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Contacts Between Rome And Ancient Ethiopia, John Theodore Swanson

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

At the death of Augustus, Rome possessed four principal provinces: in Africa: Numidia, Africa (Tunisia), Cyrenaica, and Egypt. Soon after, Mauretania as:well would become a province, thus creating a sphere of direct Roman control stretching across the top of the African continent. These territories would become Rome's most valuable possessions, economically and culturally; their influence on Roman history, an influence not to be overlooked by historians., would be profound. Yet the narrow strip of land that was Roman Africa represents only a tiny portion of the vast bulk of the African continent, and there were peoples beyond the Roman frontiers …

Ephesus, Pagan And Christian 133 B.C. - 262 A.D., Ruth O. Michener

Graduate Thesis Collection

This dissertation is an atrcempt to reconstruct and to recapture a period in the history of this famous city, a center so important in New Testament times and in the first two centuries or the Christian Church, but a metropolis which centuries ago became buried in the silt of a river. The site and a primitive kind of settlement began in pre-historic times. We will briefly trace the story of its ancestory; its youth; its changes; traditions; then its glory between the years 133 B.C. to A.D. 262; its contribution to culture; its spirit; its contact with Christianity; its period …

Thesis: ... To Prove The Assertion That Jurisprudence Was The Only Form Of Intellectual Activity That Rome... Worked Out In A Thoroughly National [Rational?] Manner, John Scot Butler

Manuscript Thesis Collection

The intention of this thesis is to prove the assertion that jurisprudence was the only form of intellectual activity that Rome, from first to last, worked out in a thoroughly national [sic] manner.

Firstly:--It will be shown how completely the literature and arts of the Romans were enveloped in Grecian influence.

Secondly:--The primal laws of the Romans will be taken up, their sources accounted for, and their development followed.

Thirdly:--A summary showing the two developments in comparison, and drawing conclusions.

Latin Laguage In History, Rose Macneal

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.