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Nero: Política externa e defesa do império
Néron, le moins belliqueux des empereurs romains du premier siècle, s’est trouvé aux prises avec des problèmes militaires. L’historiographie moderne étudie et analyse de nouveaux aspects de son gouvernement, que l’antique historiographie. appuyée sur des
Daniel Valle Ribeiro
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration
Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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The Rule of Law and Full‐Bodied Promulgation
Promulgation is a fundamental component of most theories about the rule of law yet remains an under‐theorised aspect of the concept. This article makes two contributions concerning the functions of promulgation in the rule of law. First, promulgation can be broken down into formal promulgation, the process of formally publishing rules, and full‐bodied ...
James Milton
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The Standardisation of ‘Classical Latin’: The Case of Terence's Text
Abstract This short piece aims to provide further evidence supporting two of Adams's main claims: (1) the situation of late Republican Latin cannot be isolated from other diachronic varieties, and (for the purpose of my analysis) earlier Latin in particular, as regards both the absence of systematic standardisation and the presence of sporadic and ...
Giuseppe Pezzini
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Antikyran hellebore in the time of Caligula
Caligula is the only emperor of Rome whose name is connected both to the plant hellebore and the ancient Greek town of Antikyra. These connections are reported by Suetonius and concern a Roman senator of praetorian rank, who had been granted a leave of ...
Trevor S. Luke, Andrew J. Koh
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Keep taking the tablets: how Prudentius’ account of St Cassian shaped medieval school stories
In about 400 Prudentius visited the shrine of St Cassian at Imola and wrote a poem describing his martyrdom. Cassian, a schoolmaster, had been killed by his own pupils using their styli and wax tablets. The story was popular throughout the Middle Ages and its medieval reception has attracted attention.
Julia Barrow
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İlk İki Yüzyılın Pagan Kaynaklarında Nasıralı İsa
Pagan yazarlar, Miladî takvimin ilk iki yüzyılında Nasıralıİsa’ya veya O’na atfedilen öğretilere karşı genel itibariyle ilgisizbir tutum içinde olmuşlardır; I. yüzyılda İsa’dan bahseden paganyazar yoktur, II.
Zafer Duygu
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Caenis: Augusta in All but Name
The paper analyses the life and position of Antonia Caenis, a former slave and a long-time concubine of emperor Vespasian.
Anna Tatarkiewicz
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Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
Abstract The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity ...
Ciara O'Flaherty, Tim Shephard
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