Rachel Mairs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3095451 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rachel Mairs |
| PRENOMES | Rachel |
| SOBRENOME | Mairs |
| ASSINATURA | MAIRS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9192-9031 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Boardgame Analogies in the Stele of Moschion
The Stele of Moschion, a dedication to Osiris from the Nile Delta region, written in Greek and Demotic, is a masterpiece of allusion. Previous research on this monument has focussed on elucidating the material nature of the inscription’s individual texts, which include several word squares, and the ways that this would have encouraged bilingual readers and viewers to interact with the stone. This contribution extends previous analysis of the stel…
Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
This Element examines – for the first time in a single volume – the written evidence from the 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world (Bactria, Sogdiana, Arachosia, Gandhara). It examines how successive invaders of this region, from Persia, Greece and India, left their linguistic and textual mark. It reviews the surviving Hellenistic-period written material from archaeological sites in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan in Aramaic, Gree…
Teachers of Arabic in Britain, 1870–1939
Histories of Arabic studies in Europe have focussed to date on formal educational institutions such as universities, in part because of the close connections between academic Orientalism and European politics and imperialism, but also because of the availability of primary sources. This article instead examines what we can discover about private teachers of Arabic in Britain from the Victorian period to the Second World War. As well as shedding l…
The Nile Delta
This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied aspects of the region's long, complex, yet still underappreciated history. Readers will learn of the history of settlement, agriculture and the management of water resources at different periods and in different places, as well as the naming and mappin…
Just Passing Through?
As with practically everything in 19th and early 20th century Egypt, we must consider the colonial context of foreign ‘viewings’ of the Nile Delta. Tourists pulled to the top of the Great Pyramid by Egyptian guides look down on a scene onto which they project their own recent experiences of Egypt and their knowledge of its history. They look, in the words of Mary Louise Pratt, with ‘imperial eyes’. When they venture into the landscape of the Delt…
‘Brief Conversations for Pilgrims’
In 1911, Grigorii Rasputin undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. That same year, the Katanov brothers published a quadrilingual phrasebook in Jerusalem – in Russian, Greek, Turkish and Arabic – designed for Russian pilgrims. The Russian pilgrim market was a very different one to the western tourist and pilgrim market typically catered to by phrasebook and guidebook authors in Palestine. Russian pilgrims tended to be poorer, of lower socio-economic…
Multilingualism and History
We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range …
Legacies of Alexander in Colonial Sindh
At Sehwan in Sindh in 1845, the British soldier and Orientalist Richard Francis Burton planted a fake ancient jar for an antiquarian to discover. Burton’s prank was designed to poke fun at British associations of Sehwan with Alexander the Great. This article examines the incident, Burton’s motivations, and the broader question of British colonial fixation on Alexander’s campaigns in Sindh
Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)
The Yiddish-language memoirs of the journalist Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926), published in New York in 1919–1920, present a version of his life that deviates considerably from the version one might glean from other contemporary testimony, such as newspaper articles and institutional records. This paper examines how Zelikovits constructed a counterfactual narrative in which he seeks to present his readership with his life as it should have been. A…
Reassessing Hellenistic Settlement Policies
This chapter explores the foundation of poleis beyond the capital cities, as well as the alteration and renaming of settlements as marks of imperialism. Rather than presenting an exhaustive survey, the authors emphasize the methodological issues faced by historians of identifying and assessing new settlements – Mairs by focusing on the historiography and archaeology of the early Seleucid Far East, and Fischer-Bovet by offering a typology of Ptole…
Interpretes, Negotiatores and the Roman Army
Sometime in the late first or early second century AD, the freed slaves of a man named Quintus Atilius Primus set up a monument to their late master – and, most probably, husband and father – on the Danubian frontier of the Roman province of Pannonia ( AE 1978.635). Atilius had followed a varied career path as soldier, interpreter and trader.
