Books
Der soziale Wert prähistorischer Beile: neue archäologische und archäometrische Ansätze
What was the value of axes in prehistoric societies? Were they tools, weapons, means of exchange, or status symbols? This volume contains investigations into raw material deposits and material analyses but also deals with the economic and social questions associated with resource management as well as with production and distribution processes. Where were raw materials exploited and by whom? Who manufactured the products and where? How were the trade networks organised? These contributions present European-wide studies of various micro- and macro-regions from the Neolithic Period to the end of the Bronze Age, each addressing one or more aspects of this vast topic.
PIA 1. Bericht des Pilotprojekts Inwertsetzung Ausgrabungen
The "Pilot Project for the Valorisation of Excavations" (PIA) is developing methods and standards for efficient processing and publication of rescue excavations. The first PIA volume contains several articles on a large-scale excavation in Cleebronn (Lkr. Heilbronn) with settlement features and burials from the Middle Neolithic, the Urnfield period, the Latène period and the Early and High Middle Ages. The excavation of two latrines and a well in the Roman vicus of Sindelfingen (Lkr. Böblingen) yielded spectacular features and finds. An introduction to the aims and methods of the pilot project and an overview of the rescue excavations in 2023 complement the volume.
A Second Gaze
This volume is an exploration into the many layers of meaning in Roman texts and images. In sixteen contributions, scholars from the fields of Classics and Archaeology bring to bear the methodologies of their respective disciplines and engage in an transdisciplinary endeavour to discover the manifold ways in which texts and images transfer earlier manifestations of their respective subject to new contexts and thereby create new meaning.
The authors use and develop inherited concepts of intertextuality, paratextuality, reframing, and visual studies to lay bare mechanisms of perception and creativity. Taking the textual as well as the visual world into account, the volume reaches beyond the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines.
Cultural Landscapes as Resource for the Revitalization of Cultural Heritage and a Sustainable Regional Development
Sexual Rivalry in Petronius’ Satyrica
If Petronius’ Satyrica were published today, we would advise our children not to read it. Speaking in 21st-century terms, the book is a manifesto of toxic masculinity. Men in positions of power treat others as mere sex objects, viewing as trifles incidents of sexual denigration, exploitation, and violence. Still, if we put the Satyrica in its proper literary and socio-historical context, the text helps tease out the contradictions of the past and the present.
Pollux’ Onomastikon: Ein griechischer Thesaurus des 2. Jahrhunderts n.Chr.
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Deutschland. Münzsammlung der Universität Tübingen
The 7th volume of the Tübingen SNG (Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Deutschland) series publishes the Roman provincial coinage from Egypt in the Tübingen collection of the Institute of Classical Archaeology. The catalog comprises 1170 coins – from Augustus to Diocletian from Alexandria and the nomes –, which are presented according to the latest scientific standards.
Antiquity in Progress:
This interdisciplinary volume aims at illustrating the presence of ancient myths and ideas in 20th and 21st century culture. Ten case studies which deal with a wide range of different genres such as theatre productions, pop music, and photography, are framed by two theoretical essays.
Sokrates revised and revisited
Under the title Sokrates revised and revisited, a cooperative project dedicated to the trial of Socrates took place in 2021/22 at the Lessing-Gymnasium and the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Among its highlights there was an academic symposium and a staging of the trial. The volume contains the papers presented at the symposium as well as further contributions both from an academic perspective and out of the context of the actual project work. The articles reflect the current state of research on the Socrates trial and illustrate the great potential of creative debate on the ancient tradition.
Die anonyme medizinische Rezeptsammlung im Codex Laur. Plut. 75.3
The Laur 75.3 is a medical codex. Between the ff. 33v and 229r there are prescriptions for medicines by an anonymous author. The recipes are divided into sections and chapters according to the Greek alphabet. The irregularities indicate an early version from the late 6th or early 7th century. The majority of the recipes appear here for the first time and are later almost exclusively in the Dynameron of Nikolaos Myrepsos from the 13th century. This anonymous medical text, published here for the first time, is to be seen as one of the stages in the development of the recipe collections and above all as the main source of the Myrepsos.
Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur
In Ancient Egypt, numerous cult practices are attested – from encounters with gods, demons, and death to processions, oracles, and magical spells. These cult practices also appear in literary texts from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2137 B.C.) to the Roman Empire (c. 3rd century A.D.) – in Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, and Demotic. In this book all passages of the ca. 200 narrative, instructional, and discursive literary works are analyzed in their entirety for the first time. The main research question is as follows: Are cult practices as we know them from ritual manuscripts and/or are they described differently to serve other purposes?
