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Routledge eBooks, Oct 14, 2016

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Journal of Cognitive Historiography

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jun 5, 2018

Hanno a lungo attirato l’attenzione degli studiosi per la loro complessita: questo articolo inten... more Hanno a lungo attirato l’attenzione degli studiosi per la loro complessita: questo articolo intende contribuire alla comprensione di alcuni passi di due iscrizioni note come la lex sacra di Selinunte e la lex cathartica di Cirene. Per il primo testo, si ritorna sulla spiegazione delle espressioni Meilichios en Mysko e Meilichios en Euthydamo, sui Tritopatores come destinatari delle pratiche catartiche, sull’omicida della colonna B, e, piu in generale, sulla funzione rituale e sociale della lamina. Per il testo cirenaico, ci si concentra sugli ultimi paragrafi riferiti a tre ‘supplici’, qui interpretati tutti e tre come essere umani. Queste iscrizioni erano utilizzate come prontuari sulle norme rituali da rispettare in diverse circostanze. L’obiettivo dell’articolo e tentare di definire gli elementi offerti da questi documenti per la ricostruzione del rituale di purificazione di una persona colpevole di omicidio involontario. The lex sacra of Selinous and the lex cathartica of Cyrene...

Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology, 2018

This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and earl... more This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and early anthropology by exploring the work of Ernesto de Martino, an Italian ethno-anthropologist and historian of religion, whose intellectual acme was in the 1950s. 1 Although he greatly influenced several internationally famous Italian historians, such as Carlo Ginzburg, he is little known in the Anglophone scholarly community. 2 However, in more recent years, things have moved in a different direction: three of his most important books have been translated and more secondary literature about de Martino is being published in English. 3 The present contribution will focus on his treatment of ancient Greek and Roman sources and his analysis of evil eye belief and practices in mid-twentieth-century southern Italy, a crucial aspect of his work and legacy.

Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-classical Polis, 2012

Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Apr 6, 2020

Love, wish for revenge, fear, hope: ancient cursing rituals managed to embrace a vast spectrum of... more Love, wish for revenge, fear, hope: ancient cursing rituals managed to embrace a vast spectrum of emotions. They were prompted by emotional experiences, they manipulated feelings, and their result could have been a renewed emotional state. This paper intends to look at how the archaeological and ritual settings contributed to shape the emotional and bodily experience of individual participants. Active compounds such as frankincense could have helped the uplifting of negative emotions, but lead exposure could have provoked health damage. Sensory deprivation could have enhanced the sense of being in contact with the divine or could have distorted perception. The case studies include a selection of documents from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth (I-II CE), the sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater in Mainz (I-II CE), and that of Anna Perenna in Rome (II-V CE). From these texts and their contexts, it is possible to attempt a sketch of the cognitive and embodied aspects of cursing rituals as a multi-sensory experience. 1 Introduction The historian who intends to illuminate the history of emotion in antiquity could hardly avoid to look at the epigraphical evidence. Among the various typologies of inscription, curses offer a base for studying the description and Acknowledgement: I would like to thank the editors for their invitation to Eisenach for the opportunity to reflect on this topic and the days of constructive discussions. I would like to thank also Therese Fuhrer for inviting me to the University of Munich, where I presented a version of this paper receiving useful feedback, and Angelos Chaniotis for his comments on my oral presentation. Yulia Ustinova kindly read and commented on a draft of this chapter, helping me to fine-tune my argument. I am also grateful to Esther Eidinow for her fruitful suggestions. I would like to warmly thank Laura Baroncelli for discussing with me the research in neurobiology here cited. Any error remains mine. This research has been generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Gottingen, Collaborative Research Centre 1136 Bildung und Religion, sub-project C01 'Aufgeklärte Männerabergläubische Frauen? Religion, Bildung und Geschlechterstereotypen im klassischen Athen'.

This paper explores notions of impurity around human blood in ancient Greek world, with the inten... more This paper explores notions of impurity around human blood in ancient Greek world, with the intent to show how the knowledge and praxis concerning its miasma were transmitted. It will focus on the pollution and purification around blood shed in homicide as well as women‟s blood discharge. The polluting power of blood and the necessity to undertake purifications emerges in connection with death and birth. It is argued that given the exact knowledge and accurate ritual procedure needed in case of pollution, it was crucial to transmit to the members of the civic community this religious expertise and ritual knowledge, using a variety of pedagogical tools and learning strategies. The divinities of Apollo and Artemis as healers and purifiers offer the mythological background that harmonises the selection of literary and epigraphical sources here discussed.

