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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Roman culture"”.
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Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
<p>The effects of Romanization were believed to be devastating to the cultures conquered by Rome, but Britain was an exception. The Romanization of Britain began through trade with the continent long before the invasion by Claudius. But the natives of Britain did not accept the Roman culture as …
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A socio-rhetorical exegesis of 1 Timothy 2:8-15
… practices and traditions from the dominant Greco-Roman culture of the first century. I demonstrate, therefore, that the portrayal of women in the text reflects a cultural imperative, and not a theological imperative, that was co-opted from the ""secular"" Greco-Roman culture of the day and …
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Conquering the World: The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
… in 1 John within the context of the Greco-Roman world. The approach to this study is both exegetical and contextual, with a philological analysis of the First Letter of John, and an attempt to understand possible cultural implications by drawing on classical sources, extant material …
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Reading Reverence: Literate Practice in Ambrose of Milan's Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam
… between the Church and the imperial seat of Late Roman government. However, after years of producing text, championing the cause against pagan strongholds in Roman culture, and instructing the Church in pious lifestyles, Ambrose's level of scriptural literacy is still ambiguous at best. Ambrose …
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A study of furor in Republican and Augustan literature
… furor was the exclusive term employed by the Romans to describe the irrational or the insane. Nor will this investigation detail all aspects of irrationality, derangement, or madness revealed in Roman culture or society. Instead, the procedure will be to investigate in roughly chronological …
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
… the representation of the female body in Roman visual culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand how the two …
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
… between the two and offers us a glimpse of Roman culture beyond the narrow world of the orator. Despite being an important source for the Tiberian era, as the ubiquity of decontextualised citations from it in the footnotes of contemporary historical scholarship testifies, Valerius' work has …
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Play in the Roman imagination
This thesis traces a discourse of play in the Roman republic from Plautus’ *palliata* comedies via Lucilius’ satires to Cicero’s philosophical dialogue *De oratore*. Methodologically, it combines philological close reading with historical analysis to interpret the function of appeals to play in the …
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Wrestling’s Grip on the Past: A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Greek Wrestling
… BC. Wrestling continued to appear in Greek and Roman art and literature all the way until the end of antiquity, leaving behind a large cultural legacy over a period of a thousand years. This long history reflects a level of importance and prestige associated with the sport that is deserving of …
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Covenant and Identity Formation in the Second Century
… Christian identity formation: Judaism, Greco-Roman culture, and heterodoxy. It argues that leading Christian writers consistently developed and applied a notion of the church as the new covenant community by interpreting scriptural sources through the lens of christological assumptions, which …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman audience. I explore the cultural resonance of the social metaphors Lucretius uses to explain atomic movement, …
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Reading Servius in Context and Reception
… commentator, Servius, lived at the time when Roman culture was being Christianised and when the greatness of Rome projected in Virgil was in flux. I focus on the reception of Virgil through Servius in this context, concluding with later adaptations in mediaeval Christian England. I identify …
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Household Shrines and Cults in Roman Achaia: A New Approach to Examining Cultural Change under the Roman Empire
… under-studied category of evidence, in the Roman province of Achaia, from the first century BCE to the fourth century CE, with reference to pre-Roman domestic religion. The primary aim of this investigation is to understand to what extent Roman cult practices were integrated in select …
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Grammatical Gender and Transformation in Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
… of the things that they become on the other. Romans understood biological sex and grammatical gender to be connected, as Anthony Corbeill’s 2015 Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome has recently shown. This connection is driven by a process Corbeill calls …
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An investigation into the construction(s) and representation(s) of masculinity(ies) and femininity(ies) in 1 Corinthians
… power relations from the dominant Graeco-Roman culture. These power dynamics continue to have an effect on many churches today because they understand Scripture to be regulative for Christian practice in our contemporary society in spite of the temporal and cultural separation of our world …
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Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark: Denmark in Europe, 1st to 14th Centuries
… longue durée, it argues that Danish aristocratic culture had been heavily influenced by trends on the Continent since at least the Roman Iron Age, so that when Denmark adopted European courtly culture, it did so simultaneously to its development in the rest of Europe. Because elite culture as it …
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Weeping and <i>Virtus</i> in Early Imperial Roman Epic
… to masculinity; does the same rule hold true for Roman epic heroes? In this dissertation I examine how men weep in Roman epic poetry of the early Roman empire as an aspect of the performance of masculinity. Specifically, I explore the multiple valences of male tears and related emotional …
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Origins of Roman art
<p>My introductory comments on the origins of Roman art deal briefly with the major cultural developments by which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial …
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The Church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli and the Formation of Spanish Identity in Sixteenth Century Rome
… used the most common languages available in Roman culture--the visual and spatial--as a rhetorical device to set forth their political aspirations and religious values and promote their nation in Rome. I also connect this project to other Spanish commissions in Rome, which has not previously …
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Bound to Sin: New Interpretations of the Fallen Angels in Select Early Christian Fathers
… connectable to the perceived fallacies of Greco-Roman culture. The narrative further provided early Christians with a model of what it meant to act against God. In other words, the Enochic story addressed issues of Christian identity as a minority culture. The story, for the authors surveyed, …
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