Queering Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt
As part of my general endeavours to queer the dominant representation of the archaeological past and, more specifically in the context of this paper, the construction of sex and gender in ancient egypt, I do not intend to develop another argument to determine whether niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were brothers or
Moses in historiography from Hellenistic Alexandria to Josephus
The image of Moses is not fixed from author to author. Rather, the historians took special interest in Moses
Krypteia: A Form of Ancient Guerrilla Warfare
Modern scholars have debated the exact nature of the Spartan krypteia (????????), a group of young men who roamed the countryside killing helots. Some have seen it as a form of education, others as a form of suppression. However, not many scholars have pointed out that the krypteia was a form of guerrilla warfare against the helot population.
Sancti et linguae: the classical world in the eyes of Hibernia
This thesis will examine Irish views of the classical world primarily through texts written in Ireland and on the continent by Irishmen up to the beginning of the Carolingian period
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The Old and the Restless: The Egyptians and the Scythians in Herodotus' Histories
On a historiographical level, if we look at all the ethnographic material in the Histories, it appears that Herodotus wishes the reader to view the world and its peoples in a sort of grid. Scythia and Egyptians are the extremes (in several ways) and other central cultures like the Greeks and Persians fall into place between them.
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
This article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development.
The Great Jewish Revolt of 66 AD: Conflicts Within Conflicts
The other conflict that exhausted the Jewish ability to wage a successful revolution against the Romans was their internal conflicts. Much of the resentment that flourished in this period of violence had its origin in the Greek rule of the Jews under the Greco- Macedonian dynasty of Antiochus of Syria.
Teaching Thucydides: Athens, Sparta, and the Politics of History
Among the causes of corruption in the English body politic enumerated by Thomas Hobbes in his book Behemoth was the attitude toward democracy engendered by learning about the ancient Greek and Roman republics.
Why Jesus Could Walk on the Sea but He Could Not Read and Write: Reflections on Historicity and Interpretation in Historical Jesus Research
Anyone familiar with NT scholarship will think that the title of this paper has it wrong: current scholarship is fairly unanimous that Jesus could read and write but that he probably did not walk on the water. Although some scholars are skeptical about the texts, there is multiple independent attestation from John and Luke that he could actually write and/or read.