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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Late Roman Republic"”.
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… enslaved persons were an integral part of Roman society. Our surviving sources, however, paint a deeply hostile view of freedmen in particular and this warped representation of reality has often been accepted by scholars without further examination. This thesis argues that we can only fully …
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A Culture in Denial: The Roman Cultural Relationship with Human Sacrifice
The Romans denied practicing human sacrifice, and claimed that almost every civilisation around them practised it, with it being an integral part in differentiating the Romans with everyone else; this self perception is deeply flawed. This work endeavours to grapple with the concept of human …
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The contribution of warlordism to the disintegration of the western Roman army (c. AD 395-480)
… changing nature of the leadership of the western Roman army in the fifth century through the concept of ‘warlordism’. I carried this out by analyzing those cases of insubordination and military unrest in the officer class of the western Roman army, which can be shown to be linked to the slow …
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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography
The development of Greek and Roman historiography is difficult to describe. So many ancient histories are lost and those that survive are hardly representative. In this thesis I argue that despite these difficulties some historiographical trends remain discernible, and examine three such …