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The Multicolored World of the Romans
Glotta, 2015Abstract Latin literature includes six different color-terms to convey the concepts of multiple or changing colors: bicolor, decolor, discolor, multicolor, omnicolor and versicolor. Each color-term expresses a different aspect of manycoloredness. The terms concolor and unicolor are used to describe the opposite situation: a homogeneous quality of color.
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2015
Inscriptions help us reconstruct some elements of the lived experience of women in the Roman world. This chapter analyzes the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in economic, cultural, religious, and civic life, acknowledging the inevitable biases inherent in such texts.
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Inscriptions help us reconstruct some elements of the lived experience of women in the Roman world. This chapter analyzes the epigraphic evidence for women’s role in economic, cultural, religious, and civic life, acknowledging the inevitable biases inherent in such texts.
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Globalisation and the Roman World
2014This book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life.
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What Divides Us Also Connects Us: Roman Frontiers, World Heritage and Community
Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 2021Rebecca Jones
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2017
Where Pompeii’s traffic system fits in the history of Roman infrastructure and urbanism is addressed in Chapter 8. To do this, the method for studying traffic developed at Pompeii is exported to Roman cities around the Mediterranean to answer two primary questions: were there two-way streets organized by driving on a particular side, and were there ...
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Where Pompeii’s traffic system fits in the history of Roman infrastructure and urbanism is addressed in Chapter 8. To do this, the method for studying traffic developed at Pompeii is exported to Roman cities around the Mediterranean to answer two primary questions: were there two-way streets organized by driving on a particular side, and were there ...
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1998
The Roman tragedies — Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra - are about a state. Rome was the greatest empire that Shakespeare’s world knew of. It stood for splendour and success. It was both history and myth; history because there were numerous writings about it, and myth because it represented in a full and vivid way certain human qualities.
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The Roman tragedies — Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra - are about a state. Rome was the greatest empire that Shakespeare’s world knew of. It stood for splendour and success. It was both history and myth; history because there were numerous writings about it, and myth because it represented in a full and vivid way certain human qualities.
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The Joint Working Group, the Roman Catholic Church, and the World Council of Churches
Ecumenical Review, 2023Annemarie C. Mayer
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