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Über die Wirtschaft der Antike sind wir gut informiert, und Wirtschaftsgebäude wie die Basilika wurden von Archäologen und Bauhistorikern vielfach untersucht. Jedoch fehlte bislang der interdisziplinäre Gedankenaustausch. Dieser Tagungsband schließt diese Lücke, er enthält Beiträge über Geldgeschäfte, Handelsformen und Handelsbeziehungen, er stellt Speichergebäude und Märkte vor. Einen besonderen Platz nimmt die römische Basilika ein, deren Entwicklung um 200 v. Chr. quasi schlagartig am Forum Romanum begann und die neue Vormachtstellung Roms, das nunmehr auch zum Zentrum der mittelmeerweiten Wirtschaft wurde, städtebaulich zum Ausdruck brachte. Zwei Beiträge befassen sich mit der weiteren Entwicklung des Begriffes Basilika und seinen Nachwirkungen im Kirchenbau und in der Architekturtheorie bis heute. We are well informed about the economy during antiquity, and commercial buildings like the Basilica have been studied numerous times by archaeologists and architectural historians. However, an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas has been lacking in the past. This publication of conference proceedings tries to fill this gap; it includes papers on monetary transactions, forms of trade and trade relations, and introductions to warehouses and market places. The main focus is on the Roman Basilica, whose development started almost overnight about 200 BC at the Forum Romanum and which expressed the new hegemony of the Roman Republic, which had also become the center of all commercial activity in the Mediterranean, in regards to urban development. Two papers address the further development of the term Basilica and its influence for the building of churches and for architectural theory in general until today.

Architecture, Ancient

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The volume Trasparenze ed epifanie. Quando la luce diventa letteratura, arte, storia, scienza ("Transparencies and epiphanies. When light becomes literature, art, history, science") brings together thirty contributions presented at the interdisciplinary conference organized at the University of Florence on the occasion of the International Year of Light 2015. Scholars in the fields of science, history, history of art and cinema, philosophy, philology, Italian and foreign literature and literature literary theory from seven departments of the Florentine university introduce various meanings and symbolic representations of the concept light during the ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary epoch. Moreover, they also propose a common "luminous journey" in the civilisation of open scientific and cultural discussion.

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Explores the remarkable similarities between early Indian and early Greek philosophy. From the sixth century BCE onwards there was a revolution in thought, with novel ideas such as such as that understanding the inner self is both vital for human well-being and central to understanding the universe. This intellectual transformation is sometimes called the beginning of philosophy. And it occurred - independently it seems - in both India and Greece, but not in the vast Persian Empire that divided them. How was this possible? This is a puzzle that has never been solved. This book brings together Hellenists and Indologists representing a variety of perspectives on the similarities and differences between the two cultures, and on how to explain them. It offers a collaborative contribution to the burgeoning interest in the Axial Age and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the big questions inspired by the ancient world. Key features: Brings together two supremely sophisticated ancient cultures that, despite their similarity, are almost always studied separately Indicates the kind of collaboration between specialists that is needed to move forward the stalled debate on the Axial Age Contributors include Paolo Magnone, Joanna Jurewicz, John Bussanich and Jens Schlieter.

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