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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]
Ground WaterAbstract 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.
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Is a good reputation a dangerous thing? A multimethod assessment of regulator culture and the implications for risk regulation. [PDF]
Risk AnalAbstract Regulator culture has a significant influence on dutyholder safety in high‐risk industries, but there is currently limited research that has explored its nature and implications for effective risk regulation. Building on existing cultural theory and literature on reputational risk, we aim to address this hiatus by exploring regulator culture ...
Clarke S, Siegl L, Holman D.
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Welsh Chwant ‘Desire’ and Trisantona ‘River Trent’ in Tacitus
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The article deals with the ancient name of the longest river solely in England, the Trent, flowing past Stoke-on-Trent and Nottingham to the North Sea. In a passage that has raised debate and led to a number of misinterpretations in literature, Tacitus ...
Andrew Breeze
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THE GERUND AND GERUNDIVE IN THE WORKS OF TACITUS AND PLINY THE YOUNGER
Filolog, 2021 The gerund is a defective verbal noun and the gerundive is a passive verbal adjective in -ndus, -a, -um with necessitative meaning. This paper presents some results obtained from a comparison of the various uses gerunds and gerundives in the ...
Slobodanka S. Prtija
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Pallas, 2023 This paper revisits a debated passage from the opening of Tacitus’ Histories, in which the historian contrasts the pars populi integra and the plebs sordida in Rome (Tac., Hist., 1.4.2-3).
Louis Autin
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TRADURRE L’AGRICOLA DI TACITO IN ETÀ NAPOLEONICA: IL CASO DI G. F. GALEANI NAPIONE
Italiano LinguaDue, 2021 A proposito di origini, contesto e caratteristiche della traduzione dell’Agricola di Tacito ad opera del dotto piemontese G.F. Galeani Napione: pubblicata nel 1806, cioè in anni in cui ancora pareva prossima un’invasione dell’Inghilterra a partire dalla ...
Giovanni Benedetto
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A violação de Britânico (Tac. Ann. 13.17) = Britannicus’ Rape (Tac. Ann. 13.17)
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua, 2020 Este estudo foca-se na biografia de Britânico, filho de Cláudio e Valéria Messalina, analisando em particular as informações transmitidas por Tácito nos Annales.
Nuno Simões Rodrigues
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Frontinus' cameo role in Tacitus' Agricola [PDF]
, 2017 Frontinus appears only once in Tacitus' Agricola, at a moment in the text where Tacitus is filling in some background, sketching a rough history of the Roman occupation of Britain up to the time when Agricola took over as governor of the province.
König, Alice Rebecca
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Who was Watching Whom? A Reassessment of the Conflict between Germanicus and Piso [PDF]
, 2015 Despite Tacitus’ insinuations to the contrary, Cn. Calpurnius Piso (cos. 7 b.c.e.) was no friend and loyal supporter of Emperor Tiberius. The emperor offered Piso the command of Syria in an effort to win over the political support of this prestigious-but-
Drogula, Fred K.
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Il mondo del diritto in Tacito [PDF]
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2020 Jens Petersen, Recht bei Tacitus, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019, XX + 617 p., ISBN 978-3-11-057988 ...
Lorena Atzeri
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