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Andress, Laurie Ellen.
Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus.
Degree: 2010, California State University, Long Beach
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► In A.D. 69, the Roman Empire was faced with a civil war due to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. With the help of…
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▼ In A.D. 69, the Roman Empire was faced with a civil war due to the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. With the help of the Flavian amid and his son Titus, Vespasian defeated the armies of the new emperor Vitellius and officially started the Flavian dynasty. By utilizing ancient and modern sources, one can see that Vespasian and Titus had an interdependent relationship that was based on Vespasian's seniority and Titus' ambition. The Flavian <i> amici</i> supported both men and helped propel the Flavians to success by aiding both their careers and military endeavors during the civil war. By studying Vespasian's and Titus' upbringing, early careers, their experiences during the civil war, and the first years of Vespasian's reign, it is clear that the Flavian dynasty depended on the support of their political allies and a carefully developed image of a stable dynasty.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Ancient
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Andress, L. E. (2010). Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus. (Thesis). California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1486470
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Andress, Laurie Ellen. “Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus.” 2010. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1486470.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Andress, Laurie Ellen. “Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus.” 2010. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Andress LE. Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1486470.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Andress LE. Establishing the Flavian dynasty| The fortuitous ascent of Vespasian and Titus. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2010. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1486470
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UCLA
2.
Moore, Michael.
Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia.
Degree: Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, 2018, UCLA
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/81x0p8m9
► Though scholars have long acknowledged the unusual prominence of royal women in the Late Bronze Age, few studies have examined the relationship between women and…
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▼ Though scholars have long acknowledged the unusual prominence of royal women in the Late Bronze Age, few studies have examined the relationship between women and power. What were the sources of a royal woman’s power, and how did they differ from those of men? To what extent could a queen exercise control over members of the royal court? What techniques of resistance did royal women adopt to contest the will of the king, and to what extent were those tactics successful? This dissertation seeks to answer these questions. Turning first to the religious sphere, I demonstrate that festivals and religious ceremonies were arenas in which the king and queen displayed royal power and in which the social hierarchies of the Hittite court were created and reinforced. Turning next to conflicts within the royal household, one sees that royal women utilized a variety of tools to resist the will of the king. The power of the king should not be viewed as unidirectional; rather, any attempt of the king to exercise power over members of his family was frequently met with resistance in the form of violence or witchcraft. Though an examination of the life of Puduḫepa, I examine the sources of a queen’s power and how a queen was able to parlay power in some arenas, such as her responsibility for raising children, into political power. Finally, I broach the topic of shifting notions of queenship from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age by studying depictions of royal women in Anatolian monuments.
Subjects/Keywords: Ancient history
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Moore, M. (2018). Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/81x0p8m9
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Moore, Michael. “Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia.” 2018. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/81x0p8m9.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Moore, Michael. “Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Moore M. Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/81x0p8m9.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Moore M. Hittite Queenship: Women and Power in Hittite Anatolia. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/81x0p8m9
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Harvard University
3.
Rous, Sarah Adler.
Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens.
Degree: 2016, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493528
► In this dissertation I examine the various ways Athenians of several periods of antiquity purposefully reused stone artifacts, objects, and buildings in order to shape…
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▼ In this dissertation I examine the various ways Athenians of several periods of antiquity purposefully reused stone artifacts, objects, and buildings in order to shape their own and their descendants’ collective ideas about their community’s past and its bearing on the present and future. I develop the concept of “upcycling” to refer to this intentionally meaningful reuse, where evidence is preserved of an intentionality behind the decision to re-employ a particular object in a particular new context, often with implications for the shared memory of a group. My investigation makes use of archaeological, literary, and epigraphical evidence to connect seemingly disparate cases of meaningful reuse within a long chronological span, treating the city of Athens as a continuously evolving cultural community.
By taking a wide view of reuse with a focus on intentionality and visibility, I fruitfully re-examine some well known cases like the North Acropolis Wall, constructed largely of material from the temples destroyed by the Persians in 480 BCE, and the “itinerant” Temple of Ares, moved from the deme of Pallene into the heart of the Agora in the late 1st century BCE, in conjunction with other case studies including the reuse of the Mycenaean Bastion beneath the Classical Sanctuary of Athena Nike at the entrance to the Acropolis, the preservation of Archaic statues burnt by the Persians and described by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, the repeated renewal of the Monument of the Eponymous Heroes in the Agora, a group of Classical and Hellenistic portrait statues on the Acropolis rededicated to Roman honorands in the Early Roman period, and the 3rd-century CE Post-Herulian Wall, traditionally dismissed as a typically Late Antique spolia-construction.
After an introductory chapter establishing upcycling as a new approach to studying reused material culture, I organize the cases I treat by the level of visibility of the reuse and the correlate effect on social memory I identify. First is a chapter focusing on reuse that accentuates or actively displays the upcycled material in its new context. Next is a group of cases involving reuse that is more subtly visible, where the act of upcycling perpetuates and preserves social memory by making the reused object blend in more or less seamlessly with its surrounding context. In the following chapter I examine cases where the act of reuse itself was meant to be invisible, having the effect, I argue, of altering existing social memory. The final chapter comprises a chronological synthesis and a discussion of the role of upcycling within broader efforts of memory construction at Athens, concluding that reusing physical remains of the past played a key role in the clusters of memory projects that occurred in periods of profound and challenging social or political transformation.
In establishing upcycling as a distinct phenomenon of intentionally meaningful reuse, this study offers a process- and agency-focused alternative to the traditional discourses on spolia and reuse, and…
Advisors/Committee Members: Stähli, Adrian, Dench, Emma, Bielfeldt, Ruth.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Ancient
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Rous, S. A. (2016). Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens. (Thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493528
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rous, Sarah Adler. “Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens.” 2016. Thesis, Harvard University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493528.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rous, Sarah Adler. “Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rous SA. Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens. [Internet] [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493528.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rous SA. Ancient Upcycling: Social Memory and the Reuse of Marble in Athens. [Thesis]. Harvard University; 2016. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493528
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Oxford
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Morgan, Harry.
Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71d01d76-a5ff-4495-ac06-e3a6cde49049
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► This thesis explores the cultural history of music in ancient Rome from the mid-second century BC to the death of the Emperor Nero in AD…
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▼ This thesis explores the cultural history of music in ancient Rome from the mid-second century BC to the death of the Emperor Nero in AD 68. The discussion centres on the role of music in public and private spectacle. Rather than examining the topic in isolation, the thesis seeks to pinpoint the intersections between musical performance and cultural debates about morality, luxury, education, and philhellenism, as a way of situating music within a broader historical context. The thesis is structured chronologically. Chapter I examines Polybius' narration of the theatrical games staged by the triumphator L. Anicius Gallus in 167 BC. Anicius' subversive treatment of Greek musical models is interpreted as a deliberately comical gesture, playing to the theme of military conquest. The second half of the chapter analyses the episode in the light of Greek and Roman debates about musical entertainment in this period. Chapter II focuses on the late Republic. I argue that late Republican writers used music as a way of framing the political conflict between optimates and populares, associating 'good' music with the aristocratic mos maiorum and 'bad' music with a disruptive kind of popular entertainment. Chapter III, on the Augustan period, discusses the assimilation of the princeps and Apollo Citharoedus. The Augustan monuments to the lyre-playing god are examined in relation to the Palatine programme, the 'propaganda' campaign against Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and the ideology of the 'Golden Age'. The fourth and final chapter is devoted to Nero, the notorious musician-emperor. Challenging the perception of Nero as a narcissistic tyrant, I suggest that the charismatic princeps used his performances on the stage as a political platform, uniting audiences through a shared love of music.
Subjects/Keywords: History; Ancient
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Morgan, H. (2018). Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71d01d76-a5ff-4495-ac06-e3a6cde49049 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780454
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Morgan, Harry. “Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71d01d76-a5ff-4495-ac06-e3a6cde49049 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780454.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Morgan, Harry. “Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan H. Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71d01d76-a5ff-4495-ac06-e3a6cde49049 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780454.
Council of Science Editors:
Morgan H. Music, spectacle, and society in ancient Rome, 168 BC - AD 68. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2018. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71d01d76-a5ff-4495-ac06-e3a6cde49049 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.780454

McGill University
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Van Amsterdam, Katrina.
A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms.
