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From the ancient past of Chapter 3, this chapter moves to the account of contemporary American travelers through the ruins and remnants of the ancient Roman world.
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In particular, the paper argues that the best doctrine, and also jurisprudence, often recall the juridical experience of the ancient Roman world, and it also underlines the tremendous usefulness, even today, of Ciceronian rhetoric in a lawyer’s actions, both written and oral.
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That trade with the Late Roman world is significant to understanding the introduction of Christianity and literacy in southern Ireland at that time.
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Treating masculinity as a trajectory and a necessarily volatile process allows us to accommodate all the ambivalence and variety that has already been observed, because flight is always volatile, because human beings trying to be invulnerable is impossible, and because in the late Roman world, that plan of escape passed through a bottleneck of submission to specific other already-sovereign males.
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Issues such as the demands of combining scholarly and archaeological progress with the rate of production of the maps, decisions about ensuring coherence of scale and the need to represent the whole timespan of the Greek and Roman world on a single map—familiar to all involved in such projects—are rehearsed again.
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This article explores the healing activities of the physicians of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds in this special field of surgery.
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All of these approaches imply that Mark has cogency only when viewed through the lens of genre, with the particular emphasis falling on the performative cultures of the Greco-Roman world.
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By proposing status concern as an interpretative framework, it offers both new insights into the socio-economic and socio-cultural realities of Luke’s world and the continuing evidence of the contribution of Greco-Roman world to the development of the New Testament texts.
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However, freedmen cannot comply with the hegemonic masculinity in full, since they cannot embody the Roman masculine ideal of the vir bonus and cannot be associated with the Roman cardinal virtue virtus, which was central in the construction of masculinity in the Roman world.
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Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital can be used to show that the cosmography of the learned bishop Isidore of Seville (560–636) was intended to acculturate the Visigothic elite to the Roman worldview, shedding new light on the relations of these two ruling elites.
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To address these gaps for application to certain historical problems, a model for malaria risk in the Roman world is constructed and extended to project risk for travellers on Roman roads.
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) It conceptualizes the uniqueness of the West as solely the result of cultural evolution set in motion by the medieval Church, thereby ignoring the strong tendencies toward individualism in the Greco-Roman world of antiquity, the Indo-European groups that conquered the continent in pre-historic times, and the primordial northern European hunter-gatherers.
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An exploration of the complex relationship between Christian constructions of identity and the idea of sacrality derived from the ancient Greco-Roman world, this article argues that Christian identity developed uniquely in a specific context, often intertwined with theology and mythology.
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This paper describes the preliminary results of an ancient history and computer science collaboration to apply machine learning to the identification of text within images of inscriptions, one of our major sources of evidence for the Roman world.
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The theme of the specificity of medical causes in the Greco-Roman world is part of a wider research project on the notion of causality, the starting point of which is Aristotle and his seminal theorisation of the four causes.
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Within ancient history generally, focus has shifted from the construction and administration of roads or their use for military campaigns to a wider consideration of their place in the economic life of the Roman world.
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The volume whets our appetite for the forthcoming second edition of CIL X as it reveals the fascination and rewards of detailed, expert epigraphic study of one area of the Roman world.
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Many of the numerous magical recipes and spells from the Greco-Roman world aim to heal or protect the practitioner.
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Apart from the names of the cities and provinces in which he and his addressees dwelt, Paul’s letters contain very few references to specific, concrete features of his world – few data, that is, that might serve to map the small network of co-workers, rivals and Christ groups portrayed in his letters onto the broader Roman world as otherwise attested.
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To illustrate the effectiveness of certain non‐destructive strategies, including geophysical prospection and aerial survey, we focus on a specific type of market building that was quite common in the Roman world, the macellum.
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Although safeguarding specificities of performance, language, skills and services, they occupied the same social niche in the Roman world.
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Scholarship on architecture and urbanism in antiquity has focused on building activity and investment in the fabric of cities as positive processes, typically starting from the assumption that such developments were welcomed by inhabitants – but were they? This article examines objections to urban renewal and the construction of monumental public building in the Roman world.
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Mishulin consistently adhered to the idea that slavery was a common basis of all ancient states, but he also believed that the slave-owning systems in the Ancient East and Greco-Roman world were different.
