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Civilizations (JAC) 36/2, 2021</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">With this fascicle,
we celebrate IHAC and our current director, Professor Zhang Qiang. From 16 to
17 January 2020, the international conference: “<i>Ad Fontes Ipsos Properandum</i>!
Law, Economy, and Society in Ancient Sources” was held at our institute, in
times when conferences with physical presence were still possible (conference
report: Sven Günther & Zhengyu Wang in H-Soz-Kult 25.02.2020,
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8655). The
participating scholars came from China and around the world, to celebrate
IHAC’s 35th and its director’s 60th birthday. Five selected and double-blind
peer-reviewed papers are published here, all mirroring current developments in
ancient studies and especially so-called auxiliary sciences of history, to
promote discussion about the future perspective of IHAC’s hallmark, the
historical analysis and interpretation of source material. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GUO, ZILONG:
Republished Texts in the Attic Orators (139–172)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BERTI, IRENE:
Delian Accountability and the Cost of Writing Materials (173–200)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">GÜNTHER,
ELISABETH: Pictorial Elements vs. Composition? “Reading” Gestures in
Comedy-related Vase-paintings (4th Century BC) (201–233)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">KATÓ, PÉTER:
Wealthy Koans around 200 BC in the Context of Hellenistic Social History (235–267)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCHMIDT, STEFANIE:
Early Roman Syene (1st to 2nd Century) – A Gate to the Red Sea? (269–297)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstracts (299–301)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Zilong GUO </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(IHAC, NENU,
Changchun)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-transform: uppercase;">REPUBLISHED TEXTS IN THE ATTIC ORATORS </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(pp. 139–172)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">doi: 10.16785/j.cnki.1004-9371.2021.04.014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In the present article, I explore the passages that are reused in the
Attic orators, particularly those as transmitted in the judicial speeches by
Antiphon and Demosthenes. I argue that the favorable reactions from their
audiences or clients in the past legal cases are what encourage the orators to
reuse, or republish, the passages, and that there is a tendency among them to
make modifications to suit changing socio-political circumstances and specific
performative contexts. The conclusion is that the republished texts highlight
the common practice of the logographers in Classical Athens, and thus
contribute to our understanding of their habitual way of writing and method of
self-promotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Irene BERTI </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(PH Heidelberg)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE COST <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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WRITING MATERIALS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (pp. 173–200)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">doi: 10.16785/j.cnki.1004-9371.2021.04.015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The article explores some practical aspects of record-keeping in the
Delian accounts, focusing on the different materials used as writing media,
particularly on the relation between records on perishable materials and
accounts written on stone. The financial administration of the Delian sanctuary
was particularly productive in respect of official writings. While the accounts
inscribed on stone were meant to present a summative balance-sheet of all
financial transactions carried out by the sanctuary during the year, papyrus
and wooden tablets were used for monthly records and for the different parts of
the financial administration. Analyzing the information offered by the
inscriptions with regard to writing materials and their costs, the article
seeks to reconstruct what the different kinds of records looked like, comparing
them with the realia known from contemporary archeological contexts, and asks
how they were acquired and produced, and whether there was a development over
the course of time. Contrary to the scholarly tendency to downplay the
importance of wooden tablets, the article argues that they were frequently used
by the public administration since they were cheap, easily available, and could
be used to record accounts and contracts to be kept in the archive, as well as
for documents to be temporary exposed to the public. Conversely, the role of
papyrus in the administrative writing was initially relatively limited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Elisabeth GÜNTHER </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(Classical
Archaeology, University of Trier)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">PICTORIAL ELEMENTS VS. COMPOSITION? “READING”
GESTURES IN COMEDY-RELATED VASE-PAINTINGS (4TH CENTURY BC) <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This paper examines the meanings and functions of
gestures in comedy-related vase-paintings produced in southern Italy and Sicily
during the 4th century BC. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It discusses to what
extent the gestures depicted in these images convey a specific meaning, and to
what extent their “reading” depends on the composition as a whole, i.e., the
choice, positioning, and cognitive framework of the pictorial elements such as
figures and objects. A first group of gestures indicates communication processes
in “conversational” scenes usually with two figures. In these scenes, the
meaning of gestures is of low importance, but their relative position within
the composition displays which conversation partner dominates the other, often
by inverting social hierarchies. The second group consists of more specific
gestures that express strong and often negative emotions. They originate from
tragedy-related vase-paintings, and this incongruence between tragic gesture
and comic context causes a comic effect. In general, gestures are just one part
of the cognitive framework of comedy-related vase-paintings which refer to
comedy; however, they create a complex network of cognitive frames and thus
evoke independent comic narratives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Péter KATÓ</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (Eötvös Loránd University,
Budapest)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">WEALTHY KOANS AROUND 200 BC IN THE CONTEXT <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="a0" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">OF HELLENISTIC SOCIAL HISTORY</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (pp. 235–267)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">doi: 10.16785/j.cnki.1004-9371.2021.04.017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">This paper aims to evaluate the data relating to the Koan elite around
200 BC, in the light of general trends
of the post-Classical <i>polis</i>’s social history. The article first presents
prosopographical information regarding the top contributors of the famous
wartime subscription list (IG XII 4, 1, 75–77), their relatives, as well as
other contributors with more modest amounts of money who can nevertheless be
identified as rich, influential, and prominent members of the local community.
The paper demonstrates the existence of an influential elite which exercised
its power mostly outside the framework of political offices (<i>archai</i>),
through religious activities and priesthoods, patronage in associations, and
interstate connections. Furthermore, the paper identifies those factors that
limited the influence of the elite: the instability of these families, the
sustainment of democratic political institutions, and the tendency to emphasize
communal efforts over individual benefactions – what is attested primarily by
the specific Koan epigraphic habit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="a0"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Stefanie SCHMIDT</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> (FU Berlin)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="a0" align="left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">EARLY ROMAN SYENE (1ST TO 2ND CENTURY) – A GATE <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<div class="a0"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Due to its strategic position at the First Cataract,
Syene (modern Aswān) obtained a central position in transregional trade at
Egypt’s border to the Meroitic kingdom. Archeological finds of Aswān pottery
throughout Egypt and the Arabian Sea demonstrate, moreover, that Syene’s
economic outreach went far beyond a mere cross-border trade. Based on a new
discussion of a well-known inscription by a <i>paralēmptēs</i> of the Red Sea
and an ostracon from Pselkis, this paper aims at exploring to what extent early
Roman Syene was also involved in trade carried out in the Red Sea and beyond.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-weight:bold;">Prof. Dr. phil. Sven Günther, M.A.</span></div>
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<div>Vice-director of the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC)</div>
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;">Executive editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC)</span></div>
<div>IHAC- and JAC-homepage: http://ihac.nenu.edu.cn </div>
<div>Co-editor of the Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (MBAH) </div>
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<div>Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC) </div>
<div>Northeast Normal University</div>
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