Degree: MA, Department of History and Classical Studies, 2015, McGill University
URL: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/76537394p.pdf
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https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nz806292k
► Cette thèse examine l’implémentation et le succès des cultes royaux hellénistiques dans les royaumes mineurs. Ayant été une pratique bien établie de la période, les…
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▼ Cette thèse examine l’implémentation et le succès des cultes royaux hellénistiques dans les royaumes mineurs. Ayant été une pratique bien établie de la période, les cultes royaux furent un des éléments essentiels de la royauté à travers le monde hellénistique. Les racines de la tradition provenaient des honneurs héroïques étant donnés aux individus estimés en Grèce dans les périodes précédentes. Cependant, elle était seulement véritablement réalisée par les honneurs conférés à Alexandre le Grand et ses successeurs. Pour approfondir la discussion du culte royal dans les royaumes mineurs, la thèse inclut des enquêtes portant sur trois royaumes mineurs : Kommagène, le Pergame Attalide et le royaume de Syracuse. Ces trois royaumes représentaient des états différents au sens temporel et géographique dans le monde hellénistique; conséquemment ils nous divulguent trois modèles pour le culte royal pour le royaume mineur. Les monarques de ces royaumes, incluant ceux de Kommagène, Pergame et Syracuse ont adopté la pratique du culte royal afin de recevoir reconnaissance ainsi que de justifier leurs règnes. La continuité existait parmi certains éléments de culte royal à travers les divers royaumes, incluant des associations avec des divinités particuliers, la représentation de la généalogie du roi et l’intégration des coutumes locaux dans le culte. L’uniformité générale parmi les pratiques de culte dans les royaumes mineurs nous informe sur le besoin de ces monarques de légitimer leur pouvoir à travers leurs royaumes et l’ensemble du monde hellénistique.
This thesis examines the implementation and success of Hellenistic ruler cults in the minor kingdoms. As an established practice of the period, ruler cults throughout the Hellenistic Mediterranean became one of the essential elements of kingship. The tradition had roots in the heroic honors given to esteemed individuals in Greece during earlier periods, but was only fully realized by the honors given to Alexander the Great and his successors. To further the discussion of ruler cult in these minor states, the thesis includes case studies of three minor kingdoms: Kommagene, Attalid Pergamum, and Syracuse. These three kingdoms represent different temporal and geographical states in the Hellenistic world, and provide three different models for ruler cult in the minor kingdoms. The rulers of minor kingdoms, including the monarchs from Kommagene, Pergamum, and Syracuse, adopted the practice of ruler cult to attempt to further justify and receive recognition for their reigns. Continuity exists amongst the elements of ruler cult throughout the kingdoms, including associations with particular deities, the depiction of the king’s genealogy, and the integration of native customs into the cult. The overall uniformity between cult practices in the minor kingdoms speaks to the need for those monarchs to legitimize their power throughout their kingdoms and the broader Hellenistic world.
Advisors/Committee Members: Hans Beck (Internal/Supervisor), John Serrati (Internal/Cosupervisor2).
Subjects/Keywords: History - Ancient
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Van Amsterdam, K. (2015). A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms. (Masters Thesis). McGill University. Retrieved from https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/76537394p.pdf ; https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nz806292k
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Van Amsterdam, Katrina. “A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms.” 2015. Masters Thesis, McGill University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/76537394p.pdf ; https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nz806292k.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Van Amsterdam, Katrina. “A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Van Amsterdam K. A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McGill University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/76537394p.pdf ; https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nz806292k.
Council of Science Editors:
Van Amsterdam K. A desire for recognition: ruler cult in the Hellenistic minor kingdoms. [Masters Thesis]. McGill University; 2015. Available from: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/76537394p.pdf ; https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/nz806292k

The Ohio State University
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DeForest, Dallas.
Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700.
Degree: PhD, History, 2013, The Ohio State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363089785
► In antiquity, bathing was not the private affair it is today. It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman society. Baths dotted the…
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▼ In antiquity, bathing was not the private affair it is
today. It was a public activity involving all classes of Roman
society. Baths dotted the landscapes of cities across the empire,
and even villages, military forts, monasteries, and villas
contained public (or semi-public) baths. After an introductory
chapter, chapter two provides an introduction to the rich bathing
culture of the early Roman empire. It details the social world of
the baths, engaging such topics as the role of health care in
bathing culture and the nature and extent of mixed bathing in the
early Roman world. It then proceeds to an overview of the material
evidence, presenting several different types of baths from four
select regions in the Roman world. Chapter three analyzes the
nature of late antique Christian discourse on baths and bathing.
After a discourse analysis I juxtapose other forms of evidence
against the ascetic-monastic literature and work toward an
understanding of social practice in late Roman bathing culture.
Ultimately, the chapter demonstrates that rigorist Christian
discourse on baths and bathing in late antiquity served important
ideological functions within the Christian community, but should
not be taken as an accurate reflection of social practice or
mentalities concerning bathing in late antiquity. Chapter four
presents a regional study of baths of central and southern Greece,
the province of Achaea, and it includes select baths from the
islands and Crete. The chapter begins by presenting the
archaeological evidence itself. After explaining and presenting the
evidence, I analyze the architectural evolution of this body of
baths in late antiquity. Ultimately, the architectural evolution of
baths in late antiquity offers an opportunity to see how material
and cultural forces intersected. I argue that our explanations for
the important changes to the architectural design of baths in late
antiquity must be sought in the nature of politico-administrative
change, economic and fiscal trends and the local and municipal
level, and shifting patterns and modes of patronage. In chapter
five, I analyze the imperial thermae of Rome in the city’s late
antique landscape. I argue that the thermae’s polyvalent meanings
ensured their survival in times of stress and change in late
antique Rome. The thermae were important monuments to imperial
power, aspects of the built environment through which the emperors
propagated a propagandistic stance and image of themselves toward
their subjects, one rooted in their power, benevolence, and status
as connoisseurs and supporters of classical culture. Chapter six
concludes the study by summarizing the dissertation’s arguments,
drawing some broader connections between chapters, and looking to
the Byzantine and Islamic periods. An appendix discusses directions
for future work. The dissertation carries implications for how
scholars understand the evolution of concepts of the body in late
antiquity and the nature of Christianization itself, especially the
limits imposed upon the Church when confronted with…
Advisors/Committee Members: Gregory, Timothy (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Ancient History
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APA (6th Edition):
DeForest, D. (2013). Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363089785
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
DeForest, Dallas. “Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363089785.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
DeForest, Dallas. “Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
DeForest D. Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363089785.
Council of Science Editors:
DeForest D. Baths and Public Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity,
300-700. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2013. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363089785

Columbia University
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Pilkington, Nathan Laughlin.
An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism.
Degree: 2013, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D80G3SCF
► Carthage is the least understood imperial actor in the ancient western Mediterranean. The present lack of understanding is primarily a result of the paucity of…
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▼ Carthage is the least understood imperial actor in the ancient western Mediterranean. The present lack of understanding is primarily a result of the paucity of evidence available for historical study. No continuous Carthaginian literary or historical narrative survives. Due to the thorough nature of Roman destruction and subsequent re-use of the site, archaeological excavations at Carthage have recovered only limited portions of the built environment, material culture and just 6000 Carthaginian inscriptions. As a result of these limitations, over the past century and half, historical study of Carthage during the 6th- 4th centuries BCE traditionally begins with the evidence preserved in the Greco-Roman sources. If Greco-Roman sources are taken as direct evidence of Carthaginian history, these sources document an increase in Carthaginian military activity within the western Mediterranean during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Scholars have proposed three different dates for the creation of the Carthaginian Empire from this evidence: c. 650, c.550 or c. 480 BCE. Scholars have generally chosen one of these dates by correlating textual narratives with `corroborating' archaeological evidence. To give an example, certain scholars have argued that destruction layers visible at Phoenician sites in southwestern Sardinia c. 550-500 represent archaeological manifestations of the campaigns of Malchus and Mago's sons recorded in the sources. In contrast to previous studies of Carthaginian imperialism, my presentation begins with the evidence preserved in the archaeological and epigraphic records of Carthage, its colonies and dependencies. By switching evidentiary focus and interpretive method, I establish in this dissertation that the Carthaginian Empire of the 6th-4th centuries BCE, as recovered archaeologically and epigraphically, bears little resemblance to the narratives of the Greco-Roman sources. More importantly, I demonstrate that Carthaginian imperial power leaves archaeological manifestations very similar to those of Athenian or Roman imperial power. Colonization, the establishment of metropolitan political institutions at dependent polities and the reorganization of trade into a metropolitan hub and spoke system are traceable for each of these imperial systems.
