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Kretschme, Marek Thue. "Rewriting Roman history in the Middle Ages : the 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3 /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411011516.

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Clarke, Katherine Jane. "Between geography and history : Strabo's Roman world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361861.

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Gendy, Ibrahim Abs el Aziz. "Economic aspects of houses and housing in Roman Egypt in Roman Egypt." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284513.

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Phillipo, Mark William. "Romans overseas : Roman and Italian migrant communities in the Mediterranean world." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4508.

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In this thesis, I characterise the Roman republican diaspora in the western Mediterranean, on the basis of the various activities which prompted the migration of individuals from Italy. The intention of my discussion is to examine the connection between republican imperialism and the generally obscure individuals who were the actual participants in empire. This is partly a response to Brunt's Italian Manpower, in so far as Brunt's minimalist calculation of the population of the diaspora discouraged subsequent research on the subject. To accomplish this, I have relied principally on the available literary references as the foundation of a thematic analysis of the diaspora, considering migration of those in the military or associated with it, as well as those involved in various categories of commercial activity. The settlement of former soldiers was frequently connected with the re-organisation of overseas communities by Roman generals. Commercial activity was examined with reference to a general model for trade in the late republic, which emphasises the role of agents acting on behalf of wealthier individuals in Italy. I also considered more general characteristics of the diaspora. Firstly, I have proposed a maximum population for the diaspora at the end of the republic of 170,000. Secondly, I have proposed that communities of the diaspora were organising themselves into conventus by the 70s BC. Finally, I have suggested that the social and economic networks of the diaspora can be modelled in terms of a network of bilateral connections between communities, though with particularly strong connections to Rome.

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Burks, Andrew Mason. "Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1951.

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Rome's dependence upon slaves has been well established in terms of economics and general society. This paper, however, seeks to demonstrate this dependence, during the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire, through detailed examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include agriculture, industry, domestic life, the state, entertainment, intellectual life, military, religion, and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. Through this discussion, it becomes apparent that Roman society existed during this time as it did due to slavery. Rome depended upon slavery to function and maintain its political, social, and economic stranglehold on the Mediterranean area and beyond.

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Johnston, D. E. L. "Legal settlements and Roman society." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272537.

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Tougaw, Jason Daniel. "Strange cases : the medical case history and the British novel /." New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40175709b.

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Sharp, Michael L. "The food supply in Roman Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302695.

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Stevenson, Andrew John. "Aulus Gellius and Roman antiquarian writing." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1993. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/aulus-gellius-and-roman-antiquarian-writing(dde8a7ce-728c-4dce-bbb5-736f3269872a).html.

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Lynch, Pamela. "The people of Roman Britain : a study of Romano-British burials." University of Western Australia. School of Humanities, 2010. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2010.0101.

