Brill’s New Pauly
Get access
Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (Antiquity) and Manfred Landfester (Classical Tradition).
English translation edited by Christine F. Salazar (Antiquity) and Francis G. Gentry (Classical Tradition)
Brill´s New Pauly is the English edition of the authoritative Der Neue Pauly, published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The encyclopaedic coverage and high academic standard of the work, the interdisciplinary and contemporary approach and clear and accessible presentation have made the New Pauly the unrivalled modern reference work for the ancient world. The section on Antiquity of Brill´s New Pauly are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Special emphasis is given to the interaction between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic culture, and ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other hand. The section on the Classical Tradition is uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship. Brill´s New Pauly presents the current state of traditional and new areas of research and brings together specialist knowledge from leading scholars from all over the world. Many entries are elucidated with maps and illustrations and the English edition will include updated bibliographic references.
Subscriptions: see brill.com
English translation edited by Christine F. Salazar (Antiquity) and Francis G. Gentry (Classical Tradition)
| Help us improve our service |
Brill´s New Pauly is the English edition of the authoritative Der Neue Pauly, published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The encyclopaedic coverage and high academic standard of the work, the interdisciplinary and contemporary approach and clear and accessible presentation have made the New Pauly the unrivalled modern reference work for the ancient world. The section on Antiquity of Brill´s New Pauly are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Special emphasis is given to the interaction between Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and Semitic, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavonic culture, and ancient Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on the other hand. The section on the Classical Tradition is uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship. Brill´s New Pauly presents the current state of traditional and new areas of research and brings together specialist knowledge from leading scholars from all over the world. Many entries are elucidated with maps and illustrations and the English edition will include updated bibliographic references.
Subscriptions: see brill.com
Xilia
(38 words)
[German version] (Ξιλία;
Xilía). City in northern Africa (πόλις Λιβύης, 'city in Libya'), not located. Mentioned in Alexander [23] Polyhistor FGrH 273 F 44 (1st cent. BC). Huß, Werner (Bamberg) Bibliography H. Treidler, s. v. X., RE 9 A, 2129.
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Ximene
(78 words)
[German version] (Ξιμήνη;
Ximḗnē). Region in the territory of Amasea, which in the south of Diacopene and Pimolisene "reaches as far as the river Halys... In X. there are salt mines, from which the Halys, it is surmised, took its name" (Str. 12,3,39). According to the sequence of mentions in Str. loc.cit. the X. is to be looked for in the area between Çorum and the River Kızılırmak. Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart) Bibliography Olshausen/Biller/Wagner, 174 (with map A 3).
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Xiphares
(121 words)
[German version] (Ξιφάρης/
Xiphárēs). Son of Mithridates [6] VI and Stratonice [7], who was killed by his father in 64 BC in revenge for the betrayal of his mother (App. Mithr. 502-505). In 64 Stratonice - without knowing that X. was with his father - had handed over a fortress (Sinoria?) which had been entrusted to her by Mithridates after losing a battle against Pompeius [I 3] in 66 ( Mithridatic Wars C), together with all its treasures to Pompeius [III 1] who promised in return to spare X. if he should fall into Roman hands (Plut. Pompeius 36,6; Cass. Dio 37,7,5). Eder, Walter (Berlin) Biblio…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Xiphilinus
(290 words)
[German version] (Ξιφιλῖνος;
Xiphilînos). Byzantine jurist and, as John VIII, patriarch of Constantinople (1064-1075) [4.556f.; 5.379-389], whose nephew of the same name was a monk and the author of an epitome of Cassius Dio. Born in Trebizond between 1010 and 1012, X. studied in Constantinople under Iohannes Mauropous and was a friend of Michael Psellos [4.556]. During the reorganization of the university (1045) under Constantine IX Monomachus (Constantinus [11]) [4.557] X. became the leader of th…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Xiphonia
(78 words)
[German version] (Ξιφωνία;
Xiphōnía). Port (Scyl. 13) and headland (Str. 6,2,2) on the eastern coast of Sicily on an elongated sword-like (cf. ξίφος/
xíphos, 'sword') peninsula in the east of Megara [3], on which the king Frederick II founded the city of Augusta in the 13th cent. X. played an important part in connection with Hannibal's [2] sea manoeuvres in 263 BC (Diod. 23,4,1). Uggeri, Giovanni (Florence) Bibliography E. Manni, Geografia fisica e politica della Sicilia antica, 1981, 62, 241 f.
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
Xisuthrus
(66 words)
[German version] (Ξίσουθρος/
Xísouthros: [1. 19 f.] or Σίσουθρος/
Sísouthros: Abydenus FGrH 685 F 2). Graecised form, in the context of renditions of the story of the Flood, of the Sumerian name Zi.u4.sud.ra ('Life of distant days'), Akkadian Utanapištī ('I have found my life'), the mythical Sumerian/Akkadian survivor of the 'Great Flood' (Deluge, legend of the). Atraḫasīs; Gilgamesh Epic Renger, Johannes (Berlin) Bibliography
1 S. M. Burstein, The Babyloniaca of Berossus, 1978.
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly
X (linguistics)
(295 words)
[German version] In the Latin alphabet, the letter x does not designate its own phoneme, but a combination of /k/+ /s/ [1. 45]. In this form and with this meaning, x was adopted from the West Greek alphabet of Euboea (XENOΦANTO for Ξενοφάντου [2nd plate 48.11]; Italy, alphabetical scripts). In Greek, West Greek X always refers to the combination /k/+ /s/ (as does the East Greek letter Ξ), yet admittedly the etymology of the majority of words with ξ in initial position is unknown (*
ks- as in ξύω 'I scrape' with the Proto-Indo-European root *
kseu̯- 'to scrape' [3. 341 f.]). In East Greek alp…
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly