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Unikatowe opracowanie historii Żydów w szerokim zakresie chronologicznym obejmującym ponad dwa tysiące lat – od czasów gdy w Kanaanie uformowała się niewielka społeczność określana mianem Izraela, aż do podbojów arabskich w VII w. n.e. Opierając się na wszechstronnej bazie źródłowej, w tym na najnowszych badaniach archeologicznych, autorzy w zwartym wykładzie przedstawiają historię polityczną Żydów, rozwój ich kultury i zmiany religijne zachodzące na przestrzeni wieków. W pierwszej część podręcznika przedstawiono historię Izraela i Żydów od czasów...

This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such...

This volume -- the first project of its kind in the field -- collates c. 1200 biographical entries on Greek sophists and rhetors who flourished in the Roman Empire from the first to the seventh century AD. Ancient Greek sophists, the masters of speech and teachers of rhetoric, constituted one of the most important and interesting intellectual circles of the ancient world.
The prosopography provides comprehensive information on sophists and their activities, using abundant and varied source material such as literary texts (including those of the rhetors themselves) and papyrological,...

Table of Contents: The Urukean Archpriest En in the Archaic Period: A few remarks on his functions (Krystyna Szarzynska); 'Fear the Oath ' Stepping back from Oath Taking in First Millennium BC Babylonia (Malgorzata Sandowicz); Tre Lettere di Mercanti del Mar Nero Settentrionale Revisitate. Sui modi de organizzazione e gli attori del commercio e sulla 'giustizia privata' in poleis ed emporia (Benedetto Bravo); La Conception d'Aeternitas dans le Monnayage de Consecration Romain de l'Epoque du Principat (Katarzyna Balbuza); Jerome, Palliatae, and Veteres Comici: A note to Hier. Ep.57.5.5 (De...

Palamedes seeks to provide a forum where, within the frames of cultural history broadly defined, ancient historians, classical philologists, archaeologists, jurists and epigraphists-all those who study Greek and Roman antiquity in its material, linguistic, or intellectual manifestations-can meet with Orientalist and Egyptological counterparts.