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This thesis utilises the evidence from mortuary archaeology to explore the identity of the inhabitants of Britain during the period of Roman rule. It assimilates burial evidence from diverse sources both published and unpublished and integrates it with other material and literary evidence to investigate the people of the province and examine aspects of their lives. By assessing the extent and reliability of the mortuary evidence and by combining this evidence from major cemeteries, smaller burial sites and individual or isolated burials it has been possible to determine aspects of their lives from a different perspective than that previously employed. The thesis has been divided into five parts. Part 1 (chapters 1 to 3) serves as an introduction. Part 2 (chapters 4 and 5) considers the evidence available while Part 3 (chapters 6 to 8) focuses on specific groups within the population. Part 4 (chapter 9) looks at instances of death and burial that differ from the norm and Part 5 (chapters 10-12) presents a picture of the daily life of these people. The study concludes with a summing up of the evidence and a look at the future of mortuary studies of Roman Britain. The introductory chapters set out the objectives of the dissertation, look at the work that has already been done in this area and evaluates the need for a synthesis of the available evidence. The scope of the project, both temporally and geographically is outlined in chapter 2. The third chapter takes a look at the contemporary written evidence available, in the form of literary and epigraphic contributions, and assesses its reliability as an indicator of the appearance and lives of the Romano-Britons. This survey looks not only at the Roman view of the natives of the province but extends beyond the Roman period to examine the literary evidence that is available from the subsequent centuries. Chapters 4 and 5 take an in-depth look at the evidence available on the people of Roman Britain. The extent of the burial evidence is reviewed in chapter 4 while chapter 5 deals specifically and in depth with how this evidence can be utilised. The skeletal evidence is assessed for its extent and reliability. Factors affecting the survival of the remains is appraised and the effects of the biases created by such differential survival considered. Grave-goods and the organisation of the cemeteries are brought into the evaluation and the strengths and weaknesses of all of the evidence evaluated. The following chapters (6 to 11) focus on discrete aspects of the population. Chapters 6 to 8 look at the representation of specific groups within the community - the young, the elderly and those who arrived from other parts of the empire. With the aim of providing an indication of the diversity of both the composition of the population, the communities they represent and the associated burial rites, chapter 9 examines some of the more distinctive burials from Britain during this period. An area of intense interest, decapitation burials provides the focal point of this chapter. What may appear to be more mundane aspects of the lives of these people occupy chapters 10 to 12. What kept them busy, their occupations and their pastimes is viewed from the perspective of the burial evidence in chapters 10 and 11, while chapter 12 examines the mortuary evidence, in the form of funerary art and the remains of clothing, hair and accessories for their appearance.

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Alston, Richard. "Soldier and society in Roman Egypt : a social history /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=169269.

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Alston, Richard. "Soldier and society in Roman Egypt a social history /." London ; New York : Routledge, 2003. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/librarytitles/Doc?id=10070809.

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Scott, P. "Qualities of leadership in Livy's history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376002.

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Bond, Helen Katharine. "Pontius Pilate in history and interpretation." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/967/.

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Bargel, Antoine 1983. "Jorge Semprun, le roman de l'histoire." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11145.

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xii, 261 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Jorge Semprun, survivor of Buchenwald, intends to "make testimony a space of creation". The formal inventiveness of the novel allows him to express the truth of his experience by creating a reflexive textual space in which the author is presented in the act of writing, and the reader is called to realize his/her active part in the constitution of narrative meanings. Author and reader thus collaborate on establishing the ethical relationship of testimony. My dissertation examines the formal characteristics of Semprun's novelistic representation of history to describe its relationship to political discourse in particular and to highlight the aesthetic autonomy of the novel, which defines the specificity of literature's approach to history. Semprun develops this aesthetic through multiple narrative innovations and a conception of narration as performance, where Saying is distinct from the Said (Levinas). This performative dimension of the narration is described in this work through a phenomenological notion of reading centered on the interpretative and imaginary activities brought into play by the reading subject. The contrast between narrative aesthetics and ideological discourse defines both Semprun's writing strategies and the function attributed to the reader in these texts. Becoming aware of the author's motivations and rhetorical processes, which explicitly multiply interpretative trajectories within the text, the reader realizes that the stakes of testimony reside in the act of reading, a reading that is engaged, participative, and perpetually renewed. By special agreement, this dissertation was co-directed by Professor Massimo Lollini of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and Professor Jean-Pierre Martin of Faculté des Lettres, Sciences du Langage et Arts of the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 (France), in partial fulfillment of doctoral degrees from both universities. This dissertation is written in French.
Committee in charge: Massimo Lollini, Chairperson, Romance Languages; Gina Herrmann, Member, Romance Languages; Francoise Calin, Member, Romance Languages; George Sheridan, Outside Member, History

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Ryan, Magnus Jerome. "The Libri Feudorum and the Roman law." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272260.

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Avidov, Avi. "Processes of marginalization in the Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273067.

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Spencer, Diana Jane. "The Roman Alexander : studies in Curtius Rufus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272923.

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Hopkins, Lloyd David Charles. "Fleets and manpower on land and sea : the Italian "classes" and the Roman Empire 31 BC - AD 193." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:29293574-956c-4cb9-b0fd-897dfcccb79f.

