Review of the “Lusitanian robbery”. Analysis of the land problem in Appiens’ work
The study of the “Lusitanian robbery” led to an important research since the late nineteenth century. Nevertheless, and despite a gradual shift in modern historiography towards a more nuanced approach to the origin of the phenomenon, the problem of land ...
Luc Baray
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Parental Gifts: Father-Son Dedications and Dialogues in Roman Didactic Literature [PDF]
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Lemoine, Fannie J.
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The Australian Constitutional Framers and the Languages of Virtue
The historiography of the political concept of virtue has been dominated by examinations of western European and North American sources. This article aims to widen the historical scope for our understanding of the influence of the concept of political virtue by examining how Anglophone conceptions of virtue were employed by the framers of the ...
Simon P. Kennedy, Benjamin B. Saunders
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Una aproximación al estudio de las arengas fallidas: Livio, Lucano y Silio Itálico [PDF]
The failed battle exhortation speeches have not been so far analyzed in a systematic way, so this paper proposes a critical approach to this kind of speech both in Roman historiography and epic.
Jesús Bartolomé Gómez
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Alcuni temi arcaici presenti in Trebellius Pollio e in Flavius Vopiscus
The analysis of many of the references to the ancient Republican past contained in the last lives of the Historia Augusta reveals that the unknown biographer was familiar with this context, even though, however, he was not very interested in it.
Gnoli, Tommaso
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On the importance of a drawn sword: Christian thinking about preemptive war—and its modern outworking [PDF]
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics© 2007.This article discusses the just war tradition.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and ...
Clough, David, Stiltner, Brian
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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Property tax‐induced mobility and redistribution: Evidence from mass reappraisals
Abstract I investigate the effect of property tax changes on homeowner mobility and voted tax rates using a panel of assessment and sales records in Ohio. I use redistributive mass reappraisals that cause changes in an individual's tax price of local services to examine how changes in homeowner's tax bills influence mobility.
Rebecca Fraenkel
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Historia dicax : rire, discours et rhétorique chez Tite-Live
The present study gathers the passages of Livy’s Ab Vrbe condita where the lexicon of laughter is associated with a speech or spoken words, in order to confront them on Cicero’s and Quintilian’s views on laughter in a rhetorical context.
Benoît Sans
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The Modern Day Rome? The Correlation between the Roman Republic and the United States of America [PDF]
When America’s founding fathers sought to create their new nation, they turned to the reliability and practicality of the Roman Republic. While careful to not create a carbon copy of the Republic, the founders drew inspiration from Rome’s symbolism and ...
Raybould, Katie L
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