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The biblical book of Daniel was known to Jewish and Christian antiquity in its longer versions, preserved for us in the Greek textual tradition. Those Additions, as they came to be called (the tale of Susanna and the legends of Bel and the Dragon, the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Hebrews in the fiery furnace), have travelled on through languages and cultures and have generated long trails of interpretation, from commentary and religious iconography to fine art and domestic interiors. This book follows three particular trails in the reception of the longer Daniel-book, tracing the themes of martyrdom, afterlife worlds, and the act of seeing beauty. Recovering and documenting the voices of ancient, medieval, and modern interpreters, we meet an assembled cast of Jewish and Christian martyrs, liturgical subjects facing purgatory or paradise, and women resisting voyeuristic viewing. All this reception, though, is a route to reading the text of Greek Daniel itself: these later interpreters move this study towards exegetical conclusions about the Jewish roots of ancient martyrdom, the importance of the book of Daniel to the expansion of afterlife spaces within Second Temple Judaism, and a defense of the ethics of narration in the text of Susanna. Drawing on methods of material philology, Jennie Grillo argues for the central place of the Additions in the readerly history of the book of Daniel, and for this longer Daniel-book's abiding significance for theology.

Alors que les recherches sur la Crete romaine connaissent depuis une vingtaine d'annees un important renouveau, que les fouilles conduites jusqu'a peu en Cyrenaique fournissent de plus en plus d'informations sur la periode du Haut-Empire, et que le corpus des Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica est recemment paru, le cadre administratif dans lequel vivaient ces deux regions de la pars Graeca entre l'epoque de Pompee et la Tetrarchie a paradoxalement peu suscite l'attention des historiens, en raison de leur caractere peripherique et de leur marginalite supposee. La province de Crete-Cyrenaique est ici etudiee du point de vue de son histoire administrative, depuis sa formation dans le courant du Ier siecle av. J.-C. jusqu'a sa separation apres les reformes de Diocletien. L'organisation interne de la province, le statut des poleis, entre cites libres et coloniae, ainsi que les enjeux militaires d'un espace a la fois maritime et desertique, sont decrits. Est egalement etablie la prosopographie complete des magistrats romains (proconsuls, legats, questeurs, procurateurs) dont les carrieres sont analysees. Cette synthese sur l'une des rares doubles provinces de l'Empire a pour objectif de montrer ce que les sources cretoises et cyreneennes s'apportent mutuellement, de repondre a certains questionnements relatifs a la gestion des prouinciae romaines et de contribuer plus generalement a l'histoire de l'Orient hellenophone a l'epoque imperiale. Over the last twenty years, major advances have been made in research on Roman Crete, while excavations in Cyrenaica have provided new information on the Early Imperial period. More recently, the corpus of the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica has been published. However, the administrative framework in which these two regions of the pars Graeca flourished between Pompey and the Tetrarchy has paradoxically received little attention from historians, due to their peripheral location and supposed marginality. The administrative evolution of the province of Crete and Cyrene, from its formation during the1st century BCE to its separation after the reforms of Diocletian, is first studied. The internal organization of the province, the status of the poleis - between free cities and coloniae - as well as the challenges of defending an area that was both maritime and on the edge of the desert, are described. A complete prosopography of the Roman officials (proconsuls, legates, quaestors, procurators) as well as an analysis of their careers are also included. This synthesis of one of the Empire's few dual provinces aims to demonstrate what Cretan and Cyrenaican sources contribute to each other, to answer certain questions on the management of the Roman prouinciae, and to offer a more general contribution to the history of the Greek East during the Imperial period.

