Melissa Mueller and Lilah Grace Canevaro interview Amy Lather, author of Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, the first book to publish in the new Ancient Cultures, New Materialism series.
Category: Ancient History
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Ancient History
The Lost Splendour of Ghazni: Rediscovering an Islamic Capital in Medieval Afghanistan
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By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…
The oldest layers of the surviving Zoroastrian texts are in Avestan language and commonly dated to the middle of the second millennium BCE. Exact dates and circumstances of composition, however, remain uncertain, so that little is known about the socio-political context from which these texts emerged. After two millennia of oral transmission, the texts were finally committed to writing, at a time when the language must have no longer been in active use.