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Apuntes de Egiptología
Apuntes de Egiptología is a free and full-text online journal published by the Centro de Estudios del Antiguo Egipto and edited by the late Prof. Jorge Roberto Ogdon. The yearly journal publishes short referenced papers in several languages (primarily Spanish, English and French) and on any subject related to ancient Egypt, including archaeological and text-based studies. Some papers have illustrations; most are available as Web pages, with a few available in PDF format. Although the contents are reliable, the presentation of the contents does not look professional: the journal is the effort of a group of scholars to circulate their work and keep alive Egyptology in Argentina. This should not be considered a problem and it is hoped that after the death of the editor the journal will continue to be published. The journal also publishes timely reviews. Researchers in particular may find this journal useful.
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Didaskalia : ancient theatre today
'Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today' (ISSN 1321-4853) is an English-language web resource that combines an online full-text journal with short introductory essays. There are also listings and links to ancient theatre resources online. The online journal, published sporadically since 1994, covers modern performances of Greek and Roman music, drama and dance. At September 2008 there are 21 issues available online. Each issue carries a mixture of features, performance and book reviews. Themes have included: Masks; Tantalus; Electra; crossing the ancient stage; Homeric epic; contemporary research trends and electronic initiatives in ancient theatre studies. Contributors to the journal have included scholars and theatre professionals. This is a useful resource for anyone interested in ancient theatre in general or in its modern performance and reception in particular.
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Classical receptions in late twentieth-century drama and poetry in English
This is the website of the project on ‘Classical receptions in late twentieth-century drama and poetry in English’, a website hosted by the Open University. The network in charge of the project was formed in 2004 as a collaboration between UK universities with research specialisms in classical reception studies. The project has been established to document and analyse the theatrical and literary surge of interest in Greek texts and drama in the late twentieth century. The website includes further information on the research project. One can read critical essays, the online journal New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, archived reports of the e-seminar series and see details of upcoming events and conferences. One can search the drama database (one needs to register first) by theatre companies, Greek and modern authors, plays, themes and reviews.
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Masks for Menander : imaging and enactment
This is the website of an AHRC funded project which is imaging 3D ancient mask miniatures relating to the New Comedy of Menander and create full size reproductions. The aim is to explore the “innate dramatic properties of the ancient artefacts” and demonstrate their inherent theatrical qualities, giving a new insight into the way these qualities were exploited by ancient dramatists, combining “literary, dramatic and iconographic approaches to Greek New Comedy”. The website includes a short section of project news and publications, informative video clips exploring the project in more detail and a lists of technical standards the project has employed.
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Ancient Egypt magazine
The Ancient Egypt Magazine is a journal concerned with the study of Egyptology. The editorial board is made up, mostly, of Egyptologists from the University of Manchester. The magazine is mostly concerned with the description of artefacts and museums, the articles are geared towards the lighter side of the subject. The articles are written by highly acclaimed scholars in the subject area and cover a wide variety of topics, such as the reconstruction of the life of an Amun priest of the Twentieth dynasty or the non-destructive investigation of mummies. The website contains free online versions of back issues of some of the magazines from volume 1, issue 1, 2000, and forward; the complete text of the older issues and from the newer, contents and text to a varying degree. All back issues have, however, freely available book reviews and lists of links to websites that are deemed to be useful for the readers. This resource is useful for students of Egyptology and anyone interested in the subject area.
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Rhetorical review : the electronic review of books on the history of rhetoric
Rhetorical Review, edited by Dr Pernille Harsting, is an electronic journal that publishes book reviews of new publications on the history of rhetoric. It is the result of international collaboration of specialists in the field of rhetoric.The journal was launched in June 2003 and is published three times a year in February, June and October. Publications reviewed cover all aspects of the history of rhetoric in various languages. All reviews are written in English. All back issues are archived and available full-text. There is an cumulative A-Z listing of authors and editors of books reviewed plus an A-Z book title listing.
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Papyrus of Ani : Egyptian Book of the Dead
Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead website is a translation of the ancient Egyptian book of Going Forth by Day, more commonly referred to as the Book of the Dead. The translation was made by the famous English Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (1857 - 1934). The text is a funerary text that was used during the New Kingdom in Egypt and is based on Old Kingdom pyramid texts and the coffin texts from the Middle Kingdom. It describes the journey of the dead through the nether world and is thus an important source of information about the concepts of death during this era. The website consists of the translated text from the papyrus of Ani which is dated to the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom in Egypt. The text contains, in addition, alternative sections from other papyri with the same or similar texts. This is a useful resource for anyone interested in Egyptology or the religions of the ancient world.
