Sebastian Fink
Biographic Data
| ID | 3909786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Fink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Fink |
| SIGNATURE | FINK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6270-8368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Animals as Foes and Foes as Animals in Mesopotamian Royal Ideology
This article discusses the likening of foes to animals in Mesopotamian texts related to royal ideology. From the third millennium BCE, enemies were likened to swarms of locusts, snakes, apes, and dogs. While diachronically persistent, it is especially the Neo-Assyrian period that provides an abundance of corresponding examples. The analysis of such instances allows us to see developments and continuities in this practice and to identify underlyin…
Revaluating the Sardanapalus Monument in Cilicia Greek Travelogues and Ancient Near Eastern Hedonism
This article presents a novel interpretation of the famous hedonistic monument of Sardanapalus, as depicted by numerous Greek and Roman authors, particularly within historiography related to Alexander. The argument unfolds in two steps. First, the Greek tradition regarding Sardanapalus and the inscription is discussed in detail, and then the description of foreign monuments in Greek travelogue texts and their relation to ancient Near Eastern text…
Scribal Identities, Renaissances, and Dead Languages
This article is an investigation of the role of the knowledge of dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there is no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part of the curriculum of people who were about to become the foremost administrators of their time, knowledge of one or more dead languages seems to be a pillar of scholarly self-consciousness in many periods. The three gro…
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
Crisis in Early Religion
Ce qu'un dieu n'est pas
La théologie est un discours dont l’objet d’étude porte sur le divin, le ou les dieux. Elle est un concept né en Grèce à l’époque classique et trouve son origine dans un dialogue de Platon (La République II, 379 a - 383 c). Or l’objet de ce discours n’est pas comme les autres, puisqu’il s’agit d’une transcendance dont on pressent rapidement qu’elle est susceptible de dépasser tant la compréhension rationnelle qu’on peut s’en faire que les catégor…
Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World
The Hunter and the Asses
The present article gives a new edition and analysis of ‘The Hunter and the Asses’ (LKA 62) and discusses its political, historical and literary setting. We argue for the identification of the text as a paean, glorifying the campaigns of Shalmaneser III to the west against the coalition of 12 kings led by the king of Damascus
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie
Stadien Menschlicher Entwicklung
Assurbanipal, der Wirtschaftsweise
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie' diente als Ausgangspunkt einer internationalen und interdisziplinär angelegten Tagung, deren Beiträge in diesem Band vorliegen. Sie behandeln eine Vielfalt an Themen, die von der Menschwerdung, über die Kulturen des Altertums bis hin zu aktuellen politischen und sozialen Fragestellungen reichen. Schließlich sind auch Studien zur Spenglerforschung im engeren Sinne vertreten
Oswald Spengler und der Streitwagen
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) was one of the most influential philosophers of history between WW I and WW II. His book “The Decline of the West” (1918) made him famous. In this book Spengler attested that the phase of the West as a productive culture is over and that the phase of civilization has started. In the years after the publication of his main work Spengler started to get more and more interested in Ancient History in its broadest sense. He…
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Oswald Spengler und der Streitwagen
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) was one of the most influential philosophers of history between WW I and WW II. His book “The Decline of the West” (1918) made him famous. In this book Spengler attested that the phase of the West as a productive culture is over and that the phase of civilization has started. In the years after the publication of his main work Spengler started to get more and more interested in Ancient History in its broadest sense. He…
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie' diente als Ausgangspunkt einer internationalen und interdisziplinär angelegten Tagung, deren Beiträge in diesem Band vorliegen. Sie behandeln eine Vielfalt an Themen, die von der Menschwerdung, über die Kulturen des Altertums bis hin zu aktuellen politischen und sozialen Fragestellungen reichen. Schließlich sind auch Studien zur Spenglerforschung im engeren Sinne vertreten
Oswald Spenglers Kulturmorphologie
Stadien Menschlicher Entwicklung
Assurbanipal, der Wirtschaftsweise
Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World
The Hunter and the Asses
The present article gives a new edition and analysis of ‘The Hunter and the Asses’ (LKA 62) and discusses its political, historical and literary setting. We argue for the identification of the text as a paean, glorifying the campaigns of Shalmaneser III to the west against the coalition of 12 kings led by the king of Damascus
Ce qu'un dieu n'est pas
La théologie est un discours dont l’objet d’étude porte sur le divin, le ou les dieux. Elle est un concept né en Grèce à l’époque classique et trouve son origine dans un dialogue de Platon (La République II, 379 a - 383 c). Or l’objet de ce discours n’est pas comme les autres, puisqu’il s’agit d’une transcendance dont on pressent rapidement qu’elle est susceptible de dépasser tant la compréhension rationnelle qu’on peut s’en faire que les catégor…
Crisis in Early Religion
Scribal Identities, Renaissances, and Dead Languages
This article is an investigation of the role of the knowledge of dead languages, namely Latin and Sumerian, for scribal or scholarly identities. While at first glance there is no obvious reason why a “dead language” should be part of the curriculum of people who were about to become the foremost administrators of their time, knowledge of one or more dead languages seems to be a pillar of scholarly self-consciousness in many periods. The three gro…
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
Revaluating the Sardanapalus Monument in Cilicia Greek Travelogues and Ancient Near Eastern Hedonism
This article presents a novel interpretation of the famous hedonistic monument of Sardanapalus, as depicted by numerous Greek and Roman authors, particularly within historiography related to Alexander. The argument unfolds in two steps. First, the Greek tradition regarding Sardanapalus and the inscription is discussed in detail, and then the description of foreign monuments in Greek travelogue texts and their relation to ancient Near Eastern text…
Animals as Foes and Foes as Animals in Mesopotamian Royal Ideology
This article discusses the likening of foes to animals in Mesopotamian texts related to royal ideology. From the third millennium BCE, enemies were likened to swarms of locusts, snakes, apes, and dogs. While diachronically persistent, it is especially the Neo-Assyrian period that provides an abundance of corresponding examples. The analysis of such instances allows us to see developments and continuities in this practice and to identify underlyin…
History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Ancient Near East History (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Classics (3 works)