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‘STEALING’ VICTORY AT GAUGAMELA: THE MANIPULATION OF TIME IN ARRIAN'S NARRATIVE
Greece and Rome, 2022 There are numerous historical reconstructions of the lead-up to the Battle of Gaugamela, albeit often as a short prelude to the battle itself. The focus tends to be historical reality, with the extant sources blended to produce a probable sequence of ...
Gary L. Morrison
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The Anatomical Record, Volume 304, Issue 1, Page 63-77, January 2021., 2021 Abstract Used together, caliper‐ and geometric‐based morphometric analyses provide complimentary approaches to classifying form and function of archaeozoological remains. Here we apply these analytical tools to the skeletal remains of an ancient male dog unearthed from a rural farm settlement of Roman date near present day Warmington, United Kingdom ...
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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 17-24, January/March 2021., 2021 Abstract This article presents a case study of the remains of Kharaib al‐Dasht (Kuwait), a Late Islamic fishing village. Collaboration between archaeologists from Kuwait and Poland of the Kuwaiti–Polish Archaeological Mission led to a long‐term research project of this archaeological site.
Paweł Lech, Piotr Zakrzewski
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Reading History in the Roman Empire, 2022 In his Ars Rhetorica, Aristotle warns the aspiring speakers of his age that a rhetor is always invited to convince many different categories of listeners through the same words. The philosopher refers to the differences between three kinds of audiences –
Vasileios Liotsakis
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De la condamnation à l’acceptation des infractions d’Alexandre
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2023 This paper tends to explain how and why Arrian condemns some of Alexander’s transgressions before approving them in the final description of the conqueror.
Mélissa Leuzy
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The configuration of the Pontus Euxinus in Ptolemy's Geography [PDF]
History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 2020 This article aims to explain how Ptolemy could have constructed a map of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), as described in his Geography, under the assumption that his sources were similar to those that have come down to us. The method employed is based on
D. A. Shcheglov
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Pontic Athens: an Athenian Emporion in Its Geo-Historical Context
Gephyra, 2019 The least significant of all ancient settlements called Athenai was located east of Trapezous on the Pontic coast. It maintained its name well into the 20th century, when its successor was renamed Pazar. That Arrian provides us with the first (surviving)
Altay Coşkun
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Unknown Ancient sources of Byzantine military treatises [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2021 The article is a preliminary attempt to attribute two lists of sources from Byzantine military treatises: the first one comes from the "Taktica" by the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise (886-912), and the second - from "Taktika" by Nicephorus Uranus, the
Alexander Nefyodkin
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Arrian's Preface to the Anabasis Alexandrou and Plutarch's Prologue to the Life of Alexander
Classica Cracoviensia, 2015 Arrian's Preface to the Anabasis Alexandrou and Plutarch's Prologue to the Life of Alexander It is usually maintained that the main object of Arrian’s criticism in his Anabasis are the historians of Alexander the Great.
Bogdan Burliga
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Classica Cracoviensia, 2012 Taking departure from Arrian’s famous statement (Anab. 1, Praef. 2) that he mainly relied on Ptolemy Soter’s account of Alexander the Great’s history since Ptolemy was the king and lies should be avoided by him, the roots of the idea of the royal ...
Bogdan Burliga
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