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The ancient city of Ostia, gateway to Rome: an archaeological treasure to (re)discover
, 2020 This presentation will introduce the public to the history and culture of the ancient city of Ostia, harbor of Rome, focusing in particular on the wall paintings the site has left ...
Ancient Wall Paintings at Ostia Antica and Beyond +1 more
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Resources, Opportunities and Limits of Data and Open Source Tools Used in Preventive Archaeology
ProceedingsOpen resources are increasingly used in preventive archaeology, following a more general trend in society, with a useful and effective impact for this task.
Alessandro Vanzetti, Sara Marino
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Ancient Roman technology of aluminum production: Process reconstruction
Тонкие химические технологии, 2019 Ancient sources indicate that aluminum was known at Ancient Rome. The article attempts to reconstruct the ancient technological process of production of metallic aluminum based on the currently available information about the properties of aluminum and ...
P. P. Fedorov, A. M. Samoylov
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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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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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Scientific ReportsLeprosy 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 +6 more
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