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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Fourth century BC"”.
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What can the Derveni Papyrus tell us about the religious milieu of the author?
… discovery at Derveni in 1962 of the remains of a fourth-century BC papyrus, consisting largely of a philosophical commentary on a religious text, has provided a unique opportunity to investigate the religious milieu in which the author worked. This study concentrates neither on the author’s …
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A Social and Historical Commentary on Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides
… crucial issue of Athenian citizenship in the mid-fourth century BC and arose from the state’s decision to review citizen membership in every Attic deme. In the deme of Halimous, Euboulides was in charge of proceedings when the demesmen voted against a man named Euxitheos and thereby stripped him …
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Perceptions of divinity : the changing characters of Roman Venus.
… characters of the goddess Venus changed from the fourth century BC to the first century AD. It is argued that the different ways in which she was perceived, and the associations, powers and responsibilities she was assigned, were significant for the Romans’ engagement with the goddess during the …
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Cosmic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… end of the world in the Mediterranean from the fourth century BC to the first century AD, showing that the expectation of a future for the material world is virtually universal. I then demonstrate that presuppositions about the creator’s goodness, the world’s goodness, and providence led …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
… adapt to the difficult fiscal conditions of the fourth century. Part 1 examines Demosthenes’ rhetoric of tax reform in the 350s. Demosthenes defends the traditional notion of taxes on the rich, as a reciprocal exchange of benefactions for charis, against aggressive new initiatives that stressed …
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Cardiovascular, autonomic and neuropathic physiology and their involvement in the extra-articular manifestations of hypermobility disorders
Joint hypermobility has been recognised since the fourth century BC (1, 2), however, despite this there remains limited knowledge surrounding hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS (2017) (3), EDS Hypermobility Type (Villefranche 1998) (4), EDS III (Berlin 1988) (5)) and the less severe …