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Plenary Session: Faith, Hope And Democracy: Lessons Learned From Chicago Latino Immigration Activists, María Hinojosa, Dr. Hector Garcia, Jacqueline Long

Jacqueline Long

Introduction: Jacqueline Long, PhD, Modern Languages and Literatures Interim Chair, Loyola University Chicago

a) Plenary Session: María Hinojosa, Mexican American and Chicago native, Journalist and Producer of NPR's Latino USA

María Hinojosa is an award-winning news anchor and reporter for PBS and NPR. She is anchor of her own Emmy Award-winning talk show One on One with Maria Hinojosa from WGBH/La Plaza. Hinojosa has won top honors in US American journalism including four Emmy Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, and the Overseas Press Club's Edward R. Murrow Award for best documentary. She also serves …

Antiquity Now: The Classical World In The Contemporary American Imagination, Thomas Jenkins

Thomas E Jenkins

Written in a lively and accessible style, Antiquity Now opens our gaze to the myriad uses and abuses of classical antiquity in contemporary fiction, film, comics, drama, television - and even internet forums. With every chapter focusing on a different aspect of classical reception - including sexuality, politics, gender and ethnicity - this book explores the ideological motivations behind contemporary American allusions to the classical world. Ultimately, this kaleidoscope of receptions - from calls for marriage equality to examinations of gang violence to passionate pleas for peace (or war) - reveals a 'classical antiquity' that reconfigures itself daily, as modernity …

The Many Ways Between Late Bronze Age Aegeans And Levants, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Interactions between the "Aegean" and "Levant" cannot be discussed in monolithic terms. The physical realities of sea travel, the vocabulary and accounts preserved in texts, and the objects found in foreign earth and under the seas point to many routes among the diverse communities that inhabited the eastern Mediterranean littoral in the Late Bronze Age, and give hints of the different peoples forging the connections. They interacted in a multiplicity of ways, their relationships shifting through time. Focusing in on the specifics of interactions reveals complexities that should be the basis for alternative ways of classifying interactions across the Aegean …

Appendix K: Trireme Warfare In Xenophon’S Hellenika, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

§1. The disaster at Syracuse (415-413) marked the effective end of Athenian naval supremacy. She would rebuild her fleets and continue to be a force, but Xenophon's account of the following half century tells of a hard-fought struggle among many contenders to dominate the Aegean Sea. Although in the ancient Mediterranean world geography and tradition favored islands and coastal cities as emergent sea powers, dominance could not be achieved without also having access to the vital resources of timber, manpower, and plenty of revenue. Thus the Persian king Artaxerxes and Jason of Pherai posed alarming threats to the traditional masters …

Appendix I: A Painted Mark On A Mycenaean Krater Base From Hala Sultan Tekke, T. 1, Mla 1173, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

No abstract provided.

The Cypriot Ceramic Cargo Of The Uluburun Shipwreck, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

The ship that sank at Uluburun was carrying about 130 pieces of Cypriot pottery in its cargo, mostly fine bowls and juglets but also lamps and wall brackets. Some coarse-ware bowls, pitchers, kraters, and the pithoi may also have been intended as cargo. This ceramic shipment is diverse in substance and unassuming in quality. By tracing how the Cypriot vases spilled and broke apart during the shipwreck, it has been possible to determine that they were originally packed into three pithoi for transport. The odd assortment of vases suggests that this cargo was not acquired at a manufacturing center. More …

Cypriots In The Mycenaean Aegean, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Many different types of evidence provide clues to the nature of commercial exchange among the regions of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. I approach this topic through the study of marks which were incised or painted on pottery traded between the Near East and the Aegean. Thanks to the kindness of many excavators and museum officials in Cyprus and Greece, I have been able to examine firsthand much of the marked pottery found in those regions.

