This book deals with the early development of Śaivism in ancient Dakṣiṇa Kosala. The following research questions were formulated: what circumstances fostered the rise and development of Śaivism in this area, and did the Skandapurāṇa, an important and contemporaneous religious scripture, play any role in that development?

Dit boek bevat vijf langere en twee korte artikelen, die los van elkaar staan. De twee korte verhalen zijn een aanvulling op een artikel in Kritische nabeschouwingen (2015), en een korte verhandeling over een onversierde beker uit Angelslo. Het langste artikel is een volledig geïllustreerde verhandeling over de Midden-Neolithische hamerbijlen in Nederland. De resterende vier artikelen hebben als gemeenschappelijk kenmerk dat ze gegevens uit verschillende bronnen combineren, wat tot nieuwe inzichten leidde. Op basis daarvan kreeg dit boek zijn titel.

This book contains sixteen papers presented at the 12th ASWA meeting hosted at its inaugural institution, the University of Groningen, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, as a continuation of the usual series and to celebrate the career of Dr. Hijlke Buitenhuis, associated member and alumnus of the institute, co-organizer of the first ASWA meeting.

The papers assembled in this volume, which were originally presented at a conference at the University of Wrocław, Poland, in October 2015, all face the challenge of defining the Alexander Romance. Some focus on quite specific topics while others address more overarching themes. They form a cohesive set of approaches to the delicate positioning of the text between history and literature.

The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.