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Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotus’s Histories [PDF]
, 2013 This chapter examines lived space in Herodotus’s Histories’ and explores how the picture that emerges differs from abstract depictions of space. Such overly schematic representations we see articulated by the Persians at the very beginning of the ...
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Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean
The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 312-341, February 2026.Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
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Frontière·sThis study examines the incorporation of Christian symbolism into architectural materials, particularly tegulae (roof tiles and bricks), in the Roman province of Scythia during the period of Late Antiquity (5th-6th centuries CE).
Radu Petcu
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Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea [PDF]
, 2013 In a short break from his preparations for the invasion of Scythia, Darius stops off where the Bosporus was bridged and sails to the Dark Rocks, apparently retracing the steps of the Argonauts.1 ‘There’, Herodotus reports, ‘he sat on the headland and ...
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Scythian’ emissions. Cui bono?
Науковий вісник Ізмаїльського державного гуманітарного університету. Серія: Історичні наукиThis paper addresses two issues regarding the historyof Scythian-Olbian relations: primarily, the ‘cui bono?’ question concerning the coin emissions bearing Scythian names, which were minted and cast in Olbia and Nikonion, and secondly, the ...
Piunov Roman
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Ceramica de masă romană târzie descoperită la Halmyris [PDF]
Peuce, 2018 The article will present the Red slip fine pottery discovered in the last eight years of excavations in the ancient fortress of Murighiol (nowadays Dobrudja – Romania).
Marian MOCANU
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Late Roman C wares discovered at Histria in the Acropolis Centre-South sector (2013 and 2014)
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2017 132 pottery fragments, discovered in the first two years of archaeological research in the Acropolis Centre-South Sector (excavation coordinated by a team from the University of Bucharest), at Histria are published in this paper.
Iliescu, I. +4 more
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Arched Objects (Noseband) as Part of a Horse Harness of the Early Nomads of the Southern Urals
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2020 The presented article analyzes a series of objects, which are parts of the horse harness of the early nomads in the Southern Urals of the 4th century BC. These are arched objects (nosebands) designed to increase the efficiency of horse control.
Sergey V. Sirotin
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THE TYRANT'S VICE: PLEONEXIA AND LAWLESSNESS IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC
, 2019 Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 146-169, December 2019.
Karen Margrethe Nielsen
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