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The Pulborough Head: a mid-3rd-century Roman stone portrait from West Sussex [PDF]
Russell, Miles
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On the Mushroom that Deified the Emperor Claudius
From Pliny the Elder, who was his contemporary, to the present, the unhappy ending of the fourth Julio-Claudian emperor's life is often and uncritically retold. Thus Agrippina's poisoned mushrooms have become proverbial through the writings of Pliny, Juvenal and others.
Veronika Grimm-Samuel
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Were the Roman Emperors Claudius and Vitellius bulimic?
To investigate the eating habits of Romans during the first two centuries A.D. and their attitudes towards these eating habits in the light of contemporary Latin literary and historical sources and influential Greek medical sources.An extensive search of sources on the Roman Empire and emperors in the first two centuries A.D. was carried out.
Paul Crichton
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The Afterlife of Emperor Claudius in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis
Seneca's Apocolocyntosis , the earliest extant example of ancient Menippean satire, tells of Emperor Claudius' death and ascent to heaven, where his request for deification is rejected by the council of the gods, and his subsequent descent to the underworld, where he is condemned of mass murder of Roman noblemen.
Michael Paschalis
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Emperor Claudius’ Neuropsychiatric Presentation: From Tics to Behavioral Symptoms
Cavanna A, Nani A, Trimble MR
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