Annewies van den Hoek

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Many Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre appear to be made of coarse-grained, very white dolomitic marble from the north Aegean island of Thasos, and permission was given to test twelve of them in a non-destructive way using a mobile X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer. Coarse-grained, white dolomitic marble sources were rare in antiquity ,...

Clement of Alexandria was active as a Christian philosopher and teacher in the later second and early third centuries. In spite of his topographic nickname, Clement did not originate in Alexandria but was born elsewhere, possibly in Athens, of non-Christian origin.Keywords:Christianity;Late Antiquity;religious history

Scholarship and teaching had been a well-established activity in Alexandria long before Christianity reached its shores. It is therefore not surprising to read in the accounts of the church historian Eusebius, our primary source of information, that a Christian school existed in Alexandria toward the end of the second century.

A new, massive source of greco scritto marble, the Hasançavuslar quarries near Ephesos, is reported and shown to be isotopically quite distinct from Cap de Garde, the Algerian marble site traditionally considered to be the main source of greco scritto. Isotopic and EPR analyses carried out on 58 artifacts from North Africa, Italy and Asia Minor dem...

This publication is a comprehensive reworking of the author’s two previous studies, which he wrote as his dissertation. The first dissertation was philosophical in nature and focused on the life, work, spiritual environment, and philosophy of Clement of Alexandria, with special emphasis on the first book of the Stromateis. The second was more theol...

1. The objects In the fourth and fifth centuries a wealth of figurative imagery appears on fine earthenware produced in North Africa. These plates, bowls and lamps were named after the material from which they were made – African Red Slip Ware in the English language (abbreviated as ARS) and Terra Sigillata Chiara in Italian. ARS tableware was very...

Some years ago a rectangular ceramic panel appeared at auction in London and made its way to Boston (fig. 1). The object was purchased by Cornelius C. Vermeule III, who placed it on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The technical term in English to describe the fabric of this kind of ceramic is “African Red Slip” ware—abbreviated ARS. The...

BiBIL, E : L : LC : Copte : Livre copte de Berlin, Numéro de fasc. (revues) ou de vol. dans la collection (livres): 164, Photocopies. BCU/D: 2300/07ORI8 c UPA 21085/1

Some of the most elaborate and detailed descriptions of early Christian churches by a Latin writer are given by the nobleman Pontius Meropius Paulinus, who is usually known as Paulinus of Nola, after the city where he became bishop in the latter part of his life. He was born in Bordeaux around 353, of a wealthy family that had extensive properties...

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Origin Stories as Authorizing Discourse3Ch. 1Tracing Procreation: The Origins of Origin Stories21Ch. 2The Social Force of Metaphors for Procreation32Ch. 3Sowing Knowledge: Procreation and Pedagogy50Ch. 4Defending Teaching Methods with Procreative Language69Ch. 5"Few Are Like Their Fathers": The Rhetoric of...

For centuries, the so-called catechetical school in Alexandria has intrigued scholars and stimulated speculation on its origins and early practices. The relationship of this school to Jewish-Hellenistic antecedents has made the problem doubly fascinating. Hypotheses about the school, however, have sometimes far exceeded the limits of the scanty inf...

Dans l'Antiquite, emprunter un materiel litteraire propre a un auteur est un phenomene courant. Clement d'Alexandrie travaille sans etre conscient de l'interaction entre memoire, sources intermediaires, consultation directe des textes et prise de notes. Sa maniere d'introduire des citations varie assez souvent, grâce a des techniques constrastees p...

Clement's works contain a variety of Gospel sayings, often in harmonized form, and other Gospel harmonies that have been identified by others as « extracanonical » traditions. These texts show similarities with variant materials in the work of Justin Martyr. The present paper analyzes all available material and attempts to redefine the similarities...