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The construction of the orator in the early Imperial period (3IBC- ADI38) [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Social History and engages with theoretical works on gender definition to ask the questlon 'What does it mean to be an oratOr in the hundred and fifty years ...
Furse, Adrian Thomas
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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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Tacitus’ Germania and the Limits of Fantastic Geography
Histos, 2020 This article explores Tacitus’ careful, simultaneous positioning of geographical boundaries and the limits of his own writing at the opening and close of the Germania.
Jessica Lightfoot
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Philosophy According to Tacitus: Francis Bacon and the Inquiry into the Limits of Human Self-Delusion [PDF]
, 2012 Bacon belonged to a cultural milieu that, between the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, proved to be especially receptive to infuences coming from such continental authors as Machiavelli, Bodin, Duplessis-Mornay, Hotman, and, through Lipsius, a ...
Giglioni, Guido
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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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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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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 philological commentary on Tacitus, Annals 14, 1-54 [PDF]
, 1970 The Commentary deals only with stylistic and linguistic matters. Textual problems are sometimes discussed, but only when they can be illuminated by points of usage. Diverse subjects are treated, but certain themes predominate.
Adams, James Noel
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