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Abstract This chapter explores how Wilde understood the relationship between the Roman past and the British Victorian present. Wilde had studied Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford, and therefore had a background in the history, literature, and culture of Rome that enabled him to ...
Fleury, Philippe, Madeleine, Sophie
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Fleury, Philippe, Madeleine, Sophie
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2020
In 200 BC, the population of the city of Rome was 200,000. By AD 50, this figure had increased fivefold, an unprecedented burst of urban expansion. Moses Finley’s much-contested thesis that Rome was parasitic implies that the city’s growth could only have brought discomfort to the peoples of the Mediterranean.
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In 200 BC, the population of the city of Rome was 200,000. By AD 50, this figure had increased fivefold, an unprecedented burst of urban expansion. Moses Finley’s much-contested thesis that Rome was parasitic implies that the city’s growth could only have brought discomfort to the peoples of the Mediterranean.
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Lancet, The, 1907 Depersonalization of Business in Ancient Rome
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2011A crucial step in economic development is the depersonalization of business, which enables an enterprise to operate as a separate entity from its owners and managers. Until the emergence of a de iure depersonalization of business in the 19th century, business activities were eminently personal, with managing partners bearing unlimited liability.
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2005
Sintetica ma precisa rappresentazione delle manifestazioni sportive nell'antica Roma.
JORI, Alberto, TEJA A.
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Sintetica ma precisa rappresentazione delle manifestazioni sportive nell'antica Roma.
JORI, Alberto, TEJA A.
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2011
Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia.
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Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia.
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2020
Abstract The history of reading in antiquity is wholly dependent on literary sources that must be read with care; one misinterpreted passage can enable an entire misguided history. This is the case with Augustine’s account of Ambrose reading silently, and the tenacious misapprehension that such reading was impossible in antiquity ...
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Abstract The history of reading in antiquity is wholly dependent on literary sources that must be read with care; one misinterpreted passage can enable an entire misguided history. This is the case with Augustine’s account of Ambrose reading silently, and the tenacious misapprehension that such reading was impossible in antiquity ...
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Dementia in ancient Greece and Rome
Journal of Alzheimer’s DiseaseWe respond to the commentary by Ballenger et al. While appreciating “our provocative article”, they called for “a more rigorous historical approach…”. In fact, we documented from known texts how ancient physicians recognized memory loss in the elderly, Solon to Galen, who gave stereotypical descriptions of the negative aspects of old age in historical ...
Caleb E, Finch, Stanley M, Burstein
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