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"Greece & Rome" is a scholarly journal that covers a wide range of topics related to ancient history, literature, art, archaeology, religion, philosophy, and the reception of the ancient world. The journal includes original articles by leading experts in the field, as well as translations of Greek and Latin quotations for accessibility to a wider audience. Additionally, subscribers receive supplements from the New Surveys in the Classics series, covering various topics in classical studies. The Classical Association, which publishes the journal, promotes the study of ancient Greece and Rome through conferences, publications, and support for Classics education. [Extracted from the article]

"Greece & Rome" is a scholarly journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Classical Association. The journal covers a wide range of topics related to classical studies, including literature, history, art, and philosophy. The October 2024 issue features articles on subjects such as masculinity and violence in ancient texts, the Parthenon's significance in Kansas City, and the portrayal of Hercules in Roman art. The journal also includes reviews of Greek and Latin literature, history, and philosophy, as well as contributions from scholars around the world. [Extracted from the article]

We start this survey in Italy during the early first millennium bce; a context on which Seth Bernard's new monograph offers an exciting, and in several respects transformative, contribution. Its general claim is that, while Rome did not develop a historiographical tradition until Fabius Pictor, there was a keen and pervasive interest in history across ancient Italy, since the early Iron Age, which played out across a wide range of venues and media. The brief of the historian must be to jettison any hierarchical approach to the interplay between textual and archaeological evidence, and to take as broad a view on what history amounts to as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I investigate the material characteristics and spatial contexts of saltpans in two of antiquity's most successful empires—Rome and Han China. Production strategies made salt widely available but were distinct in their form and appearance, as well as process. Rome's infrastructure was less visually imposing and environmentally disruptive compared to the Han installations, which were made to stand out and overtake natural contexts. Born from its sites of production, salt had a different social role and political value in these empires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article considers the demise of the Roman Republic as an illustration of how democracies can be taken over by authoritarians and shows the reform aversion of the Roman body politic to changed geopolitical circumstances. Topics discussed include reforms carried out by the Senate and the popular assemblies between 367 and 287 Before the Common Era (BCE), Senate resistance to Tiberius Gracchus' reforms, and the social and political cost of the reform aversion of the senatorial aristocracy.

The proposal of this article is to present a bibliographic review of the debates which permeated the XX Century and reverberate to this day in the Social and Economic History of Antiquity. Having as a starting point the compounded debates and controversies of this subject, we intend to demonstrate the different positions involved in this discussion. We also intend to show the marxist authors' contributions to the area, according to our theoretical and methodological affiliation to the Dialectical Historical Materialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prescription as an institution of law throughout the history of its development from the Roman era to the present day has reflected the development of economic relations in society, thus serving the security and clarity of legal-civil relations. If the legal relations of the civil circulation due to the inaction of the holders of subjective rights would remain in a state of uncertainty or a prolonged wait, this would cause negative consequences for third parties if it were not for the prescription institute. Given that this institute expresses the important principle that legal-civil conflicts must come to an end and their resolution avoids the difficulty in the judicial process due to the passage of a long time from the time of committing the violation of the right object of the conflict, the question logically arises: Can an institute that deprives the owner of the right only because another person has possessed it for a long time be legally justifiable? In the Albanian legislation, which is based on the Italian and French legislations, there are shortcomings in terms of this institution, where it is presented as the least analyzed by the doctrine in terms of the justification of the reason for its existence and creation, as well as the terms of execution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