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The conventional view of inflation in the Roman world, based on evidence from Roman Egypt, is that prices were steady from the middle of the first century AD until around AD 274, other than a doubling of prices between AD 160 and 190.
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With their direct focus on the everyday economic uses of urban spaces and the movements through them, the contributors offer a fresh and innovative perspective on the workings of Roman urban economies and on the debates concerning space in the Roman world.
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This chapter locates incarceration within a broader economy of violence in the Roman world.
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It becomes increasingly difficult to ascertain where imperium ends and the non-Roman world (not-yet-Roman world) begins.
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The Roman world offers a great diversity of economic spaces due to its size, geographic contrasts and duration.
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This paper discusses the historical exchanges, communications, and circumstances that initially enabled the opening of trade routes between China and the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman world.
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That way, we try to explain the following question: to what extent and under which arguments is it possible to reflect upon the politics over the biological human life taking as reference Foucault’s and Agamben’s thesis and even finding a connection between both? We hypothesize that: (1) it is possible to acknowledge the discovery of politics over life back at the Greco-Roman world, linking the bio politics to the Western political structure; (2) while having its spectrum projected in the Age of Antiquity, bio-politics blossomed within the Modern history, since the appearance of medico-social categories and the realizations around the human life potentiality.
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Work on voluntary associations in the Greco-Roman world sheds light on the social context of private cults.
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Lead was a necessary element for Roman metallurgical work, so being able to determine its origin is very important to know the commercial circuits of commodities in the Roman world.
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The sixth chapter lends careful consideration to Luke 1 and 2 in tracing the Baptist’s birth as the dawn of (Christian) salvation in direct continuity with Judaism, yet oriented to and inclusive of the Greco-Roman world.
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These two lenses provide ways into thinking about whose voices are heard in the discipline, current barriers to more diverse voices, and biases within the topics and regions of the Roman world in our research and teaching.
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While the early Christian Church demonstrates a deep desire to relieve physical suffering, the Greco-Roman world in which it developed lacked the same impetus to respond to human need, especially in the context of epidemic or communicable disease.
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Verboven’s 2016 volume Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World, and in the process moves other discussions about elite ideology and identity intelligently forward.
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The variety in the chemistry of the vitreous finds reported in this paper, demonstrated by the identification of different glass types previously encountered in contemporary objects from many archaeological sites from the Mediterranean Sea and Balkan Mountains regions during the Late Antique period, reflects the trade connections of the settlements from the Lower Danube and the Black Sea region with the rest of the Roman world.
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The Roman world in the second century was remarkably homogeneous,
and the ties that bound it together remarkably thick and apparently
strong.
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The electrifying promise of studying the ancient Graeco-Roman world in the twenty-first-century West is to open our minds to other ways of seeing and being, to learn the contours of our own inherited cultural topography by examining the distant past.
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The former come from the hand of the Greco-Roman world that laid the foundations for the later ones.
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Polyvalent meanings behind naval ram displays were prevalent and ingrained in the Roman world, especially at Octavian’s Campsite Memorial for the Actian War.
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This study provides the first bioarcheological evidence that lead poisoning was a contributing factor to the high infant mortality and childhood morbidity rates seen within the Roman world.
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As a piece of classical historiography that mirrors not Christian historians—like Eusebius and others—but the historians of the broader “pagan” Greco-Roman world—like Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus—De Excidio leverages a cultural communicative medium particularly well equipped to undergird and fuel the Christian historiographical imagination and its anti-Jewish projections.
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In the context of the research effort of the Ancient Orchesis Study Group to reconstitute the philosophical and wider cultural presuppositions that define the ancient Greek dance culture, from which the Greek-speaking and Roman world was removed, to return with the Renaissance in a new European context, along with the recognition of the basic anthropological, on the one hand, aesthetic, on the other hand, criteria and principles of art and, in particular, of dance expression, we attempt a review of certain concepts like θεραπεία, κάθαρσις, ἔρως and finally δρᾶμα, χορός & ὄρχησις-which stand for characteristic phenomena of ancient Greek culture.
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The Roman world was a multilingual community.
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strictly dedicated to the Roman world.
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Common in the Roman world, where they represented a default template for corporate identity and collective action in urban contexts, they were far less prominent in Han China, in as much as they existed at all.
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That spring review ended with religion, which is where we start here: an apposite reminder that religion pervades all aspects of the Roman world.