Subjects/Keywords: History; History, Ancient
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Pilkington, N. L. (2013). An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D80G3SCF
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pilkington, Nathan Laughlin. “An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D80G3SCF.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pilkington, Nathan Laughlin. “An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Pilkington NL. An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D80G3SCF.
Council of Science Editors:
Pilkington NL. An Archaeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D80G3SCF
8.
Arfaee, Abdolmajid.
The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets.
Degree: 2008, The University of Chicago
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3300414
► This study treats the historical and administrative geography of the regions of southwestern Iran around the Achaemenid Persian palace complex at Persepolis during the…
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▼ This study treats the historical and administrative geography of the regions of southwestern Iran around the Achaemenid Persian palace complex at Persepolis during the fifth century BC. It relies on the evidence of two groups of administrative documents excavated at Persepolis by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: 2,120 published texts and fragments, along with 2,553 unpublished pieces, from the Persepolis Fortification, written in the reign of Darius I, supplemented by 237 published texts and fragments from the Persepolis Treasury, written in the reigns of Xerxes I and Artaxerxes I. The documents record commodities transported among places around Persepolis, and paid out to support workers, officials, travelers and livestock. Frequently occurring impressions of a few seals used by regional offices make it possible to identify administrative districts. Records of movement and storage make it possible observe networks of connections among the places within the districts. Records of outlays make it possible to infer the hinterlands of some nodes in these networks. Records of supplies for parties of travelers make it possible to establish the sequence of stations along the route connecting Persepolis to Susa in the northwest. At least four securely located places provide points of reference for placing the inferred districts, networks and routes in the geographical realities of southwestern Iran. The evidence of the Achaemenid administrative documents can sometimes be supplemented by medieval and early modern Iranian and Arabic geographers' descriptions of settlement and routes, and sometimes by archaeological evidence of Achaemenid occupation. The known Achaemenid administrative texts from Persepolis mention 115 places five times or more. Of these, 88 are discussed here, located in three main administrative districts: 50 in a large region centering on Persepolis (Chapter II); 10 in a smaller region to the northwest, around the modern plain of Kamfiruz (Chapter III); and 28 in a region farther to the northwest, along the route that connected Persepolis to Susa, including modern area of Fahliyan (Chapter IV).
Subjects/Keywords: Language, Ancient; History, Ancient
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Arfaee, A. (2008). The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets. (Thesis). The University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3300414
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Arfaee, Abdolmajid. “The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets.” 2008. Thesis, The University of Chicago. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3300414.
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Arfaee, Abdolmajid. “The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets.” 2008. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
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Arfaee A. The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets. [Internet] [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2008. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3300414.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Arfaee A. The geographical background of the Persepolis tablets. [Thesis]. The University of Chicago; 2008. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3300414
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Harvard University
9.
Pitts, Audrey.
The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia.
Degree: PhD, 2015, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467243
► The topic of divine kingship in Mesopotamia, and in the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 B.C.E.) in particular, has been the subject of studies focused…
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▼ The topic of divine kingship in Mesopotamia, and in the Ur III period (ca. 2112-2004 B.C.E.) in particular, has been the
subject of studies focused on aspects such as its ideology, rhetoric, political motivation, and place in the
history of religion. This dissertation is concerned with more pragmatic aspects of the phenomenon, and investigates what, if any, effect the institution of divine kingship had on day-to-day life. The Ur III period was selected both because four of its five kings were deified during their lifetime, and over 95,000 administrative, i.e. non-ideologically oriented, records dating to this period are available for analysis. The main focus of this thesis is on cult, the essential signifier of divinity in that society, and, specifically, on the manner in which the cult of the deified king was established, extended, and popularized. The primary source utilized was the Base de Datos de Textos Neo-Sumerios (BDTNS).
The first chapter demonstrates that at the center of the cult of the deified king were effigies that underwent numerous ritual treatments and were housed in both their own and in other deities' temples, and that in these respects the king's cult was identical to those of the traditional gods. A list of the individual statues and their locations is provided, in chronological order of attestation. Areas where ramifications of the king's godhood might be identified outside of cult are also addressed. The chapter is bracketed by discussions of divine kingship in the immediately preceding (Sargonic) and following (Isin-Larsa) periods, for comparative purposes.
The second chapter provides evidence that processions of cult statues by boat and chariot, and offering before them at specific festivals and sites outside of temples were relatively common events. As cult images of the deified kings were among those so treated, it is clear that the Ur III kings saw the benefit of these practices, with their concomitant festivities, banquets and entertainment, for publicizing their own cult among the largely illiterate populace. In addition, I analyzed the movements and activities of the king himself, as recorded in the administrative archives. These show that the kings were frequently in the public eye as they traveled, mainly by boat, among the cities of southern Babylonia, to ritual events both in- and outside of temple settings.
The third chapter addresses the issue of the effect of the concerted efforts to publicize the king's cult on the population at large. settling on onomastics as the best proxy for determining the public's reaction available. Two hundred and sixty-seven individual names in which the name of the deified king was used as a theophoric element are identified, with Šulgi, the second Ur III king and the first of that dynasty to be deified during during his life, the most popular honorée by far. I examine the statements that the holders of these names are making about a particular divine king, and show that virtually all such names have a counterpart incorporating the name…
Advisors/Committee Members: Barjamovic, Goyko (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: History, Ancient; Religion, History of; Language, Ancient
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pitts, Audrey. “The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467243.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pitts, Audrey. “The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Pitts A. The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Harvard University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467243.
Council of Science Editors:
Pitts A. The Cult of the Deified King in Ur III Mesopotamia. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Harvard University; 2015. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467243
10.
Blanchard, Benjamin Josiah.
Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C.
Degree: 2009, California State University, Long Beach
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1466088
► In the First Century B.C., Rome dominated the Mediterranean World. Rome had conquered Carthage, Greece, and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Subsequently, Rome's eastern military campaigns…
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▼ In the First Century B.C., Rome dominated the Mediterranean World. Rome had conquered Carthage, Greece, and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Subsequently, Rome's eastern military campaigns had brought it into contact with a new enemy, the Parthian Empire. This thesis will examine the motives of: Marcus Licinius Crassus, Gaius Julius Caesar, and Marcus Antonius, who sought to conquer the Parthian Empire. These three Romans viewed a war with Parthia as a means to increase their personal and political standing in Rome. The wars were not about the Parthians so much as about political advancement.
Subjects/Keywords: Biography; History, Ancient
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Blanchard, B. J. (2009). Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C. (Thesis). California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1466088
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Blanchard, Benjamin Josiah. “Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C.” 2009. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1466088.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Blanchard, Benjamin Josiah. “Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C.” 2009. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Blanchard BJ. Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1466088.
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Blanchard BJ. Rome, Roman generals, and the East| 53 – 36 B.C. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1466088
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11.
Catlin, Richard Allen, III.
Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography.
Degree: 2014, University of Nevada, Reno
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626043
► This work is a geopolitical analysis of the Byzantine Empire's method of governance, expansion, and imperial administration over the lands it chose to inhabit.…
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▼ This work is a geopolitical analysis of the Byzantine Empire's method of governance, expansion, and imperial administration over the lands it chose to inhabit. While no single scholar or then-contemporary Byzantine author has articulated a specific policy of geostrategy in the Byzantine Empire, this dissertation demonstrates an overt bias in Byzantine military and diplomatic operations toward coastal regions and maintenance of their physical control within the Mediterranean Basin. These imperial choices were fueled largely by: 1) the reigning geopolitical model of the Byzantine Empire; 2) the importance of the capital, today's Istanbul (then Byzantium, and later, Constantinople); 3) the distribution of other major cities of the Empire; and 4) the maritime-based trade economy of the Byzantine Empire.
