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Olfactoring Ancient Fictions: Fair and Foul Fragrances in Ancient Novels
Ancient Novel supplementum 24.2: Rewiring the Ancient Novel, Barkhuis 2018, ed. Edmund Cueva, et al. pp. 319-353., 2018
This paper examines references to foul and fragrant smells in ancient Greek and Latin novels. It discusses the regard in which this one of the five senses was held by different Greek and Roman thinkers and authors of fictions. It surveys the important role of odors in Latin novels and a decreased role for them in the Greek examples, Longos being a notable outlier (in so many ways).
Agricultural terraces are geomorphologic features created by humans. These structures protect farming land by reducing soil erosion, they collect water in their hydrological infrastructure, and preserve crops and vegetation. Their construction could however negatively affect underlying soils and archaeology present in those soils. However, if a terrace is constructed on a hill slope without destroying the underlying soil, the agricultural terrace could create a stable environment in regard to erosion, and preserve the underlying soil and potential archaeological remains in it. In order to detect soils within agricultural terraces in Northern-Calabria, Italy, Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) was performed on exposures of four agricultural terraces, two agricultural fields in a non-terraced setting and five natural geomorphological features. Results are the detection of a buried soil horizon which contains archaeological remains dating from the Hellenistic period 60 cm below the surfa...
This Landscape Archaeology research project concerns the influence of agricultural terraces on the preservation of cultural/ archaeological soils in the province of Calabria, southern Italy. The study was conducted as part of the Raganello Archaeological Project of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Rijks Universiteit Groningen and was supervised by dr. Martijn van Leusen of the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and prof. dr. Erika Guttmann-Bond of the Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, VU University Amsterdam. In order to examine the influence of agricultural terraces on the preservation of cultural/ archaeological soils, a buried soil was examined on the transition zone of two agricultural terraces and a buried soil was examined at the transition zone of an agricultural terrace and a river valley. Also several soil exposures in a non-agricultural terrace setting were examined. The exposures were observed and examined in the field; in total 40 sediment samples were taken and 30 samples were analysed at the Sediment Analysis laboratory at the VU University Amsterdam.
The Hellenisation of the Punic world: a view from the Tophet
Starting from the second half of the 6th century BC, the influence of Greek culture on the Punic world became increasingly prevalent. Sicily was the favoured setting for this process, marked by the alternating defeats and victories in battles which were a feature of the history of the island throughout the 5th and 4th centuries BC. This phenomenon spread – through the filter of Carthage – from Sicily to the rest of the Punic world, in successive periods and different ways. This was a complex, progressive, but not always constant process, in which we also find examples of surviving and contemporary phenomena reflecting the Punicisation of the Greek and Elymian cities (Selinus, Monte Adranone, Eryx), brought about, once again, as a consequence of wars. This paper seeks to analyze the latest stages of Hellenisation, when this process became relevant also in Tophets, cremation sanctuaries typical of Phoenician sites in the central Mediterranean, and was manifested in the adoption of Greek vessels, locally produced, for ritual practises and in the iconography of stelae and clay figurines. We focus our attention on two distinct cases: the Tophet sanctuaries of Motya, where the Hellenisation process was especially evident, and Tharros, where traces of Hellenisation were almost completely absent and we observe rather a North African influence.
Mythical History and Historical Myth: Blurred Boundaries in Antiquity (2019)
Department of Philology, University of Patras (Conference & Cultural Center, Room I 10), 28th June - 1st July, 2019
The complementary and overlapping spheres of Myth and History are part and parcel of the entire ancient Greek and Roman world. Yet, on many occasions it is hard to disentangle one from the other; instead, they are often projected as one, concrete entity. This Conference aspires to delve deep into the intricate notions of Myth and History in both the ancient Greek and the Roman world. In particular, the Conference welcomes papers asking opportune questions, and – hopefully – reaching enlightened answers, leading to a better understanding of intentional or incidental amalgamation of the mythical and the historical parameters, as well as the perception of History at an early stage of its appearance as a science.