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Abstract In the last quarter of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th , the destinies of two major figures in French Egyptology and Assyriology regularly crossed paths. Egyptologist Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) entered the Collège de France at a …
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Abstract A 19th-century French magistrate, Joachim Ménant took an early interest in the work of Jules Oppert, before making his own original contributions to Assyriology. Born in Cherbourg on April 16, 1820, he studied law at the University of Caen before …
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Abstract Born in Hamburg in 1825, Jules Oppert left his hometown at an early age for Heidelberg, then Bonn, where he studied law and oriental philosophy. In 1847, at the age of 22 , he left Germany, where his Jewish origins prevented him from pursuing the …
15:30 to 16:00
Silvia Alaura et Marco Bonechi
Sayce and his French friends, from Oppert to Thureau-Dangin
Silvia Alaura et Marco Bonechi
Sayce and his French friends, from Oppert to Thureau-Dangin
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Abstract The British Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) was a Francophile, as his autobiography shows. His passive correspondence, preserved in Oxford and still largely unpublished, confirms this. It includes letters from such …
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Abstract The correspondence of Jules Oppert preserved at the Institut de France does not form a single unit, but is made up of several batches of letters received by his correspondents, notably Jules Mohl (1800-1876), Félicien de Saulcy (1807-1880), …
14:30 to 15:00
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Abstract Among the papers of Goettingen orientalist Paul de Lagarde, a considerable number of letters exchanged with Jules Oppert have been preserved. In their exchanges, which cover the period from 1875 to 1890, the two scholars, who share a certain - …
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Abstract Jules Oppert's participation in the May 25, 1857 session of the Royal Asiatic Society , in the deciphering of the prism of Tiglath-phalazar I , an Assyrian document, made him one of the official decipherers of Assyrian. Like all pioneers of …
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Abstract Jules Oppert's name is associated above all with the sites of Khorsabad and Babylon, due to his participation from 1851 to 1855 in the "scientific and artistic expedition to Mesopotamia and Media" led by Fulgence Fresnel. Yet the texts of Nineveh …
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Abstract In 1846 Edward Hincks announced that he had made a beginning in the decipherment of Akkadian. Between 1846 and 1849 he established that many signs have more than one reading or represent more than one sound, several signs can be pronounced the …
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Abstract In the autumn of 1851, when Victor Place was in charge of resuming Paul-Emile Botta's excavations in Khorsabad, the French government decided to send a major scientific expedition to Mesopotamia. Headed by Fulgence Fresnel, former French consul …
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Punjikent (Tajikistan), detail of a mural painting, circa 740: a Sogdian variation on the theme of Beauty and the Beast (the cursed young girl goes to draw water and encounters the aquatic demon) boris Marshak Pre-Islamic Central Asia produced a large …
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1848 / Universal Democratic and Social Republic / Le Pacte. Sorrieu, Frédéric , Dessinateur-lithographe / Goldsmid, Marie-Cécile (Citoyenne), Dessinateur-lithographe. Musée Carnavalet, …
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VIIth day of the Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP), which aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to palaeography, invites you to take part in a new day of study …
The sex of power
Patrick Boucheron, chair History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th century
The sex of power
Patrick Boucheron, chair History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th century
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Phyllis straddling Aristotle , bronze Aquamanile (late 14th-early 15th century), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection. This year's lecture extends and clarifies the inquiry into " politiques de l'amour ", which attempts to …
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Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). …
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Caesar at the Rubicon , Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917). Presentation In this lecture on concepts and their persistence through time, we begin by recalling the classical theory (now discredited) that the content of a concept is a "definition". The definition …
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ASMi, MMD arrotolate, 0035, Corso del Po con alluvioni presso Sannazzaro, 1623. Abstract Environmental humanities are a new research horizon for the social sciences as a whole, since the beginning of the 21st century and with increasing intensity over the …
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Abstract Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge's book " consciously leaves out the uses of the term in the works of Greek philosophers, be they poets or presocratics ". Taking up her invitation to bring philosophy into the dance, this paper would like to discuss this …
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Abstract Do daimones , as conceived in ancient Greek polytheism, provide solutions to philosophical problems, for gods and men alike ? In her latest book, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge shows that Greek thinkers (from Homer to the end of the classical period) …
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Abstract I propose to examine the figure of the daimōn as it appears in the myth of Er (Plato, Republic X, 617e, 620d-e), by relating it to the literary tradition prior to Plato, in particular lyric poetry (in Theognis and Pindar) and tragedy, notably in …
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Abstract There are three occurrences of the word daimôn in the corpus of Empedocles' verses at our disposal. Fr. 59.1 DK offers two occurrences in the singular. Fr. 115.5 has one occurrence in the plural. Moreover, the context in which some of Empedocles' …
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Abstract Based on the dossier of texts that Marcel Detienne proposed as an appendix to his classic study of Pythagorean demonology (1959/1963), we will attempt to identify the relationship between the various accounts of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of …
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