Subjects/Keywords: Geography; History, Ancient
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Catlin, Richard Allen, I. (2014). Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography. (Thesis). University of Nevada, Reno. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626043
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Catlin, Richard Allen, III. “Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography.” 2014. Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626043.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Catlin, Richard Allen, III. “Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Catlin, Richard Allen I. Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada, Reno; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626043.
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Council of Science Editors:
Catlin, Richard Allen I. Axis Mundi| An Analysis of Byzantine Imperial Geography. [Thesis]. University of Nevada, Reno; 2014. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626043
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12.
Colwill, David.
‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.
Degree: PhD, 2017, Cardiff University
URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/
► As the nascent power of Rome grew to dominance over the Mediterranean world in the Middle Republic, they carried out mass killing, mass enslavement, and…
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▼ As the nascent power of Rome grew to dominance over the Mediterranean world in the Middle Republic, they carried out mass killing, mass enslavement, and urban annihilation. In doing so, they showed an intention to destroy other groups, therefore committing genocide.
This study looks at the kinds of destruction enacted by Romans between 343 BCE and 146 BCE, using a novel application of definitions and frameworks of analysis from the field of Genocide Studies. It proposes typologies through which the genocidal behaviours of the Romans can be explored and described.
Mass killing, enslavement, and urban annihilation normally occurred in the context of siege warfare, when the entire population became legitimate targets. Initial indiscriminate killing could be followed by the enslavement of the survivors and burning of their settlement. While genocide is a valid historiographical tool of analysis, Roman behaviours were distinct from modern patterns of mass killing in lacking a substantial component of racial or ethnic motivation. These phenomena were complex and varied, and the utter destruction of groups not regularly intended. Roman genocidal violence was a normative, but not typical, adaptation of the Romans of the Middle Republic to the ancient anarchic interstate system.
In antiquity, there was no international law to govern conflict and international relations, only customs. This study posits that the Roman moral-based custom of fides as an internal preventative regime that inhibited genocide through rituals of submission to Roman hegemony. This process was flawed, and cultural miscommunication risked causing mass violence. Furthermore, the wide discretion of Roman commanders accepting submission could result in them flouting the moral obligation to protect
ii
surrendered groups. In such cases, attempts at punishment and restitution from other members of the elite were only partially effective.
Subjects/Keywords: D051 Ancient History
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Colwill, D. (2017). ‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved from http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Colwill, David. “‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cardiff University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Colwill, David. “‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Colwill D. ‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/.
Council of Science Editors:
Colwill D. ‘Genocide’ and Rome, 343-146 BCE: state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2017. Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/
13.
Colwill, David.
'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.
Degree: PhD, 2017, Cardiff University
URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738348
► As the nascent power of Rome grew to dominance over the Mediterranean world in the Middle Republic, they carried out mass killing, mass enslavement, and…
(more)
▼ As the nascent power of Rome grew to dominance over the Mediterranean world in the Middle Republic, they carried out mass killing, mass enslavement, and urban annihilation. In doing so, they showed an intention to destroy other groups, therefore committing genocide. This study looks at the kinds of destruction enacted by Romans between 343 BCE and 146 BCE, using a novel application of definitions and frameworks of analysis from the field of Genocide Studies. It proposes typologies through which the genocidal behaviours of the Romans can be explored and described. Mass killing, enslavement, and urban annihilation normally occurred in the context of siege warfare, when the entire population became legitimate targets. Initial indiscriminate killing could be followed by the enslavement of the survivors and burning of their settlement. While genocide is a valid historiographical tool of analysis, Roman behaviours were distinct from modern patterns of mass killing in lacking a substantial component of racial or ethnic motivation. These phenomena were complex and varied, and the utter destruction of groups not regularly intended. Roman genocidal violence was a normative, but not typical, adaptation of the Romans of the Middle Republic to the ancient anarchic interstate system. In antiquity, there was no international law to govern conflict and international relations, only customs. This study posits that the Roman moral-based custom of fides as an internal preventative regime that inhibited genocide through rituals of submission to Roman hegemony. This process was flawed, and cultural miscommunication risked causing mass violence. Furthermore, the wide discretion of Roman commanders accepting submission could result in them flouting the moral obligation to protect ii surrendered groups. In such cases, attempts at punishment and restitution from other members of the elite were only partially effective.
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Colwill, D. (2017). 'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved from http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738348
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Colwill, David. “'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Cardiff University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738348.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Colwill, David. “'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Colwill D. 'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738348.
Council of Science Editors:
Colwill D. 'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2017. Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738348

University of Birmingham
14.
Myers, Phillip James.
Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC.
Degree: d_ph, College of Arts & Law, 2016, University of Birmingham
URL: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7454/
► This thesis examines the development of identities within Iberia during the Roman conquest of the peninsula through the lens of cultural hybridism, urbanism and economic…
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▼ This thesis examines the development of identities within Iberia during the Roman conquest of the peninsula through the lens of cultural hybridism, urbanism and economic changes. The aim is to explore how local Iberian communities evolved culturally through centuries of pre-Roman contact, and how these interactions fuelled later adaptations to Roman rule. Iberian communities, within this context, did not simply ‘become Roman’ but many acculturation theories have struggled to create alternatives to the ‘Romanization’ model successfully. While ‘Romanization’ is clearly problematic, this thesis will challenge and adapt several acculturation models to explore the visibility of cultural hybridity within ‘Roman’ and Iberian communities, and alternatively suggest the emergence of a pan-Mediterranean cultural background. These theories will then be applied in four case studies of prominent cities in southern Iberia: Italica (Santiponce), Hispalis (Sevilla), Corduba (Cordoba), and Augusta Emerita (Merida). In each of these case studies the thesis will address aspects of acculturation seen in the urban and economic evidence at those sites. The conclusion of this thesis will indicate that, while further study should be conducted, a more flexible approach to cultural identity should be considered in light of the evidence presented in the case of the evidence seen in these four towns.
Subjects/Keywords: D051 Ancient History
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Myers, P. J. (2016). Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC. (Thesis). University of Birmingham. Retrieved from http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7454/
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Myers, Phillip James. “Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC.” 2016. Thesis, University of Birmingham. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7454/.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Myers, Phillip James. “Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Myers PJ. Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Birmingham; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7454/.
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Council of Science Editors:
Myers PJ. Developing identities within Roman Iberia: hybridity, urbanism, and economics in southern Iberia in the second and first centuries BC. [Thesis]. University of Birmingham; 2016. Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7454/
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
15.
Davidson, Alistair James.
‘The glory of ruling makes all things permissible’: power and usurpation in Byzantium: some aspects of communication, legitimacy, and moral authority
.
Degree: d_ph, College of Arts & Law, 2018, University of Birmingham
URL: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8410/
► In Byzantium, usurpation was made possible by the conflict between hereditary-dynastic and meritocratic-republican theories of rulership. Legitimacy was founded upon subjective notions of idealized moral-behavioural…
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▼ In Byzantium, usurpation was made possible by the conflict between hereditary-dynastic and meritocratic-republican theories of rulership. Legitimacy was founded upon subjective notions of idealized moral-behavioural norms drawn from the imperial virtues and Christian ideology. Authority could be challenged when it was perceived to deviate from these norms.
Investitures transformed a usurper from a private individual to an emperor on the basis of ratification by popular consent. The historic ritual of reluctance allowed emperors to present themselves as ‘moral ideals’ at the moment of proclamation, ridding them of blame for a usurpation.
Guilt and sin were inevitable byproducts of usurpation, but imperial repentance facilitated an expiation and legitimized imperial authority in relation to moral ideals. On occasion a usurper’s successors would perform repentance on his behalf, freeing the dynasty from the sins of its foundation.
The treatment of defeated usurpers could take a variety of forms: reconciliations enabled a peaceful ‘healing’ of the community. Political mutilations transformed the victim’s appearance and rendered him ‘other’ in an attempt to demonstrate his immorality and illegitimacy. Degradation parades inverted recognised investiture rites in order to permanently alter a victim’s identity and reveal him to be a tyrant, acting against the interests of the people.
