Religion in the Roman Empire
The role of religion in the foreign affairs of Sasanian Iran and the Later Roman Empire (330-630 A.D.)
... used religion as a highly effective propaganda weapon that could serve their universal ...the Roman Empire could assimilate Iran, in case the shah himself converted to ...Persian empire and, ...
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The impact of the Roman Empire on the cult of Asclepius
... 23 a contested term. However, it is generally taken to mean a grouping of territorial units which are in close geographical proximity to each other and which constitute a spatially cohesive and connected area. 20 The ...
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Yolanda of Flanders: Latin Woman Potentate of the Roman Empire
... Holy Roman Empire, which was then ruled by Emperor Frederick II of the House of ...the religion of most citizens of Constantinople, who be- longed to the Eastern Orthodox Church, Yolanda was a ...
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Thursday (dies Iovis) in the Later Roman Empire
... the Roman West as a purely astrological and astral- lore related concept (Rüpke 2011: ...Jewish religion, Tacitus states that some people assumed that the sabbatical rest was in honour of Saturn, because, ...
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Britons abroad : the mobility of Britons and the circulation of British-made objects in the Roman Empire
... The cornerstone of the ethnicity consists of individual associations influenced by dialectic social interactions, in turn based on shared ways of doing things; ‘shared’ is also a key word in diasporic communities. A ...
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Roman Religion in Germania Inferior: A case study of the temple of Empel
... how Roman religions functioned in the Roman ...that religion was used as a social lubricant, mainly to overcome cultural ...how Roman cults worked in Germania Inferior, because these studies ...
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Review Article: Ancient Galilee and the realities of the Roman Empire
... This review article summarises and delivers comment on Religion, ethnicity and identity in Ancient Galilee: A region in transition, edited by Jürgen Zangenberg, Harold W. Attridge and Dale B. Martin and published ...
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A tale of two periods. Change and continuity in the Roman Empire between 249 and 324
... a religion of greed, swell- ing and rising with violent emotions, to hold off harming the fortune of all through necessity rather than its own will, and since those whom extremes of poverty brought to an ...
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Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire. Mutual Recognition
... by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moder- ate price tickets to well-being in ...heaven. ...
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Religious Intolerance in the Later Roman Empire: The evidence of the Theodosian Code
... Constantine’s religious legislation on balance, appears to favour Christianity, but that did not necessarily entail favouritism to the detriment of paganism or Judaism and not at all to that of the municipal councils. ...
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Imperial legitimacy in the Roman Empire of the third century : AD 193 337
... As time passed the problems which confronted the empire on the frontiers pulled the emperors away from Rome and they rarely returned. For example, during Septimius' long rule he spent a great deal of time in Rome ...
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'The Return to the People’: Empire, class, and religion in Lady Gregory’s dramatic works
... ____, ‘Lady Gregory’s Abbey Theatre drama: Ireland real and ideal’, in Shaun Richards ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,[r] ...
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Woman as an object of medical knowledge in the Roman Empire, from Celsus to Galen
... of Roman medical discourse as a mode of the social constitution of the human being as an object of knowledge, and through her episodic emergence female humanity is constructed as a composite of difference and ...
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Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire
... unsociability which recur as tropes throughout key ancient texts, from Greek Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey through to Roman Virgil’s Aeneid, and on to Petronius’s Satyricon, a range of over nine centuries (from 800 ...
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Killing Julian: the Death of an Emperor and the Religious History of the Later Roman Empire
... It is odd that Libanius would wait more than a year after Julian’s death to write this speech—a belated eulogy praising the emperor’s character and deeds. But, if we believe Libanius that Julian’s successors persecuted ...
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The roots of early Christian imagery in the Roman Empire : archaeological and artistic evidence
... "pigeon houses" were found that consisted of niches, which were rectangular or rounded, with urns containing the ashes of the cremated dead. Usually, depending on the status of the deceased, a bust would be ...
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The articulation of Roman religion in the Latin historians Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus
... about Roman religion: in the light of the amount of consideration (whether virtually automatic or protracted and detailed) that went on, the conclusion that religion was focused on ‘rite’ to the ...
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Landscape of Languages - The position of provincial languages in the Roman Empire in the first three centuries AD
... under Roman domination the range of epigraphic types widened under influence of the Latin epigraphic ...under Roman rule offers an interesting example of an established language competing with a new and ...
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The Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire after 1648: Samuel Pufendorf's Assessment in his 'Monzambano'
... the Empire pledged that they would consider the treaty as signed and would not seek any ...the Empire, inserted for the future like other Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of the Empire, ...
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"Nationis Teutonicae" - the German Nation and the Holy Roman Empire through the eyes of an Italian humanist
... the Empire, the danger is he only helps his ...the Empire, generate a steady flow of cash into the Imperial ...the Empire see such powerful conduct by the Emperor, they will ‘submit like meek ...the ...
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