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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRecent empirical studies on the division of labor in modern cities indicate a complex web of relationships between sectoral specialization of cities and their productivity on one hand and sectoral diversification and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedStarting from the second century BC, with the fast expansion of the Roman Empire, iron production and consumption developed exponentially in north-western Europe. This rapid growth naturally led to an increase in trade,...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 115, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Many gods lived in the Roman Empire. All ancient peoples, including Jews and, eventually, Christians, knew this to be the case. Exploring the ways that members of these groups thought about and dealt with...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the rise, spread, and fall of large-scale states in the ancient world has occupied thinkers for millennia. However, no comprehensive mechanistic model of state dynamics based on their insights has emerged,...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 112, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The early centuries in the history of Christian asceticism, and of monasticism to which it gave rise, invite a short and accessible overview. The present article aims to supply this. It relies on a very...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn conquering Egypt, the Roman Empire secured direct access to the centuries-old Indian Ocean trade network that in Roman times brought together China, India, Southeast Asia, Parthia, Arabia, and Africa as well as the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe decline of the Roman rule caused significant political instability and led to the emergence of various 'Barbarian' powers. While the names of the involved groups appeared in written sources, it is largely unknown how...
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From:Journeys (Vol. 8, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper considers the perils of travel by focusing on banditry, a conspicuous, yet oft-neglected, feature of the Roman Empire. Appearing at different times and at various locations it was thoroughly...
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From:Church History (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSo the servants took Rhipsime by force, now lifting her, now dragging her ... But when they had shut her in the chamber she began to beseech the Lord. --Agathangelos, History of the Armenians It is said that...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the Pax Romana of the first century C.E., not only did the Roman Empire unite the Mediterranean basin, but that empire was also part of a much broader network of exchange reaching far to the north into the Baltic...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 106, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA surprising omission in New Testament studies of the imperial world is a comparison of Augustus's conception of rule in the Res Gestae (RG) with Paul's eschatological gospel of grace in his letter to the Romans. Even...
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From:Armenian Review (Vol. 52, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn the case of Greater Armenia, though I might have made it a province after the assassination of its King Artaxes, I preferred, following the precedent of our fathers, to hand that kingdom over to Tigranes, the son of...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 112, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article seeks to break the scholarly deadlock regarding attitudes toward war and bloodshed held by early Christian thinkers. I argue that, whereas previous studies have attempted to fit early Christian...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 93, Issue 369) Peer-ReviewedAlthough there has been considerable scholarly interest in the nature of ancient cities, it has been difficult to identify and explore quantitative patterns in their design and amenities. Here, the authors offer a model...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedChristianity emerged as a small and marginal movement in the first century Palestine and throughout the following three centuries it became highly visible in the whole Mediterranean. Little is known about the mechanisms...
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From:Verge: Studies in Global Asias (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWe have become accustomed to a paradigm of "civilization" and "empire" as mutually reinforcing. Empires distribute the fundamentals of civilization, and after the demise of empire, civilization endures. In such...
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From:Libraries and the Cultural Record (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe principate of the emperor Tiberius was a surprisingly interesting period in Roman library history. Devoted to books and scholarship himself, Tiberius built what must have been a very large new library, but he also...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1892, the French resident general in Tunisia launched the first state-sponsored colonization effort in the Tunisian protectorate. Based on Paul Bourde's study of ancient Roman agriculture, the colonization plan...
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From:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 111, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This article presents a reading of the story of the Patriarch's meeting with the Emperor Diocletian as it appears in the late antique midrashic compilation, Genesis Rabbah. The story encapsulates the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe article applies a GIS based approach to the study of the spread of the cult of Asclepius, the Greco-Roman healing god, during the Roman period. It explores the role of soldiers and physicians in the spatial...