The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and'ecological'sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the ancients'knowledge of species diversity are the main cores of the research. The aim is to interrogate historical sources and diverse evidence and to analyse political and socioeconomic structures, according to a reading focused on possible antecedents, cultural prodromes, alignments of thought or divergencies, with respect to major modern environmental problems and current ecological conceptualisations. As a result,'sustainable'behaviour,'biodiversity'and its practical uses can also be identified in ancient societies. In the context of environmental studies, this contribution is placed from the perspective of a historian of antiquity, with the aim of outlining the forma mentis and praxis of the ancients with respect to specific environmental issues. Ancient civilizations always provided ad hoc solutions for specific emergencies, but never developed a comprehensive ecological culture of environmental protection as in modernity.

'Karthago'schreitet drei Jahrtausende Siedlungsgeschichte ab. Karthago florierte fast sieben Jahrhunderte als punische, weitere sieben Jahrhunderte als eine römische Metropole. In der Nachantike zerfiel es, seine Bauten wurden bis auf den Erdboden abgetragen. Schauplatz eines Kreuzzugs im 13. und eines europäischen Feldzugs im 16. Jahrhundert, wurde es nach 1800 Objekt archäologischer und imperialistischer Begehrlichkeiten. Sitz eines kolonialzeitlichen katholischen Erzbistums, entwickelte sich Karthago im 20. Jahrhundert zu einer kleinstädtischen Kommune, in der der tunesische Präsident seine Residenz hat. Verstärkt seit Beginn einer internationalen Grabungskampagne 1972 hat die Archäologie aus den reduzierten Überresten Merkmale der Stadtgestalt im zeitlichen Wandel herausgearbeitet. „Karthago'schreibt die archäologische Geschichte der Stadt und entfaltet mit Blick auf die großen stratigraphischen Herausforderungen zugleich eine karthagische Geschichte der Archäologie. Für die Fachöffentlichkeit bietet es eine kritische Zusammenschau auf Grundlage der neuesten Forschung, für interessierte Laien einen fundierten Einblick in die Geschichte einer antiken Metropole und die Potenziale moderner archäologischer Analyse.

Cet ouvrage réunit trente-sept contributions de chercheurs français et étrangers travaillant sur les décors dans le monde romain. Amis, collègues et étudiants de Nicole Blanc et Hélène Eristov, ils ont souhaité exprimer leur reconnaissance pour leur disponibilité, leur bienveillance ainsi que pour leur apport à l'histoire et l'archéologie des peintures et des stucs antiques. Nicole Blanc et Hélène Eristov, toutes les deux membres du laboratoire AOROC (UMR 8546), ont, depuis leur rencontre, travaillé ensemble et fait converger leurs recherches. Ce volume, articulé autour de trois axes (la question de l'iconographie, de la contextualisation et de la réception des décors romains dans les sources anciennes et modernes), reflète la grande diversité des thèmes et approches développés dans leurs travaux ainsi qu'une réelle actualisation des problématiques.

DECOR is the first series that considers decorative phenomena in a comprehensive way. It moves away from the study of single decorative elements in isolation, focusing instead upon their spatial-architectural and visual correlation and integration. This means that the individual studies analyse not only images, but also ornamental forms of decor. As such, they discuss the visual relationship between decorative elements with differing levels of associated semantics. These elements are assessed precisely with regard to their spatial setting. Thus, the series provides new analyses of image-spaces, or rather ‘decor-spaces', while bringing the perceptual attitudes of the viewer to the fore, as well. The geographical focus is on Italy, the chronological framework ranges from the 2nd century B.C. to the late 1st century A.D. This period saw profound political and social upheaval but also fundamental changes in decorative principles, providing an ideal starting point for analyses of the relationships between shifting forms of action and experience, as well as variations in strategies of decor.

