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Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, 1993 In the days of the Roman Empire, several Near Eastern deities were worshipped, among them being Mithras who was originally a Persian god. During the Hellenistic period, when Mithras was in Asia Minor, he met Cybele, a native mother goddess who possessed great fame.According to F.
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Ecological Applications, Volume 34, Issue 6, September 2024.Abstract The release of biological control agents has been an important means of controlling invasive species for over 150 years. While these releases have led to the sustainable control of over 250 invasive pest and weed species worldwide, a minority have caused environmental harm.
George E. Heimpel +8 more
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Cybele on the Red Sea: New Verses from Berenike
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2015 A new literary papyrus, one of the few from the Eastern Desert ports, offers some lyric verses describing music and dance in a rite for Cybele.
Rodney Ast, Julia Lougovaya
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Kybele in Griechenland. Ankunft und Aufnahme der Göttermutter in der griechischen Welt
Historia.scribere, 2018 Cybele in Greece. The Arrival and Reception of the Mother of the Gods in the ancient Greek world. The following seminar-paper aims to show the arrival and reception of the phrygian Mother Goddess Matar in the greek world.
Sabine Viktoria Kofler
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Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 541-562, September 2024.Abstract The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity ...
Ciara O'Flaherty, Tim Shephard
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New Journal of Physics, 2016 In parallel to the developments dedicated to the ITER neutral beam (NB) system, CEA-IRFM with laboratories in France and Switzerland are studying the feasibility of a new generation of NB system able to provide heating and current drive for the future ...
A Simonin +19 more
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The Metroac Cult: Foreign or Roman? [PDF]
, 2016 : Previous scholarship on the Roman Magna Mater concentrated on how the foreign aspects of the Metroac cult, especially the dedicated priests, the galli, were not fluid with Roman standards of culture and religion.1 This resulted from the critical ...
Caveney, Cathryn
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‘Selective historians’: The construction of cisness in Byzantine and Byzantinist texts
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 32-51, March 2024.Abstract Far from being a natural, prelapsarian state, cisness is a hegemonic ideal of gender performance demanded of all people. This article explores the construction of cisness in the field of Byzantine studies, and the historiographical tropes through which it is maintained, naturalised and made invisible.
Ilya Maude
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, 2015 Some asteroids eject dust, producing transient, comet-like comae and tails; these are the active asteroids. The causes of activity in this newly-identified population are many and varied.
Agarwal, Jessica +2 more
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 753-766, March 2024.Abstract Background Staff in long‐term care (LTC) homes have long‐standing stressors, such as short staffing and high workloads. These stressors increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic; better resources are needed to help staff manage stress and well‐being.
Brittany S. DeGraves +11 more
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