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This paper explores four accounts of Augustus’ relationship with the senate and established order during his early career, with particular focus on his involvement in the civil wars: his own Res Gestae, Velleius Paterculus’ Roman History 2.59–89 ...
Aske Damtoft Poulsen
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Free Expression and Coerced Choice: The Role of the Army and Lord Protector in Miltonic Freedom
ABSTRACT Scholarly approaches to understanding freedom in Milton's prose tend to connect Milton's ideas to either liberalism or republicanism. Neither of these approaches is sufficient because freedom, for Milton, was not a single concept. Milton explored political and religious freedom very differently.
Benjamin Woodford
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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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ABSTRACT Anthropogenic carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts can provide detailed environmental and archaeological information. The Roman aqueduct of Nîmes (France), famed for the Pont du Gard bridge, was built around AD 50 to convey water over 50 km to the city of Nemausus for drinking and bathing.
Gül Sürmelihindi +7 more
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Self, Others and Context: Reframing Clinical Reasoning as a Socio‐Cognitive Practice
ABSTRACT Rationale, Aims and Objectives Clinical reasoning is often studied as if it occurred inside the clinician's head. Yet, in practice, clinicians think, decide and act through constant interaction with patients, colleagues, technologies, routines and local constraints. This article challenges predominantly individual and decontextualised accounts
Thierry Pelaccia +3 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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Abstract Systematic knowledge of the Mexican Crassulaceae is slowly progressing as data from new DNA regions and species sampling efforts increase. We compiled and generated new rbcL, matK, rps16, ITS/ITS2, and ETS DNA sequences and performed an updated phylogenetic reconstruction for a group of 131 Mexican Crassulaceae terminals from 11 of the 13 ...
Luis Emilio de la Cruz‐López +1 more
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Shannon-Henderson, K.E. (2019). Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals
SHANNON - HENDERSON , KELLY E. (2019). Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 414 pp., 88,02€ [ISBN 978-0-1988-3276-8] [Book review]
James McNamara
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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