Le deuxieme livre de Samuel (II Regnes dans la Septante) est consacre a l'arrivee au pouvoir et au regne du roi David, evenement central dans l'histoire de la royaute en Israel. Le texte, transmis en differents etats (texte massoretique, fragments qumraniens, plusieurs traductions grecques, latines et orientales), fait partie des livres historiques de la Bible et presente a cet egard une valeur documentaire considerable et en meme temps problematique. Cet ouvrage croise les approches des philologues, des historiens, des specialistes de l'exegese, sur l'histoire du texte et sur ses receptions jusqu'a l'epoque contemporaine. The second book of Samuel ('II Kingdoms'in the Septuagint) is devoted to the coming to power and reign of King David, a central event in the history of kingship in Israel. The text, which has been handed down in various states (Massoretic text, Qumran fragments, several Greek, Latin and Oriental translations), is one of the'historical books'of the Bible and, in this respect, is of considerable documentary value, as well as being problematic. This book brings together the approaches of philologists, historians and specialists in exegesis, on the history of the text and its reception up to the present day.

Inverser la perspective et regarder les spectateurs : tel est le point de vue adopté pour interroger comment les Grecs et les Romains de l'Antiquité, si férus de spectacles de toute nature, théâtrale, sportive, religieuse, politique, ont été eux-mêmes spectaculaires. Comment dans les gradins du théâtre, du cirque ou de l'amphithéâtre, au passage d'une procession ou dans l'auditoire d'un sermon chrétien, manifestaient-ils leur présence, leur adhésion ou leur contestation? Dans quelle mesure ces manifestations étaient-elles attendues, codifiées ou redoutées par les organisateurs? En prêtant ou en refusant leur attention, visuelle et polysensorielle, à une performance, tous avaient une part active dans son succès. Pour retrouver les corps, les émotions, les passions de ces spectateurs disparus, le livre parcourt des textes, des images, les traces matérielles qu'ils ont laissées, depuis la Grèce archaïque jusque dans l'Antiquité tardive.

La suprematie politique des elites civiques aux epoques hellenistique et imperiale n'est plus a demontrer. Les moyens par lesquels certaines familles parvenaient a asseoir durablement leur preeminence dans le cadre specifique des poleis grecques, majoritairement democratiques, restent cependant insuffisamment analyses et la place de freres dans les processus de reproduction des elites n'a jamais fait l'objet d'une etude d'ensemble. Les strategies juridiques, economiques et sociales employees pour preserver et perpetuer le capital materiel et symbolique de l'oikos revelent en effet l'importance des solidarites entre freres ou entre freres et soeurs et la necessaire repartition des roles dans les fratries. En convoquant les archives epigraphiques des cites de plusieurs regions du monde grec (Grece, Macedoine, Egee, Asie Mineure) et en examinant de nombreuses sources litteraires (orateurs attiques, Menandre, Plutarque, litterature astrologique) et archeologiques (epigrammes funeraires, monuments familiaux), cet ouvrage se veut une contribution a l'histoire sociale des elites civiques au miroir des relations adelphiques. The political supremacy of civic elites in the Hellenistic and Imperial periods is a well established fact. However, the means by which certain families succeeded in establishing their pre-eminence over the long term within the specific framework of the Greek poleis, most of which were democratic, remain insufficiently analysed, and the role of brothers in the reproduction of elites has never been the subject of a comprehensive study. The legal, economic and social strategies employed to preserve and perpetuate the material and symbolic capital of the oikos reveal the importance of solidarity between brothers or between brothers and sisters and the necessary division of roles among siblings. By drawing on the'epigraphic archives'of cities in several regions of the Greek world (Greece, Macedonia, the Aegean, Asia Minor) and examining numerous literary (Attic orators, Menander, Plutarch, astrological literature) as well as archaeological sources (funerary epigrams, family monuments), this book aims to contribute to the social history of civic elites as seen through fraternal relations.