Die Zyprische Keramik Aus Dem Schiffswrack Von Uluburun, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Mehr als 150 zyprische Gefäße Öllampen und Vorratsbehälter (Pithoi) wurden aus dem Schiff herausgeschleudert und auf dem Meeresgrund zerschmettert, als dieses Schiff in der Spätbronzezeit bei Uluburun unterging. Zyprische Keramik zählt zu den bekannten Exportprodukten der Spätbronzezeit. Sie wurde in zahlreichen Siedlungen des östlichen Mittelmeerraums angetroffen, einschließlich Sardiniens als westlichstem Punkt. Jedoch gibt die Entdeckung dieser Keramik in entlegenen Siedlungen Anlass zur Überlegung, wohin, in welchen Mengen und zu welchem Zweck sie exportiert wurde. Folgende Fragen wären zu beantworten: War dieser Exportartikel von Angebot und Nachfrage abhängig? Stellt diese Keramik ein Mittel im Geschenkeaustausch dar? Wurde sie durch private oder …

Fine Tuning: An Analysis Of Bronze Age Potmarks As Clues To Maritime Trade, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

One of many puzzling questions facing archaeologists working in the eastern Mediterranean deals with the organization of trade during the Late Bronze Age (LBA). This is the time of the New Kingdom-the period of Tutankhamun and Ramses—in Egypt, the Hittite empire in Anatolia and parts of the Near East, and the age of the heroes of the Trojan war. Palace archives, treaties inscribed on public monuments, and murals painted on walls testify to extensive economic ties between these powers. Archaeological excavations also provide a glimpse of the types and quantities of trade-items and their distribution. These sources give some indication …

CéRamiques MycéNiennes D'Ougarit, Marguerite Yon, Vassos Karageorghis, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Les fouilles menées depuis 1929 par la mission française de Ras Shamra-Ougarit sur la côte de Syrie, et qui se poursuivent à ce jour, ont livre une quantité considérable de céramique de type mycénien, qui constitue dans la dernière phase de l'Age du Bronze un des fossiles directeurs les plus significatifs. Les objets mycéniens d'Ougarit déjà publiés representaient la proportion la plus importante du repertoire connu à travers tout le Proche-Orient; mais une partie restait inédite, comprenant notamment des échantillons d'étude rapportés au Louvre et les découvertes des campagnes récentes. Le présent volume fait connaître près de quatre cents nouveaux …

Appendix S: Trireme Warfare In Herodotus, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

§1. Herodotus describes a vigorous era in the history of the maritime traffic and warfare in the Mediterranean. Greek and Phoenician colonies anchored far-flung trading networks north to the Black Sea and west along the African and European coasts to Spain and even beyond the Straits of Gibraltar. Sea lanes had to be policed, colonies protected, parochial navies developed and increased. Furthermore, naval strength, always a prerogative of coastal and island states, became an important factor in the expanding domains of inland powers such as Sparta and Persia. The jostling of all these escalating commercial and political interests in the …

The Pasp Data Base For The Use Of Scripts On Cyprus, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

No abstract provided.

Die Kyprominoische Schrift: Texte Und Kontexte, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Vor 199 Jahren veröffentlichte Josef von Hammer die erste moderne Entdeckung einer in die Steinwand eines Grabes im antiken Paphos (Kouklia) eingemeißelten kyprisch-syllabischen Inschrift. Die weiteren Funde mit dieser Schrift versehener Objekte häuften sich rapide und 1852 publizierte Honoré Albert de Luynes die erste wissenschaftliche Studie der kyprischen Schriften, 1869 wurde in Dhali eine Bilingue mit der lokalen Schrift und Phönizisch gefunden. Sie erwies sich als Schlüssel zur Entzifferung.

Appendix G: Trireme Warfare In Thucydides, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

§1. Ships, sea battles, and naval policy are key features in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides—who served as a general and commanded a squadron of triremes himself (4.104.4-5; 4.106.3)—clearly viewed naval power as the key to supremacy in the Aegean (1.15); Athens' rise to empire and fall from glory was inextricably bound with her fortunes at sea.