Subjects/Keywords: D051 Ancient History
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. (Thesis). University of Birmingham. Retrieved from http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8410/
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Davidson, Alistair James. “‘The glory of ruling makes all things permissible’: power and usurpation in Byzantium: some aspects of communication, legitimacy, and moral authority
.” 2018. Thesis, University of Birmingham. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8410/.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davidson, Alistair James. “‘The glory of ruling makes all things permissible’: power and usurpation in Byzantium: some aspects of communication, legitimacy, and moral authority
.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Davidson AJ. ‘The glory of ruling makes all things permissible’: power and usurpation in Byzantium: some aspects of communication, legitimacy, and moral authority
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Birmingham; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8410/.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Davidson AJ. ‘The glory of ruling makes all things permissible’: power and usurpation in Byzantium: some aspects of communication, legitimacy, and moral authority
. [Thesis]. University of Birmingham; 2018. Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8410/
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Portland State University
16.
Pundt, Heather Ann.
Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E.
Degree: 2012, Portland State University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1518898
► Trajan conquered Dacia in 106 CE and encouraged one of the largest colonization efforts in the history of the Roman Empire. The new province…
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▼ Trajan conquered Dacia in 106 CE and encouraged one of the largest colonization efforts in the history of the Roman Empire. The new province was rich in natural resources. Immigrants from Dalmatia, Moesia, Noricum, Pannonia, Greece, Syria, Bithynia, Italy, indigenous Dacians, and soldiers from <i>Legio XIII Gemina</i> participated in the extraction of gold from the Apuseni Mountains. The inhabitants of mining settlements around <i>Alburnus Maior</i> and the administrative center <i>Ampelum</i> coexisted under Roman governance but continued to mark their identities in multicultural communities. At <i>Alburnus Maior</i> the presence of wage laborers with access to outside materials and ideas created the opportunity for miners to communicate identity through mediums that have survived. A series of wax tablet legal contracts, altars, and funerary monuments can be combined with recent archaeological data from settlements, burials, and the mines themselves to formulate the broad view necessary to examine the intricacies of group and self-expression. Through this evidence, <i>Alburnus Maior</i> offers a case study for how mobility and colonization in the ancient world could impact identity. Due to the pressures of coping within a multicultural community, miners formed settlements that were central to their daily lives and facilitated the embodiment of state, community, and personal identities. Identity changes over time and can simultaneously communicate several ideas that are hard to categorize. This study approaches this challenge by looking from macro to micro contexts that influenced several expressions of identity. Chapter 2 begins with a historical background that explores the expansion of the Roman Empire and considers how different experiences of conquest influenced the colonists who immigrated to Dacia. The circumstances that led to the massive colonization of Dacia are also considered. Chapter 3 describes how the mines at <i>Alburnus Maior</i> were exploited, who was present, and assesses the impact of state officials, legionaries, and elite entrepreneurs on the formation and expression of state identity through cult, law, and language. The formation of immigrant communities and the working conditions that permeated everyday life at the mines are then considered in the next chapter. Settlement, cult, and religious membership are evaluated for their role in creating and articulating community identities. Chapter 5 then analyzes the personal and sometimes private expression of identity that appears in commemoration, naming conventions, and burial. The three levels of state, community, and personal identities often overlap and collectively show that the hybridization of ideas from several cultures was central to how those at <i>Alburnus Maior</i> negotiated their identity in the Roman Empire.
Subjects/Keywords: History, European; History, Ancient
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Pundt, H. A. (2012). Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E. (Thesis). Portland State University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1518898
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Pundt, Heather Ann. “Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E.” 2012. Thesis, Portland State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1518898.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pundt, Heather Ann. “Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Pundt HA. Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E. [Internet] [Thesis]. Portland State University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1518898.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Pundt HA. Mining Culture in Roman Dacia| Empire, Community, and Identity at the Gold Mines of Alburnus Maior ca.107 – 270 C.E. [Thesis]. Portland State University; 2012. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1518898
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Florida Atlantic University
17.
Noxon, Corey.
Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.
Degree: 2017, Florida Atlantic University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
► A paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from J?mon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for…
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▼ A paleodemographic analysis was conducted using skeletal data from J?mon period sites in Japan. 15P5 ratios were produced as proxy birth rate values for sites throughout the J?mon period. Previous studies based on numbers of residential sites indicated a substantial population increase in the Kant? and Ch?bu regions in central Japan, climaxing during the Middle J?mon period, followed by an equally dramatic population decrease, somewhat resembling changes that occurred during a Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). The J?mon are viewed as a relatively sedentary, non-agricultural group, and provided an opportunity to attempt to separate the factors of sedentism and agriculture as they relate to the NDT. Skeletal data showed fairly stable trends in birth rates, instead of the expected increase and decrease in values. This discrepancy calls into question the validity of previous studies. The stable population levels suggest that sedentism alone was not the primary driver of the NDT.
Subjects/Keywords: Archaeology; Asian history; Ancient history
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Noxon, C. (2017). Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. (Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Noxon, Corey. “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.” 2017. Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Noxon, Corey. “Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. [Internet] [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Noxon C. Sedentism, Agriculture, and the Neolithic Demographic Transition| Insights from Jomon Paleodemography. [Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10606329
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18.
Bear, Carl.
Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch.
Degree: 2017, Graduate Theological Union
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10646813
► Carl Bear This study considers the ways in which the complex debates about appropriate Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch indicated some of…
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▼ Carl Bear This study considers the ways in which the complex debates about appropriate Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch indicated some of the ways in which Christians' ritual practices embodied their theological beliefs and enacted their religious identities. Sources used to study Christian funerals include the homilies of John Chrysostom, the orations of Libanius, the church order known as <i>Apostolic Constitutions </i>, the historiographic and hagiographic work of Theodoret, and archaeological remains. The analysis of the sources utilizes methods of liturgical history that focus on the perspectives and experiences of ordinary worshipers, and attends to the biases and limitations inherent in the historical record. It also places Christian funeral practices in the context of larger questions surrounding religious identity and ritual in Antioch, especially within the Christian cult of the saints and eucharistic liturgies. Ordinary Christians and church leaders in fourth-century Antioch had different ideas about how to Christianize their funerals. Criticism from church authorities that Christians' funeral practices were inconsistent with Christian faith in the resurrection were one-sided. Instead, it seems that ordinary Christians had their own ideas about appropriate ways to care for their dead ritually. Especially in the case of mourning and other contested practices, Christians were giving expression to their human emotions of bereavement, loss, and concern for the dead in culturally prescribed ways. Church leaders, such as John Chrysostom., however, desired Christian funeral practices that exhibited fewer cultural influences and that distinctly demonstrated Christian belief in the resurrection in all aspects of the ritual.
Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; Theology; Ancient history
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Bear, C. (2017). Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch. (Thesis). Graduate Theological Union. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10646813
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Bear, Carl. “Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch.” 2017. Thesis, Graduate Theological Union. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10646813.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Bear, Carl. “Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bear C. Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch. [Internet] [Thesis]. Graduate Theological Union; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10646813.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bear C. Christian funeral practices in late fourth-century Antioch. [Thesis]. Graduate Theological Union; 2017. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10646813
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Florida State University
19.
Lollar, Jacob A. (Jacob Aaron).
A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context.
Degree: PhD, Religion, 2018, Florida State University
URL: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668
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► This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part is a compiled Syriac text and English translation of a fourth-century document from Edessa known as…
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▼ This dissertation consists of two parts. The first part is a compiled Syriac text and English translation of a fourth-century document from Edessa known as the History of John, which appears in the appendix of this project. This original Syriac narrative traces the acts of the apostle John the son of Zebedee in the city of Ephesus. I have combined all extant Syriac witnesses and have updated the old English translation from the nineteenth century. The second part—which is the main body of this project—consists of the first detailed analysis of the text since its publication in 1871. I argue that the narrative originated in fourth-century Edessa and is a product of a Nicene Christian community in a struggle with other religious traditions in the city. Using Bruce Lincoln’s theories of myth, I argue that the History of John should be understood as an ideological narrative that attempted to establish the primacy and authority of Nicene Christianity as the only true religion at Edessa. In particular, the narrative targets groups like Manichaeans and the cult of Atargatis in establishing the dominance of Nicene Christianity over these groups and their traditions. The authors of the History of John sanctified early traditions about the apostle and invented a new history for Edessa, situating themselves and the Nicene community at the center.
A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Religion in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Summer Semester 2018.
June 22, 2018.
