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Women in Caesar, Sallust and the Caesarian writers’ action and narration

Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2012
Tacitus and other authors of imperial age ignored or denigrated women roles in their books. But this was done because of political or moral reasons, not due to reality. Today it is hard to support their opinions.
EdicJuan Luisiones POSADAS
doaj  

Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
wiley   +1 more source

La villa de “El Saucedo” (Talavera la Nueva, Toledo): Aproximación al estudio de los materiales cerámicos

Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio, 1999
This article analyses the productions of both fine and common pottery found at different archaelogical levels of the Roman villa in “El Saucedo” (Talavera la Nueva, Toledo).
Arribas Domínguez, R., Castelo Ruano, R., Bendala Galán, M.   +2 more
doaj  

Regional Personality Variation in Sweden: Trait Clusters, Links to Health and Well‐Being, and Historical Context

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personality traits (e.g., the Big Five) shape human behavior, decision‐making, and life outcomes. Evidence from various countries suggests that these traits are not randomly distributed but follow systematic regional patterns, fueling interest in their geographical variation.
Martin Obschonka, Markus Grillitsch, Nicklas Guldåker, Daniel Rauhut, Peter Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How can white marble provenance studies change our perception of the stone trade in the Roman Empire: analysing inland Thrace, a <i>terra incognita</i>. [PDF]

Humanit Soc Sci Commun
Anevlavi V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Prophecies of Roman Rule in the Imperial Period (27 BCE–284 CE)

Journal of Posthumanism
This research examines the concept of prophecies and the art of divination in the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 284 AD, highlighting its role as a religious, cultural and political phenomenon. The research aims to analyze how emperors manipulated prophecies to enhance their political legitimacy and guide fateful decisions.
openaire   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

A New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire. [PDF]

Genome Biol Evol
Ravasini F, Conati Barbaro C, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Metspalu M, Cruciani F, Trombetta B, D'Atanasio E.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Living in the Mycelial World

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of income inequality in the Roman and Chinese Han empires. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Alfani G, Bolla M, Scheidel W.
europepmc   +1 more source