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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE OF EKPHRASIS IN ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME (TACITUS, ANN. XV, 38)

open access: diamondFilolog, 2023
Ekphrasis, a stylistic figure characteristic of epic poetry, has also found its application in Roman historiography. Namely, the Roman historian Tacitus and his work Annals are known for its highly stylised poetic language.
Sanja M. Ljubišić
doaj   +3 more sources

TACITuS: transcriptomic data collector, integrator, and selector on big data platform [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Bioinformatics, 2019
Background Several large public repositories of microarray datasets and RNA-seq data are available. Two prominent examples include ArrayExpress and NCBI GEO.
Salvatore Alaimo   +4 more
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Tacitus, Stoic exempla, and the praecipuum munus annalium [PDF]

open access: yesClassical Antiquity, 2008
Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be taken seriously: his exempla are supposed to help his readers think through their own moral difficulties.
Turpin, William
exaly   +2 more sources

Strabón a Tacitus o počátcích dějin České kotliny

open access: diamondArcheologické Rozhledy, 2016
V článku je probráno několik postřehů k interpretaci dvou zpráv antických autorů o poměrech v České kotlině v období přelomu letopočtů. Strabón (Geogr.
Ivan Prchlík
doaj   +3 more sources

The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]

open access: yesGround Water
Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Konstruktion von Alterität – exemplarisch aufgezeigt an Tacitus, „Historiae“ 5, 2–10 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021
People perceive everything that is unknown from their point of view as foreign. This circumstance can also be observed with religions, world views and faith practices. Strangeness can generate curiosity, which expresses itself in interreligious dialogues,
Christian Hild
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The Roman Senate and Armenia (190 BC–AD 68)

open access: yesElectrum, 2021
Even with the Principate, the Senate kept a major role in Rome’s diplomatic relations with Armenia. This paper will examine the extant evidence of the senatorial decrees, paying a spe­cial attention to the decrees dating to the reigns of Augustus and ...
Pierangelo Buongiorno
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Review of The Roman Historian Tacitus's Book of Annals [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
The Roman historian Tacitus’ s Book of Annals is an important historical source on the history of the Parthians and their neighbors.  Although Mirsaidi’s, the translator, main focus is on Roman history, this book also has some very important mentions on ...
Yaser Malekzadeh, Sorour Khorashadi
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Les dénominations du peuple chez les commentateurs de Tacite à la Renaissance

open access: yesPallas, 2023
A 1608 edition of the Annals of Tacitus, featuring commentaries by Justus Lipsius, as well as by 21 commentators who preceded him, serves here as the basis for a preliminary inquiry into how Tacitus’ various denominations of the people were viewed in the
Isabelle Cogitore
doaj   +1 more source

Pliny the Younger: citizen, landowner, intellectual

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2023
Pliny the Younger is a statesman, writer and lawyer, the author of the only correspondence between the governor of the province and the emperor that has survived to this day.
Vladimir Olegovich Nikishin
doaj   +1 more source

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