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2016

mourning for a deceased person, originally performed by matrons belonging to the same family, cha... more mourning for a deceased person, originally performed by matrons belonging to the same family, changed into a professional service provided by hired lamenters. The role of female lamentation in Roman historical memory expresses mutual protection and participation in public life by the family of the deceased. Grief is also the topic of D. King’s paper on Galen’s scientific treatment of lupē, as part or (concurring) cause of an illness. King sets this approach against contemporary culture, medicine and philosophy: Galen’s apparently contradictory analysis of griefrelated experiences reflects his effort to treat such a multifaceted emotion. O. Bobou goes back to Greek culture by investigating the representation of – mostly negative – emotions in sculpture. She offers a diachronic treatment of evolving emotional features and markers of Greek sculpture, from Archaic to early Classical expressionless figures showing limited emotions, to the strong facial expressions typical of Hellenistic art. J. Masséglia also deals with Hellenistic sculpture, namely with its role in defining social identity by contrast: sculpture represents low social classes according to the expectations of its buyers, i.e. the wealthier classes. This discrepancy between the subject of an artwork and its main addressee raises methodological considerations on the importance of setting archaeological evidence against the wider context of its original society and audience. C. Bourbou studies ancient burial practices as a means to investigate emotions and social taboo. The presence of dogs and children together in Greek burial sites might depend on purification rituals prompted by the decision to kill or expose children affected by deformities or other grievous conditions. The study addresses the sensitive issue of how archaeological evidence reflects the treatment and social exclusion of defective individuals in ancient societies. O.M. van Nijf closes the volume by exploring the Imperial Greek city as an ‘emotional community’. The popular assembly long maintained its image as an unruly body conveying popular sentiment and local identity through the voice of the demos. The manipulation of affective metaphors in civic honorific vocabulary effectively represents a step in the development of the local Greek political discourse, which is far from meeting an end in Imperial times. The volume has no concluding remarks. The reason might be that, in a sense, the work is not finished, but ongoing: as Chaniotis and Ducrey 245

The Classical Review

Halliwell, Masterson and Robson have provided a welcome gift to the academic community. Their re-... more Halliwell, Masterson and Robson have provided a welcome gift to the academic community. Their re-edition of Greek Homosexuality offers to senior scholars a stimulating reading, while it presents to younger students an exemplary book that shows how scientific research should ideally open up new frontiers, leaving at the same time space for further questions, debates and theorisations. This is an iconic book indeed, one that not just concerns historical phenomena, but which is a story in itself, a historiographical milestone. In this review, I will try to avoid repeating notorious matters, hoping, however, to give a transparent picture to those who are not familiar with the scholarly discussion on ancient sexualities. The cover image beautifully zooms in the Ganymede vase that decorated the 1978 edition (Louvre G175). Two forewords, whose layout differs from that of the reprinted monograph, contextualise the author and the book’s legacy. Halliwell fascinatingly reveals the making of the book, how it was intertwined with D.’s teaching and research interests and how the project idea matured along with his intellectual profile. Masterson and Robson provide a clear overview of the studies that appeared afterwards and how these reacted to D.’s work and the penetration model. They remind us that in the UK of the 1970s images for the book were preferably not sent by post, but were collected from the British Museum by the staff of the publishing house and delivered to D. sometimes by his colleagues. Alongside this foreword, the reader may want to look at the preface to the volume Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (2015), which Masterson and Robson edited together with N.S. Rabinowitz and in which they indicate the major turning points in the historiography of ancient gender and sexualities. As Masterson and Robson indicate in the foreword (pp. xvi–xviii), D.’s book generated controversies especially on the definition of the relationship between erastês and erômenos and the intercrural position, as regards questions such as whether desire and pleasure were reciprocated, what was the age and social class of partners, how social attitudes changed over time and space. More importantly, his philological analysis missed the opportunity to include theories of sex and gender as cultural constructs. Michael Foucault had not yet been translated into English in 1978, but he was not even mentioned in D.’s postscript to the 2nd edition in 1989. Conversely, Foucault extensively used D. in his theory on power hierarchies and the sexual act delineated in History of Sexuality (Histoire de la sexualité, vol. II: l’usage des plaisirs and vol. III: le souci de soi [1984]). In his review of the book, the French philosopher praised D.’s rigorous examination of texts and images, and emphasised how sexual preferences and social life were intertwined; same-sex love was not an exclusive or irreversible option, but its principles, rules and effects influenced customs (‘les formes de vie’): a sexual choice, within a given society, is a way of life, culture and artistic expression in itself (M. Foucault, ‘Des caresses d’hommes considérées comme un art’, in Liberation, 1 June 1982). As is well known, Classicists and Ancient Historians after D. picked up the baton of applying Foucault to Greek and Roman sources, as recently examined in Foucault, la sexualité, l’Antiquité (edd. S. Boehringer and THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 486

