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Erga-LogoiFrom Chaeremon to Tiberius Julius Alexander. People, interests, and strategies of the party for «Alexandria as capital» in the face of the Jewish problem from Caligula to the Flavians Twice, first under the principality of Caligula, after the political ...
Alberto Barzanò
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An Indeterminate Conception of Practical Reasoning
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 285-299, March 2025.Abstract This paper makes a case for treating the boundary between what counts as practical reasoning and what does not as essentially indeterminate. The idea that there is an “essential indeterminacy in what can be counted as a rational deliberative process” was put forward by Bernard Williams in his well‐known discussion of statements about an agent ...
Jorah Dannenberg
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On Some Fiscal Decisions of Caligula and Vespasian
Studia Ceranea, 2012 The history of the Roman Empire is a history of continuously looking for new sources of state revenues. Numerous public loads, spontaneously created during the early Empire, without any deeper analysis, created a disordered mess of particular and curious
Anna Pikulska-Radomska
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Consequentialism, Welfarism, and Meaning in Life
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 4, Page 583-604, December 2024.Abstract What, if anything, makes a life meaningful? Consequentialist theories about meaning in life maintain that the consequences of that life confer meaning upon it. This article advances one such theory: welfarism about meaning in life. According to this view, a life is conferred meaning if, and only if, and then only insofar as, it promotes or ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Bibliotecas y libros en la Roma del emperador Calígula
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2007 Este artículo trata de mostrar diversos aspectos de la política cultural en este ámbito por parte de este emperador. This article tries to show some aspects of cultural politics in this matter at the Caligula’s time.
José Antonio Rodríguez Valcárcel
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Keep taking the tablets: how Prudentius’ account of St Cassian shaped medieval school stories
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 503-517, November 2024.In about 400 Prudentius visited the shrine of St Cassian at Imola and wrote a poem describing his martyrdom. Cassian, a schoolmaster, had been killed by his own pupils using their styli and wax tablets. The story was popular throughout the Middle Ages and its medieval reception has attracted attention.
Julia Barrow
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La presencia del emperador Claudio en Hispania = The Presence of Emperor Claudius in Hispania
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2019 Tenemos varios artículos que nos hablan de la presencia efectiva de Augusto y Tiberio en Hispania. Calígula, Claudio y Nerón por lo que sabemos no estuvieron en la Península Ibérica, si bien su presencia se dio de diversas formas.
Nicolás Sastre Parpal
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 308-326, July 2024.Abstract This paper presents the results of a corpus study on the Wycliffe Bible and the King James Bible, examining the distribution of the pronouns who(m)/which and the complementiser that in relative clauses with a personal referent. The data indicate that the decisive factor in both periods was the function of the gap (subject vs.
Julia Bacskai‐Atkari
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To the knowledge of the fauna of Lepidoptera of Mongolia. Families lappet moths (Lasiocampidae) and saturniids (Saturniidae) [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетеньAn annotated catalog of 16 species of lappet moths and four species of saturniids collected in Mongolia, mainly by the entomological division of the joint Russian-Mongolian complex biological expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ...
O.G. Gorbunov
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