The 'Style Empire' and its Pedigree: Piranesi, Pompeii and Alexandria by Caroline van Eck

“…This essay singles out the particular approach to composition developed by Piranesi, and its ancestry in Pompeian mural painting and Hellenistic architecture and poetry, as a defining characteristic of the 'Style Empire'. …”
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The Wages of Effeminacy?: Kinaidoi in Greek Documents from Egypt by Tom Sapsford

“…A comparison is also made with documentary sources from within Hellenistic and Roman Egypt which mention effeminacy, homoerotic activity, and anal penetration. …”
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Die mensbeskoulike en samelewingsteoretiese vertrekpunte van ’n <i>onbekende</i> skrywer, toegespits op Hebreërs 10:38–39 by Sarel van der Walt

“…Within the context of the Greco-Hellenistic world and the broad history of revelational lines in the Bible, this article takes as point of departure Hebrews 10:38–39. …”
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Clarifying Key Concerns about the Dating of Holy Relics: The Holy Chalice of the Last Supper at the Cathedral of Valencia by Manuel Zarzo

“…According to an archeological study published in 1960, this agate bowl was crafted around the 2nd–1st centuries BC, but people visiting this famous relic often wonder about its authenticity and about the evidence supporting it as a Hellenistic–Roman cup. Attempting to clarify this concern, a photographical characterization of the agate cup is presented and discussed. …”
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The Landscape and Language of Korinna by Daniel W. Berman

“…<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Korinna's expoitation of Boeotian topography and dialect in order to express wider epic themes resembles Hellenistic poetic developments, and this agrees with other evidence that would place her in the later fourth century B.C.…”
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Das Gebet bei Flavius Josephus. Das Werk von Tessel Jonquière und weitere Überlegungen by Werner Urbanz

“…In prayers, Josephus combine traditional Jewish thoughts with hellenistic and his own. So prayers represent the tendencies of his whole work in nuce.…”
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The Late Antique Image of Menander by Sarah E. Bassett

“…<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Late portraits of Menander, though derived from the Hellenistic original, transform the poet's image, by means of stylistic and technical manipulation, from one of civic commemoration to a representation of the intensity and intellectualism of canonized wisdom.…”
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Kings, Gods and Heroes in a Dynastic Perspective. A Comparative Approach by Alessandra Coppola

“…This paper focuses on divinity and heroization of kings and queens as strategies for the legitimation of the new hellenistic dynasties, underlining common patterns and local needs. …”
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Procles the Carthaginian: A North African Sophist in Pausanias’ <i>Periegesis</i> by Juan Pablo Sánchez Hernández

“…<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Procles, cited by Pausanias (in the imperfect tense) about a display in Rome and for an opinion about Pyrrhus of Epirus, probably was not a historian of Hellenistic date, but a contemporary sophist whom Pausanias encountered in person in Rome.…”
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Background of the title kyrios: revisiting the debate by Cristian Daniel Cardozo Mindiola

“…After presenting a critical analysis of the Imperial, Hellenistic and Aramaic positions, the possibility that the linguistic background of the expression might be found within the Septuagint is suggested and argued.…”
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The language of Greek literature by Willi, A

“…This contribution traces the development of the language of Ancient Greek literature from its prehistoric origins down to the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The dialects and registers of epic, elegy, and epigram, of choral and monodic lyric, of iambus, comedy, and tragedy, and of prose are described in separate sections; also treated are some of the major metrical patterns.…”

Les maisons des négociants italiens à Délos : structuration de l’espace domestique dans une société en mouvement by Mantha Zarmakoupi

“…This article discusses the architecture of the houses of Italian merchants on Delos during the Hellenistic period and sheds light on the structuring of their domestic space. …”
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Poetry and poets critics in the Ovid’s Am. 2. 6 by Alexandre Agnolon

“…We will demonstrate that the humorous Ovid’s poem uses parody and other key topics strategies belonging to the Hellenistic conventions at the service of the poetry, and the poets, criticism.…”
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Theocritus' Idyll 11 by Loukas Papadimitropoulos

“…This is the only way he can control it. In true Hellenistic fashion his principal aim is not erotic gratification, but poetic success. …”
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La tipología urbanística alejandrina en la ciudad helenística by Joaquín Montero Múñiz

“…</p><p>In this article is carried out an approach to the urbanism in the Antiquity, and specific to the planned urbanism in Ancient Greece, that finds its máximum expression and diffusion with Alexander's the Great territorial conquests and, later on, during the Hellenistic kingdoms. The planning and foundation of new cities during the Hellenistic era are not only a motor of economic development, political and military control of the territory or cultural diffusion, but a very important and deep factor of the royal political propaganda that will be used later by the Román emperors.…”
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AUTOMATA TECHNOLOGY IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD AND ITS INFLUENCE ON KOREA by Kim Jeoung-Myoung

“…Keywords: Islamic civilization, technology, Hellenistic texts, automatic devices, water clock.   …”
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Glass finds from Areas U and G at the Kom el-Dikka sitein Alexandria (excavations in 2012 and 2013) by Renata Kucharczyk

“…Also found in this area was cast glass of the late Hellenistic/early Romanperiod: mosaic glass and a grooved bowl, the latter recorded for the first time at Kom el-Dikka.…”
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Le palais d’Aiétès et son jardin chez Apollonios de Rhodes (Arg., III, v. 194-252). Un exemple de paysage-palimpseste antique ? by Laury-Nuria André

“…How else can one explain that the palace of Aeetes can be the image of a hellenistic Greek royal palace, the perfect image of an architecture that inscribes itself into a divine order? …”
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Emperor and law in the orations of Julian 'the Apostate' by Šarkić Srđan

“…The substitution of the Roman Republic by Hellenistic oriental monarchy, the process extending through three centuries, found its legal-theoretical justification in the Hellenistic theory of a monarch as a live or spiritualized law (νόμος εμψυχος, lex animata). …”
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A Stoic Reading of Internal Obedience in Romans 1:18–2:29 by Laurie A. Wilson, Isaac D. Blois

“…While acknowledging the Hellenistic tone of the passage, this paper focuses on the Stoic elements of natural law that were broadly recognized in Rome. …”
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