Christian Apocrypha, Edessa, Fourth Century, History of John, Syriac
Nicole Kelley, Professor Directing Dissertation; Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, University Representative; David Levenson, Committee Member; Matthew Goff, Committee Member.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nicole Kelley (professor directing dissertation), Svetla Slaveva-Griffin (university representative), David B Levenson (committee member), Matthew J. Goff (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Religion; Religions; History; History, Ancient
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Lollar, J. A. (. A. (2018). A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context. (Doctoral Dissertation). Florida State University. Retrieved from http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668 ;
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lollar, Jacob A (Jacob Aaron). “A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668 ;.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lollar, Jacob A (Jacob Aaron). “A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lollar JA(A. A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668 ;.
Council of Science Editors:
Lollar JA(A. A Sanctifying Myth: The Syriac History of John in Its Social, Literary, and Theological Context. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Florida State University; 2018. Available from: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2018_Su_Lollar_fsu_0071E_14668 ;

Columbia University
20.
Vogt, Paul Nicholas.
Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual.
Degree: 2012, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D82231V3
► The Western Zhou period (ca. 1045-771 BCE) saw the dissemination of a particular style of ancestral ritual across North China, as the Zhou royal faction…
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▼ The Western Zhou period (ca. 1045-771 BCE) saw the dissemination of a particular style of ancestral ritual across North China, as the Zhou royal faction leveraged its familiarity with the ritual techniques of the conquered Shang culture to complement its project of state formation. Looking back on this era as the golden age of governance, Eastern Zhou and Han thinkers sought to codify its ritual in comprehensive textual treatments collectively known as the Sanli and, in particular, the Zhouli, or "Rites of Zhou." Later scholarship has consistently drawn on the Sanli as a reference point and assumed standard for the characterization of Western Zhou rites. Current understandings of the formative era of early Chinese ritual are thus informed by the syncretic and classicizing tendencies of the early empires. To redress this issue, the present study explores the ritual practices of the Western Zhou based on their records on inscribed bronzes, the most extensive source of textual information on the period. It characterizes Western Zhou ancestral rites as fluid phenomena subject to continued redefinition, adoption, cooption, and abandonment as warranted by the different interests of Western Zhou elites. Separate discussions consider the role of ancestral rites and inscribed bronzes in materializing the royal presence within the interaction spheres of elite lineages; the evolution of ritual performances of Zhou kingship, and their relationship to the military and political circumstances of the royal house; the emergence of new ritual contexts of patronage, recognition, and reward that differentiated between members of expanding lineages and intensified royal control over key resources; and the combination of multiple ritual techniques with royal hospitality provision to create major ritual event assemblies. A final synthesis brings these discussions together into a sequential analysis of Western Zhou ritual, relating them to the evolving political situation of the Zhou royal house.
Subjects/Keywords: History; History, Ancient; Religion
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Vogt, P. N. (2012). Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D82231V3
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vogt, Paul Nicholas. “Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D82231V3.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vogt, Paul Nicholas. “Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Vogt PN. Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D82231V3.
Council of Science Editors:
Vogt PN. Between kin and king: Social aspects of Western Zhou ritual. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2012. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D82231V3

Columbia University
21.
Berzon, Todd Stephen.
Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity.
Degree: 2013, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RR1XM2
► This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox…
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▼ This dissertation analyzes the paradigms Christian writers (150-500 C.E.) used to array, historicize, and polemicize ethnographic data. A study of late antique heresiological literature (orthodox treatises about heretics) demonstrates how the religious practices, doctrinal beliefs, and historical origins of heretics served to define Christian schematizations of the world. In studying heretics, Christian authors defined and ordered the bounds of Christian knowledge and the process by which that knowledge was transmitted.
Subjects/Keywords: Religion; History; History, Ancient
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Berzon, T. S. (2013). Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RR1XM2
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Berzon, Todd Stephen. “Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RR1XM2.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Berzon, Todd Stephen. “Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Berzon TS. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RR1XM2.
Council of Science Editors:
Berzon TS. Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Discovery, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2013. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8RR1XM2
22.
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine P.
The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context.
Degree: 2019, Sotheby's Institute of Art – New York
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423363
► The Grand Cameo for France is the largest cameo surviving from antiquity. Scholars have debated who is portrayed on the stone and what its…
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▼ The Grand Cameo for France is the largest cameo surviving from antiquity. Scholars have debated who is portrayed on the stone and what its scene means for centuries, often, although not always, limiting their interpretations to this narrow area and typically only discussing other causes in passing. This pattern can and should be broken, allowing the stone to be what all objects truly are: windows to the lives that that objects have lived, just as all physical things are; evidence of an experience part of the world went though, whose meanings have and continue to be part of a wider network of object-meanings. The underlying purpose of this thesis is to use the Grand Cameo to prove this point. It does so by asking why the Grand Cameo came into being using Aristotle's four-part fragmented "Why" to widen this meaning broadly enough to expand the scope of what cause means from the vernacular use of the term to include material, formal, efficient and final causes. This allows for a sufficiently satisfactory exploration of many elements of the ancient world. This thesis comprises an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion. The first chapter discusses the material sardonyx itself, its possible origin points and how it would have been seen and used in its time in both the India and the west. It discusses the development of trade routes through the Indian ocean and Hellenistic and Egyptian ties to the east which were later taken over by Rome, as well as the Ptolemies, who they replaced. The second chapter discusses the relationship between Rome and Egypt, how their imagery and materials were usurped, and how this connects to the cameo, a medium that became Roman. Chapter three discusses Rome's absorption and reuse of Hellenistic kingdoms, their people and their culture to see how these influenced images of Roman Rulers in the transition from the Republic to the Julio-Claudians. The fourth chapter details the nature of Julio-Claudian power in Rome, the roles the family took over, and how they made themselves essential to the state, especially in how this relates to imagery from the Grand Cameo. Finally, the fifth chapter allows for the exploration of final cause by using a process of elimination based on living number of family members to establish a coherent narrative for the stone's scene, allowing an interpretation of message and intent. It seems most likely to be justifying the handing over of power to Emperor Claudius as intended by the heavens regardless of the plans of his relatives. A roughly chronological understanding of this stone's role from being plucked from the ground to the imperial court is presented by assessing available material. The expansive nature of the question "Why?" allows for an explanation of the stone both broader and more satisfactory than the intentions of one emperor alone, however interesting. The Grand Cameo intersects with the highly international and interactive dynamics of the ancient world as well as specific elements therein which earlier interpretations do…
Subjects/Keywords: Geology; Art history; Ancient history
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Sidamon-Eristoff, C. P. (2019). The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context. (Thesis). Sotheby's Institute of Art – New York. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423363
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Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine P. “The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context.” 2019. Thesis, Sotheby's Institute of Art – New York. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423363.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sidamon-Eristoff, Constantine P. “The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context.” 2019. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sidamon-Eristoff CP. The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context. [Internet] [Thesis]. Sotheby's Institute of Art – New York; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423363.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Sidamon-Eristoff CP. The "Whys" of the Grand Cameo| A Holistic Approach to Understanding the Piece, its Origins and its Context. [Thesis]. Sotheby's Institute of Art – New York; 2019. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13423363
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Harvard University
23.
Glen, Leonie.
The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales.
Degree: ALM, Classical Civilizations, 2016, Harvard University
URL: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797296
► This paper investigates the chronological, contextual, and literary placement of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, a work by the Roman historian Tacitus. The work is atypical…
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▼ This paper investigates the chronological, contextual, and literary placement of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, a work by the Roman historian Tacitus. The work is atypical for this author, and scholars tend to situate it amongst his earlier works, the Agricola and Germania, both written shortly after the death of the emperor Domitian in 96 CE. Why did Tacitus write a dialogue on the merits and decline of public oratory, deliberately modeled on Cicero, and give it a dramatic date of 75 CE, six years into the “happy” reign of the emperor Vespasian? What is the significance of the characters and their positions? Why does the debate end not only without resolution, but even with a flourish of contradictions?
This study uses the letters of Pliny the Younger to establish a call-and-response between the two authors and thereby establish a terminus post quem for the Dialogus of 108-109, or contemporary to Book 9 of Pliny’s Epistulae. Tacitus’ use of Ciceronian intertext, referents, and historical context helps to situate the Dialogus in theme and tone as closer to the mature disillusionment of the Annales.
