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At the crossroads of different traditions. Social and cultural dynamics in Roman Thrace through the epigraphic practice [PDF]

, 2019
Il presente articolo studia i processi di integrazione della Tracia nel mondo romano attraverso l'analisi di tre fenomeni tra loro correlati: diffusione della lingua latina; diffusione della cittadinanza romana; diffusione dei nomi romani. Per illustrare
Francesco Camia
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“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 440-459, September 2025.
For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
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Farewell to Arms – Farewell in Arms: Depictions of Weapons on Stone and in Hellenistic Inscriptional Epigrams

Erga-Logoi
Through four case studies I discuss the importance and frequency of the appearance of weapons (an important element of epic imagery) in funerary poetry, and its relation to representations of arms on gravestones and monuments in the Hellenistic period ...
Silvia Barbantani
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Landscapes and Sublime Memories: Revisiting Liang Xiaosheng's "A Land of Wonder and Mystery" [PDF]

, 2014
This essay suggests memory studies, ecocriticism, and trauma studies as new avenues for the study of rusticated youth narratives. Towards reaching this goal, I first introduce a meditation on memory by Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), especially his sketch of ...
Scruggs, BM
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Epitaphic

Migration and Society, 2019
“Epitaphic” features two poems that were written to speak to the poet’s interest in commemorating or capturing past moments, events, or persons. “Topographies” is concerned with the interplay between transience and permanence—the passing of time, changing relationships, but also the altering of emotional and physical landscapes. The poem largely speaks
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“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–1973

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 3, Page 460-478, September 2025.
This article explores the challenges faced by American and Australian advisors working in Phuoc Tuy province, South Vietnam, from 1968 to 1973, with a focus on the persistent belief that ineffective Vietnamese leadership was the principal obstacle to a successful pacification process. It examines how advisors identified underperformance among officials
Tom Richardson
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New Inscriptions from Kalecik/Ankara

Gephyra
In this study, two new inscriptions preserved in the garden of Kalecik Municipality in Kalecik District of Ankara Province are introduced. One of the inscriptions was identified by the Anatolian Civilizations Museum during research conducted in Kalecik ...
Türkan Banu Güler
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Was Historiker ohne Sprachgeschichtler (wohl) kaum leisten können. Eine interdisziplinäre epigraphisch-sprachgeschichtliche Fallstudie [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
Im historischen Niederschlesien sind zahlreiche deutschsprachige Grabsteine von Vertretern uralter Adelsfamilien erhalten geblieben. Viele von ihnen sind im erbärmlichen Zustand, so dass es sich zurzeit wahrscheinlich die letzte elegenheit eröffnet ...
Marek Biszczanik
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Addressing the underlying issues of Romantic elegy — Thomas Gray’s Elegy written in a country churchyard

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2011
From the beginning of his literary career, Thomas Gray consciously and consistently created a lyric with a poetic effect quite of its own in which a personal element (death of a friend) kept on vanishing, toposes and literary allusions overlapped (e.g ...
Piotr Śniedziewski
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A note on the St. John Co-Cathedral marble tombstones : the artisans, foreign and Maltese [PDF]

, 1999
The aim of this brief study is to modestly review the documentation principally in the notarial archives concerning the tombstones, mainly in the period 1678 to 1819 and the marble craftsmen, local and foreign, who executed their masterpieces so expertly.
Debono, John
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