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Development of Gymnasia and Graeco-Roman Cityscapes - Introduction [PDF]
, 2018 Mania, Ulrich, Trümper, Monika
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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Habent sua fata libelli: Aristotle's Categories in the first century BC [PDF]
, 2008 A re-examination of the question why, in the revival of interest, in the first century BC in Aristotle’s esoteric works, as opposed to his doctrines, the work Categories played so large a part.
Sharples, R.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg +3 more
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Poder e ideología en el Mediterráneo oriental: Nuevas aproximaciones a los reinos helenísticos
Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual, 2015 In the last two decades historians have paid attention to several and complex political phenomena developed during the so called “Hellenistic age”. The following paper attempts to review for the Spanish-reading public three recently published books ...
Álvaro Matías Moreno Leoni
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, 2012 As developed in the fields of anthropology and sociology, the concept of ethnicity offers one possible approach to analyzing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt.
Baines, John, Riggs, Christina
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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori +10 more
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Book review: B. Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor [PDF]
, 2004 Erskine, Andrew
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Lucretius' arguments on the swerve and free-action [PDF]
, 2019 In his version of atomism, Lucretius made explicit reference to the concept of an intrinsic declination of the atom, the atomic swerve (clinamen in Latin), stressing that the time and space of the infinitesimal atomic vibration is uncertain. The topic of
Evangelidis, Basil
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