Jonathan J. Price

In this 2001 book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating an internal disturbance in both individuals and states. This diagnostic method, in contrast to all other approaches in antiquity, allows an observer to identify stasis even when the combatants do not or cannot openly acknowledge the nature of their conflict. The words and actions which Thucydides chooses for his narrative meet his criteria for stasis: the speeches in the History represent the breakdown of language and communication characteristic of internal conflict, and the zeal for victory led to acts of unusual brutality and cruelty, and overall disregard for genuinely Hellenic customs, codes of morality and civic loyalty. Viewing the Peloponnesian War as a destructive internal war had profound consequences for Thucydides' historical vision.

Thucydides and Internal War

Margalit Finkelberg

Yuval Shahar

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

Benjamin Isaac

Hannah M. Cotton

Werner Eck

Alla Kushnir-Stein

Haggai Misgav

Ada Yardeni

Leah Di Segni

Der erste Band des Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae umfasst die Inschriften Jerusalems von der Zeit Alexanders bis zur Eroberung durch die Araber in allen Sprachen, die damals für Inschriften verwendet wurden: Hebräisch, Aramäisch, Griechisch, Latein, Syrisch, Armenisch. Die rund 1.100 Texte werden nach drei Zeitepochen gegliedert: bis zur Zerstörung Jerusalems im Jahr 70, bis zum Beginn des 4. Jahrhunderts, bis zum Ende der byzantinischen Herrschaft im 7. Jahrhundert.

Jerusalem, Part 2: 705-1120

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz

This collection presents 19 interconnected studies on the language, history, exegesis, and cultural setting of Greek epic and dramatic poetic texts ("Text") and their afterlives ("Intertext") in Antiquity. Spanning texts from Hittite archives to Homer to Greek tragedy and comedy to Vergil to Celsus, the studies here were all written by friends and colleagues of Margalit Finkelberg who are experts in their particular fields, and who have all been influenced by her work. The papers offer close readings of individual lines and discussion of widespread cultural phenomena. Readers will encounter Hittite precedents to the Homeric poems, characters in ancient epic analysed by modern cognitive theory, the use of Homer in Christian polemic, tragic themes of love and murder, a history of the Sphinx, and more. Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama offers a selection of fascinating essays exploring Greek epic, drama, and their reception and adaption by other ancient authors, and will be of interest to anyone working on Greek literature.

Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama

Katell Berthelot

Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Visions

The Future of Rome

Jonathan J. Price

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