The Materiality of Text

Starting out from the presumption that inscriptions are texts indissolubly connected to the physical objects on which they are written, this collection of essays aims to provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physical and material aspects of writing in antiquity. It argues that there is a need to ‘increase modern sensibilities to material aspects of our texts which are often elided in modern printed editions’. This call is not new: recognition of the importance of the materiality of ..

Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World

That Gil Renberg can preface his weighty two-volume study of incubation in the ancient world with a note that it developed as a side project to two other books he is writing (also on dreams in antiquity) demonstrates the richness of the topic of ancient dreaming and its relative recent neglect in scholarship. In Where Dreams May Come, Renberg examines incubation — the practice of sleeping in a deity’s sanctuary in order to receive a god-sent dream — in the Ancient Near East, the Ancient Greek..

CGRN 237: Decree concerning the procession to Eleusis for the Eleusinian mysteries

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CGRN 235: Boundary stone with a purity regulation from Herakleia Pontika

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CGRN 229: Sacrificial regulation for Aphrodite Peitho and Hermes at Mytilene

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CGRN 230: Purity regulation from the Vari cave

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CGRN 238: Dossier of regulations notably concerning ornithomancy and oath-swearing at Ephesos

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CGRN 226: Sacrificial regulation for Aphrodite from the Rhodian Peraia

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CGRN 231: Sacrificial regulation for Eros at Athens

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CGRN 228: Fragment of a sacrificial calendar from the sanctuary of Zeus and Hera at Panamara

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