https://khentiamentiu.blogspot.com/2019/04/academiaedu-weekly-digest.html On 02/17/19 13:35, Academia.edu Weekly Digest wrote:
| | | Statues in Late Antique Egypt: From Production and Display to Archaeological Record (Forthcoming 2019) This paper discusses the viability and ultimate decline of the statue habit in late antique Egypt. The first section provides a brief overview of the corpus of newly erected late antique sculpture from Egypt and attempts to outline some of the different contexts in which it was displayed, although such efforts are hindered by the fact that solid archaeological data is hard to find. The second section considers the multiple 'afterlives' of sculpture, i.e. the re-display or modification of earlier sculpture in late antique Egypt, and suggests that future scholarship would benefit by adopting... | | Harris on Herodotus and the Social Contexts of Memory This essay studies some of the different types of oral traditions Herodotus drew on when doing the research for his work. Each type of tradition was preserved in a different social context, was used in different ways and contained different types of information. | | | Academia, 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 © 2019 Academia | |
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