As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotinus continues to resist easy elucidation. In this volume, the latest in the Aarhus Studies on Mediterranean Antiquity, Asger Ousager grapples with the great neo-Platonist's conception of the individual. Is the individual free or determined? Is the Plotinian God subject to any compulsion Himself, and with what consequences for our inner and outer...
As the most important philosophical work to emerge in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine, The Enneads has been subject to intense scr...
Roman imperial portrait statues have attracted the attention of scholars since the Renaissance, and justly occupy a central place in the history of Roman art. Research has, however, focused predominatly on the extant portraits, while other documentary evidence related to the crection of imperial portraits such as literary sources, papyri, numismatics and in particular the epigraphis sources have not been explored to their full potential. This book offers an analysis of a corpus of 2300 statue bases for statues of the emperors from Augustus to Commodus (44 BC-AD 192) erected at nearly 800...
Roman imperial portrait statues have attracted the attention of scholars since the Renaissance, and justly occupy a central place in the history of Ro...
Looks at the extent to which individual households and especially attitudes to women changed under Roman control. This collection of papers surveys Greek historiographical literature of the second century AD to find a key to Greek mentality and political i
Looks at the extent to which individual households and especially attitudes to women changed under Roman control. This collection of papers surveys Gr...
Examines the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. This work provides insight into how social mores and etiquette were passed on to children, how family life increased in
Examines the role of meals in creating a sense of family and community in the Mediterranean world in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. This work prov...
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers communicated or held claim to that particular message. Hence, Arrian, Theocritus, Strabo, and Athenaeus reported their fascination with the Alexandrine melting pot to the wider world as did Philo, Josephus and Clement. In various fashions, the four papers of Part I...
Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject ...
The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be excavated (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpture in the period from the fourth to the sixth century. More than mindless acts of religious violence by fanatical mobs, these responses are revelatory of contemporary conceptions of images and the different ways in which the material manifestations of the pagan past could be negotiated in Late Antiquity. Statues were important to the social, political and religious life of cities across the Mediterranean, as well as part of a culture of...
The basic premise of the book at hand is that there is meaning to be excavated (in both meanings of the word) from Christian responses to pagan sculpt...