Search Results - "late antiquity"

The paper presents the many corrupt or suspect practices encountered by Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a prominent senator of the late 4th century, in his capacity as city prefect (384/5). These practices afford some insight into the functioning of Late Antique interest-based networks, which enabled i...

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This article deals with the problem of interpreting the third book of the poem ‘Praises of God” (De Laudibus Dei) by the late antique Carthaginian poet Blossius Aemilius Dracontius. Since the poem is formally of theological character, researchers usually regard it as a Christian anti-pagan manifesto...

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The oeuvre of the late antique Latin author Magnus Felix Ennodius (473/4-521 CE) can provide some insights into several aspects of daily life. The focus of this paper is on medicine as belonging to science and on prayers, particularly intercessory prayers, as an element of faith. After a short intro...

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Evidence of archaeological textiles from antiquity, and in particular of luxury textiles, has long attracted the interest of researchers. Clothing in every historical period is among the clearest markers of prestige and social status. Unfortunately, we have very little published material from moder...

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The archaeological investigations carried out to the south-east of the forum of the Roman town of Baelo Claudia have uncovered a number of phases in the monumental sector indicating reform, abandonment and reoccupation between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The structures uncovered, along with numerous...

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This article examines the places where isolated gold coins have been found from the Suevic and Visigothic eras in the north-eastern part of Lusitania. The study reveals a pattern of heterogeneous power centres (civitates, high places, churches) where there is evidence of the presence of local aristo...

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The number of analyses of ancient and late-antiquity metal objects has been growing exponentially in recent years; of particular interest among these are coins, not only for the tradition of numismatic studies but especially for the information that these studies can provide on the origin of the met...

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The archaeological research carried out at Bolonia (Tarifa, Cádiz) from 1917 to 1921 and from 1964 to 1990 focused almost exclusively on the remains of the Hispano-Roman town. The investigations currently going on at the site have either resumed or continued that earlier research as in the case of t...

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The article considers the issue of genre nature of the poem “The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian” by Empress Eudocia, the wife of Emperor Theodosius II (V century). It is noted that this is the only survived example of the Greek life written by hexameter, which from the genre point of view can be considere...

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The archaeology of the ancient Slavs has advanced methodologically but remains divided between scholars who deny the Slavs’ migrations, and those linking material culture directly to ethnic identities. This paper seeks to bridge this divide by reassessing the theoretical framework for studying the a...

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The article focuses on the figure of an evil bishop in the “Lives of the Fathers of Merida” in the context of the image of a tyrant. The figures of the king and the bishop, on the one hand, and the tyrant and the bad bishop, on the other, are shown to be interconnected. The rhetoric associated with...

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In 2022–2023, a complete rescue archaeological excavation was carried out at the Late Antique fortified settlement (the late 4th–6th c. AD) discovered in 2021 near the modern-day town of Dimovo (Vidin Region, NW Bulgaria). A total of 14,045 fragments of animal remains representing 50 taxa were iden...

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The iconography of late antique Judaism became a research area in the second quarter of the 20th century. Before this time there was no such a large number of murals, mosaic pavements and other artworks available for examination. When scholars started considering monuments from late antique synagogu...

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The building we see today when we approach the monastery of Saint Pedro of Rocas reveals the modern architecture: the priory house. But this architecture "hides" another one that corresponds to the various construction phases carved in the rock, both in its worship, residential and funerar...

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In the context of the fruitful collaboration between PAThs, an ERC-funded project, and LAD, the Laboratory for Digital Archaeology at Sapienza University of Rome, an experimental attempt to link between them places being described by the Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature developed into a ro...

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The position of the Shkhelda valley glacier front (Elbrus region, 43.18N, 42.64 E) for the period from the 1880s to 2022 was reconstructed based on interpretation of aerial and satellite images and old maps. For the first time, the age of the Late Нolocene moraines was determined using cosmogenic is...

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Examples of use of school rhetoric techniques (common exercises, figures of thought, figures of speech, tropes) in the poem of Empress Eudocia (V century) “Martyrdom of St. Cyprian” are considered. It is taken into account that the ability to freely use this kind of techniques was the basis of the a...

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