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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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The Stoics and the State: Theory – Practice – Context [PDF]
, 2018 How did the Stoics conceive of a polis and statehood? What happens when these ideas meet different biographies and changing historical environments? To answer these questions, 'The Stoics and the State' combines close philological reading of original ...
Wildberger, Jula
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 270-295, August 2025.Summary The Iron Age ‘war cemetery’ of Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, England, is one of the most internationally celebrated of British archaeological discoveries, levels of trauma recorded on skeletons found there being interpreted as evidence for a Roman massacre.
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Christian Apologists and the Antonine Emperors
Arys. Antigüedad, Religiones y Sociedades, 2019 The Antonine period from Hadrian onwards sees the beginning of a Christian literature of “apology,” more precisely of defense and justification of the new religion. These defenses sometimes take the form of attacks on “pagan” cults or on Judaism.
Christopher P. Jones
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Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima and De intellectu of Alexander of Aphrodisias [PDF]
, 2010 Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 198–209) was born somewhere around 150, in Aphrodisia on the Aegean Sea. He began his career in Alexandria during the reign of Septimius Severus, was appointed to the peripatetic chair at the Lyceum in Athens in 198, a ...
Hendrix, John S
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Descoperiri monetare din Moldova. VII
Arheologia Moldovei, 2017 Monetary Finds from Moldavia. VII We continue the regular publishing of the coins found in Moldova, by presenting several recently found ancient coins from the collection of the Museum in Vrancea (Focsani).
Lucian Munteanu +2 more
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Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Buddhist Meditation [PDF]
, 2017 I argue in this essay that Stoic philosophers in the late Greco-Roman period utilized philosophical exercises and spiritual technologies similar in form to a meditative exercise currently practiced in Buddhism.
GOERGER, Michael
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The poetics of knowledge in Oppian's Halieutica [PDF]
, 2008 τόσσ ἐδάην, σκηπτοῦχε διοτεϕές, ἔργα θαλάσσης (5.675).This much I know of the works of the sea, sceptre-bearer, you who are dear to the gods.Oppian's address to Marcus Aurelius signals the end of his five-book didactic epic on sea-fishing and ...
Kneebone, Emily
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Vis‐a‐Vis: A Tool for Face Components Replacement
IET Image Processing, Volume 19, Issue 1, January/December 2025.Vis‐a‐vis is a tool that can replace one or more specific facial components in images for face analysis, including the texture and shape of facial components such as eyes, nose, and mouth. The tool can, for instance, be used to investigate the contribution of face components to face recognition, face perception analysis, the change of identity, and fun
Nova Hadi Lestriandoko +2 more
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