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Augustan Poets on the Roman-Parthian Treaty of 20 BC

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2017
Augustan Poets on the Roman-Parthian Treaty of 20 BC From the moment Rome established contacts with the Parthian empire in the 1st century BC, its relations with the eastern neighbour became one of the most important points of Roman foreign policy ...
Tomasz Babnis
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On the Issue of the Parthian Pahlavs' Socio-Political Nature

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The role of the high aristocracy, the so-called pahlavs, is undeniable in the history of the Parthian state. In the second half of III century BC the assistance of the pahlavs to the Arsacid dynasty considerably contributed to the establishment of the ...
Arthur Melikyan
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Baktrians as Self, Parthians as Other? The entanglements of North‑Eastern inbetweenness in the study of Hellenistic Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia
The study of Hellenistic Central Asia is, in many ways, an engagement with various kinds of inbetweenness: spatial, temporal, cultural, disciplinary, and historiographical. One of the most persistent keywords to characterize this macroregion is that of a
Milinda Hoo
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Combat Motivation and Cohesion in the Age of Justinian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This is a preprint of a book chapter to be published as “Combat Motivation at the End of Antiquity,” in G. Greatrex and S.
Whately, Conor
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On the Discovery of Eastern Hellenistic Initiatory Altar of the 3rd – 1st Centuries BC Depicting the Plot of Bull Sacrifice in the City of Stavropol

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The article is devoted to the semantic and chronological analysis of the images on the plate of white tuff discovered in the city of Stavropol. The central part of the relief is occupied with the image of table – an altar with hoisted bull head (in the ...
Prokopenko Yuriy A.
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ZELA, ACCLAMATIONS, CARACALLA – AND PARTHIA?

open access: yesBulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2016
Abstract A coin which has lain unrecognized in the BM, which can be identified as an unpublished coin of Zela, proclaims that if ‘the emperors are victorious the world is happy’. The formula is analysed in the context of imperial acclamations and their language, which differs from that normally found on coinage.
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The Honouring of the Legio Chief Physician L. Hortensius Paulinus

open access: yesBelleten, 2016
An inscription dated to the beginning of the 3rd century AD, and found within the city limits of Antiocheia in 2011, honors the legion Chief Physician L.
Abdurrahman Uzunaslan
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India, Egypt and Parthia in Augustan verse: the post-orientalist turn

open access: yesDictynna, 2011
Orientalism, as a paradigm expounded by Edward W. Said, has been influential in literary studies. Here it is critically evaluated with reference to Augustan poetry, in relation to three different ethnic groups : Indians, Egyptians and Parthians.
Grant Parker
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