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...

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,...

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.