Full Description
The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the past is a foreign country. However, history has repeatedly demonstrated that colonialism never contributed to mutual understanding and constructive exchange of ideas, and that such is the dialogue we should strive forthwith our contemporaries as well as with our ancestors.
Contents
INTRODUCTION 7 Karmen MacKendrick and Jonathan Cahana
AESCHYLUS PERSIANS Empathizing with the Enemy, or Orientalizing Them? 11 Manuela Giordano
REVELATION AT THE LIMIT Mystery and Matter after the Valentinians 27 Karmen MacKendrick
DECOLONIZING ANCIENT SEXUALITY Three Case Studies 47 Jonathan Cahana-Blum
MYTHS AS CULTURAL VECTORS Some reflections on Ancient Greece and Modern Eth nographic Traditions 57 Luca Pucci
LIBERATING LEVI A Cultural-Evolutionary Approach to Aramaic and Greek Levi Beyond Denominational Essentialism 75 Jessica van t Westeinde
RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN WAR IN SIXTH-CENTURY HIMYAR 97 Pieter W. van der Horst
THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA Sanctity of Body and Soul in Augustine 107 Makiko Sato
A FLUIDITY OF CANON AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM IN THE WORKS OF ORIGEN 117
