Analecta Gorgiana
Analecta Gorgiana is a collection of long essays and short monographs which are consistently cited by modern scholars but previously difficult to find because of their original appearance in obscure publications. Carefully selected by a team of scholars based on their relevance to modern scholarship, these essays can now be fully utilized by scholars and proudly owned by libraries.
Two Marbles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By Ella Hoghton
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 218
ISBN: 978-1-60724-447-9
In this paper Houghton addresses two problematic Italian Renaissance sculptures whose artists are unknown, the portrait bust of a youth and that of a Roman emperor.
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Five Transliterated Aramaic Inscriptions
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 230
ISBN: 978-1-60724-459-2
William Newbold deciphers inscriptions found under the soot and lava of Vesuvius in which Aramaic speakers used Greek and Latin letters to render their native tongue, occasionally in a mixture of Aramaic and Latin.
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On the Origin of "Had Rather Go" and Analogous or Apparently Analogous Locutions
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 307
ISBN: 978-1-60724-539-1
Fitzedward Hall, an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, examines the construction “had rather” in English as it is used with verbs (Had rather go, etc.), which many grammarians found to be a puzzling grammatical anomaly.
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Excavations at Troy, 1935
By Carl Blegen
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 243
ISBN: 978-1-60724-472-1
The second of Carl Blegen's reports on the excavation of Troy for the American Journal of Archeology detailing a small residential area.
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The Sanctuary of Asklepios and Hygieia at Corinth
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 239
ISBN: 978-1-60724-468-4
In this paper de Waele gives the excavation report for a medium-sized Asklepeion near the northern border of the Corinthian demos, providing a perspective on the smaller local temples of Asklepios.
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The Date of the Older Parthenon
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 240
ISBN: 978-1-60724-469-1
William Dinsmoor uses the remains of the Archaic Parthenon to suggest a date for its construction.
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Iron, Prehistoric and Ancient
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 241
ISBN: 978-1-60724-470-7
Richardson and Hertz present opposing viewpoints for the origin of iron working in the transition from Bronze Age to Iron, one arguing a European origin and the other a Near Eastern/ Egyptian.
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Contributions to the Interpretation of the Veda
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 352
ISBN: 978-1-60724-606-0
Maurice Bloomfield discusses a variety of then-current issues in the study of Sanskrit literature and Indian culture.
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A Harvard Manuscript of Ovid, Palladius and Tacitus
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 385
ISBN: 978-1-60724-634-3
Edward Rand's analysis of the Harvard ms. L25, one of the few sources for both Ovid's Heroides and Tacitus' Germania.
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Vedic Reduplication of Nouns and Adjectives
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 336
ISBN: 978-1-60724-590-2
Edward Hopkins discusses the reduplication in Vedic nouns that mirrors the sort of reduplication more commonly found in Indo-European verbs, and suggests verbal origins for such nouns.
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Poetry in the Limburger Chronik
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 323
ISBN: 978-1-60724-555-1
Julius Goebel takes the Chronicle of Limburg and demonstrates how this seemingly prosaic source preserves otherwise unknown German folksong and poetry.
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The Origin of the Recessive Accent in Greek
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 327
ISBN: 978-1-60724-559-9
Maurice Bloomfield, a great authority on Sanskrit literature and comparative linguistics, applies the principles of linguistics to explain the recessive accent of Greek verbs in terms of Indo-European.
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Nonius Marcellus
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 312
ISBN: 978-1-60724-544-5
Nettleship's introduction and commentary to Nonius Marcellus, a 3rd century AD writer on Latin grammar and lexicography. This includes a lengthy biography and background on the work and its influence.
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The Origin and Meaning of the Ancient Characters of Style
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 383
ISBN: 978-1-60724-632-9
Prof. Hendrickson traces the legacy of Greek rhetorical theory in the writings of Cicero.