Hermēneis in the Documentary Record from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Egypt of the Hellenistic and Roman periods remains the most thoroughly documented multilingual society in the ancient world, because of the wealth of texts preserved on papyrus in Egyptian, Greek, Latin and other languages. This makes the scarcity of interpreters in the papyrological record all the more curious. This study reviews all instances in the papyri of individuals referred to as hermēneus in Greek, or references to the process of transla…
Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
This chapters explores how three philological traditions Graeco-Roman, South Asian and Chinese have been and can be used to contribute to our understanding of Central Asia in the Hellenistic period. It outlines the current state of the written evidence in Greek and Latin – including both texts from excavated contexts and those from the manuscript tradition – to explore how this evidence has traditionally been used to interpret the history and cul…
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
Il capitolo si concentra sulle evidenze archeologiche di periodo indo-greco nell'area del Gandhara. Alle evidenze già note vengono affiancate le evidenze degli scavi più recenti, in particolare quelle dall'area dello Swat, con un focus specifico sul sito di Barikot
Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy
The Men Who Would be Alexander
Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān
Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have suggested that it dates to the late seventh/early–mid‐eighth century AD . This article discusses the papyrus fragments and places them within their papyrological and archaeological contexts
Proclaiming It to Greeks and Natives, Along the Rows of the Chequer-Board’
Hellenistic and Roman acrostich inscriptions are usually full of verbal and visual clues, which point the reader in the direction of the ‘hidden message’ contained in the vertical lines of the text. The authors of such inscriptions want their audiences to appreciate the skill that has gone into their composition. There are several complementary ways in which the presence of an acrostich might be signalled to the reader or viewer and their attenti…
Hellenistic Far East
This book explores the archaeological and epigraphic evidence for Greek colonies in Central Asia in the Hellenistic period, in the aftermath of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. In communities such as the Graeco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum, the descendents of colonists interacted with their neighbours, and created dynamic new cultures and identities. Utilising a wide range of sources – documentary texts, inscriptions, archaeological remains, …
The Hellenistic Far East
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek ki…
Hellenization
Hellenization refers to the spread of Greek culture and its adoption by non‐Greek peoples.
Agathokles, Ptolemaic minister
Agathokles (d. 203 BCE ;) was a minister of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221–204) and served as guardian to and regent for his heir, Ptolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 204–181).
Asoka
Asoka (ca. 304–232 BCE ; Sanskrit Aśokah , “without sorrow,” also commonly transliterated “Ashoka”) was ruler of the Indian Mauryan empire from around 269 until his death (Thapar 1997; Falk 2006). He was son of Bindusara and grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Dynasty. Asoka occupies an important position in the ancient Indian historical and epigraphic tradition, where he appears as a ruthless conqueror and subsequently as …
Bilingualism
Bilingualism, the use of two or more languages by the same individual or within the same community, has historically always been more widespread than monolingualism (Romaine 1995; Hamers and Blanc 2000).
Euthydemos of Bactria
Euthydemos I (ca. 260–200 BCE ) was king of Bactria from around 230. He founded a dynasty which, most notably under his son Demetrios I, extended the control of the Greco‐Bactrian kings south of the Hindu Kush into Arachosia and India
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
Il capitolo si concentra sulle evidenze archeologiche di periodo indo-greco nell'area del Gandhara. Alle evidenze già note vengono affiancate le evidenze degli scavi più recenti, in particolare quelle dall'area dello Swat, con un focus specifico sul sito di Barikot
Hellenistic Far East
This book explores the archaeological and epigraphic evidence for Greek colonies in Central Asia in the Hellenistic period, in the aftermath of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. In communities such as the Graeco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum, the descendents of colonists interacted with their neighbours, and created dynamic new cultures and identities. Utilising a wide range of sources – documentary texts, inscriptions, archaeological remains, …
The Hellenistic Far East
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek ki…
Current Research in Egyptology 2005
Egyptian Artefacts from Central and South Asia
Acrostich Inscriptions at Kalabsha (Roman Talmis)
This article presents four Greek and Latin inscriptions from the region of the first cataract (published in the collections Bernand, 1969, Inscriptions métriques de l’Égypte gréco-romaine and Inscriptions grecques et latines de Philae II) which have acrostichs spelling out the name of their composers or commissioners. Two Greek inscriptions, in particular, left by a Roman decurion named Paccius Maximus at Kalabsha, make an overt display of their …
The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East
This book is intended as an introduction to the archaeology of the easternmost regions of Greek settlement in the Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BC, through to the last Greek-named kings of north-western India somewhere around the late first century BC, or even early first century AD. The 'Far East' of the Hellenistic world – a region comprising areas of what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan, …
The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East
Hellenization
Hellenization refers to the spread of Greek culture and its adoption by non‐Greek peoples.
Agathokles, Ptolemaic minister
Agathokles (d. 203 BCE ;) was a minister of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221–204) and served as guardian to and regent for his heir, Ptolemy V Epiphanes (reigned 204–181).
Asoka
Asoka (ca. 304–232 BCE ; Sanskrit Aśokah , “without sorrow,” also commonly transliterated “Ashoka”) was ruler of the Indian Mauryan empire from around 269 until his death (Thapar 1997; Falk 2006). He was son of Bindusara and grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Maurya Dynasty. Asoka occupies an important position in the ancient Indian historical and epigraphic tradition, where he appears as a ruthless conqueror and subsequently as …
Bilingualism
Bilingualism, the use of two or more languages by the same individual or within the same community, has historically always been more widespread than monolingualism (Romaine 1995; Hamers and Blanc 2000).
