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, 2020 Greco-Roman meteorology will be described in four overlapping developments. In the archaic period, astro-meteorological calendars were written down, and one appears in Hesiod’s Works and Days; such calendars or almanacs originated thousands of years ...
Johnson, Monte
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Gephyra, 2009 Sex. Sotidius Strabo is attested as legatus Ti. Caesaris Augusti pro pr(aetore) in an edict to the provincials, which has been transmitted in a bilingual inscription from Sagalassos (AE 1976, no. 653). Despite its reference to the current emperor and his
Altay Coşkun
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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An environmental and cultural study at Lake Maryut, Lower Egypt: a research prospectus [PDF]
, 1980 African Studies Center Working Paper No ...
Gabel, Creighton, Petruso, Karl
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Annals of GlaciologySubglacial seismicity presents the opportunity to monitor inaccessible glacial beds at the epicentral location and time. Glaciers can be underlain by rock or till, a first order control on bed mechanics.
Seth Saltiel +3 more
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The Paleo‐Serchio River: history of floods between Lucca and Pisa during the Roman period
Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 141-152, January 2025.ABSTRACT The reconstruction of flood frequency beyond the Instrumental Era is challenging and mostly based on historical sources, but it rarely covers more than the last 1000 years when abundant documentation is preserved. To investigate the long‐term trends in flooding and obtain insight into current climatic changes it is necessary to extend these ...
Monica Bini +12 more
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Beyond Marble, Medicants & Myth: Epidaurus' History, Material Culture, Purpose and Place in the Greater Mediterranean Area [PDF]
, 2020 'The most famous of sanctuaries of Asclepius had their origin from Epidaurus’, Pausanias writes in his Hellados Periegesis (‘Description of Greece’). All across the Aegean and beyond, word of the salutary reputation of Epidaurian divinity had spread. And
Van der Molen, Jan M.
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, 2016 This study traces the development of the concept of geographical longitude: from the ear- liest known Mesopotamian evidence of geographical concepts through its incorporation into mathematical astronomy and to its transmission to ancient Greek philosophy
Defaux, Olivier +5 more
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Skeptouchoi in the Caucasus and the Northern Black Sea region in the ancient era
КавказологияAmong the terms used by ancient authors for barbarian rulers is the term skeptouchoi. This article raises the problem of the content of this term to characterize the barbaric societies of the Northern Black Sea region and the Caucasus.
E. V. Vdovchenkov, A. P. Voskresenskiy
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The Provincial Governor and the Latin Communities: The Case of "Nemausus" in Strabo
Gerión, 2018 I propose a new interpretation of Strabo 4.1.12 and 4.6.4. In base of these ambigous texts, it has been hypothesized that Nemausus was not subjected to the orders of the governor of Narbonensis.
Rubén Olmo López
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