Cypriot Pottery, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

At least 3 of the 10 pithoi (large ceramic transport containers) stowed on the ship that sank at Uluburun contained Cypriot pottery: Bucchero jugs, lug-handled bowls, milk bowls, Base Ring bowls and a single juglet, White Shaved juglets, lamps, and wall brackets—about 140 pieces in total, excluding the pithoi. The Uluburun shipment and the ceramic cargo jettisoned off Point Iria on the Greek mainland a century later are the only extant excavated direct archaeological evidence for the transport of pottery in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age. These examples of ceramics-in-transport are highly significant for what they tell …

Cypro-Minoan, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

There are approximately two hundred identified Cypro-Minoan inscriptions (excluding potmarks). Most are very short (one or two sequences totaling fewer than ten signs). They are impressed, incised, or painted on a variety of objects and materials in an assortment of lengths and formats and are found in a diversity of contexts widely dispersed across the island of Cyprus and at Ras Shamra-Ugarit on the mainland. They span the entire Late Bronze Age (16th-11th centuries BC) and perhaps continue into the very early Iron Age. The earliest discoveries were made at the end of the 19th century; most recently, Cypro-Minoan has …

Marked Objects From Apliki Karamallos, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

The study of Cypriot Late Bronze Age (LBA) writing had reached one of its apogees in the summer of 1939, when Joan du Plat Taylor undertook excavations at Apliki Karamallos. Publication of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's reports and new discoveries by Schaeffer at Enkomi and the Americans at Kourion Bamboula had shrugged off the mantle of dormancy imposed by the first World War; by the mid '30's, scholarship on the origins and uses of writing on LBA Cyprus was in full swing. Evans (1935), Persson (1932 and 1937), and Schaeffer (1936) published important studies, and Casson (1937 and 1939) and …

Joan Du Plat Taylor: The Road To Apliki, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Thirty-two-year-old Joan du Plat Taylor and her friend Judith Dobell [Stylianou] must have created a stir when they arrived at the field offices of the Cyprus Mining Corporation in 1938. For one thing, Joan probably drove, and the sight of an English-woman driving would have been cause enough for comment among the villagers. The few photographs of Joan's cars which survive depict vehicles overflowing with the accoutrements of field excavation, large bundles tied to the roof and hanging off the rear of the wagon. And always dogs perched among the piles of baggage. The road up the Marathasa Valley was …

Potters' Marks And Potmarks, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

The brief remarks and the detailed catalogue presented below, along with the author's forthcoming (a) re-study of the discoveries of the British expedition to Enkomi, supplement and update the author's 2002 study of the marked pottery found at Enkomi. In both cases, it is more a matter of adding, refining, and correcting than significantly changing the observations presented in the earlier paper. But even though they are not headline-grabbing, these contributions are important in that they add to the gradually accumulating evidence for marked vases in circulation in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. Because we cannot (yet) 'read' the marks directly …

Navigation And Transportation, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Water was the most efficient means of transportation and travel in the ancient Greek world. Evidence of the movement of commodities and people comes from a combination of literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources.

Incised Marks (Post-Firing) On Aegean Wares, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

The practice of incising potmarks into LH and LM III vessels after firing is not only distinctive but also a peculiar and limited Cypriot phenomenon. A close examination of the types of vessels marked in this way and their distribution should provide some clues to patterns of trade between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. The work I present here is still very much in progress, and I welcome suggestions and criticisms.

Marks On Pots: Patterns Of Use In The Archaeological Record At Enkomi, Nicolle Hirschfeld

Nicolle E Hirshfeld

Marks scratched or painted on the Late Bronze Age (LBA) pottery of the eastern Mediterranean are often highly visible elements of the ceramic assemblage because of their bold rendering and prominent placement (fig. 1). Nevertheless, often they have been overlooked. In those instances where they have been noted, interest in them has been primarily epigraphical. Certainly some of the potmarks are connected somehow with contemporary writing systems. But all of them, signs of script or not, have some reason(s) for being painted or incised on certain vases. This paper begins the process of looking systematically for those reasons.

