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Oracula Mortis In The Pharsalia, John Makowski

John F Makowski

No abstract provided.

A Note On Lucan 8.860-1, John Makowski

John F Makowski

No abstract provided.

Tacitus, Roman Wills And Political Freedom, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

No abstract provided.

The Names Flavius And Aurelius As Status Designations In Later Roman Egypt, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

An examination of the uses of the names Flavius and Aurelius.

Roman Criminal Law In A Berlin Papyrus Codex (Bgu Iv 1024–1027), James Keenan

James G. Keenan

No abstract provided.

Three Short Notes On Late Roman Documents From Egypt, James Keenan

James G. Keenan

The observations printed below were made in the course of research on social mobility in late Roman Egypt conducted under a Summer Faculty Fellowship for 1976 from Loyola University Chicago.

F.M. Ahl, Lucan: An Introduction, John Makowski

John F Makowski

No abstract provided.

Literary Evidence For Roman Arithmetic With Fractions, David Maher, John Makowski

John F Makowski

No abstract provided.

God, Space, & City In The Roman Imagination [Review], Timothy M. O'Sullivan

Classical Studies Faculty Research

This ambitious book aims to convey what ancient Romans saw, thought, and felt as they experienced their city. Jenkyns focuses primarily, though not exclusively, on literary sources in his attempt to reconstruct how the Roman worldview of the late Republic and early Principate was shaped by the city of Rome itself, and vice versa. The built environment and public space are the principal points of emphasis, but the volume ranges widely over many other topics as well, including religious devotion, attitudes to the countryside, and Roman tourism.

Io: From Giovanni Boccaccio’S Famous Women: A New Translation, With Text, And Commentary, Edward H. Campbell

E. H. Campbell

Michelangelo And Pope Paul Iii, 1534-49: Patronage, Collaboration And Construction Of Identity In Renaissance Rome, Erin Christine Sutherland

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For his greatest patron, Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-49), Michelangelo painted the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, two monumental frescoes in the Pauline Chapel, and managed the design and reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica. The pope and artist maintained a harmonious and remarkably productive association for the entirety of Paul's fifteen-year pontificate. The artist's projects at the Vatican defined the most important sacred spaces of Renaissance Rome and helped construct the identity of the papacy at the inception of the Counter-Reformation. At the same time, these are the finest examples of Michelangelo's mature painting and architecture. Following Giorgio Vasari's …

The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I And The Expansion Of The Roman Primacy, Thomas J. Mcintyre

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This purpose of this thesis is to examine the extent of the agency Pope Damasus I demonstrated in the expansion of papal primacy and exaltation of the Roman See. Damasus reigned as bishop of Rome from A.D. 366 until 384. To answer this question, the research for this thesis focuses on involvement, of Damasus in contemporary theological disputes, his appropriation of Roman geography and his Latin language initiatives, both liturgical and Scriptural. Research was conducted first by consulting primary sources. These included the writings of Damasus himself, particularly his epigraphs, as well as epistolary correspondence. A key component of the …