German Renaissance humanists uncovered two vital aspects inherent in the idea of sixteenth-century Austria: it was both part of the humanist homeland, Germania, and identifiable with the ancient Roman province Pannonia Superior. Set against the background of the fall of Rome and the Völkerwanderung, the connection between and history of Pannonia Superior and Austria allowed the humanists to describe Germania’s geographical and historical transformation. In this essay, I use the histories of Johannes Cochlaeus, Willibald Pirckheimer, and Sebastian Münster to illustrate how German patriotic humanists united the Roman history of the province with German history into one continuous narrative. The intertwining of Roman history into Germania’s geographical-historical transformation reveals a critical aspect of Rome in their intellectual endeavors and identity: it was an integral part of their patriotic projects, but always as a means to an end. It helped create historical meaning and a geographically based German identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, I argue that Josephus' interpretation of the period of the biblical judges, following the conquest of Canaan and settlement in the land, mirrors Greco-Roman rhetoric that traced the origins of Rome's decline to the middle and late republic. Survey of Greco-Roman writers shows that Josephus modelled his diagnosis of the decline of Israel during the period of the judges on the causes of Roman decline identified by many Greek and Latin writers, these being: (1) influx of foreign wealth; (2) discharge of veterans and turn toward agricultural living; and (3) growth of rural elite estates. Beyond serving as his own inspiration, this literary milieu informed Josephus' elite Greco-Roman audience, thus ensuring that they would read his interpretation of the period of the judges in light of tropes about Roman decline that were popular in their day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary to the impetus of antiquarians and historiographers who were looking for sources and materials that could be interpreted and readapted for the present needs and aims of James I's Britain, Cymbeline was apparently written to celebrate the new Empire of Great Britain and to perform the new identity of the "Britons" in front of the self-styled king of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. However, far from consolidating a new sense of Britishness, the staging of history in Cymbeline generates controversial and even contradictory political discourses. Taking Stuart Hall's definition of history as a starting point (1989), the essay investigates a few notable 16th century texts that addressed the representation of the history of Roman Britain, as well as Britain's (new) geography and contemporary history in Cymbeline. It also explores the play's controversial interconnection between historical and geographical knowledge, and its staging of history to unpredictably engender alternative discourses on national history, imperial and colonial ambitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malaria has persisted in Italy since the Roman Imperial period, perhaps since as early as the second century BCE. Yet little is known regarding Romans' everyday interactions with this historically oppressive mosquito-borne disease, knowledge of which is crucial for understanding the broader significance of malaria in Roman history. This is in part due to the limitations of current approaches for studying ancient malaria, which focus primarily on diagnosing specific incidences of infection. Drawing on landscape epidemiology and contemporary malariology, this article shifts focus toward a more holistic understanding of the multifaceted determinants of malaria and its transmission in antiquity, with particular emphasis on Roman villa estates in central Italy. It is argued that, despite the presence of malaria and the naturally high risk of transmission throughout much of the region, villa estates very likely reduced local risk of malaria transmission by utilizing a suite of agricultural practices that reduced local mosquito densities and separated susceptible hosts and malaria's mosquito vectors. In addition to improving our understanding of the specific entanglement between Roman villa estate agriculture and malaria in central Italy, this article demonstrates the benefit of an interdisciplinary approach and the interpretive utility of archaeological evidence for ancient disease studies more broadly.1 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Seven Books of History against the Pagans by Paulus Orosius was written as a response to the sack of Rome in 410 CE. In contrast to his contemporaries, Orosius responded to the disaster by writing a history that decentered the city of Rome. His work reshaped Roman history through deemphasizing traditional Roman values and by foregrounding a local perspective. This paper examines Orosius's literary strategies through his description of the destruction of cities in the Republican period. It first surveys the interaction between accounts of the sack of Rome in 410 and the literary archetypes that dominate the descriptions of destroyed cities in Roman sources. Turning to Orosius, it outlines how his Historiae adversus paganos both does and does not adhere to this model, arguing that the encounter between classical sources and the Christian structure of his work allowed Orosius to critique Rome's history of imperialism. Orosius saw and portrayed the past as a subjective experience, and the examples of Numantia and Carthage demonstrate that Orosius told the destruction of cities from a peripheral point of view. In pursuit of mitigating the effects of Rome's own recent disaster, Orosius gives a glimpse of an alternate, regional interpretation of Roman history, one of the many that surely existed alongside a historical tradition that our sources often present as empire-wide and monolithic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper announces the launch of a research project of high scientific impact in the main field of humanities, which aims to shed new light on the process of Roman municipalization in an extended part of North Africa through the study of a rich dossier of historical sources thanks to the cooperation of scholars of different backgrounds.