This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and earl... more This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and early anthropology by exploring the work of Ernesto de Martino, an Italian ethno-anthropologist and historian of religion, whose intellectual acme was in the 1950s. 1 Although he greatly influenced several internationally famous Italian historians, such as Carlo Ginzburg, he is little known in the Anglophone scholarly community. 2 However, in more recent years, things have moved in a different direction: three of his most important books have been translated and more secondary literature about de Martino is being published in English. 3 The present contribution will focus on his treatment of ancient Greek and Roman sources and his analysis of evil eye belief and practices in mid-twentieth-century southern Italy, a crucial aspect of his work and legacy.

Routledge eBooks, Oct 14, 2016

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the lin... more This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the link in this record

Journal of Cognitive Historiography

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jun 5, 2018

Hanno a lungo attirato l’attenzione degli studiosi per la loro complessita: questo articolo inten... more Hanno a lungo attirato l’attenzione degli studiosi per la loro complessita: questo articolo intende contribuire alla comprensione di alcuni passi di due iscrizioni note come la lex sacra di Selinunte e la lex cathartica di Cirene. Per il primo testo, si ritorna sulla spiegazione delle espressioni Meilichios en Mysko e Meilichios en Euthydamo, sui Tritopatores come destinatari delle pratiche catartiche, sull’omicida della colonna B, e, piu in generale, sulla funzione rituale e sociale della lamina. Per il testo cirenaico, ci si concentra sugli ultimi paragrafi riferiti a tre ‘supplici’, qui interpretati tutti e tre come essere umani. Queste iscrizioni erano utilizzate come prontuari sulle norme rituali da rispettare in diverse circostanze. L’obiettivo dell’articolo e tentare di definire gli elementi offerti da questi documenti per la ricostruzione del rituale di purificazione di una persona colpevole di omicidio involontario. The lex sacra of Selinous and the lex cathartica of Cyrene...

Brill's Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology, 2018

This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and earl... more This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and early anthropology by exploring the work of Ernesto de Martino, an Italian ethno-anthropologist and historian of religion, whose intellectual acme was in the 1950s. 1 Although he greatly influenced several internationally famous Italian historians, such as Carlo Ginzburg, he is little known in the Anglophone scholarly community. 2 However, in more recent years, things have moved in a different direction: three of his most important books have been translated and more secondary literature about de Martino is being published in English. 3 The present contribution will focus on his treatment of ancient Greek and Roman sources and his analysis of evil eye belief and practices in mid-twentieth-century southern Italy, a crucial aspect of his work and legacy.

Epigraphical Approaches to the Post-classical Polis, 2012

Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Apr 6, 2020

Love, wish for revenge, fear, hope: ancient cursing rituals managed to embrace a vast spectrum of... more Love, wish for revenge, fear, hope: ancient cursing rituals managed to embrace a vast spectrum of emotions. They were prompted by emotional experiences, they manipulated feelings, and their result could have been a renewed emotional state. This paper intends to look at how the archaeological and ritual settings contributed to shape the emotional and bodily experience of individual participants. Active compounds such as frankincense could have helped the uplifting of negative emotions, but lead exposure could have provoked health damage. Sensory deprivation could have enhanced the sense of being in contact with the divine or could have distorted perception. The case studies include a selection of documents from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in Corinth (I-II CE), the sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater in Mainz (I-II CE), and that of Anna Perenna in Rome (II-V CE). From these texts and their contexts, it is possible to attempt a sketch of the cognitive and embodied aspects of cursing rituals as a multi-sensory experience. 1 Introduction The historian who intends to illuminate the history of emotion in antiquity could hardly avoid to look at the epigraphical evidence. Among the various typologies of inscription, curses offer a base for studying the description and Acknowledgement: I would like to thank the editors for their invitation to Eisenach for the opportunity to reflect on this topic and the days of constructive discussions. I would like to thank also Therese Fuhrer for inviting me to the University of Munich, where I presented a version of this paper receiving useful feedback, and Angelos Chaniotis for his comments on my oral presentation. Yulia Ustinova kindly read and commented on a draft of this chapter, helping me to fine-tune my argument. I am also grateful to Esther Eidinow for her fruitful suggestions. I would like to warmly thank Laura Baroncelli for discussing with me the research in neurobiology here cited. Any error remains mine. This research has been generously funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Gottingen, Collaborative Research Centre 1136 Bildung und Religion, sub-project C01 'Aufgeklärte Männerabergläubische Frauen? Religion, Bildung und Geschlechterstereotypen im klassischen Athen'.