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In the Ancient Graeco-Roman world, it takes the form of a bucolic « bubble » of happiness.
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That trade with the Late Roman world is significant to understanding the introduction of Christianity and literacy in southern Ireland at that time.
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Paternal control of others was an essential element of hegemonic masculinity in the Greco-Roman world.
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While this provides a convincing explanation for Bitenosh’s argumentation, in this essay I argue that rather than deriving these ideas from the Greco-Roman world, the conception theory which informed the Genesis Apocryphon is in fact consistent with notions that can already be found in the Hebrew Bible and the wider ancient Near East.
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Magic in the Graeco-Roman world is a disputed concept among modern historians, whose interpretation has changed significantly over the last 200 years of study.
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Its history is rooted in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
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EnglishLead was a necessary element for Roman metallurgical work, so being able to determine its origin is very important to know the commercial circuits of commodities in the Roman world.
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Drawing upon post-structuralist approaches to self and community, it highlights the empirical difficulties the archaeology of ethnicity in early medieval Britain faces, and proposes steps toward an alternative understanding of the role played by the communities of lowland Britain – both migrants from across the North Sea and those already present – in transforming the Roman world.
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Treating masculinity as a trajectory and a necessarily volatile process allows us to accommodate all the ambivalence and variety that has already been observed, because flight is always volatile, because human beings trying to be invulnerable is impossible, and because in the late Roman world, that plan of escape passed through a bottleneck of submission to specific other already-sovereign males.
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Studies of migration in the context of the Roman world have gained immense popularity in recent years.
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Christ’s enslaved form, marked in the Roman world as crucifiable, was re-presented by writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Tertullian as a model of self-control, mastering and purging slavishness.
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In particular, we considered the circumstances and methods of migration in the Greek and Roman world and, beginning in the third century, the pressures of the Germanic peoples on the Roman Empire’s borders.
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From the ancient past of Chapter 3, this chapter moves to the account of contemporary American travelers through the ruins and remnants of the ancient Roman world.
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In particular, the paper argues that the best doctrine, and also jurisprudence, often recall the juridical experience of the ancient Roman world, and it also underlines the tremendous usefulness, even today, of Ciceronian rhetoric in a lawyer’s actions, both written and oral.
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For Jesus, this kingdom was an alternative social world to the oppressive and exploitative social system of the Greco-Roman world.
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The language of letters illuminates the Roman world and its entanglements with Greek language and culture.
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Judaism and Christianity share toxicological traditions with the eastern and Greco-Roman world as well as developing traditions of their own.
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Related imagery is common throughout the larger Roman world, but compositional parallels from Western Anatolia suggest a particularly local visual vocabulary.
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This paper uses the example of late Iron Age oppida, a type of settlement at the intersection of the Iron Age and Roman worlds where research has focussed upon elites rather than community.
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In his mission into the Greco-Roman world, he uses many elements of the Hellenistic culture in order to achieve his evangelizing goals.
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EnglishIn this paper, I analyze all forms of breastfeeding, which break the norms in the Greek and Roman worlds.
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While spoliated inscriptions and contemporary authors identify 17 summer baths in the Late Roman world, the five surviving structures in Sbeitla (Tunisia), Thuburbo Majus (Tunisia), Madaurus (Algeria), Fordongianus (Sardinia), and Aphrodisias (Turkey) bear witness to an understanding of thermal sustainability in Late Antiquity that prioritized conservation of heating and water resources, attuned bathers’ activity to climate, and maintained these civic centres as sites of cultural and aesthetic value.
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Aiming that, firstly we discuss the affinity between rumors and public opinion in the Roman world, and then we present how the social memory of the monarchy was employed by Caesar's political opponents in order to promote rumors about the Dictator's position as if he was a monarch, that is, someone liable to be murdered for the sake of Res Publica.
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This article will consider a series of case-studies from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds with the aim of illuminating the viability - and desirability - of practicing an archaeology of famous individuals.
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” For that reason, we have put “The Gospel in the Graeco-Roman World” as the headline for the seminar.
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The games, which had once been a strong factor of political and religious integration of the Severan colony in the Roman world, eventually contributed to shape the enduring image of the city as a haven of diehard pagans in Late Antiquity.
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BC), attempting to assess their historical, cultural and economic interest, as a reflection of the process of integration within the Roman world.
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