In the process of the translatio studiorum, two stages are nowadays well-known: the translation of Greek texts into Arabic in Abbasid Baghdad in the 9th-10th centuries, and the Arabo-Latin translations in medieval Western Europe between the 11th and 14th centuries. However, for a long time, Byzantines have appeared distant from this extensive exchange of knowledge circulating from one side to the other of the Mediterranean. Exploring the understudied phenomenon of the transmission of Arab medical knowledge to Byzantium from the 11th to the 14th century, this collective volume aims to highlight that the Byzantines actively participated in this multicultural erudition by embracing the medical theories and practices of their Eastern and Western neighbours. The book attempts to trace the history of this chain through historical investigations and philological study of translations. Furthermore, it includes a critical edition and translation of two previously unpublished Arabo-Byzantine translations: the treatise On the Manual of Health According to the Balance of the Six Causes by Symeon Seth, which partially translates Ibn Butlan's Almanac of Health (Taqwim al-sihha, in Latin Tacuinum sanitatis), and an anonymous translation of Ibn al-Gazzar's Epistle on Forgetfulness and Its Treatment.

Following the volume Les Peres de l'Eglise et la science medicale de leur temps, published in 2005, the present work collects 9 papers presented at the international conference organised at Sorbonne University on 15 and 16 September 2016. Based on the examination of the original texts, the papers endeavour to study the links between the Christian authors and the ancient Greek medical texts from an interdisciplinary approach. Particular attention is paid to the use in Christian texts of quotations from medical literature, medical notions, and specialized lexicon. The papers also analyse and compare the medical vocabulary attested in different types of contemporaneous writings, both pagan and Christian, literary and documentary, to better understand the process of transmission and assimilation of Greek medical science by the Christian society in the first centuries AD.

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences. The study of classical art always oscillates between archaeology and classics, between the study of ancient texts and archaeological material. For this reason, it is often difficult to collect all the data, to have access to both types of information on an equal basis. The increasing development of digital collections and databases dedicated to both archaeological material and ancient texts is a direct response to this problem. The book's central theme is the role of the digital humanities, especially digital collection,s such as the Digital Milliet, in the study of ancient Greek and Roman painting. Part 1 focuses on the transition between the original print version of the Recueil Milliet and its digital incarnation. Part 2 addresses the application of digital tools to the analysis of ancient art. Part 3 focuses on ancient wall painting. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, classics, archaeology, and digital humanities.

On the occasion of Anne-Marie Edde's retirement in June 2018, her colleagues, friends and students gathered at the Sorbonne for a one-day workshop. This book brings together the contributions that made this day so rich, inspired by different aspects of her research as a historian. The summary of her career as a professor, researcher and director of the IRHT (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes) is accompanied by a bibliography of her work. Among the eleven contributions, four are devoted to the history of medieval Bilad al-Sham - from Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Syria, through the letters of al-Awza'i, to Mamluk Aleppo and Ottoman Mount Lebanon. In the wake of Saladin (2008), two authors reflect on biographical writing in history. The forms and representations of power in Islam are the subject of the ensuing two studies. Finally, three articles of varia broaden the horizon to Florentine commercial archives, French military archives in Algeria, and archaeology.

The confrontation of literary sources and archaeological data is important to try altogether to understand the implementation of dietary prohibitions peculiar to a religion, the limits of the practice of dietary prohibitions and their evolution over time. Food prohibitions and restrictions on commensality allow different religious groups to draw a line between'them'and'us'. The body of normative texts pertaining to religious and civil laws prohibiting the consumption of particular foods has often been studied for Judaism or Islam, less often for polytheisms, Zoroastrianism or Christianity. We intend to present the normative literature and to reflect on the limits of its implementation, relying on archaeozoology that can provide data on the discrepancy between norm and practice.

