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Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis.
Nicole Belayche
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Medical practice in Graeco-Roman antiquity
The roots of modem medicine can be traced back to the 5th century BC when Hippocratic rational medicine originated on the Greek islands of Cos and Cnidos.
L Cilliers, FP Retief
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Resemblance and camouflage in Graeco-Roman antiquity
In the twenty-eighth book of the Naturalis Historia Pliny the Elder claims that, if a chameleon’s left leg is roasted together with a herb bearing the same name, and everything is mixed with ointment, cut in lozenges, and stored in a wooden little box ...
Massimo Leone
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HORTICULTURE IN ANTIQUITY, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE GRAECO-ROMAN ERA
The evolution of horticulture (gardening) in antiquity, as distinct from largescale agriculture and forestry, is traced from its humble origins in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Graeco-Roman era.
L. Cilliers, F.P. Retief
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Mystery Cults and Visual Language in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: An Introduction [PDF]
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Nicole Belayche
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Unpublished Roman Terracotta Oil Lamps in Matrouh Archaeological Museum [PDF]
In daily life of Antiquity, the prevalence of terracotta oil lamps makes them a fascinating artifact of study, whether as a representation of individual preferences, religious ritual, popular trends or evidence of commercial trade patterns.
Wessam Fekry Ibrahim Moussa
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Enthronement of the invisible. Understanding the origin and evolution of the iconography of empty thrones and hetoimasia in the late antique period [PDF]
The motif of hetoimasia is one of the most widespread and most complex in medieval iconography, and it has its roots in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish empty thrones of an invisible or absent deity.
Vranešević Branka, Špehar Olga
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Mimesis played a crucial role in moral and civic education in Graeco-Roman antiquity. From classical Greek drama to Aristotle to the Graeco-Roman rhetorical traditions, mimetic ethics focuses on how personal example and imitation shaped people’s ...
Cornelis Bennema
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Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Introduction [PDF]
Edmund Thomas
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Christianity and the Discovery of Religious Freedom [PDF]
With its broad spectrum of cults and coexisting religions Graeco-Roman antiquity seems, at first glance, to be the embodiment of religious freedom.
Hartmut Leppin
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