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Auctor nomini eius Christus. Tacitus’ Knowledge of the Origins of Christianity
Tacitus’ information about the beginnings of Christianity contains details, which may be historically precise. He learnt them, perhaps, from Christian followers of some other than the received tradition, whom he could have tried during his proconsulship ...
Ivan Prchlík
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From Teamchef Arminius to Hermann Junior: glocalised discourse about a national foundation myth [PDF]
If for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ‘Battle of the Teutoburg Forest’, fought in 9 CE between Roman armies and Germanic tribes, was predominantly a reference point for nationalist and chauvinist discourses in Germany, the first ...
Andreas Musolff +44 more
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The aim of the TACITUS project is to develop a general, domain-independent capability for text understanding that allows for variable levels of analysis, depending on the requirements of the task. Four stages of processing are being developed: preprocessing, syntactic analysis, inferential pragmatics processing, and template generation.
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The tradition about the mons Caelius [PDF]
This essay offers three arguments concerning the ancient tradition about the mons Caelius. (1) Tacitus’ digression on the name of the mons Caelius at Annals 4.65 provides a useful framework for interpreting the complexity of the tradition: Caeles Vibenna
Malloch, S.J.V.
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Tacitus se uitbeelding van Agrippina Minor
Tacitus’ portrayal of Agrippina Minor Ancient historiography has more in common with the historical novel than with modem historiography. The Annals of Tacitus should be seen as an artistic, narrative text which demands active participation by the reader
M. Dircksen
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Concerning Barbarians and Romans, and RomanDiscourse on Music and Civilization [PDF]
Während der römischen Expansionszeit wurden barbarische Instrumente – Trompete und Trommel – in den Quellen als ,eigenartig‘ oder ,primitiv‘ und ihr Klang als unmusikalisch verstanden.
Vendries, Christophe
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At an unknown date in the first century AD, the historian Quintus Curtius Rufus wrote the Histories of Alexander the Great. It is the only Roman historiographical work that has foreign history as its main subject.
Claire Pérez
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Tactics of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Early Roman Empire [PDF]
The most common strategy for Romanizing a province was through developing connections with elites in the indigenous society coupled with (in many cases) the inclusion of regional gods into the Roman pantheon.
Cline, Wesley C.
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TACITUS is a general and domain-independent natural language processing system, used so far primarily for message processing. It performs a syntactic analysis of the sentences in the text, producing a logical form. Next, inferential pragmatics processing is applied to the logical form to solve problems of schema recognition, reference resolution ...
Jerry R. Hobbs +4 more
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Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger
Some Intellectuals in Tacitus and Pliny the Younger The paper provides a (far from exhaustive) overview of references found in Tacitus’ historical works (Annales, Historiae, Agricola) and in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae to people who may be defined ...
Jakub Pigoń
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