Ian Moyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Moyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Moyer |
| SIGNATURE | MOYER I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imperial and Indigenous Temporalities in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Dynasties
This chapter compares different temporal regimes developed by the Seleucids and Ptolemies. Kosmin suggests that the Seleucids created a new “historical field” when Seleucus proclaimed a new epoch of Babylonian history and called the year of his conquest of Babylon year 1. The Babylonian historian and priest Berossus, despite writing a history of pre-Seleucid Babylonia, situated himself in the new world of the Seleucids. Yet in Egypt the Ptolemies…
Classicisms in the Black Atlantic
Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple
The subject of this chapter is four Greek hymns by Isidorus (perhaps around 100 bce) found inscribed on a gateway of the temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis-Hermouthis at Narmouthis/Medinet Madi in the Fayyum. Three of the hymns are to the goddess herself, the fourth is in praise of Amenemhat III/Porramanres, the founder of the temple. The chapter shows how four hymns mediate in different ways between a broader universalizing Greek perspective an…
Why Cenchreae? The Social Topography of a Desultory Crossing in Apuleius' Golden Ass
In the Asinus Aureus, a loose translation of the Greek Onos, Apuleius shifts the scene of the protagonist's return to human form from Thessaloniki to Cenchreae. Intertextual and topographical analysis shows that this changes the end of Lucius' journey from homecoming to social transformation and incorporation into a religious community
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Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple
The subject of this chapter is four Greek hymns by Isidorus (perhaps around 100 bce) found inscribed on a gateway of the temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis-Hermouthis at Narmouthis/Medinet Madi in the Fayyum. Three of the hymns are to the goddess herself, the fourth is in praise of Amenemhat III/Porramanres, the founder of the temple. The chapter shows how four hymns mediate in different ways between a broader universalizing Greek perspective an…
Why Cenchreae? The Social Topography of a Desultory Crossing in Apuleius' Golden Ass
In the Asinus Aureus, a loose translation of the Greek Onos, Apuleius shifts the scene of the protagonist's return to human form from Thessaloniki to Cenchreae. Intertextual and topographical analysis shows that this changes the end of Lucius' journey from homecoming to social transformation and incorporation into a religious community
Classicisms in the Black Atlantic
Imperial and Indigenous Temporalities in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Dynasties
This chapter compares different temporal regimes developed by the Seleucids and Ptolemies. Kosmin suggests that the Seleucids created a new “historical field” when Seleucus proclaimed a new epoch of Babylonian history and called the year of his conquest of Babylon year 1. The Babylonian historian and priest Berossus, despite writing a history of pre-Seleucid Babylonia, situated himself in the new world of the Seleucids. Yet in Egypt the Ptolemies…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · Ancient Near East History (1 work)