This paper explores notions of impurity around human blood in ancient Greek world, with the inten... more This paper explores notions of impurity around human blood in ancient Greek world, with the intent to show how the knowledge and praxis concerning its miasma were transmitted. It will focus on the pollution and purification around blood shed in homicide as well as women‟s blood discharge. The polluting power of blood and the necessity to undertake purifications emerges in connection with death and birth. It is argued that given the exact knowledge and accurate ritual procedure needed in case of pollution, it was crucial to transmit to the members of the civic community this religious expertise and ritual knowledge, using a variety of pedagogical tools and learning strategies. The divinities of Apollo and Artemis as healers and purifiers offer the mythological background that harmonises the selection of literary and epigraphical sources here discussed.

The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2016

mourning for a deceased person, originally performed by matrons belonging to the same family, cha... more mourning for a deceased person, originally performed by matrons belonging to the same family, changed into a professional service provided by hired lamenters. The role of female lamentation in Roman historical memory expresses mutual protection and participation in public life by the family of the deceased. Grief is also the topic of D. King’s paper on Galen’s scientific treatment of lupē, as part or (concurring) cause of an illness. King sets this approach against contemporary culture, medicine and philosophy: Galen’s apparently contradictory analysis of griefrelated experiences reflects his effort to treat such a multifaceted emotion. O. Bobou goes back to Greek culture by investigating the representation of – mostly negative – emotions in sculpture. She offers a diachronic treatment of evolving emotional features and markers of Greek sculpture, from Archaic to early Classical expressionless figures showing limited emotions, to the strong facial expressions typical of Hellenistic art. J. Masséglia also deals with Hellenistic sculpture, namely with its role in defining social identity by contrast: sculpture represents low social classes according to the expectations of its buyers, i.e. the wealthier classes. This discrepancy between the subject of an artwork and its main addressee raises methodological considerations on the importance of setting archaeological evidence against the wider context of its original society and audience. C. Bourbou studies ancient burial practices as a means to investigate emotions and social taboo. The presence of dogs and children together in Greek burial sites might depend on purification rituals prompted by the decision to kill or expose children affected by deformities or other grievous conditions. The study addresses the sensitive issue of how archaeological evidence reflects the treatment and social exclusion of defective individuals in ancient societies. O.M. van Nijf closes the volume by exploring the Imperial Greek city as an ‘emotional community’. The popular assembly long maintained its image as an unruly body conveying popular sentiment and local identity through the voice of the demos. The manipulation of affective metaphors in civic honorific vocabulary effectively represents a step in the development of the local Greek political discourse, which is far from meeting an end in Imperial times. The volume has no concluding remarks. The reason might be that, in a sense, the work is not finished, but ongoing: as Chaniotis and Ducrey 245