Abstract Agrippina Minor and the ager Clusinus: a new inscription A funerary inscription, mentioning a slave of Agrippina Augusta, from the north-western part of the ancient ager Clusinus, could be evidence of an imperial property in this area of ancient Roman Etruria. This paper, with an accurate review of the probable archaeological context of the find, aims to provide new perspectives for the study of imperial properties and estates in the Julio-Claudian age in this portion of the regio VII and, more generally, of the history of the territory before 714 AD, the date in which the site (loc. Romitorio - San Quirico d’Orcia) is first documented.

Ancient authors frequently refer to Roman victories as bloodless or as having been achieved without the loss of a single Roman soldier. Modern scholars have tended to dismiss such claims as propaganda or have not fully explored the history or consequences of such celebration. This article considers the history of Rome's promotion of bloodless victories, concern over war losses, and the consequences for Rome's army and imperial endeavors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Microscopic colitis (MC) is considered a chronic disease associated with autoimmune disease, smoking, and drugs. The aim was to examine the association between MC and celiac disease, adjusted for smoking, considering subtypes and clinical course of the disease in a retrospectively collected female cohort. Methods: Women (n = 240), ≤ 73 years, diagnosed as MC in medical records or pathological registers were invited. One hundred and fifty-eight women accepted to be included. Participants completed a study questionnaire about sociodemographic factors, lifestyle habits, and medical history; the Rome III questionnaire; and the visual analog scale for irritable bowel syndrome (VAS-IBS). Participants were categorized into collagenous colitis (CC) (n = 92) and lymphocytic colitis (LC) (n = 66) or MC with one episode of the disease (n = 70) and refractory MC (n = 88). Presence of IBS-like symptoms were noted. Blood samples were collected and analyzed for anti-transglutaminase antibodies. Differences between groups were calculated and logistic regression was adjusted for smoking habits. Results: MC and celiac disease debuted simultaneously in half of the cases. Celiac disease was most prevalent in LC (12.1% vs. 3.3%; p = 0.05) and MC with one episode (12.9% vs. 2.3%; p = 0.01). Anti-transglutaminase antibodies were found in one patient with one episode of MC. Corticosteroid use was most often found in CC (37.0% vs. 21.2%; p = 0.037) and refractory MC (38.6% vs. 20.0%; p = 0.015). Past smokers were most prevalent in patients with one episode of MC (54.3 vs. 29.5%; p = 0.007). Current smoking was the smoking habit with highest prevalence of IBS-like symptoms. When adjusted for smoking habits, celiac disease was associated with LC (OR: 4.222; 95% CI: 1.020–17.469; p = 0.047) and tended to be inversely associated with refractory MC (OR: 0.210; 95% CI: 0.042–1.506; p = 0.058). Conclusion: Celiac disease is most common in patients with one episode of LC. The question remains whether LC in combination with celiac disease should be classified as celiac disease or two different entities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Little is known about the natural history and impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)‐type symptoms on psychological health and quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We aimed to address this in a 12‐month longitudinal follow‐up study of secondary care patients. Methods: We collected demographic, Rome III IBS‐type symptom, psychological, and quality of life data, with questionnaires at 3‐month intervals, over 12 months of follow‐up in patients with IBD in clinical remission at baseline. We assessed the natural history of Rome III IBS‐type symptoms over the 12 months of the study and compared psychological and quality of life data between those reporting Rome III IBS‐type symptoms at each of the points of follow‐up with those not reporting such symptoms. Key Results: Among 206 patients with IBD in clinical remission at baseline (104 [50.5%] women, mean age 56.9 years [range 18–83 years], 79 [38.3%] Crohn's disease), 33 (16.0%) reported Rome III IBS‐type symptoms at baseline and 72 (35.0%) reported Rome III IBS‐type symptoms at one or more time points. Among the 33 patients with Rome III IBS‐type symptoms at baseline, symptoms resolved in 6 (18.2%) patients, were present throughout in 6 (18.2%) patients, and fluctuated in the remaining 21 (63.6%) patients. Among the 39 patients with new onset of Rome III IBS‐type symptoms after baseline, 24 (65.1%) had symptoms at one point in time only, 10 (25.6%) at two points, four (10.3%) at three