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Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing that they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged. His survey embraces Hesiod, the Homeric epics, the lyric poets, and Aeschylus, and concludes with an illuminating discussion of possible avenues of transmission between the orient and Greece. He believes that an age has dawned in which Hellenists will no more be able to ignore the Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.

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Facsímil dels quatre toms originals. Estudi preliminar de Josep Fontana.

El 1931 aparegue la primera síntesi 'moderna' de la historia de Montserrat, en la qual l'arxiver del monestir, el pare Anselm M. Albareda -futur bibliotecari de la Vaticana i cardenal-, va continuar la tradicio, iniciada al monestir ja al segle xvi i represa al segle xix per l'abat Miquel Muntadas, d'oferir als visitants i als pelegrins un resum de les vicissituds del monestir i del santuari des dels seus origens. Per primer cop, pero, era publicada una obra que responia a les exigencies minimes de la critica historica -que ja havia entrat al monestir el segle xviii a traves de les importants recerques del pare Benet Ribas, dissortadament inedites fins no fa gaire o perdudes- i que explicava per primera vegada molts punts foscos de la trajectoria del monestir fundat per l'abat-bisbe Oliba, que a poc a poc havia d'esdevenir el que Albareda anomenava el 'santuari nacional' de Catalunya, amb una expressio que en un determinat moment resulta sospitosa per a la censura franquista. El pare Albareda desitjava convertir aquest llibre -escrit amb presses amb motiu de la celebracio del ix Centenari de la fundacio de Montserrat- en una Historia critica documental, en la qual treballa molt durant els darrers anys de la seva vida, pero en morir, el 1966, nomes n'havia pogut redactar una p

The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and Venice examines their common Byzantine past, since all three escaped incorporation into the Lombard kingdom in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. By 750, however, Rome and Ravenna'spolitical links with the Byzantine Empire had been irrevocably severed.Thus, did these cities remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium? How did their political structures, social organisation, material culture, and identities change? Did they become part of the Western political andideological framework of Italy? This study identifies and analyses the ways in which each of these cities preserved the structures of the Late Antique social and cultural world; or in which they adapted each and every element available to them to their own needs, at various times and in various ways, to create a new identity based partly on their Roman heritage and partly on their growing integration with the rest of medieval Italy. It tells a story which encompasses the main contemporary narratives, documentary evidence,recent archaeological discoveries, and discussions on art history; it follows the markers of status and identity through titles, names, ethnic groups, liturgy and ritual, foundation myths, representations, symbols, and topographies of power to shed light on a relatively little known area of earlymedieval Italian history.