Panegyriarchy in Civic Careers In ancient Greek cities, the organization of festivals generated its own institutional system, with various officials involved aspects celebration. One these was panegyriarch, charge market that took place during festival. On basis a systematic survey epigraphic documentation, this paper aims at defining profile individuals attested as panegyriarchs. It presents c...

Most modern researchers point out that a clear pattern of monotheistic religion began to appear in South Arabia since the middle fourth century. While these count on overwhelming influence Judaism, they marginalize any Christianity despite presence references literary sources confirming coincidence this with first missionary embassy sent by largest Christian empire at time, Byzantine Empire, ki...

This volume originates from a research project, which was funded within the PRIN program Writing Uses: Transmission of Knowledge, Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian Syro-Anatolian Polities 2nd 1st Millennium BCE. The project involved ‘research units’ different Italian universities (Torino, Pavia, Bologna, Firenze, Napoli - Suor Orsola Benincasa). papers presented here, ...