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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 136-154, November 2024.Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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Narrative Performanz. Vorschlag zu einer neuen Lektüre von Geschlecht in taciteischen Texten
Eugesta, 2011 Tacitus kennt Geschlecht nicht als Kategorie der historischen Analyse. Und dennoch schreibt sich Geschlecht in seinen Text ein und bestimmt sein historisches Urteil: In der Darstellung männlicher und weiblicher Figuren verwendet Tacitus die ...
Thomas Späth
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Hobbes et Spinoza lecteurs de Tacite : histoire et politique
Astérion, 2020 Tacitists use the historian’s work as a source of advice for rulers. Hobbes and Spinoza, however, use Tacitus’ accounts as materials with which to formulate their theory of affects and to explain the role they play in politics.
Marta Libertà De Bastiani
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 403-431, September 2024.ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Karl Schellbach (1804–1892)—One of the fathers of the finite element method?
Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Volume 24, Issue 2, August 2024.Abstract Calculations by aerospace and automotive engineers in the 1950s for industrial applications are usually viewed as the beginnings of the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, some of its basic ideas can already be found on earlier occasions. One of the examples already discussed in the literature is the treatment of the brachistochrone problem ...
Peter Ullrich
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C. Corn. Tacitus ex I. Lipsii editione
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Tacitus, Cornelius
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Beyond the Foreigner: representations of non-roman individuals and communities in latin historiography, from Sallust to Ammianus Marcellinus [PDF]
, 2004 From the foundation of the city of Rome in 753 BCE to the capture of the same in 476 CE, the ancient Romans came into contact with a diverse range of peoples. The Romans did not want only to conquer these peoples and incorporate them into the empire, but
Chlup, James Thomas
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, 2022 This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little ...
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