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This thesis re-evaluates the nature and roles of the Italian classes (fleets) of the Roman empire between 31 BC and AD 193. Studied through the prism of naval history, the classes have been portrayed either as ineffective forces left to decay, or maritime institutions supporting military logistics. By starting from the position that the classes cannot easily be compared to other fleets, I argue that they should be regarded as a flexible manpower pool, placed in the same broad category as other soldiers in the Roman empire, who were drawn upon to perform a range of tasks on land and sea to the benefit of the Emperor, and who were integrated into systems supporting the functioning of the empire, which I term imperial organics. Chapter One discusses primarily epigraphic evidence for the classis servicemen, to argue that they considered themselves and were considered as milites who were trained to row, and who could be given tasks suitable to their abilities and places of deployment. Chapter Two, building on earlier discussion of the origins of the servicemen, examines second century AD papyrological evidence for recruitment from the Egpytian Fayoum. It posits recruitment systems which relied on several elements outside the control of Roman authorities, but which nonetheless ensured that the Italian classes were a well supplied manpower pool, perhaps because they did not rely on the so-called gens de mer. Chapter Three re-examines the main “naval bases” of the classes at Misenum and Ravenna, arguing that rather than purely military ports they should be understood as sites concentrating imperial resources to aid imperial activity in regions where concentrations of imperial property are attested. Drawing on arguments in the previous chapters, Chapter Four considers three case-studies for the functions of the Italian classes: their role in Roman military mobilisation and redeployment systems, their involvement in imperial communications, and their possible place in a coastal system on the western coast of Italy suggestive of imperial authority and benefaction. In all three it seeks to present evidence for imperial organics, low-level systems, possibly engendered by imperial activity, but which could persist of their own accord and which were essential to the workings of empire.

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Leslie, Alan F. "Roman temporary camps in Britain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/789/.

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The thesis draws together for the first time in print a comprehensive list of Roman temporary camps in Britain, drawn from published and archival sources. This material is presented as a corpus at the end of the volume. Following the introductory chapter, which outlines the scope of the work, the history of the development of study into the subject is reviewed in detail, examining the contributions made by both terrestrial and aerial archaeologists. Thereafter the evidence provided by the classical sources is examined and an attempt is made to trace the origins and subsequent development of the Roman military camp. The issue of definition forms the subject of the next section and it is argued that greater clarity than exists at present is required to allow these sites to be adequately addressed. This leads to a statement of the current state of knowledge in the subject, with a review of the central themes and arguments, and it is proposed that the role of terrestrial archaeology, and in particular excavation, has become unfairly undervalued. To support this contention a close study of the evidence provided by excavation is undertaken, leading to a call for renewed efforts through this medium, as a means of both supplementing and complementing the information obtained through the medium of aerial reconnaissance. Three case studies are then presented, utilising the methodological approaches championed in the preceding chapter. The thesis culminates in a critique of the existing knowledge base which concludes that while healthy, the subject is capable of significant advances of knowledge, some of which may best be achieved by recourse to a more balanced approach using all applications available to the discipline.

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Coello, Terence Arnold. "Unit sizes in the late Roman army." Thesis, n.p, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Bölling, Gordon. "History in the making Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman." Heidelberg Winter, 2004. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2832122&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Bölling, Gordon. "History in the making : Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman /." Heidelberg : Winter, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2832122&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Marzano, Annalisa. "Roman villas in central Italy : a social and economic history /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41126889f.

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Vessey, J. Mark. "Ideas of Christian writing in late Roman Gaul." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d95d3d1f-c9b9-41bd-96e0-b0a123a2b781.