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Women and gender in ancient Egypt
The Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt website is an online version of an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, between March 14 and June 15, 1997. The exhibition was curated by Terry G. Wilfong, associate professor of Egyptology at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan and consists of artefacts from the collections of the Kelsey Museum and the University of Michigan Library. It examines the lives and roles of women in ancient Egyptian society. It appears that women had higher status and were able to hold higher offices in ancient Egypt than what was possible in later Greek and Roman times. Although there are examples of women ruling as kings, the society was still a male dominated society. The site consists of a number of pages or chapters that covers certain areas such as; gender and religion; gender and power; other genders; and gender, fertility and sexuality. Each page consists of a short text and links to images of a number of artefacts relevant for the topic. This resource is easy to navigate and is useful for any student of Egyptology and especially those interested in gender studies.
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Women in the ancient Near East
The Women in the Ancient Near East website is a select bibliography of resources found in the research archive of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute is a research organisation and museum devoted to the study of the ancient Near East, founded in 1919 by the famous Egyptologist James Henry Breasted. The bibliography is compiled by Terry Wilfong, associate professor of Egyptology at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. The study of women in ancient Near East has attracted an increased amount of attention in recent years and this bibliography is an attempt to collect some of the more useful resources. The website contains the bibliography, a book review index and a subject index. It is a select bibliography and covers mainly acquisitions to the archive between 1988 and 1992. The bibliography is still a useful resource for anyone interested in ancient history and especially the history of women.
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introduction to the history and culture of pharaonic Egypt
An Introduction to the History and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt is a website dedicated to the study of Egyptology. It is a labour of love for André Dollinger and although not written by an Egyptologist it is rich with references and includes an extensive bibliography. The website covers a diverse collection of topics, such as: history; mythology; life in ancient Egypt; the dynasties; and chronology. Each section consists of an extensive set of short articles, dealing with a number of sub topics. For example, the section on mythology contains sub sections on individual goddesses and gods. This nice looking site is easy to navigate. The site functions as an extensive introduction to the culture and history of ancient Egypt and is useful for any student of the area.
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Literary encyclopedia
The Literary Encyclopedia provides bibliographies and text profiles for a wide range of authors, English and international. Basic records are free to read (this is normally the first 400 words); a subscription is required to view the full entries. There are about 5,900 authors listed, 17,500 works and 1,500 topics all written by experts in their field. Using the advanced search facility it is possible to list authors according to genre, sex, period and culture. The site is constantly under development with the aim of adding many new entries and expanding existing ones. It includes an extensive Links database (over 4,000 links), a stylebook and glossary.
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Beazley archive : gems
The website for the Beazley Archive has provided this online resource to their various collections of gems. Styles and periods covers the geometric, archaic, Phoneician scarabs, Greco-Persian, Etruscan, late antique, early Christian and Jewish periods, with examples for each grouping. The full index to the catalogue for the Classical Phoenician scarabs is available, together with a chart explaining the borders and mounts for these objects. Another section of this website is dedicated to the 1791 catalogue of over 15,000 gems in the collection of the most prolific collector in the eighteenth century, James Tassie. Searches can also be carried out by gem number. The plates are made available for browsing. Access is also provided to the online catalogue of the collection of Alfred Danicourt, as well as images relating to the collection of the fourth Duke of Marlborough (1739-1817). Images are also provided of examples from the collection formed by Prince Stanislas Poniatowski (1754-1833). It is proposed to provide an illustrated online catalogue of this collection at a later date.
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Gladius : estudos sobre armas antiguas, armamento, arte militar y vida cultur...
The Gladius website is the online arm of a Spanish academic journal which publishes on the following issues: Arms and Armour; and Military History and Polemology, from the earliest times until the end of the Eighteenth century, mainly in the Iberian Peninsula, Europe, Islam and the Americas, although other contributions will be considered. The full-text articles can be downloaded six months after the initial publication, although subscribers can get access straight away. The website is easy to navigate: there is a 'current' issue section (which links to the papers' abstracts for non-registered users); an 'archives' section, which holds the fully-available back-catalogue of publications from 1999 to the present; and an 'advanced search' option which allows keyword searching (by author, keyword, title and so on) through all issues. The articles are mostly either in English or Spanish and are in PDF format.
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Moheb's coptic pages
Moheb's Coptic Pages is an online collection of information on the encoding of Coptic texts in Unicode. The site includes: instructions on typing and displaying Coptic texts in an X-terminal; a collection of Unicode Coptic fonts; keyboard mappings; and instructions on proofing Coptic texts using Hunspell. The site also includes downloadable digital editions of various versions of the Coptic (Bohairic) Bible.
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Dag Norberg, practical handbook of medieval Latin
The Practical Handbook of Medieval Latin is an online translation of chapters from a book originally published in French by Dag Norberg. The translation is the work of Professor Rand Johnson, of the Department of Foreign Languages at Western Michigan, and is intended for non-commercial use only. The chapters discuss the history of the Latin language from the end of the Roman empire, through Africa and Spain in the 6th to 8th centuries, to Europe in the later Middle Ages. The chapters give a fairly good background to medieval Latin for students undertaking study of the subject, but the work is hampered somewhat by the lack of a search engine, or glossary.
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