With the apparent return of the historical epic movie – Braveheart, Gladiator, The Passion of Christ, Troy, King Arthur and several films of Alexander and Boudicca (Boadicea for those over 40), attention is again focused on the authenticity of the genre. Was it really like that? Is the costume and architecture true to life? And, most commonly asked by those who enjoyed Gladiator, was the grippi...

SOME ROMAN MEDICINE IT HAS long been recognized that in the Roman Empire great advances were made in medical knowledge, and that the best organized medical system in the ancient world was that of the Roman armed forces." Recent work has provided interesting examples of Roman medicine as used by the army. For some time it has been known that some of the medicines and medical preparations prescri...

A Roman dominating function on a graph G is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex u for which f(u) = 0 is adjacent to at least one vertex v for which f(v) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function is the value f(V (G)) =

Recent articles by ReVelle [20, 21] in the Johns Hopkins Magazines suggested a new variation of domination called Roman domination, see also [22] for an integer programming formulation of the problem. Since then, there have been several articles on Roman domination and its variations [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 23, 25]. Emperor Constantine had the requirement that an army or leg...

comment étudier les textes romanesques français si nombreux depuis la formation définitive de la langue française au xviie siècle? c'est la question à laquelle les critiques ont essayé de répondre. pourtant, de la critique traditionnelle à celle moderne, le chercheur est confronté à une diversité vertigineuse qui ne cesse de croître. suite à la nouvelle critique rassemblant les jeunes critiques...