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The Christianization of the educated Ã©lite of Roman society in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. entailed a number of important changes in attitudes towards the written word. In particular, ideas concerning literary authorship and the use of texts developed at that time were to exercise a profound influence on subsequent European culture. This thesis is a survey of three major areas of emergent Christian literary ideology, based on close analysis of Gallic sources for the period c.350-500. Chapter One: The Christian writer as student of the Bible. The idea of a necessary relation between Christian 'sermo' and biblical 'lectio' is pursued through the works of Hilary of Poitiers and the Priscillianists, the Gallic correspondence of Jerome, and the ascetic propaganda associated with the monastic milieux of LÃ©rins, Aries and Marseille. Chapter Two: The Christian writer as 'editor' of the Fathers. The idea that the primary duty of the Christian intellectual was to ensure safe transmission of the doctrinal (and literary) legacy of his most esteemed predecessors is explored with reference to the writings of Prosper of Aquitaine, Cassian of Marseille and Vincent of LÃ©rins. Chapter Three: The Christian writer as creed-maker. The idea that Christian literary activity might culminate in the perfection of a text composed 'in modum symboli' is traced from the time of Hilary to that of Gennadius of Marseille. In each of these areas (it is argued) may be discerned a progressive realisation of written resources, involving the establishment of clear principles for a Christian use of texts. In Gaul, this process was closely related to the development of monastic ideas and institutions.

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Fynes, Roland Charles Clinton. "Cultural transmission between Roman Egypt and western India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315847.

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Kelly, Christopher Mark. "Corruption and bureaucracy in the later Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272248.

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Edwards, Catharine. "Transgression and control : studies in ancient Roman immorality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272621.

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Fai, Stephen. "Bodytemple metaphor: Early Christian reconciliation with Roman architecture." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29329.

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The history of early Christian architecture has been presented as a gradual, typological transformation from undifferentiated residential buildings in the first two centuries, to modified residential buildings in the third, culminating in the monumental Constantinian structures of the fourth century. To rationalize this transformation, a great deal of scholarship has focused on identifying formal, cultural, and programmatic characteristics that might link the domus to the basilica. However, along held view is that the basilica, along with all monumental church architecture, is a Roman deviation in the evolution of Christianity. To support this argument, proponents read NT passages like the body/temple metaphor of 1 Cor. 3.16-17 and John 2.19-22 as indicative of a Christian rejection of Roman and Jewish material culture. These contrary aspects of early Christianity, the construction of monumental churches and the tacit rebuke of Roman architecture in Christian texts, have been characterized by Paul Corby Finney as iconic and aniconic. In an effort to better understand early Christian architecture, recent studies employ models from cultural theory and sociology to reveal the broader context of church building, demonstrating similar patterns of architectural development among other cultural groups living within the Empire. Richard Krautheimer and L. Michael White are foremost in this field and they have provided a solid foundation for re-evaluating the evidence. While these seminal archaeological and architectural studies have provided us with a chronology of formal and programmatic developments for the beginnings of Christian architecture, they have done little to help us understand how early Christians came to reconcile the conflicting ontological demands of being the temple in Christ (NT) with building the temple for Christ (Constantine). In this dissertation, I argue that a reconciliation between NT body/temple metaphor and Imperial Architecture, between the aniconic and iconic characteristics of Christianity, is achieved, in part, through a shift in the tenor of the metaphor that occurs through the second, third, and fourth centuries. The trajectory of this shift is traced from sources in the Gospels and Epistles through the Epistle of Barnabas, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to the panegyric written by Eusebius for the commemoration of Paulinus' church at Tyre in 317. I conclude that the metaphorical vehicle of the body/temple, first used rhetorically to unify and segregate the Christian community, has a hermeneutic function that reveals an architectural model in Christ Logos.

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Tees, Eunice A. "South-west Scotland in Roman times : settlement and communications." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63871.

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Woodring, Kimberly D. "Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1158.

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The effects of Romanization were believed to be devastating to the cultures conquered by Rome, but Britain was an exception. The Romanization of Britain began through trade with the continent long before the invasion by Claudius. But the natives of Britain did not accept the Roman culture as completely as other conquests by Rome. R. G. Collingwood did not believe that the Romans dominated the Celtic culture. What he observed in the inscriptions and archaeology of Britain was a conflation of both cultures. Roman Britain was a unique combination of Celtic and Roman culture that was achieved through mutual acceptance and practice of both cultures’ values. The examination of two of those values, religious and mortuary practices, can help reveal the extent of Romanization in Britain and finally confirm Collingwood’s theory of Romanization.