Au cours des dernieres decennies, la recherche sur l'aristocratie romaine s'est diversifiee en s'ouvrant, au-dela des aspects politiques et prosopographiques bien defriches, a de nouvelles problematiques telles que la communication des elites, la semiologie du pouvoir ou encore l'influence de l'espace sur les pratiques politiques. Le travail d'Ilse Hilbold s'insere dans ces nouvelles approches et y apporte une importante innovation : si l'espace de la vie aristocratique a longtemps ete concu de facon dichotomique entre urbs et rus, entre domus et uilla, l'autrice demontre la pertinence d'un troisieme lieu trop longtemps neglige par la recherche, les horti residentiels de Rome. L'etude des jardins en tant que residences aristocratiques, situees dans des espaces verdoyants en dehors de la ville et en meme temps tres proches, permet de substituer a la dichotomie domus-uilla le triptyque domus-horti-uilla, de decouvrir un cadre peu connu de l'action politique, ainsi que les conditions et potentialites des interactions specifiques a ce troisieme lieu de residence. L'etude des horti s'appuie essentiellement sur une analyse systematique de l'ensemble des sources litteraires, tout en considerant scrupuleusement les donnees archeologiques lorsqu'elles sont conservees et disponibles.

In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues. The book is organized in four sections according to the body of evidence they engage most directly: Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, and Iranian materials in comparison with other data, including studies of myths, especially those with cosmogonic implications, ritual practices, cosmological constructions of space and time, points of intersection between religion, ethics, law, and politics, ideological aspects of scientific and medical theorizing, social organization and gender relations, and other diverse topics.

The related series uru.an.na = mas / ltakkal,'uru.an.na means the mas/ltakkal plant', and mud-ur.mah = me sa libbi bini,'lion's blood means the liquid from the heart of the tamarisk', both give synonyms and equivalent foreign names for plants, herbs and wood, as well as for other ingredients ancient medical practitioners used to effect cures. This first volume, about both series, focuses on the cuneiform tablets on which the texts were written, from the British Museum, London, the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, and the Oriental Institute, Chicago. New hand copies and sketches show the physical and non-physical joins. Viewing the tablets as archaeological objects, the author provides numerous observations about format, shape, colour,'firing holes', worm holes and trace fossils. The ways scribes marked out their tablets with horizontal lines (sometimes doubled) to separate entries or paragraphs or provide ruled tablets are described; vertical rulings defined the left edge and column divisions (sometimes replaced by a glossenkeil). Areas reserved for writing, layout, slanted lines of writing, alignment and indentation of paragraphs, line spacing and ductus (especially changes from middle to neo-assyrian) are carefully examined. The last chapter concentrates on scribal corrections and various correction marks, line markers and supplementary glosses. Such features illuminate the personal preferences and professional experience of the frequently anonymous scribes behind the tablets.

Ce volume presente les actes d'un colloque international organise conjointement par l'universite de la Sorbonne et l'universite de Geneve a Paris entre le 12 et le 15 fevrier 2015. Cette reunion avait pour objectif d'etablir un etat de l'art de la documentation papyrologique de l'Ancien Empire egyptien, et plus generalement de celle des archives administratives qui nous sont connues pour cette periode de l'histoire pharaonique (lettres, comptabilites, inventaires, journaux de bords d'equipes de travail, listes de personnel). Elle a permis de reunir la quasi totalite des chercheurs qui etudient ce type de sources, et de presenter successivement des lots documentaires, ou parfois certains documents isoles, issus de la region memphite (papyrus d'Abousir et de Saqqara), de la Haute et Moyenne Egypte (Meir, Sharouna, Gebelein, Elephantine), voire de zones plus peripheriques de l'espace egyptien ayant egalement livre des archives similaires (ouadi el-Jarf sur la cote de la mer Rouge, Balat/Ayn Asil, dans l'oasis de Dakhla). Pour chacun de ces dossiers, les contributeurs font le point sur la documentation disponible et l'avancement des etudes la concernant. De nombreux exemples - certains totalement inedits - sont egalement publies dans ce volume, afin de mieux definir le mode d'organisation de ces sources fondamentales, et ainsi de mieux apprehender le fonctionnement des differents rouages de l'administration a cette periode, aussi bien au sein d'une meme institution qu'a l'echelon provincial ou central. This collective volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium co-organized by Sorbonne university and Geneva university in Paris between February 12th and 15th 2015. The aim of the such a meeting was to establish a state of the art of the papyrological documentation known to us for this specific period of pharaonic history (letters, accounting documents, inventories, working teams'logbooks, personnel registers). By bringing together most specialists of this type of historic sources, it has enabled a complete presentation of the main series of documents from the Memphite area (papyri of Abusir and Sakkara), from Upper or Middle Egypt (Meir, Sharuna, Gebelein, Elephantine), or even from more remote places like the wadi el-Jarf harbour on the Red sea shores or Balat-Ayn Asil archives in the Dakhla oasis. Each contributor gives an overview of the available documentation and the most recent studies related to it. Numerous examples, some of them hitherto unpublished, are illustrated in this volume so as to better understand the way those lots are organized and to fully apprehend how the administration of this period was managed at the provincial as well as central level.

