Transmission and organization of knowledge in the ancient Mediterranean world /

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Imprint:Wien : Phoibos Verlag, 2021
©2021
Description:295 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12723933
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Other authors / contributors:Suto, Yoshiyuki, editor.
ISBN:9783851612608
3851612604
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The role of transmission and organization of knowledge is essential to our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This collection examines how various media, such as the colloquial, the textual, and the visual, and their intricate and effective combination enabled the productive transmission and organization of knowledge from Archaic Period to Late Antiquity. Yoshiyuki Suto is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Institute for Advanced Research at Nagoya University."--
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Yoshiyuki Suto
  • Greek numerals and numeracy / Josine Blok
  • The epigraphy and topography of the sanctuary of Machaon in Gerenia / Andronike K. Makres
  • What the use of writing tools brought about in ancient Greece : Plato's mind-models and the Alexandrian library / Yasuhira Yahei Kanayama
  • Oral transmission of knowledge and suppressing the audience's Thorubos in classical Athens / Noboru Sato
  • Diffusion of Roman imperial portraits / Kyoko Sengoku-Haga
  • Intercultural exchange of knowledge in the archaic and classical Mediterranean / Kostas Vlassopoulos
  • Purple dye in the Aegean : Technology, production, trade and transmission of knowledge / Lilian Karali
  • Bridging the gulf : The role of landscape in the transmission and organisation of knowledge / Catherine Morgan
  • Western Greek poleis and sanctuaries abroad / Judith M. Barringer
  • Travelling images, travelling gods : Greek-Phoenician encounters / Marion Meyer
  • Social resilience and organization of knowledge in Ptolemaic Egypt / Yoshiyuki Suto
  • The knowledge transmitted by inscribed accounts and legal documents / Elizabeth A. Meyer
  • Sharing divine and human knowledge : Oracles and lots / Irad Malkin
  • Transmission of the concept of the public private distinction in classical Athens / Mariko Sakurai
  • The classical Greek historians and their sources / P. J. Rhodes
  • The history the rhetorically educated knew / J. E. Lendon
  • Continuation and (re)creation of foundation discourses in Lycia and their historical background / Akiko Moroo
  • Transmission of council documents : A case of the fourth-century Antiochene church / Hajime Tanaka.