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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901

Broughall, Quentin J.National University of Ireland Maynooth2015

This thesis argues that ancient Rome was rehabilitated in English culture during the mid-Victorian period, following a period of effective displacement that began during the late eighteenth century. Devalued through its appropriation by revolutionary polities on both sides of the Atlantic, Rome’s …

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An Assessment of the Notitia Dignitatum as a Historical Source for the Late Roman Bureaucracy

O'Hara, RuthNational University of Ireland Maynooth2013

The Notitia Dignitatum is regarded as one of the most important sources for the administrative hierarchy, both civil and military, of the later Roman empire. However, due to numerous difficulties associated with the text, few large-scale studies have looked at this document as a whole. The aim of …

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Of Metis and Magic: The Conceptual Transformations of Circe and Medea in Ancient Greek Poetry

Bracke, EvelienNational University of Ireland Maynooth2009

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The Gracchan Agrarian Reform and the Italians

Claiborne, Michael2010

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