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GREEK MODELS AND LITERARY SOURCES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ITALY AS SIGN OF ITS BENT TO UNIVERSAL RULE IN DE ARCHITECTURA OF VITRUVIUS (VI 1, 1-11)

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2019
The subject of importance of Italy, at the beginning of book VI of De Architectura of Vitruvius (30-20 B.C.) shows a significant change from a geo-climatic conception to a political and ideological one.
Marco Martin
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VII. Lucrèce et Posidonius

, 2014
Voltaire
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Posidonio en Plutarco: acerca del nacimiento del alma del mundo [PDF]

, 2011
As it is known, in spite that Posidonius has been named Stoic, in ethics he assumed some basic agreements from the Platonic-Peripatetic scholarship.
Muñoz Gallarte, Israel
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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In the Shadow of the Empire

Classica Cracoviensia
Comparing is a base operation in the description of foreigners. Yet, its role in Hellenistic ethnography is still understudied. The paper looks at practices of comparing in the ethnographic texts of Polybius, Posidonius and Strabo in the 2nd and 1st ...
Julian Gieseke
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Tacitus, Stoic Exempla , And The Praecipuum Munus Annalium [PDF]

, 2008
Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be taken seriously: his exempla are supposed to help his readers think through their own moral difficulties.
Turpin, William
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Gades and the Mediterranean: a Process of Integration [PDF]

, 2019
The impetus for this paper is to present possible contributions of the Network Theory approach to the analysis of the Roman presence in Turdetania by the end of the 1st millennium BC.
dos Santos Silva, Bruno
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Ślady żeglugi po morzu martwym w tekstach antycznych (IVBC-IIAC).

Studia Maritima, 2016
For almost 100 years there has been no navigation in the Dead Sea. Its two banks are occupied by two states – Israel and Jordan – which do not maintain close relations with one another; yet, there are no lumps of asphalt any longer, and fishery has ...
Piotr Briks
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Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) [PDF]

, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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L’incendio del Campidoglio e la fine del saeculum etrusco

Gerión, 2005
In the years 91 to 82 BCE Italy had to suffer because of a series of civil and external wars. People believed that the entire world was upset in occasion of the birth of a new saeculum, as the Etruscan soothsayers were forecasting.
Attilio Mastrocinque
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