books by Beate Dignas

books by Beate Dignas

books:

Beate Dignas

Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII ...

Center for Hellenic Studies, 2004

This colloquium volume celebrates a new Hellenistic epigram collection attributed to the third-century B.C.E. poet Posidippus, one of the most significant literary finds in recent memory. Included in this collection are an unusual variety of voices and perspectives: papyrological, art ...

Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Oxford Classical Monographs)
Beate Dignas

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

This original study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the poleis that hosted them. Examining the forms of interaction between rulers, cities, and sanctuaries, the book proposes a triangular relationship in which the rulers often acted as mediators between differing ...

Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor

Classical Press of Wales, 2006

Asia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire. The study in this book include: the direct impact of Roman rule; the organization of large agricultural estates; changing patterns of olive production; threats to rural prosperity from pests and the animal world; and the inter-regional trade in the Black Sea.

Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity: Neighbours and Rivals

Beate Dignas, Engelbert Winter

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity provides a brief summary of events in chronological order supported by quotation and references. Supplementing this are additional chapters that focus on particular aspects of the two empires. These include the military, the diplomatic ...

Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus (Hellenic Studies)
Beate Dignas, Kai Trampedach

Center for Hellenic Studies, 2008

?What is a Greek priest?? The volume, which has its origins in a symposium held at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., focuses on the question through a variety of lenses: the visual representation of cult personnel, priests as ritual experts, variations of priesthood, ideal concepts and their transformation, and the role of ...