presents early findings regarding the interplay between script (text) and image on medieval badges, which are small, brooch-like objects made from lead-tin alloy (pewter) and adorned with familiar images drawn ... -
Deiotaros Philorhomaios, Pontos und Kolchis
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)Towards the end of the Third Mithradatic War (64 BC), Pompey promoted the Tolistobogian tetrarch Deiotaros to become the most powerful king of Asia Minor. Strabo describes his new territories as follows (Geogr. 12.3.13 ... -
Dynamis in Rome? Revisiting the South Frieze of the Ara Pacis Augustae
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)The Senate voted to build the Ara Pacis to welcome home Augustus after restoring order in the western provinces, while Agrippa pursued a similar mission in the East. Agrippa had settled the turmoil in the Bosporus by ... -
Introduction
(Société Latomus, Brussels, 2019-05-18)This introduction surveys recent trends in Seleukid scholarship and addresses the main points of discussion concerning the decline and disintegration of the Seleukid Kingdom in the course of the 2nd century BC. -
La gerçure énorme » de l’être à venir chez Yves Préfontaine
(Presses Universitaires du Québec, 2012)Dans l’article signé par Élise Lepage sur Pays sans parole (1967), d’Yves Préfontaine, on assiste au démantèlement de cet optimisme. Le corps, la parole et le territoire sont de partout craquelés, et l’aspiration verticale, ... -
Of, By, and For the Internet: New Media Studies and Public Scholarship
(Routledge, 2018)This paper proposes we must actively work to craft a new media studies of, by, and for the internet, one that must seek to transform rather than simply disrupt both scholarship and the broader social landscape, or our ... -
The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology
(Springer, 2012)This volume offers a broad overview of central issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, addressing philosophical issues that arise from the most recent scientific findings in biological research on behavior. It thus ... -
The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
(Guernica, 2020)Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text could be considered the culmination ... -
Pompeius und die ,elf Städte‘ der Provinz Pontus
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022-12-01)The line of events from the death of Nikomedes IV through the Third Mithradatic War (73–63 BC) to the ratification of Pompey’s Eastern acts in Rome in 59 BC is well documented in our sources and well-studied in modern ... -
Rome, the Seleukid East and the Disintegration of the Largest of the Successor Kingdoms in the 2nd Century BC
(Société Latomus, Brussels, 2019-05-18)Although Antiochos III Megas had been defeated by the Romans in 191/90 BC, his son Seleukos IV managed to consolidate it, and his youngest son Antiochos IV Epiphanes (175– 164) even became the most powerful monarch of ... -
Searching for the Sanctuary of Leukothea in Kolchis
(Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020-12-01)Strabo mentions a sanctuary of Leukothea, together with an Oracle of Phrixos, in the Moschike somewhere in Kolchis (11.2.17f. 498f.C). O. Lordkipanidze (1972) suggested a location in modern Vani at the confluence of the ... -
Thought Suppression
(Oxford University Press, 2020-01-30)The idea that suppressing an unwanted thought results in an ironic increase in its frequency is accepted as psychological fact. Wegner’s ironic processes model has been applied to understanding the development and persistence ... -
Welcome to the web: The online community of GeoCities during the early years of the World Wide Web
(UCL Press, 2017-03)As the World Wide Web entered mainstream North American society in the mid-to late 1990s, GeoCities was there to welcome users with open arms. GeoCities helped to facilitate their first steps into publishing, so they could ... -
Which Seleukid King Was the First to Establish Friendship with the Romans? Reflections on a Fabricated Letter (Suet. Claud. 25.3), amicitia with Antiochos III (200–193 BC) and the Lack thereof with IlionTriangular Epistolary Diplomacy with Rome from Judas Maccabee to Aristobulos I
(Société Latomus, Brussels, 2019-05-18)Suetonius, Claud. 25.3 has preserved the summary of an obscure Roman letter to Seleucus Rex, offering him amicitia et societas in return for exempting the citizens of Ilion, their own ‘relatives’, from taxation. While ...