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Rome away from home? Changing views of the Tiber's opposite bank [PDF]

, 2019
Ancient Rome was a complicated place. Cluttered, noisy and unplanned, it was the exact opposite of the grid-plan ideal Romans favoured in their provinces. This all changed in 64 AD, though, when, as Nero fiddled, much of Rome burned down.
Kendall, Richard George Llewellyn
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Book Review of Morales, H. (2020). Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths

New Classicists, 2021
Book Review of Morales, H. (2020).
Abbie Jukes
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Italy Through the Stereoscope: Journeys in and About Italian Cities [PDF]

, 2013
Book is intended as a text to accompany 'one hundred stereoscopic photographs of Italy' and to be used in conjunction with five maps. Pictures are not present. Gives a history of Rome, followed by text to accompany each picture.

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First archaeological evidence for ginger consumption as a potential medicinal ingredient in a late medieval leprosarium at St Leonard, Peterborough, England

Scientific Reports
Leprosy was one of the most outwardly visible diseases in the European Middle Ages, a period during which leprosaria were founded to provide space for the sick.
Elena Fiorin, Charlotte A. Roberts, Marica Baldoni, Erin Connelly, Christina Lee, Claudio Ottoni, Emanuela Cristiani   +6 more
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Enforcement law in ancient Rome

Journal of Modern Science
The subject of this article is Roman enforcement law. It has undergone numerous changes and evolutions over the centuries, with differences evident in the approach to execution on the person and property of the debtor.
Bartosz Piotr Stróżewski
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Healing Bodies: the ancient origins of massages and Roman practices [PDF]

, 2018
The practice of body manipulation with therapeutic aims has been used in the Western world since the origins of Hippocratic medicine. By retracing the therapeutic use of massage as a therapeutic, preventive and educational practice, the authors attempt
Gazzaniga, V., Iorio, S., Marinozzi, S.
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Franz Cumont’s Syrian tour: a Belgian archaeologist in the Ottoman empire [PDF]

, 2013
This paper highlights the Western scientific traveller as an intermediary between Orient and Occident around the turn of the nineteenth century by presenting a case study on the Belgian archaeologist and historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947 ...
Scheerlinck, Eline
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When lived ancient religion and lived ancient medicine meet: the household Gods, the household shrine and regimen [PDF]

, 2017
This paper argues that there was a strong connection between Roman domestic religious belief and practice and Roman domestic medical practice through the association of the household gods with the household’s health and well-being.
Draycott, Jane
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Dimensions of hospitality: exploring ancient origins [PDF]

, 2007
Hospitality has an ancient origin and honourable tradition. As more attention is being channelled towards seeking a greater understanding of hospitality, there is an increasing debate between academics working in the field of hospitality management and ...
O'Gorman, Kevin D.
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The History of the Protojournalism of Ancient Civilizations. Part 2. The Types of Communications of the Hellenistic States and Ancient Roma

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
In the article, the main spaces of communication of the Hellenistic states and Ancient Rome are investigated. Emergence of a gloss as independent genre is proved, the epistolography role in formation of protojournalistic work is established, stages of ...
Larisa Vladimirovna Lytkina
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