Euthydemos of Bactria
Euthydemos I (ca. 260–200 BCE ) was king of Bactria from around 230. He founded a dynasty which, most notably under his son Demetrios I, extended the control of the Greco‐Bactrian kings south of the Hindu Kush into Arachosia and India
Bilingual ‘Tagging’ of Financial Accounts in Demotic and Greek
‘Bilingual’ documents, with text in both Demotic and Greek, can be of several sorts, ranging from complete translations of the same information (e.g. Ptolemaic decrees) to those where the information presented in the two languages is complementary (e.g. mummy labels). The texts discussed in this paper consist of a number of examples of financial records where a full account in one language (L1) is annotated with brief pieces of information in a s…
Hellenistic Far East
This book explores the archaeological and epigraphic evidence for Greek colonies in Central Asia in the Hellenistic period, in the aftermath of the campaigns of Alexander the Great. In communities such as the Graeco-Bactrian city of Ai Khanoum, the descendents of colonists interacted with their neighbours, and created dynamic new cultures and identities. Utilising a wide range of sources – documentary texts, inscriptions, archaeological remains, …
The Hellenistic Far East
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek ki…
Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān
Excavations in 2013 at the site of Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān in the Faynān revealed several pieces of an Arabic papyrus, the first ever found in Jordan. Although the papyrus is poorly preserved, a detailed analysis of the fragments based on parallels have suggested that it dates to the late seventh/early–mid‐eighth century AD . This article discusses the papyrus fragments and places them within their papyrological and archaeological contexts
Proclaiming It to Greeks and Natives, Along the Rows of the Chequer-Board’
Hellenistic and Roman acrostich inscriptions are usually full of verbal and visual clues, which point the reader in the direction of the ‘hidden message’ contained in the vertical lines of the text. The authors of such inscriptions want their audiences to appreciate the skill that has gone into their composition. There are several complementary ways in which the presence of an acrostich might be signalled to the reader or viewer and their attenti…
The Men Who Would be Alexander
Interpretes, Negotiatores and the Roman Army
Sometime in the late first or early second century AD, the freed slaves of a man named Quintus Atilius Primus set up a monument to their late master – and, most probably, husband and father – on the Danubian frontier of the Roman province of Pannonia ( AE 1978.635). Atilius had followed a varied career path as soldier, interpreter and trader.
Hermēneis in the Documentary Record from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Egypt of the Hellenistic and Roman periods remains the most thoroughly documented multilingual society in the ancient world, because of the wealth of texts preserved on papyrus in Egyptian, Greek, Latin and other languages. This makes the scarcity of interpreters in the papyrological record all the more curious. This study reviews all instances in the papyri of individuals referred to as hermēneus in Greek, or references to the process of transla…
Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
This chapters explores how three philological traditions Graeco-Roman, South Asian and Chinese have been and can be used to contribute to our understanding of Central Asia in the Hellenistic period. It outlines the current state of the written evidence in Greek and Latin – including both texts from excavated contexts and those from the manuscript tradition – to explore how this evidence has traditionally been used to interpret the history and cul…
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
Il capitolo si concentra sulle evidenze archeologiche di periodo indo-greco nell'area del Gandhara. Alle evidenze già note vengono affiancate le evidenze degli scavi più recenti, in particolare quelle dall'area dello Swat, con un focus specifico sul sito di Barikot
Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy
Reassessing Hellenistic Settlement Policies
This chapter explores the foundation of poleis beyond the capital cities, as well as the alteration and renaming of settlements as marks of imperialism. Rather than presenting an exhaustive survey, the authors emphasize the methodological issues faced by historians of identifying and assessing new settlements – Mairs by focusing on the historiography and archaeology of the early Seleucid Far East, and Fischer-Bovet by offering a typology of Ptole…
Multilingualism and History
We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range …
Legacies of Alexander in Colonial Sindh
At Sehwan in Sindh in 1845, the British soldier and Orientalist Richard Francis Burton planted a fake ancient jar for an antiquarian to discover. Burton’s prank was designed to poke fun at British associations of Sehwan with Alexander the Great. This article examines the incident, Burton’s motivations, and the broader question of British colonial fixation on Alexander’s campaigns in Sindh
Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)
The Yiddish-language memoirs of the journalist Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926), published in New York in 1919–1920, present a version of his life that deviates considerably from the version one might glean from other contemporary testimony, such as newspaper articles and institutional records. This paper examines how Zelikovits constructed a counterfactual narrative in which he seeks to present his readership with his life as it should have been. A…
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