The Seleucid Era, the official tally of years employed by the Seleucid Empire, was the first linear and irreversible chronographic system in the ancient world. In my presentation I will explore the social and political effects of its regular duration and irreversibility on just one aspect of life in… Read more
This paper first looks at how ancient scholars exploited the technology of writing to add functions — or, in more contemporary term, “apps” — to otherwise linear texts. Examples, with special emphasis on manuscript evidence, from fields as remote as astronomy, geography, chronology and grammar suggest that modern… Read more
In 408/7 BC, the old Rhodian cities of Ialysus, Camirus, and Lindus united to form one polis and create a joint capital called Rhodes at the northern tip of the island. Cos, Cnidus, and other democratic or oligarchic cities followed their example more or less successfully in the… Read more
It has been assumed in scholarship for a long time that democracy was characteristic of 5th-century BCE Athens and that this kind of political regime did not survive the rise of Macedonian hegemony in the late 4th century BCE. In recent years, however, many studies have shown that democratic institutions… Read more
Citation with persistent identifier: Ioanna Sitaridou. “Reframing the Phylogeny of Asia Minor Greek: The View from Pontic Greek.” CHS Research Bulletin 4, no.1 (2015). http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hlnc.essay:SitaridouI.Reframing_the_Phylogeny_of_Asia_Minor_Greek.2016 Introduction 1§1 Greek historical dialectology remains an understudied area of research –understandably so because of millennia-long diglossia– despite recent theoretical advances in the study of syntactic… Read more