points, and one (2.6%) at four points. At each point in time, reporting IBS‐type symptoms was associated with significantly higher anxiety, depression, or somatoform symptom‐reporting scores, and/or lower quality of life scores. Conclusions & Inferences: In this 12‐month follow‐up study, one‐third of patients with IBD reported presence of Rome III IBS‐type symptoms at any point in time. Reporting such symptoms was associated with significant impacts on psychological health and/or quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "In memoriam Wolf Liebeschuetz (1927 - 2022)" from the Millennium Yearbook reports on the life and career of the historian Wolf Liebeschuetz. He passed away on July 12, 2022 in Nottingham at the age of 95. Liebeschuetz escaped as a child from the Nazi persecution of Jews and later became a respected historian in England. The article honors his work and contributions to historical research, particularly on topics such as late antique urban history and Roman religion. Liebeschuetz leaves behind a significant legacy in the academic world. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the interaction between English writer John Milton and Giovanni Salzilli during Milton's visit to Rome in 1638. Topics include Salzilli's playful renaming of Milton as "Milto" in Latin, and Milton's adoption and response to this epithet in writings. It highlights the cultural and literary significance of Salzilli's renaming, reflecting admiration for Milton and influencing literary identity and reception among contemporaries.

In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible evidence in its wake. Indeed, notions of the body are integral to understanding early modern witchcraft beliefs, particularly at a time when the boundary between mind and body was viewed as porous and permeable. This was a time when emotions were seen to have physical consequences, and this belief played a key role in witchcraft cases. Through a close reading of a seventeenth-century trial of witchcraft from a history of emotions perspective, this article examines the ways in which the body, mind, and soul were interrogated in the heartland of early modern witch persecutions: the Holy Roman Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Polish intellectual historian Leszek Kołakowski proposed in the 1960s an innovative, now virtually forgotten, reimagining of a crucial concept in the history of Roman Catholicism: the idea of "Counter-Reformation." Kołakowski's lifelong affinity for early modern Europe's Catholic dissidents led him into dialogue in the era of Vatican II with Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the leader of a movement of young Polish reformers who styled themselves "Catholic socialists." Seeing them as the bedrock of a new Catholic Counter-Reformation, Kołakowski sketched the role he hoped Poland might play in reinventing not only Catholicism, but religious life in the modern world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yair Furstenberg, in his article "The Rabbinic Movement from Pharisees to Provincial Jurists" (DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10070), draws parallels between the rise of the rabbinic movement and jurists in other Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. This response considers how far we may push the comparison, especially with regard to the stimuli behind the changes in rabbinic activities that Furstenberg posits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Serving as a cultural center and a border and a university town, Edirne is an important city of Turkey. Edirne also has historical significance as one of the three historical capitals of the Ottoman Empire (the other two are Bursa and Istanbul, respectively). The history of Edirne dates back to the 35th century BCE. This historically prosperous city hosts many monuments from the Ottoman period; however, there are only a few urban and architectural remains from other periods. The creation of the form of the city of Edirne is an example of synoecism, by which a group of small elements in an open pattern of organization, i.e., not subject to a rigid preconceived order, coalesce over time to form a larger entity. The form of Edirne is the result of three distinct types of urban development that are characteristic of three eras in the city's history: Roman/Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern. The Roman/Byzantine form was incorporated into the Ottoman city that, in turn, was converted into a more homogeneous form in the modern era. Both the Roman/Byzantine and Ottoman patterns persist in the modern city. In this article, the city of Edirne is considered as a whole and the morphology of Edirne is shown to be an organic urban development