The Concept of God/the Gods as King in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
The first section of this paper will survey some of the texts which archeologists have found in the ancient Near Eastern world to see how men describe their gods. Because the ancient world had so many gods, because of the large number of texts and because of the complexity of trying to reproduce an accurate conceptualization of a term like “god,” there will be no attempt to present a total picture of each god, during each period, as it was seen by each different class group within the society.
Suetonius and the Death of Pliny the Elder
This account of Pliny the Elder
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her CommunitiesRe-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities
Re-Membering Ancient Women: Hypatia of Alexandria and her Communities Minardi,
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.
Revelations of Rome in Virgil's Aeneid
Ancient Rome absorbed all that was ancient Greece. In all aspects of its culture, Rome adopted the ways of Hellas, and that adaptation is manifested in the epic tale The Aeneid.
Heroic Healers: Chiron and the Thessalian Doctors
From the fragmentary evidence in the Iliad, two main focal points become apparent. First, Thessaly emerges as the earliest setting for a medical tradition through the references to Thessalian warriors trained in the techne of healing.
The construction of the image of Peace in ancient Greece: a few literary and iconographic evidences
The treaty known as the Peace of Nicias, signed between Athens and Sparta, in March of 421 BC, marked the first truce in one of the bloodiest wars of the Greek civilization, the Peloponnesian War.
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.
Frank Miller
Has 300 so successfully appealed to audiences globally because of, or despite, its extremely violent, racist, homophobic, and sexist subtext?…This paper approaches 300 as a media product produced and consumed in spatially specific ways. I present a geographical reading of 300
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.