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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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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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Antiquity, 2017
When I first began my teaching career in 1976 at the University of California, Los Angeles, the subject of Roman topography was difficult to teach to English-speaking students. Most of the scholarship was written in Italian, and much of the rest was in French and German. Over the past 40 years the situation has changed significantly.
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When I first began my teaching career in 1976 at the University of California, Los Angeles, the subject of Roman topography was difficult to teach to English-speaking students. Most of the scholarship was written in Italian, and much of the rest was in French and German. Over the past 40 years the situation has changed significantly.
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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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