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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl
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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For the Britons, their fears allayed by the absence of the dreaded legate, began to canvass the woes of slavery, to compare their wrongs and sharpen their sting in the telling. ‘We gain nothing by submission except heavier burdens for willing shoulders.’
Melania Cazzulo
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
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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İlk İki Yüzyılın Pagan Kaynaklarında Nasıralı İsa
Pagan yazarlar, Miladî takvimin ilk iki yüzyılında Nasıralıİsa’ya veya O’na atfedilen öğretilere karşı genel itibariyle ilgisizbir tutum içinde olmuşlardır; I. yüzyılda İsa’dan bahseden paganyazar yoktur, II.
Zafer Duygu
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
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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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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Hobbes et Spinoza lecteurs de Tacite : histoire et politique
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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Due to the relative sparseness of Parthian sources, Tacitus’ data on Parthia, chiefly included in the Annals, but scattered also in his other works (the Historiae and Germania), is of particular importance (Walser; Sonnabend; Ehrhardt; Thommen; cf. Pfordt; Lerouge, pp. 129-49).
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