The Traditional Mediterranean: Essays from the Ancient to the Early Modern Era

Edited by Jayoung Che and Nicholas C. J. Pappas

ISBN: 978-960-9549-21-9, 386 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

Introduction & Acknowledgements J. Che & N. C. J. Pappas		1
PART I: Anatolian and Near Eastern Themes
1.	A Phenomenon in the Hittite Religion: Reaching God by Burning Light in the Hearth I. Tas	11
2.	Sympoliteia and Ethnicity in Caria J. LaBuff	21
3.	The Demise of Jewish Historiography in the Second Temple Period A. Avidov	35
PART II: Hellenic Themes
4.	Eleusis and Athens: The Fexibility of Political Structure and Regional Links in the Ancient Greek Polis J. Che	47
5.	Solon as Prophet and Diviner: Was the Athenian Mediator and Archon of 594 BC Inspired by Mania? M. Dillon	63
6.	The Rhetorical Purpose of the Preface (1.1-1.5) of Herodotus’ Histories V. Provencal	77
PART III: Hellenistic Themes
7.	Did Alexander the Great Voluntarily Curtail his Conquest of the East? E. Anson	87
8.	The Funerary Reliefs of Byzantium as a Sign of Greek Culture M. Puddu	97
9.	The Crisis of 48 Β.C. in Egypt E. G. Mohamed	113
PART IV: Greco-Roman Themes
10.	Sixty and Older: Some Preliminary Observations on Old Age in the Greco-Roman World R.B. Kebric	127
11.	Spear Won Prize: An Analysis of the Romanization of the Histories of Alexander the Great A. Milwicki	137
12.	Marketing the “Liberal Arts” in an Age of Ambition: The Metamorphosis and Survival of Plato’s ‘Academy’ in the Last Generation of the Roman Republic D. Wick	143
13.	The Anatomy of a 2nd Century Bath Reconstructing the 2^ndCentury Greco-Roman Bath at Isthmia, Greece W. J. Batson Jr.	151
14.	Astronomy, Medicine, and Galen: The Beginnings of Empirical Science D. Cooper	161
PART V: Roman Social and Political Themes
15.	Alcohol, Sex, and Slavery in the Roman World J. Evans	173
16.	‘Sua Sponte Facere’: The Problem of Legitimacy of the Unauthorized Contiones in Rome under the Republic R. M. Frolov	187
17.	The Imperial Cult in the Roman Province of Thrace P. Andreeva Andreeva	197
18.	Imperial Representation in the Western-Roman Empire K. Aladar	207
PART VI: Islamic and Byzantine Themes
19.	Daily Life and Districts of the Jews in Hijaz on the Advent of Islam F. Ahmadvand & A. A. Tafreshi	225
20.	Evidence from Khalifa Ibn Khayyat on the Political Relations between the Umayyad Caliphate and Byzantium N. Gelovani	239
21.	A Note on the Policy of the Abbasid Caliphs towards Non-Muslims H. Al-Haideri	245
22.	What did the Ambassadors Really See? Literary and Historical Sources for a Comparative Approach of Arabic and Byzantine Technology C. Canavas	249
PART VII: Medieval and Early Modern Themes
23.	The Teaching on the Soul in Cassiodorus, Augustine and Macrobius in the Aspect of Intellectual History P. Petroff	263
24.	Church and “Superstitions” in Italy at the End of the 15th Century: The Case of Bernardino Busti, Franciscan Observant F. Conti	273
25.	The Maritime Vocation of a Mediterranean City: Messinese Dockyards in the Early Modern Age C. Gugliuzzo	283
26.	Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Diego Suárez Montañés: Two Soldier-Chroniclers of The Spanish Empire Y. Mikura	291
27.	Eyewitnesses to Revolution: Western Accounts of the Ottoman Military during the Early Modern Era E. Myers	301
28.	Medical Therapeutic Texts during the Ottoman Rule of Greece S. Oberhelman	315
PART VII: The Legacy of the Traditional Mediterranean in Later Eras
29.	From Pandora’s Box to the Agora: The Problem of Thumos and the Female R. Almeida	329
30.	Eros and the Sacred in the Mediterranean K. Frantzi	341
31.	Making Sense of the Multilayered past: An Interactive Visual Interpretation of the Athenian Acropolis and the Parthenon J. Mihova	353
32	The Greek Perspective in the Context of the Mediterranean Spatial Organizations M. Urmă	369
List of Contributors to this Volume		383