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Eine syrische "Liturgie S. Athanasii"
Edited with an Introduction by Anton Baumstark
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 403
ISBN: 978-1-60724-677-0
This Syriac version of the “Liturgy of St. Athanasius” provides a valuable resource for the development of liturgical materials and practices in the Syrian Monophysite tradition. The text includes a critical apparatus and a Latin translation.
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Die nichtgriechischen Paralleltexte zum achten Buche der Apostolischen Konstitutionen
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 410
ISBN: 978-1-60724-687-9
Book VIII of the Apostolic Constitutions has one of the most complex transmission histories of any text from the Christian Orient. Anton Baumstark describes various sources for parallel texts in order to explicate its translation history in the Oriental languages.
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Die Enjanehirmen der berliner Handschrift Sach. 349
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 472
ISBN: 978-1-60724-927-6
Odilo Heiming publishes here the Syriac text and German translation of eighty brief Syriac hymns (enjane) that were not included in Jules Jeannin’s Mélodies liturgiques syriennes et chaldéennes.
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Die armenische Rezension der syrischen Chronik Michales des Großen
By Felix Haase
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 442
ISBN: 978-1-60724-850-7
The Armenian version of the Chronicle of Michael the Great was overshadowed by the discovery of the Syriac version. However, Felix Hasse argues that the unique features of the Armenian text provide an important historical source for the Armenian tradition.
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Orientalisches in altspanischer Liturgie
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 482
ISBN: 978-1-60724-950-4
Anton Baumstark compares elements of the “old-Spanish” or Mozarabic liturgy with eastern liturgies in order to demonstrate an “oriental” influence.
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Jacob of Serugh on the Eucharist
Homilies 22 and 95
Translation and Introduction by Hugh Connolly
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 487
ISBN: 978-1-60724-955-9
In the two articles reprinted here, Dom Hugh Connolly offers an annotated English translation of two homilies from Jacob of Serugh dealing with the Eucharist (Bedjan nos. 22 and 95), as well as a short selection from homily 53.
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Jacob of Serugh's Homilies on the Spectacles of the Theatre
Edited and Translated by C. Moss
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 496
ISBN: 978-1-60724-974-0
This fascinating volume contains excerpts from four otherwise unedited (and untranslated) homilies from Jacob of Sarug on the theatre. Moss gives a substantive introduction, and then presents the texts in Syriac and in English translation.
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The Diatessaron in the Syriac Acts of John / Jacob of Serug and the Diatessaron
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 491
ISBN: 978-1-60724-969-6
This volume contains two short studies on the Diatessaron and Syriac literature. Readers who study the history of the Gospels in Syriac and their reception and use in Syriac literature will find these two studies of interest.
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Die Rangordnung der Bischöfe Ägyptens
Nach einem Protokollarischen Bericht des Patriarchen Kyrillos ibn Laklak
Edited and Translated by Georg Graf
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 469
ISBN: 978-1-60724-924-5
Georg Graf publishes here the Arabic text and German translation of a “protocol report” by Cyril ibn Laklak, an important historical source for the study of the life of Cyril and for the history of Egyptian bishops.
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Two Sanskrit Inscriptions Engraven on Stone
The Original Texts, with Translations and Comments
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 520
ISBN: 978-1-61719-035-3
A significant portion of this article contains the original texts, translations, and comments of two Sanskrit inscriptions discovered in 1857. Both inscriptions list the names of the rulers of Chedi and the names of their consorts and kinsmen.
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The Encyclical Letter of Our Lord Pope Gregory XVI
To All Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, and Bishops, Issued May 8, 1844.
Translation and Introduction by Culling Eardley Smith
Series: Analecta Gorgiana 514
ISBN: 978-1-61719-001-8
This document details the nineteenth-century controversy over the distribution of Bibles to the laity. This translation by a Low Church baronet includes an introduction addressed to ‘all members of the Church of Christ’, the original document in Latin, and translations in Italian and English.
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