De Mithridate VI à Arrien de Nicomédie : changements et continuités dans le bassin de la mer Noire (Ier siècle av. J.-C.- Ier siècle apr. J.-C.).

Damien Agut-Labordère and Miguel John Versluys (dir.), Canonisation as Innovation. Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE, Leiden-Boston, Brill, 2022 Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Egyptian, Jewish…

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