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Teitelbaum, Dina. "The Jewish ossuary phenomenon: Cultural receptivity in Roman Palestine." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29265.

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The discovery of Jewish ossuaries in the nineteenth century raised a host of questions, paramount among them the questions of the origin and purpose of the ossuaries. It was also realized that ossuaries were a short lived phenomenon, appearing and disappearing relatively suddenly. A number of theories were proposed: The ossuaries were thought to have to do either with transport or space-saving, protection, martyrdom, resurrection, atonement, individuation, or Roman convention. All of these theories focused on Judea as the origin of the phenomenon. However, no one theory was satisfactory in itself. The dissertation presents a fresh examination of all available evidence in the light of ancient Jewish burial customs from the First Temple period to the Hellenistic and Roman times, using the approaches of archaeology, anthropology, and socio-rhetorical analysis. It concludes that foreign influence triggered the adoption of the ossuary in Judea during the Herodian period and that Judeans adopted the Greco-Roman ash chest as a model, modifying an aniconic version for use with bones alone. A comparison of the Jewish ossuary with the Greco-Roman ash urn reveals parallels and striking similarities in terms of ritual, material culture, terminology, manufacture and time lines. In particular, the temporal distribution of ossuaries and ash chests points to a general diffusion of the concept throughout the Empire over a long period of time, with ossuaries appearing relatively late in Judea. Using the innovation-diffusion theory of Roberts, the dissertation argues that, once implanted, the idea of ossuaries, in conjunction with ossilegium, spread rapidly throughout Judea, each special interest group or individual adopting it for their own unique reasons. Ultimately it became a fashionable secondary burial instrument. The disappearance of the Judean ossuary can be explained in terms of the adoption of the subsequent fashion in the Roman Empire to bury the dead in coffins or sarcophagi. In conclusion, it has been shown in the dissertation that Jews of the Second Temple Period were attracted to, adopted, re-invented and reconfigured a foreign convention in such a way that it became consistent with their Torah laws and their beliefs.

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Truter, Elsie. "Plague in the Graeco-Roman world, 430 B.C.-A.D. 600." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17682.

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Bibliography: pages 115-125.
This dissertation concerns itself with the study of epidemics between 430 B.C. - A.D. 600, in an attempt to find positive evidence for the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world. Most major studies on the Black Death have concerned themselves with the great pandemics of the Middle Ages and none (to my knowledge), have systematically examined the ancient records for earlier evidence of the disease. The time period chosen for this study, from the Athenian Plague to the Plague of Justinian, contains some relatively well documented epidemics, which has made it possible, in some cases, to identify the disease. Plague is a complicated disease, dependent on numerous factors for its successful spread, but few historians have considered this. The word 'plague' was loosely used in ancient texts to denote any epidemic disease with a high mortality rate and not a specific microbial infection. Most historians however translate 'plague' as bubonic plague and make no attempt at a medical analysis of the symptoms given by a particular author. The point of this dissertation is to examine the ancient epidemics from a medical as well as a historical angle. Our evidence for the existence of epidemic diseases comes from a variety of sources, and these are examined. Sculptures and frescoes show numerous chronic and acute disorders. Human remains have shown evidence of certain diseases, while animal and parasitic remains have helped to confirm the existence of certain species instrumental in the spread of a specific disease. However, written texts are the most reliable source for obtaining a detailed account of the symptoms and accurate interpretation of these texts is therefore important. To achieve this, the symptoms mentioned by an ancient author are compared and contrasted, through the use of tables, with the symptoms of some of the known infectious diseases of today. This dissertation will show that epidemics which were previously labelled plague could either not be identified as such, or were misdiagnosed. Evidence does point to the existence of bubonic plague in the ancient world, but it never reached epidemic proportions until A.D. 600.

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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Review of John of Salisbury and the Medieval Roman Renaissance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5456.

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White, Natalie Catherine Christina. "Catering for the cultural identities of the deceased in late pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Britain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609832.

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Blockley, Jason. "The Colonate in Africa: a Legal & Economic History of Coloni in Late Antique Africa." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25074.

