More than four metres of core, covering almost 5000 years of deposition, were collected in a high ash minerogenic peat deposit located in the High Aldudes valley (Basque country), an area well known for its mineral abundance, exploited from Roman Times at least. Although minerogenic peatlands are not generally considered as the best archives to reconstruct past atmospheric metal deposition hist...

etant donné le rapport réciproque entre la société et la littérature, et vu la dominance extraordinaire du roman, à l'état actuel, sur les autres expressions littéraires, on ne peut s'empêcher de s'interroger sur la cause et l'origine de la primauté du genre romanesque. certes, le roman ne date pas du xixe siècle; il est l'un des héritages des siècles précédents. néanmoins, son déploiement est ...

Two Latin poets of late antiquity, Claudian and Sidonius Apollinaris, included in their verse panegyrics short descriptions diplomatic journey to Persia. The first mentioned the mission Stilicho himself “Panegyric on consulate Stilicho” (400 AD), whereas latter described Procopius, father honorand Anthemius” (468 AD). Since was many ways imitator Claudian, these pieces show a great deal similar...

Romulus and Remus in Veii
 Much has been written Classics about the relationship between early Rome Etruscans, from scholarly articles to secondary school textbooks. Inspired part by recent research archaeogenetics, this article argues for feasibility of an approach which sees its northern neighbours as political subsystems same cultural unit instead interacting separate entities. As examp...

Introduction In 1752 antiquity hunters were tunneling down into a large villa on a hill overlooking Herculaneum and the Bay of Naples when they made the discovery of manuscripts. This villa probably once belonged to the wealthy Roman aristocrat Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a well-known Roman politician, who was a patron of Epicurean philosophers. The villa was lost from history in A.D. 79...

Due to the presence of the lake Quarun and to the particular nature of its irrigation system, it has been speculated that the Fayum, a large depression 80 kilometers south-west of modern Cairo, was exposed to the hazards of malaria in historic times. Similarly, it has been speculated that, in the same area, also human tuberculosis might have been far more widespread in the antiquity than in its...

Abstract Some of the ancient manuscripts and versions Mark 15.15 add phrase ‘to them’ after verb ‘[Pilate] delivered [Jesus]’, suggesting that Pilate Jesus to Jewish crowd who subsequently crucified him. This textual variant was well-established in Syriac Ethiopic traditions while it remained marginal Greek, Latin, Coptic traditions. pattern suggests those translators readers gospels lived on E...

This study aims to explore the connection between religious and military spheres in Constantinian propaganda. The extensive use of propaganda notorious public discourse which involves dynamics power during Late Antiquity show how religion played a key role. principle reaches singular meaning case emperor Constantine I. To this extent, paper considers several kinds sources, include legal, litera...

connexion with the remainder of the book, and I cannot see what purpose it serves. Chapters two to five comprise the bulk of the book and are by far the best and the most rewarding of study. A good account is given of lead mining in the ancient world, of smelting and of cupellation, and there is also much information on the lead mines of antiquity and an excellent chapter on the production and ...