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  • THE FIRST KNOWN INSCRIPTION FROM HATRA IN GREEK AND HATRAN ARAMAIC: NEW INSIGHTS INTO SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND RELIGION AT THE CITY OF THE SUN

  • Ilaria Bucci, María-Paz de Hoz, Ted Kaizer, Marco Moriggi
  • Journal:
    IRAQ , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 October 2025, pp. 1-31
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  • This article is the publication of the first bilingual inscription from Hatra, combining Greek with Hatran Aramaic. It is known only from a slide in the archives of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Hatra and, as the first bilingual document from the city itself, it deserves special attention from a multidisciplinary perspective. The inscription is discussed here in its wider context, first with regard to what it can contribute to our understanding of codeswitching between Greek and Aramaic, at Hatra itself and within the wider Near East, and second concerning our knowledge of the development of the city’s local religious life. It is argued that the new inscription casts light on the way in which the goddess ʾAllāt, under influence of the royal house, came to join the Sun god Šmeš (Šamaš) at the heart of Hatrene religion.

Plato on Comedy and Tragedy
  • The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness
  • Franco V. Trivigno
  • Published online:
    24 October 2025
    Print publication:
    13 November 2025
  • For Plato, tragedy and comedy are meaningful generic forms with proto-philosophical content concerning the moral character of their protagonists. He operates with a distinction between actual drama, the comedy and tragedy of the fourth and fifth centuries BCE, and ideal drama, the norm for what comedy and tragedy ought to be like. In this book Franco Trivigno reconstructs, on Plato's behalf, an original philosophical account of tragedy and comedy and illustrates the interpretive value of reading Plato's dialogues from this perspective. He offers detailed analyses of individual dialogues as instances of ideal comedy and tragedy, with attention to their structure and philosophical content; he also reconstructs Plato's ideals of comedy and tragedy by formulating definitions of each genre, specifying their norms, and showing how the two genres are related to each other. His book will be valuable for a range of readers interested in Plato and in Greek drama.

The Secret Book of John
  • M. David Litwa
  • Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025
  • In this volume, David Litwa offers a fresh introduction to the 'gnostic Bible,' arguably the most significant and widely read of all gnostic Christian texts ever written. Providing a fresh introduction to a particular version of the Secret Book of John, namely the shorter version that is found in Nag Hammadi Codex III, his study includes a new translation of this text and an extensive commentary in which he introduces the notable features of this codex and interrogates whether the Secret Book emerged from an actual gnostic community. Litwa also posits solutions to many questions related to this text, notably: its date and find spot, its relationship to the treatise known and summarized by Irenaeus in the late second century, its interpretation and re-creation of the book of Genesis for Christian readers, its novel interpretation of Greco-Roman philosophy, its foundations in apostolic authority, and the reception of the Secret Book of John in late antiquity, well into the fifth century CE.

The Gospel of Truth
  • Francis Watson
  • Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025
  • The Gospel of Truth is an early Christian homily in which an anonymous and independent-minded teacher communicates his understanding of the core Christian message to his own immediate circle and a wider audience elsewhere. For this author, the gospel is the good news that in the person of Jesus, the divine Father has made himself known to his elect, calling them out of a nightmare-like existence in ignorance and illusion into the knowledge of himself. In this volume, Francis Watson provides a new and accessible translation of this text, along with a thorough analysis of it, both in its own terms and in its reception by later readers. He argues that its closest affinities lie with New Testament texts such as the Gospel of John and the Pauline letters. Watson also demonstrates how The Gospel of Truth is a work of literary quality and theological originality and why it deserves the attention of all students and scholars of early Christianity.

The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods
  • Globalization, Christianization and Resilience
  • Rebecca Sweetman
  • Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025
  • The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through analysis of the material culture produced from the late first century BCE through to the seventh century CE, however, Rebecca Sweetman offers a fresh interpretation of Cycladic societies across this diachronic period. She demonstrates that the Cyclades remained vibrant, and that the islands embraced the potential of being part of wider political, economic and religious networks that were enabled as part of the Roman Empire. Sweetman also argues that the Cyclades were at the forefront of key social developments, notably, female social and physical mobility, as well as in the islands' early adoption of Christianity. Drawing on concepts related to Globalization, Christianization, and Resilience, Sweetman's analysis highlights the complex relationships between the islands and their Imperial contexts over time. The gazetteer of archaeological sites will be fundamental for all working on archaeology of the Roman and Late Antique periods as well as those interested in the Mediterranean.

Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy
  • Rosa Andújar
  • Published online:
    23 October 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025
  • Modern audiences see the chorus as an emblematic yet static element of ancient Greek drama, whose reflective songs puncture the action. This is the first book to look beyond these odes to the group's complex and varied roles as actors and physical performers. It argues that the chorus' flexibility and interactive nature has been occluded by the desire from Aristotle onwards to assign the group a single formal role. It presents four choreographies that ancient playwrights employed across tragedy, satyr play, and comedy: fragmentation, augmentation, interruption, and interactivity. By illustrating how the chorus was split, augmented, interrupted, and placed in dialogue, this book shows how dramatists experimented with the chorus' configuration and continual presence. The multiple self-reflexive ways in which ancient dramatists staged the group confirms that the chorus was not only a nimble dramatic instrument, but also a laboratory for experimenting with a range of dramatic possibilities.

  • Chapter 1 - Introduction

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
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    23 October 2025, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    This chapter sets the stage for the work to come, posing the central question about how to understand ancient Assyrian identity in the second millennium bce and how it changed over time. It critiques the concept of ethnicity and explains why grappling with Assyrianness requires a new approach to identity.

  • Chapter 4 - Aššur, King of the Gods

  • Jonathan Valk, Spanish National Research Council
  • Book:
    Ancient Assyrians
    Published online:
    09 October 2025
    Print publication:
    23 October 2025, pp 158-259

  • Summary

    This chapter offers an overview of the Middle Assyrian social world and the construction of Assyrian identity within it. The chapter finds that in the Middle Assyrian period, Assyrianness was an incidental identity with permeable boundaries.

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