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Globalization and the Roman empire: the genealogy of ‘Empire’

, 2011
The use of concepts and ideas taken from the contemporary World in the studies on ancient Rome simply cannot be avoided. The studies that since 1990s onwards have criticized the term “Romanization” are not an exception. For this reason, the concept of “globalization” in reference to Ancient Rome can be helpful since it makes the anachronism in ...
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Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Salazar-García DC, Colominas L, Jordana X.   +2 more
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Explorations in the economics of intertemporal asset transfer in Roman Palestine [PDF]

Following the Jewish Revolt and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE, there were large-scale destabilizations of the Jewish population in Palestine.
P.V. Viswanath
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The construction of the orator in the early Imperial period (3IBC- ADI38) [PDF]

, 2006
This thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Social History and engages with theoretical works on gender definition to ask the questlon 'What does it mean to be an oratOr in the hundred and fifty years ...
Furse, Adrian Thomas
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Romanization 2.0 and its alternatives

, 2014
This essay argues that Romanization revolves around understanding objects in motion and that Roman archaeologists should therefore focus on (1) globalization theory and (2) material-culture studies as important theoretical directions for the (near ...
Woolf, Greg
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Portraying the Enemy

Central Europe, 2019
In the 1570s, Austria sent an embassy to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople in order to maintain contact during a fragile period of peace. This article examines the writings of two theologians, Stephan Gerlach and Salomon Schweigger, who were sent ...
Thorin Wenner
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Seneca's tragedies and the aesthetics of pantomime [PDF]

, 2008
In this thesis I explore the affinities between Seneca's tragic plays and pantomime, arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but relatively neglected by literary critics.
Zanobi, Alessandra
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Defining Imitative Coinage in the Roman Imperial Period on the Territory of the Empire

Encyclopedia
Imitative coinage is understood to be any currency issued outside of the official known coin series. This currency could have been issued by individuals or state agents, and its main function was not profit, but rather it responded to currency shortages ...
Marc Bouzas Sabater
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Review of Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians

In Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire, David Wheeler-Reed takes on the ambitious project of mapping the various ideologies of marriage and sexuality in the Roman Empire, Judaism, the New Testament, and early Christianity, in an effort to understand the ...

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Labour mobility in the Roman world: the case of the Spanish mines

, 2016
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version was published as a chapter in Tacoma L, DeLigt L (eds) Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire, Leiden: Brill, 2016, 95-137Abstract not ...
Holleran, Claire
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