A Tall Order. Writing the Social History of the Ancient World : : Essays in honor of William V. Harris / / ed. by Jean-Jacques Aubert, Zsuzsanna Várhelyi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
• MitwirkendeR: Aubert, Jean-Jacques,; Christesen, Paul,; Frakes, James F. D.,; Frakes, James F.D.,; Hollander, David B.,; Hollander, David Β.,; Jinyu, Liu,; Knust, Jennifer W.,; Knust, Jennifer,; Kousser, Rachel,; Liu, Jinyu,; Marzano, Annalisa,; McDonnell, Myles,; Phang, Sara Elise,; Roth, Jonathan P.,; Roth, P. Jonathan,; Schwartz, Saundra,; Schwartz, Seth,; Thompson, Glen L.,; Thompson, L. Glenn,; Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna,
• HerausgeberIn: Aubert, Jean-Jacques,; Várhelyi, Zsuzsanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Leipzig : : B. G. Teubner, , [2012]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde , 216
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 p.)

Dieser Band erinnert an den 65. Geburtstag von William Vernon Harris (13. September 2003), als eine Gruppe seiner früheren Studenten übereinkam, ihn mit der Herausgabe einer Sammlung von Essays zu ehren, die das breite Spektrum der Interessengebiete und Einflüsse ihres Ratgebers repräsentieren sollt...

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Illustrations
• Preface
• William V. Harris: The first forty years of scholarship (1965-2005)
• Religion in context
• A God of Reciprocity: Torah and Social Relations in an Ancient Mediterranean Society
• Distinguishing Jewishness in Antiquity
• Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Development of Christian Scripture
• Constantius II and the First Removal of the Altar of Victory
• ‘Du lard ou du cochon’? The Τestamentum Ρorcelli as a Jewish Anti-Christian Pamphlet
• Imperialism and its soldiers
• Aristocratic Competition, Horses, and the Spolia Opima Once Again
• An Architecture of Human Heads: Gallic Responses to Roman Power
• Soldiers’ Slaves, ‘Dirty Work’, and the Social Status of Roman Soldiers
• Law and economy in ancient society
• Veterans, Agriculture, and Monetization in the Late Roman Republic
• Country Villas in Roman Central Italy: Reassessing the Evidence
• The Delicts of the Countryside in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
• Local Governments and Collegia: A New Appraisal of the Evidence
• Historiography
• Imagining Olympia: Hippias of Elis and the First Olympic Victor List
• A Sense of Change and the Historiography of the Turn from Republic to Empire
• Afterword
• Contributors