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El estudio de la magia en la Antigüedad tardía: Algunas consideraciones prácticas [PDF]
Gerión, 2000 This article takes a look at the approaches to the study of magic in Late Antiquity. The partial analysis of a magical figure (King Solomon) makes possible to extract new indications for a better understanding of magic and its role in the Mediterranean ...
Pablo A. Torijano
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Late antiquity and the antiquarian [PDF]
, 2017 Arnaldo Momigliano, the most influential modern student of antiquarianism, advanced the view that there was a late antique antiquarianism, but also lamented the absence of study of the history of antiquarianism in this period.
Macrae, DE
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LATE ANTIQUITY: IMAGE AND DOCUMENT
Heródoto, 2016 The article begins with a description of iconography as historical document. Image in Antiquity had a specific function: to present to a particular social group, mostly illiterate, something that represented the edge of power.
Cláudio Umpierre Carlan
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Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2013 Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city.
Bond, Sarah E.
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Zephyrus, 2017 The archaeological excavation works developed at the site of Santa María de Abajo (Carranque, Toledo) between 2009 and 2011, focused on the space occupied by the Late Roman Palace, have allowed us to know a long occupational sequence developed between ...
Virginia GARCÍA ENTERO +3 more
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Glass in Late Antiquity in the Near East [PDF]
, 2007 © 2007 Brill The document attached has been archived with permission from the publisher. An external link to the publisher’s copy is included.This paper seeks to explore some of the possible connections between three late antique strands of glass ...
O'Hea, M.
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The evolution of Greek fauna since classical times
Historical Review, 2017 This article concerns the Greek fauna of classical and late antiquity and changes up to the present day. The main sources for the fauna of antiquity are historical, geographical and zoological texts, as well as descriptions from travellers who visited ...
Konstantinos Sidiropoulos +2 more
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Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity: Theological Perspectives
Critical Hermeneutics, 2017 This paper explores and deepens on an important suggestion originating from Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur's diverse reflective perspectives around the relationship between philosophical hermeneutics and theological reflection.
Gaspare Mura
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What is 'Jewish' about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome [PDF]
, 2017 A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late ...
Sean Burrus
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The Ethics of Ambiguity in Quintilian [PDF]
, 2018 In a list of twelve stylistic and grammatical errors of oratory, the fourth-century grammarian Donatus includes the fault of amphibolia, a transliteration of a Greek word that Donatus further defines as an ambiguitas dictionis.
McNamara, Charles
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