ISBN:
9783339125798
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums v.44
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Marginality, Social
;
Antiquities
;
Marginality, Social History
;
Civilization, Ancient
;
Civilization, Classical
;
Civilisation ancienne
;
Marginality, Social
;
History
;
Informational works
;
Documents d'information
;
Antiquities
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Stefan Nowicki: Enemies and witches in the scribal tradition of ancient Mesopotamia -- Rainer Feldbacher: Women's exclusion in Ancient Near Eastern society and their continuation in Abrahamitic religions -- Haili Yang: Marriage Culture Reflected in the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament -- Reiko Maejima: Assyrian Supervising System in Babylonia during Esarhaddon's Reign: Assyrian Scribe Mār-Issar and Babylonian Local Astrologists -- Carmen Sánchez-Mañas: Daughters with a Voice in Herodotus: Women on the Edge of Marginality -- Ursula M. Lagger: Clothes-snatching, purse-cuttingand wall-digging in Athens -- Markus Handy: The Spartan krypteia. Some thoughts -- Josef Fischer: Disability and Society in classical Antiquity -- Oliver Schipp: Hooliganism at Pompeii in the Age of Nero -- Matteo Compareti: Foreign Fashion and Exotic Appearance: Representations of Iranian Immigrants in Sixth-Eighth Centuries Chinese Art -- About the editors.
Abstract:
"For antiquity, such marginalized groups - at certain times and in certain regions - are poor, beggars, exiles, refugees, strangers, barbarians, slaves, freedmen, widows, orphans, Jews, Christians ..." -- page 7
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