model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the greatest figures of Dano-Norwegian enlightenment and classicism, Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), today famous especially for his comedies in Danish, produced works in other languages as well, not least Neo-Latin. His seven books of Latin epigrams are a great example of classicizing Latin poems, drawing on classical examples for style and expression but featuring classical figures too, most frequently Julius Caesar. This article considers an ambiguous use of the name Caesar, comparing it to other representations of Julius Caesar and his adopted son in Holberg's works on Roman history and his treatments of the proscriptions carried out by Sulla and the second triumvirate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A study of Roman ball games from the second century BC to the fifth century AD, with a brief look at the seventh century and the Byzantine period. This article is an attempt to separate Roman from Greek games, to dispel some of the misconceptions that constantly appear in popular discussions regarding ball games and to consider what part they played in Roman life among the different social classes. The literary sources are meagre, mostly poets, philosophers, and grammarians who are not always interested in games such as trigon or harpastum per se, and usually make only passing references to them. They show sporting activities for upper-class male citizens, with a few negative comments on the other social groups. Archaeology from Pompeii, however, the Campus Martius, and the Bathing complexes throw a different light on ball games and the lower classes. The article will concentrate on Rome but games from Pompeii, Gaul, Sevilla, and Constantinople will also be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the end of the fifth book of Livy’s history there is a grand speech of Camillus against the proposal that Romans should move to Veii. Although this speech is the highlight of the first pentad, it is followed by a closing chapter which is full of words and expressions that are specific to land surveying. The present paper aims to examine the vocabulary of Livy and show that it is related to land surveyors’ terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even if the researches on salt exploitation and salt administration in Roman Dacia are scarce and the results are far from offering a coherent image on this economic activity, there are however some works which are important for this stage of our approach. These works are treating the aforementioned issues from historical, ethnographic and archaeological perspectives, both in synchronic and diachronicway. Ishall briefly present the most importantresearches and their results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Tabula Claudiana or Tabula Lugdunensis, unearthed at Lyon in 1528, preserves part of a speech delivered to the senate in AD 48 by Claudius. The emperor pleads to admit the elites of Gallia Comata to the Roman senate. This article presents a rhetorical analysis of the speech. Modern readers have labeled the style of the speech ‘bombastic’ and ‘pedantic’, while criticizing its many historical examples. An examination of the speech in terms of inventio, dispositio and elocutio, however, demonstrates that Claudius carefully constructs the ethos of a knowledgeable and open-minded authority. It is argued that two moments of rhetorical persuasion could be distinguished: the senate meeting in Rome and the publication of the bronze inscription at the sanctuary of the Three Gauls at Lugdunum. Not much deliberative rhetoric was perhaps needed to persuade the senators to agree with their emperor; the display of the inscription, on the other hand, could be interpreted as a form of epideictic rhetoric, which may have given a significant boost to the confidence of Roman citizens in Gaul. While some senators in Rome may have disliked the lengthy historical exempla as part of the oral speech, visitors of the sanctuary in Lugdunum may have appreciated seeing Gaul included in the long history of Rome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the critical edition and translation of Madeleine de Scudéry's novel, Lucrece and Brutus: Glory in the Land of Tender, by Sharon Diane Nell. The novel explores the story of Lucretia, which is foundational to the larger framework of Scudéry's novel, Clélie. The edition provides context for understanding the story of Lucrece and Brutus within the novel and examines Scudéry's influence on other writers. The article praises the organization and accessibility of the edition, and highlights its contribution to understanding Scudéry's literary talents and philosophical ideas. [Extracted from the article]