by Jan M.F. Van Reeth. — In French. Everywhere one could see a Lady appearing in Minoan times, traditionally interpreted, from the times of her discovery at the beginning of the 20th Century, as a Mother Goddess, Mistress of the Animals, graciously protecting crops, harvests, offspring and seasons. This book presents her in a very different way (details).
85,00 €
by Gilles Courtieu. — In French.
Who doesn't know Ulysses, from the earliest years, as a figure of the most ancient European literature? Everyone thinks he knows him… (Details)
37,00 €
by Marjolaine Carles. — Book in French. At the origins of the worship of Apollo at Delphi, the problem of continuity or rupture arises between the Mycenaean and the Greek world. How can religious practices and beliefs of a bygone era be restored on a site without any trace of writing? (Details)
42,00 €
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Marco CAVALIERI. — The paper provides a brief overview of the Greek ‘colonisation’ of Sicily (mid-eighth to mid-sixth century BC) and of the presence of ceramics attesting to the migration towards the West…
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Gérard LAMBIN. — A careful rereading of the texts allows us to better understand Plato's idea of the divine and the gods, but also of the Good…
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Pierre Mbid Hamoudi DIOUF. — This article concerns a category of dreams that have attracted the attention of the Ancients. These were dreams deemed to be "extraordinary", the content of which had a considerable impact on or foretold the dreamer…
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Christophe FLAMENT. — This study is devoted to the techniques and forms of exploitation of mining production in Laurion (Attica) during the 5th and 4th centuries BCE…
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Éric RAIMOND. — Some texts let appear some rivals, who reveal a pantheon prior to Olympian Order…
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Kamyar ABDI. — Xenophon's Anabasis chronicles his experiences as a Greek mercenary leader in the 5th century BCE. It sheds light on the lives of mercenaries, their motivations, and the social and political climate of the era. Shaped by his upbringing and Athenian turmoil, Xenophon joined Cyrus' Persian army alongside his friend…
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Camilla NORCIA. — This paper focuses on the Centaur Cheiron, a complex and multifaceted figure in Greek mythology. Drawing on the Pindaric tradition and supported by archaeological evidence from various sites, it analyses the intricate aspects of a character associated with prophecy, healing, and the initiation of youth into adulthood…
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Éric RAIMOND. — Hera of the Golden Throne (Chrystothronos) is a Queen goddess and has supplanted all the consorts of the god who has reached the top of the Olympian hierarchy. Functionally associated with the institution of marriage, she legitimizes unions, birth, and thus a certain social order…
Mayoro DIA, Benjamin DIOUF. — The stories of Egyptian and Greek mythologies are very enticing and very instructive…
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Gérard LAMBIN. — What is a god, what is the divine for Aristotle? But above all, is it allowed to speak of an Aristotelian theology and a first divine Motor?…
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Marcel MEULDER. — The Hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalkis evokes the horses from Asbotos, which allow the soothsayer Amphiaraos to withdraw the disaster of the Seven Chiefs in front of Thebes…
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Eric RAIMOND. — The Goddess Demeter has become an allegory of Nature, whom its complex nature and functions are not sought…
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Stéphane FAYE. — What is interesting about the Oresteia trilogy of Aeschylus is that the relationships between characters can offer many approaches that can lead to encouraging results…
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Christophe FLAMENT. — This study is devoted to the mining district of Laurion (Attika, Greece) during the Classical Period, and more specifically to the impacts the exploitation of those silver mines had on the Athenian history from the environmental, social, economical, and political points of view…
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Gérard LAMBIN. — Plotinus did not believe, he knew (or thought he knew). He knew that if “divine things” are limited to the three hypostases (the One, the Intellect, the Soul), the divine is no less everywhere, and that he is pure intellection…
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Valentina LIMINA. — The paper proposes a political interpretation of the reliefs depicting the sieges of Troy and Thebes on a group of eight funerary urns produced in Volterra in the first quarter of the 1st century BC…
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Marcel MEULDER. — The name of Bias, Melampus’ brother, is originally Luwian. It means ‘ the man to whom a wife is given’. He woos Pero, the daughter of the Pylian king Neleus, as a reward of Melampus’achievement…
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Herman MOORS. — In this article I will argue that Aphrodite – or Kypris, as she was called by Homer – is to be understood as the Greco-Cypriot interpretation of the Syrian goddess Atargatis, to whom the first part of this study is devoted. Contrary to common opinion, her name will be explained as a compound of Astarte and ‘Ate, the latter being the bearded and violent, even self-destructive, son of the former…
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Claudia POSANI. — This paper is aimed at a comparative study of the figurative use of the word(s) for ‘head’ in Greek and Ancient Near Eastern texts…
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Éric RAIMOND. — Paper about Apollo’s origins through Theonym’s etymology, reflection on first possible appearences in Hittite and Linear B, how he looks like in Ilias and Traditions close to his birth place…
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Jacques VANSCHOONWINKEL. — Women occupied an important place in the Aegean world of the Bronze Age, as evidenced by the clearly predominant female presence in the iconography of the period. This article focuses on the role of women in Aegean religions…
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J.-L. DESNIER. — Georges Dumézil has suggested that Ulysses’final struggle with the suitors is the equivalent of the destruction of Troy or the battle of Kurukshetra (Mahabharata)…
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C. OBSOMER. — The diagram known as that ‘of the labyrinth’ is not specific to the Cretan world nor to Knossos. Attested from the second millenium from Syria to the British isles, it seems that it might represent an octaeteris or period of eight years, corresponding to 99 months in the lunar calendar…
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P. SAUZEAU. — We will follow the Masters of paths. They are Pushan and Aryaman in India, Pan and Hermes in Ancient Greece; others are Scandinavian such as the god Ullr or Palnatoki, or anglo-saxon such as Robin Hood. Their tracks lead us from the rural or forest world…
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J. VANSCHOONWINKEL. — In the second half of the 15th century B.C., the Mycenaeans replaced the Minoans in Miletus, as shown by archaeological evidence and Hittite records that mention Miletus, under the name Millawanda, and the land of Aḫḫijawā…
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Allitérations et assonances associées à l'emploi des impressifs de sonorité dans la langue homérique
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N. GUILLEUX. — This paper aims to show the conditions under which alliterations and assonances appear in the Homeric epos…
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O. HACKSTEIN. — In a number of cases Homer’s epics provide us with single forms which—though metrical and unequivocally transmitted—are morphologically aberrant or altogether ungrammatical…
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F. LETOUBLON. — We have already published several articles on Homeric formulas. But what we will analyze here are some repetitions of another nature, whether non formulaic or formulaic (which can then come from a very archaic state of the Epic text, possibily Mycenaean or Indo-European)…
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M. BIDOTTI, « Il bagno-castigo dei santi Cosma e Damiano a Riace e il rito del territoriu a Monasterace. Due culti rurali della magnogreca Kaulonía ? », Res Antiquae 10, Bruxelles, 2013.
