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  • Chapter One - Imagination and the Power of Storytelling

  • Beate Pongratz-Leisten, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
  • Book:
    Myth, Text and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia
    Published online:
    03 February 2026
    Print publication:
    26 March 2026, pp 1-15

  • Summary

    Chapter I provides a road map for the book. It delineates the approach to conceive of myth as a system of knowledge (episteme) and as an expression of cognitive and cultural experience. With its explanatory and orientating functions myth constitutes reality myth and represents one way of worldmaking (Nelson Goodman). By drawing on insights from cognitive sciences and cognitive narratology the book argues for conceiving of myth as conceptual metaphor that was translated into text, image, and ritual performance with these media informing and complementing each other. Particular attention is given to political mythmaking which situates myth in the institutional context of the palace and temple with their scholarly circles.

  • Chapter 5 - Monks, Barbarians, and Soldiers

  • from Part II - War and Agency
  • Edited by Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley, Kristina Sessa, Ohio State University
  • Book:
    War and Community in Late Antiquity
    Published online:
    09 January 2026
    Print publication:
    19 March 2026, pp 119-150

  • Summary

    Armed conflict and the proximity of soldiers and other combatants shaped late ancient monastic communities in diverse ways that reflected not only the vulnerability of victims but also the resourcefulness of innovators. Monks were wounded, captured, and killed, and some became the objects of veneration as martyrs; monastic communities built walls and towers for protection and offered help to victims of violence; monks interacted with barbarians peacefully and violently and integrated their fears of barbarians into their spiritual lives; monks formed new and often beneficial relationships with military men, some of whom chose to become monks themselves; and the military may have provided one of the models for the organization of monastic communities. Monks saw themselves as soldiers of the heavenly king, not entirely different from the nearby soldiers of the earthly king.

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