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Johannes Siapkas. Heterological ethnicity: conceptualizing identities in ...
Antiquity;  June 1, 2004 ;     611 words ...JOHANNES SIAPKAS. Heterological ethnicity: conceptualizing identities in ancient Greece (Boreas: Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean & Near Eastern Civilizations 27). ix+333 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. 2003 ...

Article: Picturing ancient Greek childhood.(antique nursery equipment, ...
The Magazine Antiques;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... specialized article of nursery equipment is rare from ancient Greece, but other objects, especially from children's graves ... terracotta figurines that were produced throughout the ancient Mediterranean. (2) A particularly fine archaic example of around ...

Article: Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in ...
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Article: Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture;      700+ words ...ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN RELIGIONS. Religion shaped both the use and conceptualization of food in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. This was true of the consumption of animals, cereals, and other plants. Because ...

Article: FACULTY LECTURE LOOKS AT ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 11, 2009 ;     453 words ... ... year, "Kindled Kin: Burning and Burying Children in Ancient Mediterranean Religions." The extant archaeological and epigraphical ... emphasizing the individuality of child immolations in ancient Mediterranean religions. For further information on the 2008-2009 ...

Approaches to Theatrical Performance in the Ancient ...
Helios;  September 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Considering performance is especially useful to the study of ancient Mediterranean societies, where social and cultural transactions took ... the last twenty years, the study of performance in the ancient Mediterranean world has expanded to include very diverse objects of ...

Article: Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient ...
The Antioch Review;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman. Oxford University Press ... readable, and erudite introduction to the ancient Mediterranean civilizations. The jacket of his hefty volume ...