The Dialogus’ character of Vipstanus Messalla not only acts as a bridge from Tacitus’ Histories to the Dialogus, but, more importantly, by his kinship with one of the most infamous delatores (imperial prosecutorial informants), Messalla acts as a bridge between the Dialogus and the Annales; both works share an atmosphere of menace and fear attendant upon acts of speech. Lastly, this paper examines Tacitus’ concern with his own literary placement and the gloria that only the written word can achieve. Does this glory come only with risking one’s life to speak the truth? The trial of the historian Cremutius Cordus, in Annales 4, speaks to that concern, and the speech of Cremutius in the senate triggers a comparison with the historian’s depiction in an early work by Annaeus Seneca, his Consolatio ad Marciam, a "letter" written to Cremutius’ daughter. Seneca is a pivotal figure in the Neronian hexad of the Annales, and his name is strangely absent from the various catalogues of authors and orators in the Dialogus. Curiatius Maternus of the Dialogus, a tragedian, the man who announces that his Thyestes will say whatever his Cato has left out, acts as a metonym for tragedy and champion of the written word and thus connects the Diaolgus to the Annales further. His literary relationship to Seneca, a tragedian and Stoic philosopher, tutor and victim of the emperor Nero, becomes increasingly clear and compelling if one examines Annales 14 as a tragedy with close paralells to the praetexta Octavia and Seneca’s Oedipus.
A look at the suicide scenes and last words of Seneca, the poet Lucan (nephew of Seneca), the author Petronius, and Thrasea Paetus, the Stoic and biographer of Cato, will close the study. Throughout, a close look at diction, semantics, and other narratological devices will work to establish a strong connection between the Dialogus and the Annales and thus cement the Dialogus’ placement as not only the penultimate work…
Advisors/Committee Members: Schopf, Sue W. (committee member), Thomas, Richard F. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Literature, Classical; Language, Ancient; History, Ancient
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Glen, L. (2016). The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales. (Masters Thesis). Harvard University. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797296
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Glen, Leonie. “The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Harvard University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797296.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Glen, Leonie. “The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Glen L. The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Harvard University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797296.
Council of Science Editors:
Glen L. The Announcement: Tacitus' Dialogus De Oratoribus as the Prelude to His Annales. [Masters Thesis]. Harvard University; 2016. Available from: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797296

Columbia University
24.
O'Connor, James Stephen.
Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
Degree: 2011, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T72QDQ
► My study examines a category of data – the logistics of classical Greek warfare – that has not been used before for ancient Greek economic history. This…
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▼ My study examines a category of data – the logistics of classical Greek warfare – that has not been used before for ancient Greek economic history. This examination provides much new evidence for Greek economies in the fifth and fourth centuries. Close readings of contemporary literary evidence – especially Thucydides – shows that classical Greek amphibious and naval expeditions military forces always acquired their food from markets provided to them by cities and traders. A systematic comparative analysis confirms this conclusion by demonstrating that the economic and politico-social structures of classical Greek states meant that the market was the only institutional mechanism available to them to feed their navies and amphibious forces – in contrast to other European and near Eastern pre-industrial states which could use mechanisms such as requisitioning and taxation-in-kind to acquire provisions to supply their military forces. I then produce estimates of the amounts of food purchased by classical Greek military forces in the markets provided to them by cities and traders by combining data on standard daily rations (from contemporary literary and epigraphical sources) and caloric requirements (established from an analysis of classical Greek skeletal material and WHO/FAO research data) with the relatively precise figures we have in contemporary historians for army and navy sizes and lengths of campaigns. These calculations provide many more figures for trade in grain and other foods in the classical period than we currently possess, and figures that are mostly much greater in scale. The analysis of the provisioning of Greek overseas warfare provides, then – for the first time – evidence for a regular and large-scale seaborne trade of grain in the classical Greek Mediterranean; it shows a world where the development of marketing structures and networks of merchants was sufficiently strong to permit tens of thousands of men to get their food through markets for years at a time. Demonstrating the existence of a regular and substantial overseas trade in grain in the fifth and fourth centuries is crucially important for a wider understanding of classical Greek economies because the existence of such a trade made possible increased urbanization and specialization of labor, and itself could only have been made possible by sizeable reductions in transactions costs for maritime commerce: it therefore provides evidence for the foundations of economic growth in classical Greece.
Subjects/Keywords: History, Ancient; Economic history; Military history; History
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O'Connor, J. S. (2011). Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T72QDQ
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
O'Connor, James Stephen. “Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T72QDQ.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
O'Connor, James Stephen. “Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
O'Connor JS. Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T72QDQ.
Council of Science Editors:
O'Connor JS. Armies, Navies and Economies in the Greek World in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2011. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8T72QDQ

Duke University
25.
Winters, Laura E.
Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
.
Degree: 2020, Duke University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/20972
► This dissertation revolves around a central observation that, although the methodological differences among Greek mathematical writings are striking, these differences do not lie primarily…
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▼ This dissertation revolves around a central observation that, although the methodological differences among Greek mathematical writings are striking, these differences do not lie primarily along lines of
subject matter or time period. Almost all mathematical works fall clearly into one of two distinct sets of methodological conventions, which are observable from the classical period through late antiquity, in all disciplines. Because these sets of conventions transcend time and
subject, and instead seem to be followed consistently by certain authors who interact among themselves in the manner of philosophical traditions, I have interpreted them as schools of mathematical practice. I have named the schools “systematist” and “heurist” according to the characteristic epistemological orientation of each. The systematist school, of which Euclid is the paradigmatic author, is motivated by the goal of a generalized and systematic treatment of mathematical information. Features of this method include strict conventions of presentation, the idealization of mathematical objects, a preference for universalizing propositions over unique problems, and a general reluctance to work with specific numbers, physical tools, or measurements. The heurist school, in which Archimedes, Heron of Alexandria, and Ptolemy worked, is oriented toward the discovery and development of effective methods of problem-solving. Presentation is less structured and usually more personalized, specific solutions are allowed to stand implicitly for universal principles, and physical phenomena, measurement, tools, and numerical calculations are more commonly included and addressed. Over the course of this work I will demonstrate the existence of these two schools with a thorough survey of Greek works of theoretical mathematics; I will outline the schools’ characteristic features and histories, and show how the influences of philosophical movements and intellectual social networks affected their practices. Each of the four chapters addresses the ways in which the methods of each school were expressed in the four most common mathematical disciplines: geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music. The chapters will show not only the evidence for the divisions between the schools in each field, and how they developed, but also that both schools made only minor adaptations to their methodologies according to
subject matter. In fact, it can be shown that even when they departed from more traditional mathematical disciplines into areas of research such as mechanics and catoptrics (i.e. fields of science and technology that use mathematical tools but are not essentially governed by mathematical principles), the epistemological and methodological differences between the systematist and heurist schools were retained. The conclusion will show, first, that the systematist/heurist divide was fundamental and pervasive throughout the
history of Greek works on mathematics and related disciplines, but that the divide was largely obscured by the activities of…
Advisors/Committee Members: Sosin, Joshua (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Classical studies;
Ancient history;
Mathematics;
Ancient History;
Ancient Mathematics;
Ancient Philosophy;
Ancient Science and Technology;
Greek Mathematics;
Intellectual History
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Winters, L. E. (2020). Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
. (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/20972
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Winters, Laura E. “Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
.” 2020. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10161/20972.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Winters, Laura E. “Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Winters LE. Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/20972.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Winters LE. Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
. [Thesis]. Duke University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/20972
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

The Ohio State University
26.
Kruse, Marion Woodrow, III.
The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian.
Degree: PhD, Greek and Latin, 2015, The Ohio State University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436456307
► This dissertation explores the use of Roman historical memory from the late fifth century through the middle of the sixth century AD. The collapse of…
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▼ This dissertation explores the use of Roman historical
memory from the late fifth century through the middle of the sixth
century AD. The collapse of Roman government in the western Roman
empire in the late fifth century inspired a crisis of identity and
political messaging in the eastern Roman empire of the same period.
