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Cultural memory and identity in ancient societies
How did ancient societies remember and commemorate the past? And how was cultural identity, both individual and collective, formed and articulated? In recent years memory has become a central concept in historical studies, following the definition of the term 'Cultural Memory' by the Egyptologist Jan Assmann in 1994. Thinking about memory, as both an individual and a social phenomenon, has led to a new way of conceptualizing history and has drawn historians into debate with scholars in other disciplines such as literary studies, cultural theory and philosophy. The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies.
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L' économie de la Babylonie à l'époque hellénistique
This book offers an accessible overview of the complex evidence for the economy of Lower Mesopotamia under Macedonian rule, as well as an in-depth historical study of one of the most richly documented areas of the Hellenistic world. It examines the fiscal stratagems of Alexander's ministers, the introduction of coinage in local transactions, Seleucid land policy, and the final disappearance of age-old temples in the wake of the Parthian conquest
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View-counter view: Employee engagement and ancient Tamil literature
[...]the retort in the fourth line should have been “What is the option?” However, the wisdom of the ancients has foreseen this option and discarded it in favor of “What is the harm?” There could be situations so catastrophic that the in-house team may not be equipped to resolve them, but an external expert should be engaged. When a person’s value system syncs with that of the organization that he serves, when he respects it, when he is an integral part of it, he has no hesitation in putting his best foot forward in achieving its objectives. [...]they are co-created by him along with his fellow employees, and hence, they are not just that of the organization but his own, too. [...]nothing stops him from striding toward those objectives.
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Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800
\"More than three hundred letters written in Greek and Egyptian by women in Egypt in the millennium from Alexander the Great to the Arab conquest survive on papyrus and pottery. These letters were written by women from various walks of life and shed light on critical social aspects of life in Egypt after the pharaohs. Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore collect the best preserved of these letters in translation and set them in their paleographic, linguistic, social, and economic contexts. As a result, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 B.C.-A.D. 800, provides a sense that these women's habits, interests, and means of expression were a product more of their social and economic standing than of specifically gender-related concerns or behavior.\"--Jacket.
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Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate.
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The archaeology of Israelite society in Iron Age II
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Is Rationality Reasonable? How Ancient Logos Changes Management Theory
Rationality and reason are often used as synonyms, although they are very different concepts. In this article we argue that rationality is the concept of reason that has been stripped of its human elements. Ancient and medieval philosophers such as Aristotle and Aquinas stressed that the concept of reason is composed of sensitive, discursive, and moral elements. Post-Enlightenment thinkers instead, building on the works of René Descartes and Isaac Newton, took these out and claimed that rationality must be based on an external logic devoid of value-concepts such as perfection, harmony, meaning and aim (Koyré in From the closed world to the infinite universe, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1957). The purpose of this essay is to highlight this shift in Western thought and its consequences for management theories. While explaining the ancient concept of reason in contrast with modern rationalism (Klein in: Williamson RB, Zuckerman E (eds) Jacob Klein—lectures and essays, St. John’s College Press, Annapolis, 1985), we aim at raising awareness of the differences between building a research programme (especially in business sciences like economics and management) on rationality or on reason.
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