Mortels Et Immortelles Dans La Théogonie, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

Cet essai prend comme point de départ Ia conclusion de Ia Théogonie.
Le poème d'Hésiode nous dit I 'origine du monde et la naissance des dieux,
un récit qui mène à la victoire et au règne suprême de Zeus sur le monde
divin. Mais l'histoire ne finit pas Ià: au vers 963, l’aède invoque à nouveau
les Muses et chante un catalogue à la gloire des déesses qui reposèrent
dans les bras des mortels et donnèrent le jour à des enfants. La question
de l’authenticité de ce catalogue a beaucoup occupé les spécialistes et
certains ont même avancé I …

Women After War: Weaving Nostos In Homeric Epic And In The Twenty-First Century, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

While women play a circumscribed role in ancient epic, Homer's Odyssey depicts both Helen and Penelope as undergoing their own forms of homecoming, or nostos, after the Trojan War: Helen returns to her husband Menelaus after experiencing the war firsthand at Troy and a ten-year separation; Penelope stays home, but Odysseus' return is in many ways as much a challenge for her as it is for him and the Odyssey portrays her domestic ordeal as a form of heroic nostos. In this essay, I explore female ways of homecoming in the Odyssey and draw connections between Homeric heroines …

A Moment's Ornament: The Poetics Of Nympholepsy In Ancient Greece, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

From Hesiod's first person account of his encounters with the Muses on Mount Helikon to Theokritos' nymphs, love between goddesses and mortal men provides the ancient Greeks with a way of articulating both the genealogical and cultic connection to their gods and to their past. A Moment's Ornament examines the theme of nympholepsy--the experience of being "seized" by a nymph or a goddess--in ancient Greek cult and poetry from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. In poetry, this topos, which is ubiquitous in many of the most well-known ancient Greek sources, focuses on the figure of the goddess, or nymph, …

Baby And Child Heroes In Ancient Greece, Corinne Pache

Corinne Pache

In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek religion, Corinne Ondine Pache'sBaby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable number of Greek babies and children who became enduring myths, objects of worship, and the recipients of sacrifice. Examining literary, pictorial, and numismatic representations, Pache opens up a vast territory once occupied by children such as Charila, Opheltes, Melikertes, and the children of Herakles and Medea. She elegantly argues that the stories, …

Between Magic And Religion: Interdisciplinary Studies In Ancient Mediterranean Religion And Society, Sulochana Asirvatham, Corinne Pache, John Watrous

Corinne Pache

Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the …

The "Odyssey" In Athens: Myths Of Cultural Origins, Erwin Cook

Erwin F. Cook

A study in poetic interaction, The Odyssey in Athens explores the ways in which narrative structure and parallels within and between epic poems create or disclose meaning. Erwin F. Cook also broadens the scope of this intertextual approach to include the relationship of Homeric epic to ritual. Specifically he argues that the Odyssey achieved its form as a written text within the context of Athenian civic cults during the reign of Peisistratos.

Focusing on the prologue and the Apologoi (Books 9–12), Cook shows how the traditional Greek polarity between force and intelligence informs the Odyssean narrative at all levels of …

Simulation And Seduction In Euripides’ Helen, Brian Lush

Brian Lush

No abstract provided.

On The “Importance” Of “Iliad” Book 8, Erwin Cook

Erwin F. Cook

The scene from Homer's Iliad book 8 where Diomedes rescues a chariot-wrecked Nestor from the advancing Hektor has been accused of being inadequately motivated. Not only is this scene well integrated into book 8, but it has been carefully prepared for in the preceding books. What motivates Homer to incorporate the scene of rescue is the practical consequence of having Zeus impose arbitrary defeat on the Akhaian army. To give the narrative of that defeat minimum dimensions, and appropriate dramatic force, the Akhaians must stage a counteroffensive. However, continuing to fight in the face of direct opposition by Zeus would …