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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"third century"”.
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Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative
… about Rome’s political upheaval in the third century CE. This period is conventionally defined by the growing political influence of the army at the expense of the Senate, after the Severan emperors made it clear that their hold on power rested on military support. The soldiers would …
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… reexamines the expressive portraiture of third-century Roman emperors through the lens of memory—both cultural and cognitive. Traditionally interpreted as visualizations of military severity, personal cruelty, or psychological instability, these emotive images—marked by furrowed brows, …
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A reassessment of Gallienus' reign
… reign of the Roman emperor Gallienus in the mid-third century CE. Specifically, this paper analyses Gallienus’ military and administrative policies, his conception of his emperorship, and the influence his policies had on his successors.Gallienus ruled over the Roman Empire during a period of …
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Palmyra's ephemeral empire by Steven John Holcomb.
The story of the third century AD rebellion of the Palmyrene Empire against the Roman Empire remains one of the most curious and fascinating episodes from the ancient world. Palmyra, a wealthy desert city-state, was neither the largest, richest, nor most significant city of the Roman Near East, yet …
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Black Gloss Ceramics From Cerveteri: The Vigna Marini Project 2012
… terms of ceramic production, especially in the third century BCE; and to highlight the importance of archaeometric analysis in ceramic studies. Using a firmly established typology of black gloss ceramics, a qualitative analysis of the ceramics of this type recovered in Cerveteri, and …
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Roman Paintings from Panayia Field, Corinth, Greece: A Contextual Study
… domestic architecture, dating to the early first century C.E. and mid-third century C.E., respectively, and depict figural, floral, geometric, and architectural schemes.</p> <p>In light of the general paucity of published and well-studied wall paintings from dated contexts in Roman Greece, this …
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The transformation of line, shape and intention in Chinese painting since Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian
… during Wei Jin North and South Dynasty in the third century, and the second stage lasting from the beginning of the 20th century till now.
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The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades
… in Rome and Ostia between the end of the first century BCE and the end of the third century CE. While we have no preserved ancient map of Hades, the artists decorating Roman monuments with otherworldly images, mainly tombs or sarcophagi, repeatedly employed specific natural or architectural …
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Writers and writing in the Roman Army at Dura-Europos
… particular, dedicated training. Focussing on the third century Dura-Europos, it uncovers evidence for the thorough schooling given to the clerks of the resident Cohors XX Palmyrenorum enabling them to fulfil their administrative duties. These include maintaining efficient documentation systems and …
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The forum and the city: rethinking centrality in Rome and Pompeii (3rd century B.C. - 2nd century A.D.)
… changing relationship with the city, between the third century B.C. and the second century A.D. It is a diachronic study of spatial practice and the representation of space, based on archaeological evidence for infrastructures of movement and textual evidence for the articulation of spatial …
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Society against the state : perspectives on the history of early Andhra Pradesh
… South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh between the third century B.C. and midfourth century A.D. The research has shown that one of the most advanced cultures of early India in fact resisted any of the conditions that could be used to define a state apparatus. The discussion begins with the study of …
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Society against the state : perspectives on the history of early Andhra Pradesh
… South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh between the third century B.C. and midfourth century A.D. The research has shown that one of the most advanced cultures of early India in fact resisted any of the conditions that could be used to define a state apparatus. The discussion begins with the study of …
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The Cult of the Muses in Thespiai
… a gap between Hesiod’s testimony and the third century, in which many doubts arise regarding the relationship between Thespiai and the Muses. I will ‘bridge’ this gap using archaeological, literary, and epigraphical sources as a basis to construct a theoretical approach to the topic, …
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Husbands scorned and fathers ignored : a social analysis of the Acts of Thomas
… mission to India. It was composed in the early third century somewhere in the vicinity of Edessa in Roman Syria.The writers of this document within it both encoded their community's experiences within Edessa and the surrounding countryside and prescribed their values and imagined communal …
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ΒΡΑΥΡΩΝ. ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΒΡΑΥΡΩΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΒΡΑΥΡΩΝΙΑΣ ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟΣ
… OF PHILADAI, SURVIVES UNTIL THE MIDDLEOF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D., BUT THE BOROUGH OF KYDANTIDAI SURVIVES UNTIL THE SECOND CENTURY B .C. THE TEMPLE IS FINALLY PROBABLY DESTROYED IN THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY B.C., THE LIKELY REASON BEING RIVER ERASINOS AND THE WATER OF THE SURROUNDING AREA. …
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A compositional analysis of Roman and early post-Roman glass and glassworking waste from selected British sites. Towards an understanding of the technology of glass-making through analysis by inductively-coupled plasma spectrometry of glass and glass production debris from the Roman/Saxon sites at York, Leicester, Mancetter and Worcester.
… glassworking waste from Mancetter (midsecond century), Leicester (third century) and Worcester (first to third centuries), glass production debris, probably manufactured from the raw materials, in conjuncton with a domestic assemblage, from Coppergate (first to fourth centuries, or possibly …
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The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E.
The late third century and the early fourth century in the Roman Empire was a period of profound change. The Romans struggled with several internal crises as well as constant harassment from foreign enemies. Because of this downturn, several emperors attempted to consolidate more control over …
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The Actual Characteristics of the Decian Persecution According to Saint Cyprian’s Letters
… and spiritual condition of the Church in the third century.
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