1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823284203321

Titolo

Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world : a periplos / / edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-19455-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, , 1566-2055 ; ; Volume 86

Disciplina

303.4824

Soggetti

Culture - History - Mediterranean Region

Civilization - History - Mediterranean Region

Mediterranean Region Civilization

Mediterranean Region History To 476

Mediterranean Region Relations

Mediterranean Region Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks -- Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths / Stephen Scully -- Achaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus’ Early Persian Logoi / Jonathan David -- Evidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud / John W. Betlyon -- Alphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation / André Lemaire -- The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq / David S. Vanderhooft -- ἀμόργη/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? / Eric Lee Welch -- Twin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles / Assaf Yasur-Landau -- A Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age / Susan Redford -- The Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine / Donald Redford -- When Chimaeras were Chimaeras / Baruch Halpern -- Medicine and Mathematics in Fifth-



century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence / Markus Asper -- Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology / Kenneth S. Sacks -- Bibliography -- Ancient Sources Index -- Modern Authors Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight – the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants’ capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826175103321

Titolo

Politische systeme im Vergleich : Formale und informelle institutionen im politischen prozess / / herausgegeben von Hans-Joachim Lauth ; Lektorat, Dr. Stefan Giesen, Annette Huppertz ; Herstellung, Cornelia Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Munich, Germany : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-11-039852-4

3-486-77906-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (520 p.)

Collana

Lehr- und Handbücher der Politikwissenschaft

Classificazione

ME 1000

Disciplina

320.3

Soggetti

Comparative government

Political science - Europe

Europe Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- I. Konzeption -- Analytische Konzeption für den Vergleich politischer Systeme / Lauth, Hans-Joachim -- II. Fallstudien politischer Systeme -- Brasilien / Kestler, Thomas / Krause, Silvana -- China / Alpermann, Björn -- Frankreich / Ruß, Sabine -- Großbritannien / Bröchler, Stephan -- Indien / Wagner, Christian -- Japan / Klein, Axel -- Kenia / Elischer, Sebastian -- Polen / Ziemer, Klaus -- Russland / Stykow, Petra -- Türkei / Stykow, Petra -- United States of America / Oldopp, Birgit -- III. Vergleichsstudien politischer Systeme -- Skandinavien / Jochem, Sven -- Südeuropa im Vergleich / Kneuer, Marianne -- IV. Anhang -- Tabellen -- Zu den Autoren -- Stichwortverzeichnis -- Personenverzeichnis

Sommario/riassunto

der Titel umfasst eine systematische Analyse politischer Systeme auf der Grundlage eines gemeinsamen Vergleichskonzepts, das alle Beiträge strukturiert. Neben dem Einbezug von formalen und informellen Institutionen liegt ein besonderer Reiz des Bandes in seiner Prozessorientierung, die den Wandel der politischen Systeme einschließt. Beachtet werden die relevanten Akteurskonstellationen und



die kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen. Der historische Rückblick beginnt nach 1945. Analysiert werden maßgeblich die letzten zwei bis drei Dekaden. Die gewonnenen Kenntnisse betreffen nicht nur die empirischen Fälle, sondern ermöglichen weiterführende Studien zu anderen Ländern anhand des vorgestellten konzeptionellen Ansatzes.