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Roman Africa was a grouping of eminently wealthy and populous provinces. Across Africa wealthy and middling landowners turned over their land to coloni – tenant farmers. These coloni, in conjunction with the regular freeholding plebeii farmers, generated immense agricultural wealth. Africa, Rome, and the empire prospered on the back of this wealth. In Late Antiquity the enigmatic and hotly debated colonate appeared. The colonate has been an integral aspect of Late Antique Roman historiography for centuries. Fundamentally, the different theories describe a variety of processes wherein legislative, fiscal, and seigneurial pressures gradually reduced the status of coloni from free citizens to something resembling slaves or medieval serfs. Far from assigning coloni to a proto-feudal status, the colonate in Africa appears pragmatic and conservative. This thesis contributes to the ongoing reconsideration of the colonate as a historiographical concept by providing a sustained legal analysis focusing on the region of Roman Africa. Chiefly, the legal analysis accounts for fundamental flaws with colonate models that exaggerate the universalism of Late Roman law and the ability of the imperial state to enforce said law. Moreover, the traditional colonate model does not consider regional circumstances, which are crucial. At an empire-wide level coloni were subject to general, but not inflexible, rules regarding compulsory and hereditary professions. In Africa, imperial legal interventions were primarily directed at alleviating fiscal and administrative impediments to coloni cultivation and generally safeguarding an ancient and successful system.

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Hawtree, Laura Joy. "Wild animals in Roman epic." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3469.

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Roman epic authors extended, reinvented and created new wild animal representations that stood apart from traditional Greek epic renderings. The treatment of wild animals in seven Roman epics (Virgil’s Aeneid, Lucan’s Civil War, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Statius’ Thebaid and Achilleid, Valerius’ Argonautica and Silius’ Punica) forms the basis of this thesis, but the extensive study of other relevant works such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Apollonius’ Argonautica allows greater insight into traditional Greek renderings and throws Roman developments into starker contrast. Initial stages of research involved collection and detailed examination of almost 900 epic references to wild animals. The findings from this preliminary research were analysed in the context of Pliny’s Natural History, Aristotle’s Historia Animalium, and other ancient works that reveal the Greeks’ and Romans’ views of wild animals. The accumulation of such a range of evidence made it possible for patterns of development to become evident. This thesis focuses on the epic representation of animals and considers a number of questions: 1) How Roman epic authors represented animals’ emotions and employed creatures’ thought processes. 2) How Roman epic authors examined the difference between wild and tame animals and manipulated the differences and similarities between humans and animals and culture and nature. 3) How wild animals were aligned with scientific and cultural beliefs that were particular to Roman society. 4) How animals were employed to signify foreign countries and how some epic animals came to be symbolic of nations. 5) How Roman epic authors represented particular aspects of animal behaviours with fresh insight, sometimes ignoring traditional representations and historiographic sources.

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Kleinman, Brahm. "Ambitus in the Late Roman Republic (80-50 B.C.)." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107806.

