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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Abstract Although climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation are contemporary problems, these are also challenges with deep historic roots in antiquity. 2,000 years ago, during the Roman Climate Optimum, a period of unusually warm, wet, and stable temperatures in the Mediterranean from roughly 200 BCE to 150 CE, the Romans altered the ...
Tally-Schumacher KJ.
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 753-761, July/August 2023., 2023 Abstract This work presents the first remains of a peacock (Pavo cristatus Linnaeus 1758) discovered in an archeological context in Catalonia. It is a well‐preserved animal (14 remains of an adult female) located in medieval levels—datable to the 13th century (1210–1278 cal. AD) at the site of Carrer de Sotstinent Navarro, in the city of Barcelona.
Marina Fernández +7 more
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Staging the Imagined City: Aretino in Rome and London
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 268-291, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article explores the theme of ‘cityscapes’, and Aretino as a writer of the urban experience, by focussing on the city as an unknowable and anonymous space, especially to social outsiders. It will first examine how Aretino portrays Rome in his early comedy Cortigiana (1525) as a confusing and socially stratified space when experienced from
Kate De Rycker
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HUME, HISTORY, AND THE USES OF SYMPATHY
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 62-87, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article focuses on the role of sympathy and antipathy in David Hume's History of England (1754–1762) in relation to the broader place of sympathy in Hume's moral philosophy. Hume, in his earlier philosophical work, argues that sympathy is a naturally occurring responsiveness to others’ feelings, similar to the resonance between musical ...
ADAM SUTCLIFFE
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The leader effect and behavioral complexity
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 51, Issue 12, Page 1132-1144, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This paper reviews research into the impact that leaders have on performance outcomes and into the identification of behavioral competencies associated with superior leadership effectiveness. The review indicates that around twenty percent of performance outcomes may be attributed to leaders depending on the level of discretion they exercise ...
Anthony Peter Cockerill
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História, 2005 Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar a Vida de Nero, de Suetônio, procurando nela identificar elementos que permitam associá-la à tradição historiográfica senatorial romana, a despeito de tal correlação não ser usualmente enfatizada pela crítica moderna.
Fábio Duarte Joly
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Boni et mali principes, un empire en jeu(x) : discours, figures et postures impériales
Kentron, 2022 The Imperial biographies written between the Antonine 2nd century CE to the Theodosian end of the 4th c. and the beginning of the 5th c. deliver an original approach of the Imperial characters.
Stéphane Benoist
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Conceptions of Temporality: Reconsidering Time in an Age of Impending Emergency
Theoria, Volume 86, Issue 6, Page 769-782, December 2020., 2020 Abstract The predominant contemporary concept of time is arguably measurable time, promoted as being in accordance with science. This is commonly understood as the time of physics, as, for instance, E. A. Milne claims in an article from 1950 on the modern conception of time, contrasting this with Plato's description of time as the “moving image of ...
Kristin Sampson
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Religions, 2019 Are the Gospels historically reliable? Authors of ancient historical literature had objectives for writing that differed somewhat from those of modern historians. Consequently, the literary conventions that were in play also differed.
Michael R. Licona
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Tiberius on Capri and the Limits of Roman Sex Culture
Eugesta, 2018 This paper examines Suetonius’ representation of Tiberius and sex on Capri at Vita Tiberii 43-44. Many of the features of Suetonius’ narrative move through normative elements of Roman sex culture: brothels and prostitutes, sex manuals, erotic ...
Bill Gladhill
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