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S. COHEN, « Rural Trade and Economy in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine. A Case Study from Tel Zahara », Res Antiquae 10, Bruxelles, 2013.
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C. FLAMENT, « "Oikonomia attikè". Un monde agricole tourné vers les échanges », Res Antiquae 10, Brussels, 2013.
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F. KENKEL, « Die ländliche Siedlung Tall ZirāÊ¿a im WādÄ« al-Ê¿Arab (Nordjordanien). 1000 Jahre Esskultur, Handel und Religion », Res Antiquae 10, Bruxelles, 2013.
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N. MEUNIER, « Les constructions narratives chez Tite-Live. L’exemple des leges agrariae dans la première décade de l’Ab Urbe condita », Res Antiquae 10, Bruxelles, 2013.
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J. VANSCHOONWINKEL. —
This short article analyses the pastoral scene represented in the the Miniature Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri on Thera. This is an iconographic theme quite exceptional in Aegean art, little interested in everyday life.
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G. COURTIEU, « La magie du naphte ou Comment disculper Alexandre le Grand de l’accusation d’imbécillité », Res Antiquae 11, Brussels, 2014, p. 27-52.
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F.-D. DELTENRE, « La capture d’Amphissa par Philippe II lors de la quatrième guerre sacrée. À propos d’un stratagème de Polyen (Stratagèmes, IV, 2, 8) », Res Antiquae 11, Brussels, 2014, p. 91-100.
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I. KELER-GIABICONI, « "Quand Achille veut tuer Agamemnon". Le départ de la colère d’Achille : Iliade I, v. 188-205 », Res Antiquae 11, Brussels, 2014, p. 129-144.
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J.-L. PODVIN, « À propos d’Isis et du cerf : en Occident, aussi ! », Res Antiquae 11, Brussels, 2014, p. 185-188.
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F. BOUZID-ADLER, « Les navires des Grecs d’Asie au service des Grands Rois perses », Res Antiquae 12, Brussels, 2015.
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by Rosario Maria ANZALONE. — This paper presents a ‘pseudo-Chian’ amphora from the habitation area of Himera. The vessel is noteworthy for the presence of several red painted marks. Probably produced in southern Campania during the last quarter of the 5th century BC, the amphora was made for the transport and storage of wine. A numeral notation on the shoulder is particularly interesting: as it is inconsistent with the estimated capacity of the vase, I suggest that it may allude to the price of the contents. The amphora from Himera presents…
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Giada GIUDICE. — The lekythos in question is part of a rich set found in the tomb 497 of the Rifriscolaro’s necropolis, the oldest burial area of Kamarina, located on the hills along the right bank of the river Oanis, on the east side of the track of the walls. From a stilistic point of view, this…
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by Éric RAIMOND. — Diomedes aristeia in the Iliad 5 and the Meeting between the Achean Hero and Prince Glaucus of Lycia, that introduces the tale of Belleropho, may be interpreted, in a symbolic view, as initiatic path of an Homeric superhuman…
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Louise WILLOCX. — Among the Greek pottery collection of the L Museum in Louvain-la-Neuve, some vases’ main motif is a woman’s head in profile in the middle of a vegetal decoration…
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by Christophe FLAMENT. — This study is devoted to the role of the sacred treasury of Athena in the Athenian public finances during the 5th century. Two case studies will be examined: the constructions of the Acropolis and the military campaigns of the Peloponnesian War…
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by Éric RAIMOND. — Romans keep their attachment to give full powers to a single one, in case of crisis. The period of Civil wars and the liflong dictatorship of Julius Caesar give some testimonies of it…
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by Djibril AGNE. — In this study, age structures in traditional African education are used in the illumination of the senses of ἀγÎλη and ἴλη in Sparta…
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by Arnaud DELANOY. — In the light of a newly published deciphering of the Cypro-Minoan script, the vascular inscriptions are examined here, in the hope of finding proper names (anthroponyms, or even toponyms)…
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