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After Sulla: study in the settlement and material culture of the Piraeus peninsula in the Roman and Late Roman period
No full textModem text-based and ancient historical accounts take the sack of Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, by the Romans under Sulla in 86 ВС as the terminal point of the history of the area in antiquity. Archaeological work on the town has tended so far to regard the post-Classical phases of the settlement as less interesting than those marking the 'heyday' of the port in the Classical period. This thesis explores the nature and scale of settlement in the area in the centuries spanning the town's destruction by the Romans in 86 ВС and the Late Roman period. The study is based on a re-assessment of archaeological data from old and recent rescue excavations in the modem town up to 1997. It also presents and discusses in detail the results of post-excavation work by the author on unpublished material from an extensive site excavated in the early 1980s, These results are compared to and synthesized with epigraphic and other testimonies to answer questions about the nature of settlement and the degree of social and cultural change in the area during the period in focus. The discussion focuses in particular on; 1) exploring continuity and change in the settlement patterns, demography and topography of the town, 2) the changing nature of domestic space and its organization, and 3) investigating patterns of pottery consumption and trade. These issues are examined in the context of the social, economic and cultural changes documented for the Roman imperial and Late Roman period by previous archaeological fieldwork and excavations in the region of southern Greece and the Aegean
A re-examination of the evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain
No full textThis Thesis examines the underlying evidence for parade-grounds at auxiliary forts in Roman Britain. Firstly by examining the evidence supporting forts with actual physical remains, such as the altars and the tribunal at Maryport and the artificially levelled area at Hardknott, and those with flagged areas which have been interpreted as parade-grounds, such as Ambleside and Gelligaer. The literary evidence of ancient authors is examined with particular reference to training and exercising and where this might have been undertaken. The occasions when a parade might have been appropriate in Roman times are examined, as is the possibility of a modem concept being superimposed on an ancient action
New External Calibration Curves (ECCs) for the Estimation of Molecular Weights in Various Common NMR Solvents
No full textNew external calibration curves (ECCs) for the estimation of aggregation states of small molecules in solution by DOSY NMR spectroscopy for a range of different common NMR solvents ([D-6]DMSO, C6D12, C6D6, CDCl3, and CD2Cl2) are introduced and applied. ECCs are of avail to estimate molecular weights (MWs) from diffusion coefficients of previously unknown aggregates. This enables a straightforward and elaborate examination of (de)aggregation phenomena in solution.DNRF [DNRF93
Emmurée : étude du roman Malina, d'Ingeborg Bachmann
No full textCe mémoire s’intéresse au roman Malina, d’Ingeborg Bachmann, publié en Allemagne en 1971, puis en France en 1973, dans une traduction de Phillippe Jaccottet et Claire de Oliveira . L’objectif principal de ma recherche est de réfléchir à la façon dont un personnage féminin – en l’occurrence la narratrice du roman Malina – peut (sur)vivre dans la société patriarcale qui est la sienne. Ma réflexion se déploie en trois chapitres précédés d’un interlude préparatoire. Le premier chapitre s’attache aux liens entre l’espace et l’affirmation de la subjectivité de la narratrice. Le deuxième chapitre considère la relation très violente entre la narratrice et son père. Cette partie est consacrée à l’examen du corps et à la perspective de sa fin sachant que la narratrice rêve souvent que son père la contraint ou la tue. Le troisième et dernier chapitre du mémoire étudie la proximité du silence et de la folie dans le roman en entier. Dès le début du roman, le désir de nommer la violence qu’elle subit est au cœur des préoccupations de la narratrice. Elle prétend à plusieurs reprises qu’elle devient folle et qu’elle est constamment empêchée de parler par les hommes qu’elle côtoie. Le lien entre folie et langage définit à son tour la subjectivité de la narratrice.
Si les trois chapitres du mémoire interrogent différents aspects de la vie de la narratrice, ils tendent tous vers une même question qui guidera ma recherche : comment la narratrice en arrive-t-elle à cesser de vivre
Afirmatywna negacja. O filozofii języka w liryce Ingeborg Bachmann
No full textNegacja jest konstruktywnym elementem liryki Bachmann. Określenie afirmatywna negacja nie jest tutaj efektownym oksymoronem, lecz nazwą zabiegu twórczego,
jaki stosuje autorka Maliny w obliczu faktu, że „język nie zawiera ani jednego wy razu, o który naprawdę chodzi". Bachmann ucieka się do dynamicznego
ujęcia znaczenia: jest ono każdorazowo zawarte między danym wyrażeniem a jego
negacją. Odpowiada temu swoista budowa wiersza.Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej naukę
Re-Thinking Ritual Traditions: Interpreting Structured Deposition in Watery Contexts in Late Pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Britain
No full textThis investigation seeks to define the strands of continuity and change in structured deposition across the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age to Early Roman transition in Britain, and interpret their significance in terms of cultural interaction. These interpretations not only examine and re-think structured deposition in relation to ritual traditions, but also explore how the continuity of such traditions was impacted by the transition between these two periods. Metalwork is a central focus but a wide range of other finds are also considered in order to take a holistic perspective on deposition. Watery deposits were an obvious starting point but comparisons with dry context deposits were necessary to provide a more complete understanding of these practices. The data were gathered from a number of individual sites throughout two contrasting case study zones defined by major waterways and labelled as such: the Severn-Thames Axis in the south and the Solway-Forth Axis in the north of Britain. Through the use of site reports as the main source of data, the analysis took a two-tiered approach. Individual episodes of structured deposition were examined and interpreted on a site-by-site basis. This then led to investigations on a broader scale by examining changes in the continuity of practices in the type of finds deposited, the contexts into which deposition took place and pre-deposition practices, such as deliberate breakage to determine patterns of deposition across the case study zones as a whole. With this comparative analysis it can be concluded that watery contexts were not a unique locus of structured deposition, and indeed that this practice is highly diverse across the zones studied. The tempora
Ingeborg Bachmann e l'Italia
No full textIn the exhaustive search for a language able to express the most profound reality, one may be likened to a ‘nomad’ in search of a home. Bachmann shares with other 20 th c. Austrian writers the plight of an emigrant in search of a country, for the Glorious Austria had long since passed, and that which remained suffered from a constant identity crisis.
