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• Title:Transmission and organization of knowledge in the ancient Mediterranean world / Yoshiyuki Suto (ed.).
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Suto, Yoshiyuki, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Wien : Phoibos Verlag, 2021
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DE59 .T73 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.
  Mediterranean Region--Civilization.
  
• Description:295 pages : maps, plans, illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"The role of transmission and organization of knowledge is essential to our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This collection examines how various media, such as the colloquial, the textual, and the visual, and their intricate and effective combination enabled the productive transmission and organization of knowledge from Archaic Period to Late Antiquity. Yoshiyuki Suto is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Institute for Advanced Research at Nagoya University."-- Back cover
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9783851612608 paperback
  3851612604 paperback
  
• Contents:Introduction / Yoshiyuki Suto
  Greek numerals and numeracy / Josine Blok
  The epigraphy and topography of the sanctuary of Machaon in Gerenia / Andronike K. Makres
  What the use of writing tools brought about in ancient Greece : Plato's mind-models and the Alexandrian library / Yasuhira Yahei Kanayama
  Oral transmission of knowledge and suppressing the audience's Thorubos in classical Athens / Noboru Sato
  Diffusion of Roman imperial portraits / Kyoko Sengoku-Haga
  Intercultural exchange of knowledge in the archaic and classical Mediterranean / Kostas Vlassopoulos
  Purple dye in the Aegean : Technology, production, trade and transmission of knowledge / Lilian Karali
  Bridging the gulf : The role of landscape in the transmission and organisation of knowledge / Catherine Morgan
  Western Greek poleis and sanctuaries abroad / Judith M. Barringer
  Travelling images, travelling gods : Greek-Phoenician encounters / Marion Meyer
  Social resilience and organization of knowledge in Ptolemaic Egypt / Yoshiyuki Suto
  The knowledge transmitted by inscribed accounts and legal documents / Elizabeth A. Meyer
  Sharing divine and human knowledge : Oracles and lots / Irad Malkin
  Transmission of the concept of the public private distinction in classical Athens / Mariko Sakurai
  The classical Greek historians and their sources / P. J. Rhodes
  The history the rhetorically educated knew / J. E. Lendon
  Continuation and (re)creation of foundation discourses in Lycia and their historical background / Akiko Moroo
  Transmission of council documents : A case of the fourth-century Antiochene church / Hajime Tanaka.