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Hesiod, Theogony

Asa Simon Mittman

Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Marcus Hensel

Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...Most likely writing sometime in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, the Greek poet Hesiod is known not so much for elegant poetry but for the earliest extant version of the Greek creation myth. Drawing on Near Eastern creation...

Bust of Polyphemus

Asa Simon Mittman

Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Marcus Hensel

Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...This sculpted head of the giant Cyclops Polyphemus came from a larger sculptural group depicting a scene from The Odyssey. We cannot tell if it is a Greek or Roman work, since Roman artists often very closely copied Greek models...

From a Buried Fragment to the Virtual Artefact: A Case Study of Greek Pottery

Despoina Tsiafaki

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Despoina Tsiafaki

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Anestis Koutsoudis

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Anestis Koutsoudis

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Natasa Michailidou

Natasa Michailidou

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Fotis Arnaoutoglou

Fotis Arnaoutoglou

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Digital Techniques for Documenting and Preserving Cultural Heritage

Arc Humanities Press, 2017

Book chapter

...The fragmentary condition of objects is often an issue in the study of material cultural heritage. In archaeology, and in pottery studies in particular, the fragmentary condition of excavated objects impacts on research into their history...

Homer, the Odyssey, Odysseus and his Men Encounter the Cyclops

Asa Simon Mittman

Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Marcus Hensel

Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare Volume 2

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...Written sometime in the eighth century BCE, The Odyssey, along with The Iliad, was first passed down orally from generation to generation for hundreds of years, resulting in formulaic elements such as consistent epithets (e.g...

The Land of the Greeks

John Freely

John Freely (1926-2017) was one of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Light from the East : How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World

I.B.Tauris, 2011

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...One of the early Islamic scientists, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, writes of going off to bilad-al-Rum, ‘the land of the Greeks’‘the land of the Greeks’, Anawati, DSB, vol. 15, p. 230, where he improved his Greek in order to read scientific manuscripts...

Representing Celibate Marriages

Anne P. Alwis

Anne P. Alwis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests lie in hagiography, narrative and gender in late Antiquity and Byzantium. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Celibate Marriages in Late Antique and Byzantine Hagiography : The Lives of Saints Julian and Basilissa, Andronikos and Athanasia, and Galaktion and Episteme

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...Despite their unifying theme and their determination to explore the boundaries of celibate marriage, the vitae are far from homogenous in their renderings. The characters in the VJB represent a range of affirmative and negative perspectives...

Pro Deo et Amore Marchionis: Honorius III, William VI of Montferrat, and the Fifth Crusade in Greece

Ben Halliburton

Ben Halliburton, Saint Louis University, MO Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Papacy, Crusade, and Christian–Muslim Relations

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

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...The Fifth Crusade is well-known for the absence of Frederick II on it, despite its many other participants, but the Holy Roman Emperor was not the only Christian knight who had taken the Cross and then made alternate arrangements. Marquis...

Science Before Science

John Freely

John Freely (1926-2017) was one of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Light from the East : How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World

I.B.Tauris, 2011

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...The Greeks of the classical era believed that they had acquired their knowledge of astronomy from Mesopotamia and Egypt. Herodotus credits the Babylonians with inventing the gnomon, the shadow-marker of the sundial, which the Greeks used...

Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean

Amelia R. Brown

Amelia R. Brown

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Intercultural Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean

Continuum, 2012

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...When the first production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia ended in 458 bc, the audience at the City Dionysia in Athens must have realized that they had seen a masterpiece from one of their greatest dramatists. Yet no Athenian could have imagined...

Harem Christianity: The Byzantine Identity of Seljuk Princes

Rustam Shukurov

Rustam Shukurov

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The Seljuks of Anatolia : Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East

I.B. Tauris, 2013

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...Relations between the Byzantines and the Anatolian Turks in the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries have been the subject of extensive scholarly investigation, covering rivalry and alliances in politics, economic exchange and cultural...