The Classical Review

Halliwell, Masterson and Robson have provided a welcome gift to the academic community. Their re-... more Halliwell, Masterson and Robson have provided a welcome gift to the academic community. Their re-edition of Greek Homosexuality offers to senior scholars a stimulating reading, while it presents to younger students an exemplary book that shows how scientific research should ideally open up new frontiers, leaving at the same time space for further questions, debates and theorisations. This is an iconic book indeed, one that not just concerns historical phenomena, but which is a story in itself, a historiographical milestone. In this review, I will try to avoid repeating notorious matters, hoping, however, to give a transparent picture to those who are not familiar with the scholarly discussion on ancient sexualities. The cover image beautifully zooms in the Ganymede vase that decorated the 1978 edition (Louvre G175). Two forewords, whose layout differs from that of the reprinted monograph, contextualise the author and the book’s legacy. Halliwell fascinatingly reveals the making of the book, how it was intertwined with D.’s teaching and research interests and how the project idea matured along with his intellectual profile. Masterson and Robson provide a clear overview of the studies that appeared afterwards and how these reacted to D.’s work and the penetration model. They remind us that in the UK of the 1970s images for the book were preferably not sent by post, but were collected from the British Museum by the staff of the publishing house and delivered to D. sometimes by his colleagues. Alongside this foreword, the reader may want to look at the preface to the volume Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (2015), which Masterson and Robson edited together with N.S. Rabinowitz and in which they indicate the major turning points in the historiography of ancient gender and sexualities. As Masterson and Robson indicate in the foreword (pp. xvi–xviii), D.’s book generated controversies especially on the definition of the relationship between erastês and erômenos and the intercrural position, as regards questions such as whether desire and pleasure were reciprocated, what was the age and social class of partners, how social attitudes changed over time and space. More importantly, his philological analysis missed the opportunity to include theories of sex and gender as cultural constructs. Michael Foucault had not yet been translated into English in 1978, but he was not even mentioned in D.’s postscript to the 2nd edition in 1989. Conversely, Foucault extensively used D. in his theory on power hierarchies and the sexual act delineated in History of Sexuality (Histoire de la sexualité, vol. II: l’usage des plaisirs and vol. III: le souci de soi [1984]). In his review of the book, the French philosopher praised D.’s rigorous examination of texts and images, and emphasised how sexual preferences and social life were intertwined; same-sex love was not an exclusive or irreversible option, but its principles, rules and effects influenced customs (‘les formes de vie’): a sexual choice, within a given society, is a way of life, culture and artistic expression in itself (M. Foucault, ‘Des caresses d’hommes considérées comme un art’, in Liberation, 1 June 1982). As is well known, Classicists and Ancient Historians after D. picked up the baton of applying Foucault to Greek and Roman sources, as recently examined in Foucault, la sexualité, l’Antiquité (edd. S. Boehringer and THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 486

This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and earl... more This chapter highlights the interconnections and movable boundaries between the classics and early anthropology by exploring the work of Ernesto de Martino, an Italian ethno-anthropologist and historian of religion, whose intellectual acme was in the 1950s. 1 Although he greatly influenced several internationally famous Italian historians, such as Carlo Ginzburg, he is little known in the Anglophone scholarly community. 2 However, in more recent years, things have moved in a different direction: three of his most important books have been translated and more secondary literature about de Martino is being published in English. 3 The present contribution will focus on his treatment of ancient Greek and Roman sources and his analysis of evil eye belief and practices in mid-twentieth-century southern Italy, a crucial aspect of his work and legacy.

Sehepunkte 17 (2017), Nr. 11

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.10.48

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.02.06, 2013

Mnemosyne: a Journal of Classical Studies 65, 2012: 858–861., 2012

The final session of the British Epigraphy Society *Epigraphic Conversations* series for this aca... more The final session of the British Epigraphy Society *Epigraphic Conversations* series for this academic year.

Conversation the Fourth: *Regional epigraphic cultures across the ancient wider Mediterranean* (Part 2)
Date: 15 June 2021, 14.00-16.00 (UK summer time)
Online platform: Zoom
Hosts: Ilaria Bultrighini (UCL) and Irene Salvo (Exeter)

Conversation flow:
14.00 Irene Salvo (Exeter): Introduction
14.10 Charlotte Spence (Exeter): A comparison of regional cultures of curse-tablet creation in the second century CE
14.40 Víctor Sabaté Vidal (Barcelona): Approaching Iberian inscriptions on lead tablets: a case for ‘epigraphic bilingualism
15.10 Katherine McDonald (Exeter): Epigraphic cultures in non-urban and 'federal' sanctuaries in central and southern Italy

Epigraphy and Religion Revisited Organized by Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Berkeley) The main objectiv... more Epigraphy and Religion Revisited
Organized by Nikolaos Papazarkadas (Berkeley)

The main objective of this panel is to bring together papers that explore religious phenomena primarily from an epigraphic perspective. The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) devoted one of its first thematic panels to Epigraphy and Religion, back in 1999. Almost two decades later, ASGLE revisits the topic in order to find out what the status quaestionis looks like for the current generation of scholars.

Final session of the British Epigraphy Society *Epigraphic Conversations* series for this academi... more Final session of the British Epigraphy Society *Epigraphic Conversations* series for this academic year.