I argue that the Romans of the eastern empire, in particular those
who lived in Constantinople and worked in or around the imperial
administration, responded to the challenge posed by the loss of
Rome by rewriting the
history of the Roman empire. The new
historical narratives that arose during this period were initially
concerned with Roman identity and fixated on urban space (in
particular the cities of Rome and Constantinople) and Roman
mythistory. By the sixth century, however, the debate over Roman
history had begun to infuse all levels of Roman political discourse
and became a major component of the emperor Justinian’s imperial
messaging and propaganda, especially in his Novels. The imperial
history proposed by the Novels was aggressivley challenged by other
writers of the period, creating a clear historical and political
conflict over the role and import of Roman
history as a model or
justification for Roman politics in the sixth century. This
dissertation examines the parameters of and conflicts between these
new histories in order to demonstrate the existence of a coherent
intellectual movement whose central concern was influencing the
normative narrative of Roman
history in the sixth
century.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kaldellis, Anthony (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Ancient Civilizations; Ancient History; Ancient Languages; Classical Studies; History; Medieval History; Medieval Literature; Middle Ages
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Kruse, Marion Woodrow, I. (2015). The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian. (Doctoral Dissertation). The Ohio State University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436456307
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kruse, Marion Woodrow, III. “The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, The Ohio State University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436456307.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kruse, Marion Woodrow, III. “The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kruse, Marion Woodrow I. The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436456307.
Council of Science Editors:
Kruse, Marion Woodrow I. The Politics of Roman Memory in the Age of Justinian. [Doctoral Dissertation]. The Ohio State University; 2015. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436456307
27.
Miller, Michael W.
The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity.
Degree: 2011, California State University, Long Beach
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1490313
► Black Africans are among the most overtly misunderstood groups in classical antiquity. Africans, called ‘Ethiopians’ by the Greeks, were a novelty to the people…
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▼ Black Africans are among the most overtly misunderstood groups in classical antiquity. Africans, called ‘Ethiopians’ by the Greeks, were a novelty to the people of the Mediterranean basin because of their mysterious origin and rare presence in the West. The classical invention of their homeland, Ethiopia, was an attempt to categorize otherwise indefinable groups of non-Greek dark-skinned foreigners. Scholarship on the Ethiopian remained in flux beginning with the first literary allusion in Homer of the eighth century B.C. The paradigm underwent a significant transition after the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 B.C. when new Greco-Roman writers reworked the early literature. The revisions were relatively exclusive to the intellectuals while the public seemed generally disinterested. This thesis will demonstrate that the public's perception of the Ethiopian evolved independently of scholarly literature, causing a conflict of traditions that was reflected in conceptions of geography, mythology, ethnography, art, and social structure.
Subjects/Keywords: History, Black; History, African; History, Ancient
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Miller, M. W. (2011). The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity. (Thesis). California State University, Long Beach. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1490313
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Miller, Michael W. “The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity.” 2011. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1490313.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Miller, Michael W. “The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Miller MW. The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1490313.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Miller MW. The Mediterranean Ethiopian| Intellectual discourse and the fixity of myth in classical antiquity. [Thesis]. California State University, Long Beach; 2011. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1490313
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

The George Washington University
28.
Mehta, Varad.
Sparta in the Enlightenment.
Degree: 2009, The George Washington University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3338792
► This dissertation traces the emergence of modernity in the eighteenth century by examining Enlightenment debates about the legitimacy of using ideals inspired by classical…
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▼ This dissertation traces the emergence of modernity in the eighteenth century by examining Enlightenment debates about the legitimacy of using ideals inspired by classical Sparta to criticize contemporary European civilization. Renowned for its militarism, repudiation of commerce and the arts, and suppression of the individual, that ancient society seemed the antithesis of a Europe increasingly characterized by the progress of the arts and commerce, the triumph of great territorial states, and a growing awareness of the claims of the individual. Some thinkers perceived in Sparta an antidote to these new conditions, which they feared might corrode the foundations of European society. Modern Europe’s champions, on the other hand, maintained their civilization was superior to Sparta’s obsolete barbarism. Sparta thus became a useful model for both sides to advance and defend their positions. The past became, as ever, contested terrain in the battle for the present. Neither, however, was the real prize. The Enlightened thinkers realized there could be no return to the past, nor could the present be altered. Only the future, unknown and unbounded, could be molded. Ultimately, therefore, the contest over Sparta was really a contest over the future. The reconceptualization of the future as open and indeterminate and not a continuation of the past or the present, was the crux of the new consciousness of modernity that the Enlightenment bequeathed to posterity. The relationship of past to present too was reoriented, as the battleground shifted from the past into the future. Even to oppose modernity was to embrace it, for the struggle against modernity is itself in the essence of modernity. That is why Sparta and all other models of the past were inadequate. Modernity alone could solve the problems it created. If it was the cause, it was also the solution. The past may serve as guide, but we must chart our own course into the future. This conclusion is perhaps the greatest legacy of the Enlightenment. How and why it was reached, the subject of this dissertation.
Subjects/Keywords: History, European; History, United States; History, Ancient
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Mehta, V. (2009). Sparta in the Enlightenment. (Thesis). The George Washington University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3338792
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mehta, Varad. “Sparta in the Enlightenment.” 2009. Thesis, The George Washington University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3338792.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mehta, Varad. “Sparta in the Enlightenment.” 2009. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mehta V. Sparta in the Enlightenment. [Internet] [Thesis]. The George Washington University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3338792.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Council of Science Editors:
Mehta V. Sparta in the Enlightenment. [Thesis]. The George Washington University; 2009. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3338792
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29.
Nierle, Joshua.
All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome.
Degree: 2016, Regent University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391
► Despite myriad causes given to the end of Republican Rome and the beginning of Imperial Rome, there still remains a basic truth: the form…
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▼ Despite myriad causes given to the end of Republican Rome and the beginning of Imperial Rome, there still remains a basic truth: the form of political rule and the institutions that structured this rule changed in the span of about a hundred years, from Sulla’s first armed takeover in 88-87 B.C. to Augustus’s death in 14 A.D. After Sulla, the political institutions of Republican Rome became a façade; within a couple of generations they were a farce. I argue in this paper that the effect of the individual on this loss of institutional inviolability is vital to understanding both how it happened and what came after.
Subjects/Keywords: Ancient history; Political science
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Nierle, J. (2016). All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome. (Thesis). Regent University. Retrieved from http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391
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Nierle, Joshua. “All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome.” 2016. Thesis, Regent University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Nierle, Joshua. “All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome.” 2016. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Nierle J. All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome. [Internet] [Thesis]. Regent University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391.
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Nierle J. All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome. [Thesis]. Regent University; 2016. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391
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30.
Sabatini, Benjamin J.
The Ingot God| The technological advancement and implementation of metallurgic ability on Late Bronze Age Cyprus.
Degree: 2007, Tufts University
URL: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1445965
► On Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650–1050 B.C.) the smiting pose of smiting figurines from the Near East was adapted from a…
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▼ On Cyprus during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650–1050 B.C.) the smiting pose of smiting figurines from the Near East was adapted from a stance of striding to a stationary one, and used to make the famous Ingot God from Enkomi. The Ingot God stands upon a miniature ingot and shows certain physical traits attune to the sociopolitical influences at Enkomi, and is an impressive example of metallurgic advancement on Cyprus at the end of the Late Bronze Age. The forerunners that led to the to the Ingot God in both an iconographic and technological sense can be seen in the Eastern Mediterranean with the progression of the cast-on technique, and the changes in particular attributes and flexibility of the smiting pose. As both the attributes of smiting statuettes and the technology used to create them changed, the ability of metallurgists on Cyprus to cast-on the Ingot God became possible.
Subjects/Keywords: Anthropology, Archaeology; History, Ancient
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Sabatini, Benjamin J. “The Ingot God| The technological advancement and implementation of metallurgic ability on Late Bronze Age Cyprus.” 2007. Thesis, Tufts University. Accessed March 04, 2021.
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1445965.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sabatini, Benjamin J. “The Ingot God| The technological advancement and implementation of metallurgic ability on Late Bronze Age Cyprus.” 2007. Web. 04 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sabatini BJ. The Ingot God| The technological advancement and implementation of metallurgic ability on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. [Internet] [Thesis]. Tufts University; 2007. [cited 2021 Mar 04].
Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1445965.
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Council of Science Editors:
Sabatini BJ. The Ingot God| The technological advancement and implementation of metallurgic ability on Late Bronze Age Cyprus. [Thesis]. Tufts University; 2007. Available from: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1445965
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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