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Whose Augustus? A bimillennium in late-1930s Poland and Hungary [PDF]

Český Časopis Historický
This article examines events held in the late 1930s to mark the bimillennium of Augustus’ birth in Poland and Hungary as a contrasting pair of case studies. It demonstrates that Poles, Hungarians and Italians all saw Augustus as part
Penelope J. Goodman
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FORM OR FUNCTION? TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF AUGUSTAN CITY WALLS IN ROMAN ITALY

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2017
During the Augustan period, some 18 cities in Roman Italy constructed city walls around their urban centres – the last cluster of city walls to be built here until the late third century AD.
Isobel Pinder
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Continuity and innovation in imperial inscriptions. Augustus’ Res Gestae and the Stelae of the Qin First Emperor Compared

New Classicists, 2020
In the east under the Qin First Emperor and in the west under Augustus, who both established new regimes after a period of internal wars and expanded their territories enormously, an idea of universal ‘empire’ (orbis terrarum and ‘All-under-Heaven ...
Chen Xiong
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The symbol of the crescent Moon with a star on Ancient and Medieval coins [PDF]

Cultural Heritage and Modern Technologies
The individual phases of the moon show us this nocturnal satellite subjected to the laws of a cycle of dying and rising. In ancient times different peoples honoured the moon and the stars and felt connected to them in some way.
Štekar A.
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La denominación del gobernante en los historiadores latinos de la Antigüedad tardía. Estudio léxico

Emerita, 2004
El presente artículo se centra en el análisis del vocabulario con que se designa al gobernante en las obras De summa temporum uel de origine actibusque gentis Romanorum y De rebus Geticis de Jordanes y la Historia Francorum de Gregorio de Tours.
Matilde Conde Salazar, Cristina Martín Puente   +1 more
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Versailles and Dresden: Myths and Models

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2023
Notwithstanding some pioneering exhibitions and publications in recent years, art historians who study the reigns of Augustus the Strong and Augustus III typically focus their attention on the electoral court in Dresden, with little consideration of the ...
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
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The institution of hostages in Roman political practice at the end of the Republic and at the beginning of the Empire

RUDN Journal of World History
The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that even at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century the term “hostages”, meaning persons unlawfully held to achieve some goal (military, political, economic, etc.), has by no means ...
Vladimir O. Nikishin
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Le château de Versailles à travers le regard de jeunes voyageurs, futurs rois de Pologne : Auguste III et Stanislas-Auguste Poniatowski

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2020
Versailles, whether envisaged as a physical space (palace and gardens) or a place of gathering for the most important figures of European politics, was a must-see site for foreign travellers.
Joanna Orzeł
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Roman pietas and Herod the Great [PDF]

Studia Hercynia, 2015
Deep political and cultural connections which Herod had to Rome and to Augustus stemmed from his posi‑ tion of a client king of the Romans. This clientship was based on personal relation between both Herod and Augustus, and therefore we may draw ...
Adam Pažout
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Conflicting Reports? Augustus’ Relationship with the Senate and Established Order During His Road to Power in Res Gestae, Velleius Paterculus, Suetonius, and Tacitus

Histos, 2023
This paper explores four accounts of Augustus’ relationship with the senate and established order during his early career, with particular focus on his involvement in the civil wars: his own Res Gestae, Velleius Paterculus’ Roman History 2.59–89 ...
Aske Damtoft Poulsen
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