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A Church of Martyrs, An Army of Trophy-Bearers: A Historical and Literary Analysis of the Greek Biographical Literature in Late Antiquity on the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste KU Leuven
This project aims to analyze and assess the importance of the earliest accounts on the martyrdom of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in the beginning of the 4th century AD. The documents (the Passio, the Testamentum, the panegyrics by Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa and the homily by"Ephraem Garecus") have both a historical and a literary value and are representative for the development and spread of the Christian martyr cult in Late ...
Soldiers, Roman citizens and Latin colonists in mid-Republican Italy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
As the investigation of mobility to and from Latin colonies before and after the Hannibalic War shows, citizenship was not yet the bone of contention in the mid-republic that it would be during the decades before the Social War. In the third century BC the Roman authorities attached little meaning to Roman citizenship, let alone guarded its exclusiveness. Ethnic identity was not an issue in Roman policies, which centered around the issue of ...
City and reciprocity: the role of cultural beliefs in the Roman economy Ghent University
New Institutional Economics have become popular in ancient economic history research the past decade. However, the notion of ‘cultural beliefs’ that plays a central role in Douglass North’s recent work and in Avner Greif’s analysis of institutional change, has been largely ignored. I argue that a neo-institutional ‘cultural beliefs approach’ offers a better way to understand the influence of ideology and moral values on the ancient economy than ...
Der Produktion und Verbreitung römischer Baukeramik auf der Spur: Organisation einer neuen Großindustrie entlang der Rheingrenze Ghent University
Tracing Back the Production and Distribution of Roman Ceramic Building Materials: the Organization of aHeavy Industry along the Rhine BorderThis article presents a new overview of the production of ceramic building materials in the northern regions of the Roman Empire. Also in this region, the production and distribution of ceramic building materials played an important role in the Roman economy. In the first part, the origin of techniques in ...
Supplying armies in the Iberian peninsula during the Republic Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Considerations of supply had a much more direct impact on campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula than in, for instance, Greece or Asia Minor. Stockpiling depots on the coast or navigable rivers with provisions that were shipped from taxpaying provinces like Sardinia and Sicily or from largescale suppliers such as Carthage or Numidia freed the Roman commanders from many of the restrictions that governed warfare in the Iberian heartlands. While the ...
Because I am Greek: Polyonymy and the Expression of Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt KU Leuven
The use of double names in Graeco-Roman society has fascinated many researchers and is mentioned in numerous studies. Despite the abundance of references, however, no comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of the phenomenon exists. Whereas earlier works had a merely classifying approach, more recent studies are usually confined to case-studies combined with some sociological remarks. To fill in this gap, my colleague Yanne Broux and I have ...
“Heroes and villains”: Habsburg Supremacy over the Ottomans in Triumphal Celebrations in the Spanish Netherlands of the 17th century KU Leuven
The portrayal of the Ottomans was done in a very symbolic language. The Catholic Church and “zyn uytverkoren volk” (‘its chosen people’) were victorious against the Ottomans who were shown as a “macht der hellen” (‘hell’s power’) or as “Helsche Furien” (‘hell’s furies’). Noble commanders of theSymposium Ottoman Empire and European Theatre 2011© Don Juan Archiv Wien, Goetheg. 1, 1010 Wien, T. 0043/1/2365605 Web: www.donjuanarchiv.at13Southern ...
Long-term developments in the technology of iron craft production: a case study in the territory of Sagalassos (SW-Turkey) KU Leuven
Abstract Today iron is one of the most important metals in our daily life. The first iron objects resulting from smelting iron ores was dated to the 3rd millennium BC. Iron smelting was developed in Anatolia (Turkey) and spread fast across the Mediterranean. Initially iron was considered a valuable metal, but by the 13th century BC, it had evolved to a metal for daily use, in tools and weaponry. Iron slag, the metallurgical waste product of ...