Res Antiquae (RANT) is a journal that is dedicated to antiquity. It focuses on the ancient civilizations that developed around the Mediterranean Sea, and its aim is to establish links between the various disciplines that are too often treated separately.
ISSN 1781-1317
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Kamyar ABDI. — Xenophon's Anabasis chronicles his experiences as a Greek mercenary leader in the 5th century BCE. It sheds light on the lives of mercenaries, their motivations, and the social and political climate of the era. Shaped by his upbringing and Athenian turmoil, Xenophon joined Cyrus' Persian army alongside his friend…
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Massimiliano CANUTI. — This paper tries to explain the original meaning of the city name ‘Chiusi’. Through the use of onomatology, dialectology, linguistics, topography and history…
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Roberto DAN. — This article examines the nature and evolution of residential complexes in the kingdom of Bia/Urartu (9th–7th centuries BCE)…
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Arnaud DELANOY. — The hypothesis of a genetical relationship between Basque and Iberian has been resurfacing for years, and has recently been the subject of an extensive literature. Here, this hypothesis is confronted with one of a Semitic origin…
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Virna FAGIOLO. — This paper analyzes the functions of the Hittite infinitive formed with the suffixes -anna and -wanzi from a morpho-syntactic perspective, with reference to the context provided by non-finite verbal forms in Hittite…
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Mattias KARLSSON. — A prominent example of the representation of ancient Egypt in popular culture dated to World War II is the British author Agatha Christie’s detective novel ‘Death Comes as the End’, which is set in ancient Egypt…
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Mattias KARLSSON. — The Amarna letters, dated to the 14th century BCE, are widely seen as the earliest written evidence for contacts between Egypt and Mesopotamia. Fourteen of the Amarna letters (EA 1-14) tell of contacts between the rulers of Egypt and Babylonia…
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Camilla NORCIA. — This paper focuses on the Centaur Cheiron, a complex and multifaceted figure in Greek mythology. Drawing on the Pindaric tradition and supported by archaeological evidence from various sites, it analyses the intricate aspects of a character associated with prophecy, healing, and the initiation of youth into adulthood…
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Éric RAIMOND. — Hera of the Golden Throne (Chrystothronos) is a Queen goddess and has supplanted all the consorts of the god who has reached the top of the Olympian hierarchy. Functionally associated with the institution of marriage, she legitimizes unions, birth, and thus a certain social order…
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Jan M.F. VAN REETH. — Minoan mythology was first and foremost an allegorical transposition of the world of bees. Some other ancient Greek words and names, that apparently are part of a linguistic, pre-Hellenic substrate also appeared to be of the same Semitic origin…
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Adolfo ZAVARONI. — The inscription on the Sesto Calende cup was drawn up according to the writing system of the ancient Ligurians in which ligatures of several letters were used: often all the letters of a word were linked together…