Sample pdf includes the introduction and chapter 8 on "Mutual Assistance and Group Cohesion" (pla... more Sample pdf includes the introduction and chapter 8 on "Mutual Assistance and Group Cohesion" (placed online with permission from Bloomsbury Publishers).
De Gruyter permits sharing of the introduction and first section (on the Bosporan inscriptions) a... more De Gruyter permits sharing of the introduction and first section (on the Bosporan inscriptions) after a wait of 2 years, so that is what you will find here.
This sourcebook aids understanding the many small, unofficial associations in Greco-Roman antiqui... more This sourcebook aids understanding the many small, unofficial associations in Greco-Roman antiquity includes English translations of 332 inscriptions and papyri documents, along with descriptions of association buildings, translations from literary documents, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The companion website can be found at http://www.philipharland.com/greco-roman-associations
Scholarly use of the label "school" to describe groups of philosophers has sometimes led to a neg... more Scholarly use of the label "school" to describe groups of philosophers has sometimes led to a neglect of the ways in which such gatherings of philosophers could function as unofficial associations of recognizable types (e. g. "socie-ties," θίασοι). Concerns to distance supposedly "secular" philosophers from any "religious" connection have fed into this image of the philosophical "school," diverting attention away from other important dimensions of associative life among philosophers and other literate professionals (e. g. physicians), including involvement in honours for the gods and in commensal activities. Epigraphic evidence helps to elucidate the broader associative context. The fact that some philosophers formed associations has implications for adjacent fields, such as Christian origins, where there is a tendency to ask whether groups of Jesus followers were socially analogous to a Judean synagogue, an association, or a philosophical school, as though these were distinct options rather than overlapping social phenomena. Such associations of relatively literate people were among the few in antiquity that can also be described using the scholarly category of "reading communities ."
Juden, Christen und Vereine im Römischen Reich (eds. Benedikt Eckhardt and Clemens Leonhard), 2018
English translation (by Benedikt Eckhardt) of "Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Pr... more English translation (by Benedikt Eckhardt) of "Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Preliminary Case Study of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands" (2015)
Sample pdf includes the introduction and chapter 8 on "Mutual Assistance and Group Cohesion" (pla... more Sample pdf includes the introduction and chapter 8 on "Mutual Assistance and Group Cohesion" (placed online with permission from Bloomsbury Publishers).
De Gruyter permits sharing of the introduction and first section (on the Bosporan inscriptions) a... more De Gruyter permits sharing of the introduction and first section (on the Bosporan inscriptions) after a wait of 2 years, so that is what you will find here.
This sourcebook aids understanding the many small, unofficial associations in Greco-Roman antiqui... more This sourcebook aids understanding the many small, unofficial associations in Greco-Roman antiquity includes English translations of 332 inscriptions and papyri documents, along with descriptions of association buildings, translations from literary documents, and an extensive annotated bibliography. The companion website can be found at http://www.philipharland.com/greco-roman-associations
Scholarly use of the label "school" to describe groups of philosophers has sometimes led to a neg... more Scholarly use of the label "school" to describe groups of philosophers has sometimes led to a neglect of the ways in which such gatherings of philosophers could function as unofficial associations of recognizable types (e. g. "socie-ties," θίασοι). Concerns to distance supposedly "secular" philosophers from any "religious" connection have fed into this image of the philosophical "school," diverting attention away from other important dimensions of associative life among philosophers and other literate professionals (e. g. physicians), including involvement in honours for the gods and in commensal activities. Epigraphic evidence helps to elucidate the broader associative context. The fact that some philosophers formed associations has implications for adjacent fields, such as Christian origins, where there is a tendency to ask whether groups of Jesus followers were socially analogous to a Judean synagogue, an association, or a philosophical school, as though these were distinct options rather than overlapping social phenomena. Such associations of relatively literate people were among the few in antiquity that can also be described using the scholarly category of "reading communities ."
Juden, Christen und Vereine im Römischen Reich (eds. Benedikt Eckhardt and Clemens Leonhard), 2018
English translation (by Benedikt Eckhardt) of "Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Pr... more English translation (by Benedikt Eckhardt) of "Associations and the Economics of Group Life: A Preliminary Case Study of Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands" (2015)
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