My study focuses on the significance and influence that Italy had on the writer’s work. Specifically, I’ll examine her Was ich in Rom sah und hörte, an essay that describes Rome shorn of its conventional associations, and then reconstructed in the light of new associations that conform to Bachmann’s personal outlook. This poet’s Italy ranges far beyond the cliché traditionally used to describe it. Instead, the complexity of her characterization is revealed in two ways: spirituality in poetry and utopia in her Roman essays.
Bachmann uses these forms to express herself. On the one hand, she believed that an author was limited in their ability to speak and, thus, write about a foreign country. Yet, as a foreigner bound sentimentally to her host country, she formed part of a dynamic that eluded precise definition
The Empire, the Land, and the Exodus: A Study of How the Roman Empire Literally Shaped Christianity: 1 C.E. - 280 C.E.
No full textThis paper explores the factors and trends involved in the movement of Christian communities from Palestine into Asia Minor and regions west of the Aegean Sea. Because the first generation of Christians generally continued to identify themselves as Jewish, this paper looks into the factors that affected the Jewish community with the perspective that a large portion of the early Christians were still members of the Jewish community. Roman land control policies, taxation, and continuous loss and division of land all but pushed many Jews out of the region while the peace of Augustus led many more to depart more voluntarily. It was the culmination of all these factors that led to Jewish emigration from the Palestinian region. The paper will begin with a brief history of the birth of Christianity and the Jewish-Roman relationship in Palestine, followed by a discussion of factors that led to emigration from Palestine, and then end with an analysis of the locations of the Christian communities
Beyond the Foreigner: representations of non-roman individuals and communities in latin historiography, from Sallust to Ammianus Marcellinus
No full textFrom the foundation of the city of Rome in 753 BCE to the capture of the same in 476 CE, the ancient Romans came into contact with a diverse range of peoples. The Romans did not want only to conquer these peoples and incorporate them into the empire, but also they displayed a genuine interest in learning about foreigners. Roman historical narrative demonstrates clearly this prevailing curiosity. This thesis examines the representations of foreign individuals and communities in five works: SaUust, helium lugurthinum; Livy, Ab Vrhe Condita 21-30; Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, Historiae Philippicae 11-12; Tacitus, Germania; Ammianus MarcelHnus, Res Gestae 23.6. These authors represent a broad range of types of history writing (monograph, AUG history, universal history), and they span most of die history of Rome as an empire (40s BCE to the late 300s CE). Moreover, these works represent a diverse range of geographic locations in that they include the three major parts of the world as understood by the Romans: Africa, Europe and Asia. Finally, they cover—or they exist within the context of—the full range of the Roman-Foreign experience: victory (Numidia, Carthage), defeat (Persia), and non- result (Germani).This thesis demonstrates that Roman historians employ a diverse range of presentations of non-Roman individuals and communities. Roman historians appear not to have been constrained by a narrow set of rules when it comes to writing non- Romans; rather, each author can be seen to be engaging in a wider Roman discourse on the foreigner. And this discourse extends beyond the Roman world and Roman historical writing: the historians of Rome can be seen as building upon, and responding to, the so-called father of history, Herodotus, whose own narrative established firmly that exploration of the foreigner is an important part of historical inquiry. Close analysis clearly demonstrates each presentation of a non-Roman character or community to be an intricate and fascinating construction, and understanding how the foreigner is conceptualised in the work is of critical importance. On the one hand, the presentation of foreigners fits into the historian’s overarching aims and objectives in his work; on the other hand, the representation of foreigners can dictate the ways in which the Roman history is narrated. Non-Romans both fit into and they provide direction for, Roman historical narrative. By studying the complexities of the presentation of non-Romans, therefore, this thesis enhances our understanding of the sophistication of Roman historical writing. Despite the continuing acknowledgement of the important role ethnography plays in writings of Herodotus and his Greek and Roman successors and imitators, there has not so far been a genre-wide detailed study of the ethnography in Greek or Roman historiography. This thesis, therefore, seeks to rectify partially this omission on the part of scholarship, and establish a foundation for future study of the non-Roman in Latin literature and Roman culture
Epitome of Roman history [electronic resource] /
No full textFlorus (second century CE) wrote, in brief pointed rhetorical style, a two-book summary of Roman history (especially military) in order to show the greatness and decline of Roman morals. Based chiefly on Livy and perhaps planned to reach Florus' own times, the extant work ends with Augustus's reign (30 BCE-14 CE).First published (with Cornelius Nepos) 1929; this separate edition 1984.Includes bibliography and index.Florus (second century CE) wrote, in brief pointed rhetorical style, a two-book summary of Roman history (especially military) in order to show the greatness and decline of Roman morals. Based chiefly on Livy and perhaps planned to reach Florus' own times, the extant work ends with Augustus's reign (30 BCE-14 CE).Mode of access: World Wide Web.Description based on print version record
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