Par Dame Sagesse on designe generalement la figure de la sagesse telle qu'elle apparaOEt dans quelques passages bibliques. Si la personnification litteraire est un phenomene relativement courant, celle de la sagesse est plus etonnante, puisqu'elle se developpe au point de donner a cette figure une identite unique en relation avec Dieu. La question n'est donc plus seulement litteraire, au point que les concepts d'immanence, de transcendance ou meme d'hypostase ont pu etre proposes pour la definir, sans oublier les nombreuses tentatives qui l'assimilent a quelque divinite antique connue ou aujourd'hui oubliee. Les diverses etudes reunies dans ce volume considerent d'abord les epoques et les milieux d'emergence des diverses representations de la sagesse dans l'Antiquite, elles creusent les influences possibles voire evidentes au sein des traditions mesopotamiennes, egyptiennes, levantines et grecques et demontrent finalement comment la figure de la sagesse personnifiee est une figure fluide, en constante evolution, au gre de certains milieux religieux et de leurs interrogations. Lady Wisdom usually refers to the figure of wisdom personified in some biblical texts. If personification is a relatively common literary device, that of wisdom is more striking, as it develops to the point of giving to the figure a unique identity in relation to God. The question is no longer literary, and concepts of immanence, transcendence and even hypostasis have been proposed to define her, as well as diverse identifications with some known or now forgotten ancient divinity. The contributions in this volume seek first to consider the context of each witness of the representations of wisdom in Antiquity, they trace possible influences within Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Levantine and Greek traditions, and finally demonstrate how wisdom personified is a fluid figure, in constant evolution, according to certain religious milieux and their interrogations.

Diese Studie nimmt das Konzept der Freundschaft bei Libanius sowie den Kappadokiern und Johannes Chrysostomus in den Blick und untersucht vergleichend Freundschaftsvorstellungen und -praktiken im christlichen wie nicht christlichen Kontext des 4. Jh.s n. Chr.

Les auteurs de cet ouvrage montrent que le zoroastrisme et le manicheisme, qui partagent une vision dualiste du monde et des entites primordiales, ont pose de facon similaire au judaisme, au christianisme et a l'islam la question du rapport des adeptes a la verite et donc a l'erreur des autres. Cet ouvrage apporte donc une pierre fondamentale a l'etude du phenomene de la controverse religieuse dans l'Antiquite tardive et au debut du Moyen Age. Il nous permet de mieux apprehender deux systemes de pensee de l'Orient, en ce qu'ils ont de commun mais aussi dans leur irreductible singularite. The authors of this collected volume show that Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism, which share a dualist vision of the world and the primordial entities, have raised in a similar way to Judaism, Christianity and Islam the question of the relationship of their followers to truth and therefore the error made by others. The volume makes a fundamental contribution to the study of the phenomenon of religious controversy in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. It allows us to better understand two Eastern systems of thought, both in what they have in common and in their irreducible individuality.

The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris is the first work of its kind, giving a full account of all aspects of his life and works and surveying past and current scholarship as well as new developments in research.