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This study provides an analysis of the electoral practice of ambitus, usually translated as electoral bribery, during the last generation of the Roman Republic (80-50 B.C.). It offers a broader definition of ambitus as "an exaggeration of traditional electoral practices" and argues that it should not be considered a form of corruption in the context of late Republican politics. Ambitus had several important symbolic and practical functions that made it an indispensable part of canvassing, but was not primarily a method for candidates to obtain the votes of poorer citizens. Opposition to ambitus, whether in the form of legislation, prosecutions or invective, did not stem from moral outrage but from practical concerns and the specific political goals of individual aristocrats. Senators hoped to use legislation and prosecutions against ambitus to advance their own careers. At the same time, aristocratic competition had intensified due to the constitutional reforms enacted during Sulla's dictatorship. It was recognized that ever increasing expenditure was necessary to win elections. The political elite thus considered the rising scale of ambitus to be a destabilizing factor in late Republican politics and attempted to regulate it.
Cette étude offre une analyse de la pratique électorale d'ambitus, traduit habituellement comme corruption électorale, au cours de la dernière génération de la république Romaine (80-50 avant J.-C.). L'auteur offre une définition plus large d'ambitus comme étant « une exagération des pratiques électorales traditionnelles » et affirme que cela ne devrait pas être considéré une forme de corruption dans le contexte de l'apogée de la politique républicaine. L'ambitus servait plusieurs importantes fonctions symboliques et pragmatiques qui en faisaient une partie indispensable du démarchage électoral. Néanmoins, ce n'était pas principalement une méthode d'obtention, pour les candidats, des votes des citoyens les plus pauvres. L'opposition à ambitus, que ce soit sous la forme de lois, de poursuites ou d'invective, ne parvenait pas d'une indignation morale de la population, mais plutôt des préoccupations et des objectifs politiques de certains aristocrates. Ces sénateurs espéraient approprier l'effort contre l'ambitus pour avancer leurs propres carrières. En même temps, alors que la compétition entre aristocrates s'intensifiait en raison des réformes constitutionnelles de la dictature de Sulla, il a été reconnu que ces dépenses, devenus de plus en plus nécessaires pour effectuer l'ambitus et gagner les élections, étaient une force de déstabilisation dans la politique républicaine. Les élites politiques donc essayaient de le réglementer.

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McPherson, Catherine. "The First Illyrian War: A study in Roman Imperialism." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107788.

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This paper presents a detailed case study in early Roman imperialism in the Greek East: the First Illyrian War (229/8 B.C.), Rome's first military engagement across the Adriatic. It places Roman decision-making and action within its proper context by emphasizing the role that Greek polities and Illyrian tribes played in both the outbreak and conclusion of the war. It argues that the primary motivation behind the Roman decision to declare war against the Ardiaei in 229 was to secure the very profitable trade routes linking Brundisium to the eastern shore of the Adriatic. It was in fact the failure of the major Greek powers to limit Ardiaean piracy that led directly to Roman intervention. In the earliest phase of trans-Adriatic engagement Rome was essentially uninterested in expansion or establishing a formal hegemony in the Greek East and maintained only very loose ties to the polities of the eastern Adriatic coast. However, Rome did exercise a certain influence in the decision-making processes of these polities in the decades following the war. Nonetheless, the absence of a Roman presence in the region following the war led directly to further intervention in the region a decade later.
Ce mémoire se veut être une étude de cas approfondie de l'impérialisme romain naissant dans l'Orient grec : le cas de la Première Guerre illyrienne (229/8 av. J.C.), la première entreprise militaire romaine de l'autre côté de l'Adriatique. L'approche choisie situe le processus décisionnel et les actions de Rome dans leur contexte propre en insistant sur le rôle que les communautés grecques et illyriennes eurent à jouer à la fois dans le déclenchement et dans la conclusion de la guerre. Cette étude soutient que la déclaration de guerre de Rome contre les Vardéens en 229 fut principalement motivée par le désir de s'assurer le contrôle des lucratives routes de commerce reliant Brundisium à la côte orientale de l'Adriatique. Ce fut en fait l'incapacité des principales puissances grecques à mettre un frein à la piraterie vardéenne qui mena directement à l'intervention romaine. Rome ne montra d'abord que peu d'intérêt envers une expansion ou l'établissement d'une quelconque hégémonie dans l'Orient grec. Elle ne maintint que de vagues relations avec les communautés de la côte est de l'Adriatique. Rome exerça cependant une certaine influence sur le processus de décision de ces communautés au cours des décennies qui suivirent la guerre. Malgré cela, c'était en effet l'absence des romains dans cette région qui mena directement à l'intervention romaine dans la région dix ans plus tard.

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Salazar, Christine F. "The treatment of war wounds in Graeco-Roman antiquity." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272512.

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Sullivan, Vanessa. "Increasing Fertility in the Roman Late Republic and Early Empire." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03272009-111414/.

