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After the daggers : politics and persuasion after the assassination of Caesar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In this thesis, I examine the nature and role of persuasion in Roman politics in the period immediately following the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C. until the capture of the city of Rome by his heir Octavianus in August 43 B.C.
Mahy, Trevor Bryan
core  

Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (13): The road system in the mountainous area of Alacadağ in central Lycia and the roads indicated in the Vita of Nicholas of Sion

open access: yesGephyra, 2013
This contribution introduces the Roman road connecting Myra to inner Lycia via the mountainous area of Alacadağ. The road called “Gavur Yolu” by the native population is already known, but has not been surveyed entirely and has not been fully published ...
Burak Takmer, Mehmet Alkan
doaj  

Quantifying microhabitat selection of snowshoe hares using forest metrics from UAS‐based LiDAR

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Identifying the spatial and temporal scale at which animals select resources is critical for predicting how populations respond to changes in the environment. The spatial distribution of fine‐scale resources (e.g. patches of dense vegetation) are often linked with critical life‐history requirements such as denning and feeding sites.
Alexej P. K. Sirén   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling Past Land Routes in Archaeology: A ‘Roman Roads’ Theoretical and Methodological Rethinking [PDF]

open access: yes
Since the 1990s, the use of movement models for predicting and explaining past land routes has become common-place in archaeology. Despite their long use, movement models remain largely theoretically unjustified and methodologically immature.

core   +2 more sources

Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (6): Route 54 (Patara – Phellos) and new inscriptions

open access: yesGephyra, 2011
In the field survey of the Stadiasmus Patarensis (SP) in 2009, the route between Patara and Phellos was investigated. The distance between Patara and Phellos in the SP was restored as 240 stadia (45–46 km) by the editors.
Fatih Onur, Mehmet Alkan
doaj  

Bronze figurines of Mercury-Thoth from Albania

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae
Along with other aspects of society, Illyrian religion was influenced by the Roman world during the first centuries AD. As a result, Mercury became the Roman god most represented in bronze figurines found within the modern territory of Albania.
Sabina Veseli
doaj   +1 more source

Roman and Byzantine Ankara observed by foreign travellers [PDF]

open access: yesAnkara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2014
Due to its strategic location and being crossroads of major roads Ankara was one of the most important cities of Anatolia throughout the ages especially during the Roman and Byzantine periods.
H. Sinan Sülüner
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Winter Track Survey of the Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) in the Southwest Primorsky Province of Russia 俄罗斯滨海边疆区西南部东北虎 (Panthera tigris altaica) 冬季足迹调查

open access: yesWildlife Letters, EarlyView.
In the winter of 2021/2022, a winter track survey revealed 43–46 tigers (without cubs) in 5.4 thousand km2 of suitable habitats in the Southwest Primorsky Province of Russia. In the same period, a network of camera traps registered 54 adult/subadult tigers here.
Yury Darman, Dina Matiukhina
wiley   +1 more source

The Gender of Heteroclites1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

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