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American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2016 “The expression ‘barbarians at the gate’ was … used by the Romans to describe foreign attacks against their empire.” 1 “[It] is often used in contemporary English within a sarcastic, or ironic context, when speaking about a perceived threat from a rival ...
B. Evans
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, 2019 This paper discusses an infinite regress that looms behind a certain kind of historical explanation. The movement of one barbarian group is often explained by the movement of others, but those movements in turn call for an explanation.
Nolan, Daniel
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, 2017 This paper examines how the monuments and literature during the reign of Trajan imbue the portrayals of westerns barbarians with Roman-like qualities in order to create sympathetic barbarian characters.
Dahl, Ian Carl
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Waiting for the (digital) barbarians [PDF]
, 2009 Constantine Cavafy's 1904 poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" provides a useful metaphor for where libraries now find themselves. Decked in our professional finery, we wait for the digital natives to arrive. The danger is that by waiting and not acting, we
Law, Derek
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The barbarians in Tyras in the Late Roman period [PDF]
Cercetări ArheologiceAfter the events of the middle of the 3rd century AD, associated with mass barbarian invasions, life in Tyras resumed. The barbarians, who had settled in the steppes of the North-Western Black Sea region, became the main military and political force ...
Oleh Saveliev
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2014 This paper presents and compares the image of “the barbaric Turk” in the politicalideological discourses and the perception of “the Turk” as a dangerous, cosmos-disturbing Foreigner in Slovene folklore.
Anja Mlakar
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Barbarians on the Coins of Trajan Decius (249–251)
Studia Ceranea, 2020 During Trajan Decius’s reign (249–251) in a number of provincial mints – Alexandria, Caesarea Maritima, Magnesia ad Sipylum and Nicomedia – coins were issued featuring the theme of the barbarian (an enemy or a captive) in reverse iconography.
Agata Kluczek
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Femmes en guerre : peu de mots, des actes ? (Grèce ancienne, viie-ive siècles avant J.-C.)
Pallas, 2011 Women are excluded from the institutions of the ancient Greeks relative to war. And yet they are in no way kept away from the fighting and confrontation which endanger the city, and in a barbarian context, it even occurs that they conjoin word and action.
Pascal Payen
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023 Purpose. The author in the presented article considers the late texts of Ovid, presented by Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. The purpose of the article is to analyze how the texts reflect the processes of formation of the imperial political culture and ...
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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A successful search for hidden Barbarians in the Watsonia asteroid family [PDF]
, 2014 Barbarians, so named after the prototype of this class (234) Barbara, are a rare class of asteroids exhibiting anomalous polarimetric properties. Their very distinctive feature is that they show negative polarization at relatively large phase angles ...
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