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During the late Republic and early Empire, many Roman citizens emphasized their personal fertility and were concerned with increasing the citizen birthrate. The continuation of individual families, as well as the security of the Roman state and economy relied upon the existence of a stable population. Literary, medical, documentary and legal sources show a variety of political and social means that were employed by men and women of all classes to promote fertility. These means included legislation as well as an emphasis on the non-use of abortion. Medicine also played a role in increasing conception rates, through the involvement of physicians and reliance upon folk medicine. This research shows the critical importance of motherhood to Roman society during this period, and raises questions about the impact that the desire for fertility had upon Roman society.

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Wilkinson, Ryan. "Private Armies and Personal Power in the Late Roman Empire." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193239.

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This thesis' case studies examine the critical roles played by personal power and private armies in the late Roman empire. Chapter 1 examines alleged military corruption in fourth-century C.E. north Africa, arguing that the imperial government's power under the Dominate was diffused among competing interest groups within Roman society, whose interests were not always conducive to the security of the empire as a whole. Chapter 2 argues that bandit-ridden Isauria in Asia Minor was apparently successfully integrated into the imperial system, yet relied heavily on local personal power to control its violence-prone population. Chapter 3 argues that Roman pursuit of private or factional power sealed Rome's loss of the Gallic provinces in the fifth century. Together, these three case studies argue that the later Roman empire was significantly influenced by internal divisions and private power, which were just as important as foreign, 'barbarian' influences in determining the empire's fate.

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Yirga, Felege-Selam Solomon. "The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Historical Writing in Post-Roman Egypt." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594681955418996.

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Greenlees-Zollschan, Linda, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "A study in Roman-Maccabaean relations." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20060712.140501.

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Pereira, Maria do Céu de Melo Esteves. "Adolescents' tacit substantive understandings of history : making sense of Roman slavery." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020346/.

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Bellomo, M. "IMPERIALISMO E ISTITUZIONI POLITICO-MILITARI A ROMA NELL'ETÀ DELLE PRIME DUE GUERRE PUNICHE (264-201 A.C.)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/283460.

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The work starts from Polybius’ point about 202 B.C. being the moment when world-conquest became practical for Rome, and then analyze how the conflict with Carthage (i.e. 264 B.C. onwards) was fundamental in transforming the Roman State in various ways to reach this point. A particular emphasis is given to the institutional element, in order to take into account and unite in one place all those developments that took place both prior to and during the Hannibalic War (prorogation, institutional expansion, step-changes in military deployment, increasing flexibility, etc.) that clearly affected Rome’s expansionist policy. The goal of the work is to show that what really changed in 201 B.C. was not the “ambition to rule” in a general sense – as that was always present in Roman society – but the capability by the Romans to fulfil their ambitions, and that this awareness was reached thanks to the new military and political institutions developed especially during the Hannibalic war.

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Mallan, Christopher Thomas. "A historical and historiographical commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History book 57.1-17.8." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6ed64b29-f881-4de2-a647-6212cf0dc7c0.

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This thesis is a historical and historiographical commentary on Book 57 (Chs. 1-17.8) of Cassius Dio's Roman History. It comprises two sections, an Introduction followed by the Commentary itself. The introduction is sub-divided into three chapters. The first of these introductory chapters (The Roman Historian at Work) presents a discussion of the historical material available for Dio's Tiberian narrative, and a discussion of the factors which were instrumental in Dio's writing and shaping his narrative of the reign of Tiberius. The second chapter (Dio on Tiberius) is an analysis of Dio's portrayal of Tiberius and of the historian’s understanding of Tiberius in the historical context of the early Principate. These chapters are followed by some brief Notes on the Text of Book 57, which considers the manuscript tradition of Book 57, and comments on portrayal of the reign of Tiberius in the Dionian tradition, and in particular the Excerpta Constantiniana, Xiphilinus, and Zonaras. The second part of the thesis, the commentary, presents an analysis of Dio's narrative from both historical and historiographical perspectives.

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FitzGerald, John Edward. "Conflict and culture in Irish-Newfoundland Roman Catholicism, 1829-1850." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26117.pdf.

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Adams, C. E. P. "Aspects of transport in Roman Egypt 30 BC - AD 300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339825.

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Jones, Christopher P. "Women in law and Christianity in the later Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325081.

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