Conversation the Fourth: *Regional epigraphic cultures across the ancient wider Mediterranean* (Part 2)
15 June 2021, 14.00-16.00 (UK summer time), on Zoom.

To attend please register in advance at this link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvd-CorzorEtTRE6b6l3fr9M628ac9T8ra

The Women's Classical Committee UK is organising a one-day workshop on Classics and Queer studies... more The Women's Classical Committee UK is organising a one-day workshop on Classics and Queer studies to highlight current projects and activities that embrace the intersections of research, teaching, public engagement, and activism. The day will feature a series of talks and a roundtable bringing together academics in Classics (and related fields), LGBT+ activists, museum curators and those working in other areas of outreach and public engagement. We are reserving time during the day's schedule for a series of short (five-minute) spotlight talks by delegates. Through this session, we hope to provide a chance for delegates to share research projects, teaching programmes, and experiences related to LGBT+ issues. We are particularly interested in spotlight talks on:
• new, queer and gender-informed work in classics, ancient history, archaeology, papyrology, philosophy, or classical reception;
• fresh ideas on teaching the history of queerness through texts and material culture;
• the difficulties and discriminatory experiences encountered by members of staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and early-career researchers, because of their gender identity and/or sexual orientation.

If you would like more information or to volunteer to give one of these talks, please send a brief description of your talk (about 80/150 words) to Irene Salvo, LBGT+ liaison officer, salvoirene@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday 5th December 2017.

Call for Applications_International Spring School Dates: 5–9 March 2018 Location: University of G... more Call for Applications_International Spring School
Dates: 5–9 March 2018
Location: University of Goettingen, Germany
Organizer: SFB 1136 Education and Religion (University of Goettingen)

The Material Dimension of Religions Spring School is aimed at graduate students and intends to examine theories and methods of investigating religions through epigraphical and archaeological sources in a transcultural and transhistorical approach. The schedule includes seven workshops on Ancient Greece, Imperial Rome, Late Antique Judaism, Early Christianity, Classical Islam, Christian Middle Ages, and Jerusalem as a transcultural place, and four keynotes on Greek epigraphy and religion, religion in the public space, the materiality of texts, and the city of Jerusalem as an example of coexistence and interaction of the materialities of religions.

We welcome applications from post/graduate students (MA or PhD students) of Classics, History, Archaeology, Theology, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and related disciplines.

Please send by Friday the 24th of November 2017 a full CV and an application letter in English or in German (max. 600 words) explaining your motivation for participating in the Spring School to: springschool.sfb1136@uni-goettingen.de.

The Collaborative Research Centre 1136 'Bildung und Religion' is pleased to invite you to attend ... more The Collaborative Research Centre 1136 'Bildung und Religion' is pleased to
invite you to attend the conference 'Religion and Education in the Ancient
Greek World', organised by Tanja Scheer and Irene Salvo, to be held on
Wednesday the 25th and Thursday the 26th of October 2017 in the Historical Building of the Goettingen State and University Library (Paulinerkirche).

Further information here:
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/571664.html.

Participation is free, but if you would like to attend please send an
e-mail by Friday the 20th of October to Irene Salvo, isalvo@uni-goettingen.de.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Der SFB 1136 „Bildung und Religion“ lädt herzlich Sie zur internationalen Tagung „Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World“ ein, die vom 25. bis 26. Oktober 2017 in Göttingen stattfindet.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/571664.html.

Wenn Sie an der Tagung teilnehmen möchten, bitten wir Sie um eine kurze Rückmeldung bis Freitag, den 20.10.2017 (isalvo@uni-goettingen.de), um entsprechend planen zu können.

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "'Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen.' Religiöse Bildung in hi... more Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "'Das Paradies ist ein Hörsaal für die Seelen.' Religiöse Bildung in historischer Perspektive", Wintersemester 2016/17.

Mit Ausnahme der Vorträge am 26. Oktober und 2. November, die in der Aula am Wilhelmsplatz gehalten werden, findet die Reihe jeweils mittwochs um 18.15 Uhr im Historischen Gebäude der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Papendiek 14, Alfred-Hessel-Saal, statt. Das Programm ist unter www.uni-goettingen.de/de/539347.html zu finden, die Video-Aufzeichnungen der Vorträge langfristig unter www.youtube.com/user/unigoettingen.

L. Dawson and F. McHardy (eds.), Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance: Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature, 2018