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Electrum, 2017 Tacitus is the only Roman historian who devoted his works to such an extent to Rome’s eastern neighbor – the Parthian Empire. Scholars have researched the problem of Tacitus’ attitude towards the Parthians on many occasions. It seems that what is the most important question is not Tacitus’ opinion, but the perspective from which he looked at this topic
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The Decline of Ptolemaic Elephant Hunting: An Analysis of the Contributory Factors [PDF]
, 2016 After the death of Alexander the Great in 323, his successors (diadochi) engaged in a series of internecine struggles to take control of the territory he had conquered.
Cobb, Matthew
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La bataille de Carrhes (53 av. J.-C.) : de la défaite au désastre patriotique
Pallas, 2019 The battle of Carrhae is one of the most famous defeats in Roman history. However, this defeat did not really weaken Romans in the East, and the place of Carrhae in the collective memory contrasts with the real results of the fight.
Benoît Lefebvre
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Ripensare lo straniero. Lesbii e Parti nell'ottavo libro del Bellum civile di Lucano [PDF]
, 2016 The eighth book of Lucan's bellum ciuile opens with the loss of Pompeius fleeing from the Thessalian battlefield. This departure, which sees the old fighter now prostrate and on which hangs a heavy fate of death, includes a double description of peoples ...
Casamento, A.
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Εὐχαί ὑπὲρ τῶν παίδων: Augustus and some honors for Gaius and Lucius in the Roman east [PDF]
, 2015 Augustus felt an urgent need to justify the honours conferred on his adoptive sons, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, and the positions attributed to them, before the period of time provided by law, on the basis of merit (… he never recommended his sons for ...
Caliri, Elena
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, 2020 I was born in 2002 into a middle-class Jewish family, in a very Jewish town. The town was our Zion, our Mini-Israel, our bubble. It prided itself on being a sleepy town where any American can feel safe and comfortable. At the best of times, the town felt
Goldman, Benjamin D.
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, 1995 The archaeology and history of the Parthian period (c. 150 B.C. – A.D. 250) in Iraq has received little serious attention from scholars in recent years. This thesis used objects in British museum collections from Nineveh as a focus for the study of this period in Northern Mesopotamia, combining traditional archaeology and numismatic analysis with ...
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Libanius the Historian? Praise and the Presentation of the Past in Or. 59 [PDF]
, 2017 A study of Libanius' use of historiographical topoi in his imperial panegyric of Constans and Constantius ...
Alan J. Ross
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Ties of resistance and cooperation: Aedemon, Lusius Quietus and the Baquates [PDF]
, 2013 Gaius' decision to dissolve the protectorate of Mauretania and to depose its client king, Ptolemaeus, led to the outbreak of the Revolt of Aedemon (AD 40).
Vanacker, Wouter
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India, Egypt and Parthia in Augustan verse: the post-orientalist turn
Dictynna, 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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