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Analecta Gorgiana
Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.
Iron, Prehistoric and Ancient
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 241
ISBN: 978-1-60724-470-7
Richardson and Hertz present opposing viewpoints for the origin of iron working in the transition from Bronze Age to Iron, one arguing a European origin and the other a Near Eastern/ Egyptian.
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On the Origin of "Had Rather Go" and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 307
ISBN: 978-1-60724-539-1
Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly.
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Nonius Marcellus
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 312
ISBN: 978-1-60724-544-5
Nettleship's introduction and commentary to Nonius Marcellus, a 3rd century AD writer on Latin grammar and lexicography. This includes a lengthy biography and background on the work and its influence.
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On Lepsius's Standard Alphabet
A Letter of Explanations from Prof. Lepsius
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 774
ISBN: 978-1-61143-152-0
Professor Lepsius’ goal in this article is to analyze the comments made in the article William Whitney wrote on his “Standard Alphabet” in 1861.
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Shamanism in Siberia and European Russia
By V. M. Mikhailovskii; Translated by Oliver Wardrop
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 972
ISBN: 978-1-61143-905-2
This work presents a detailed first-hand account of shamanic songs, rituals, and healing and initiatory ceremonies from all over Siberia, arranged by tribe.
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The Early History of Pelagianism
By Anonymous
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 796
ISBN: 978-1-61143-174-2
The author presents the history of Pelagius and his position against original sin. He reviews the positions for and against the doctrine of original sin, concluding that original sin cannot be proven true.
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Jacob of Serugh and His Influence on John of Dara as Exemplified by the Use of Two Verse-Homilies
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1049
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0097-8
Some of John of Dara’s 9th century treatises survive in Codex 356 in Mardin, in which Jacob of Serugh is called “Jacob of Batnan”, “Jacob”, and titles of respect. This article describes Jacob’s significant influence, comparing two-verse homilies in detail.
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The Contested History of a Book
The German Bible of the Later Middle Ages and Reformation in Legend, Ideology, and Scholarship
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1079
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0126-5
This paper explores the common misconception that vernacular translations of the Bible were not available prior to Luther. In fact, Luther may have relied on these to accomplish his own work toward what became a more preferable translation.
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La Mas’alat al-kana’is de Ibn Taymiyya
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1031
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0020-6
An extract from Collectanea Christiana Orientalia (2008)
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Remembering Music in Early Greece
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1052
ISBN: 978-1-4632-0100-5
This paper contemplates the various means by which the Ancient Greeks preserved information about their musical history, highlighting oral/aural tradition and the transition to literacy when inscriptions could capture information in roughly datable contexts. Music history sources and motives are also examined.
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Ras Shamra 18.113A+B, Lettre d’un serviteur du roi d’ougarit se trouvant à chypre
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 1000
ISBN: 978-1-61719-831-1
This article examines a letter composed by an Ugaritian administrator stationed in Cyprus.
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An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination
By John Esten Cooke, M.D. Lexington. 8vo. Pp. 224. 1829
By Anonymous
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 794
ISBN: 978-1-61143-172-8
The article reviews and critiques an essay that attacks Presbyterian ordination. The reviewer points to logical and textual flaws in the argument, indicating the author’s incompetence.
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Islam and its Need
By W. Norman Leak; Preface by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 704
ISBN: 978-1-61719-823-6
Leak provides a survey of Islam, and its relations to Christendom. His work involves the history, distribution, doctrines, and practice of Islam, and argues that the utter unlikeness of Allah is equivalent to agnosticism.
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The 'Ablaut' of Greek Roots Which Show Variation between e and o
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 306
ISBN: 978-1-60724-538-4
Maurice Bloomfield applies the principles of linguistics to find the proper root forms for Ancient Greek words, a task complicated by the vowel shift that occurs when Greek words (particularly verbs) are inflected.
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Excavations at Troy, 1937
By Carl Blegen
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 246
ISBN: 978-1-60724-475-2
The fourth of Carl Blegen's reports on the excavation of Troy for the American Journal of Archeology concentrating on the Trojan acropolis.
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The Neronian Sacra Via
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 223
ISBN: 978-1-60724-452-3
Esther van Deman reconstructs the structure of the Neronian Via Sacra (one of the arterial roads leading through the Roman Forum), which was refurbished during his reign with colonnades.
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The Gables of the Propylaea at Athens
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 294
ISBN: 978-1-60724-523-0
William Dinsmoor, one of the experts who directed the first reconstruction of the Athenian Acropolis, here sets out the process by which he was able to piece the gables of the Propylaia together from surviving fragments.
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The Ludovisi Relief and Its Companion Piece in Boston
By L. D. Caskey
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 214
ISBN: 978-1-60724-443-1
The Ludovisi throne is a famous works of early Classical sculpture, a white marble chair covered with bas relief. This article compares the Ludovisi throne to a similar piece in Boston, arguing that the two works are companion pieces.
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Latin Inscriptions from Corinth
By L. R. Dean
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 215
ISBN: 978-1-60724-444-8
This article provides transcription, text, and commentary on the Latin inscriptions known in Corinth in 1918 and provides a useful tool for understanding the civic life of Corinth under Roman control.
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A Third Century Etruscan Tomb
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 216
ISBN: 978-1-60724-445-5
This article published objects housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston believed to represent the complete equipment of a tomb at Chiusi.
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Egyptian Origin of the Ionic Capital and of the Anthemion
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 203
ISBN: 978-1-60724-432-5
An article tracing the development of the Ionic column from Egyptian lotus motifs through Assyrian rosettes and Cypriot pottery motifs.
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The epigraphic sources of the writings of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 258
ISBN: 978-1-60724-487-5
In this dissertation Dennison links the text of Suetonius to surviving epigraphical texts. This piece includes texts and commentaries and is an invaluable article for any study of Suetonius, particularly in a classroom setting.
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Notes on Roman Artists of the Middle Ages
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 264
ISBN: 978-1-60724-493-6
In this series, A. J. Frothingham Jr. reviews previously unstudied papal buildings, suggesting new members of the schools of Laurentius and Paulus and linking specific artists to various buildings.
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Excavations by the American School at the Theatre of Sikyon.
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 265
ISBN: 978-1-60724-494-3
McMurtry's original site report on the excavation of the Theater of Sikyon near Corinth. Sikyon (or Sicyon) boasts a well preserved Greek theater whose excavation illuminates the structures which supported Greek drama.
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Studies in the Lives of Roman Empresses
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 274
ISBN: 978-1-60724-503-2
In this piece Mary Gilmore Williams uses literary and epigraphic evidence to reconstruct a portrait of two key women of the second century AD, Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Cara-calla, and her niece Julia Mamaea.
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