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Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical with
articles written by Danish and foreign scholars. They are mainly
published in English, but sometimes in French and German as well.
From a philological point of view, the periodical deals with
Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law,
philosophy, and medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period
from Greek-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. Contents
include: 'Reflecting (In)Justice' in the Republic's Line and Cave:
Thrasymachus and Plato's Level of eikasia * Quorum in the People's
Assembly in Classical Athens * Nektanebo in the Vita Aesopi and in
Other Narratives * Chalcidian Politicians and Rome between 208 and
168 BC * Rewriting Dido: Ovid, Vergil and the Epistula Didonis ad
Aeneam (AL 71 SB) * Seneca on Platonic Apatheia * Octavia and
Renaissance Tragedy from Trissino to Shakespeare * A Dramatic
Afterlife: The Byzantines on Ancient Drama and Its Authors * Nine
Unidentified Verses in the
Modern scholarship dealing with the economy of the ancient world
has developed rapidly in recent decades. Studies of ancient
economic structures and history have in many respects achieve
standards as a discipline comparable to those of economic history,
using models and scenarios exactly as it is frequently seen in
studies of later periods with better sources. The best example is
perhaps the historical demography of Roman Italy. It was a marginal
field of research until the early 1990s, but is now one of the key
subjects in the study of Roman economy with a lively debate between
the followers of a low count reconstruction of the demographic
development in Roman Italy versus the scholars who favour a high
count. Furthermore, quantitative studies have become serious
scholarship and are no longer despised as only number games' as is
apparent, for instance, from the new Oxford Roman Economy Project.'
This is due to the great amount of published archaeological
material such as terra sigillata, amphorae and shipwrecks. It is
also illustrated by the shift from the predominant orthodoxy of the
primitivism in the 1970s and 1980s to theoretical and
methodological orientations inspired by the so-called New
Institutional Economics and a diversity of approaches. But it has
also rightly been pointed out that the struggle between
primitivists' and modernists', which still, a century later,
continues to haunt scholarly discussions, often under the revealing
name of minimalists and maximalists, signifying that the problem
has often wrongly been reduced to one of quantities, mainly of
trade. All the chapters of this book were originally published as
articles or contributions to proceedings of different conferences
between 1990 and 2010.
Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published
annually, with articles written by Danish and international
scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in
French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point
of view on classical antiquity in general and topics such as
history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic
history. Classica et Mediaevalia covers the period from the
Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. Volume 56
contents include: The Habit of Subsidization in Classical Athens:
Toward a Thetic IdeologyA Note on Aristophanes, Clouds 76A Polis as
a Part of a Larger Identity Group: Glimpses from the History of
LepreonA Monger of Red Herrings: Plato's Method of Dead Ends in
Politicus 257a-275cEpicurean GodsThe Contribution of Ars and
Remedia to the Development of Autobiographical FictionHow Shall We
Comprehend the Roman I-Poet? A Reassessment of the Roman
Persona-TheoryJuvenal 3.146: A New Interpretati
This is an international annual periodical issued in book form.
Articles are mainly published in Englich but the reader will also
find French and German articles. From a philological point of
viewe, this periodical deals with Classical Antiquity in general
and covers topics such as history of law, philosohy and the
medieval ecclesiastic history. The time period covered is from the
Graecco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages.
The death of Nero in AD 68 marked the end of an era in more than
one respect. Not only did it mark the fall of the Julio-Claudian
dynasty, Nero s suicide also brought about the extinction of the
house of the Domitii Ahenobarbi, one of the most distinguished
families of Roman aristocracy. The Domitii Ahenobarbi could boast
of nine consuls during eight generations in the male line. The Rise
and Fall of a Roman Noble Family is the first monograph of the
Domitii Ahenobarbi and fills a gap in our knowledge of the Roman
aristocracy. The study offers a collective biography of one Roman
senatorial family and contributes to a new and more profound
understanding of Roman political, religious, social, and economic
life by focusing on the activities of the protagonists on a wide
front.
From 1987 to 1990, in collaboration with several Danish research
institutes, the Tunisian Institut National de Patrimonie carried
out an extensive archaeological survey in the valley known as the
Segermes basis, in Tunisia. The results of that work are contained
in three volumes entitled Africa Proconsularis. This volume reviews
the information and looks at the historical conclusions. The
objective of this encyclopedia work is to reveal the economic
mechanisms and social relations between a town and its environs in
antiquity. It begins with an exploration of the pioneering work of
area around Segermes. Information from later archaeological
expeditions is included.
What was the relationship between city and country in the Roman
Empire? The writings which have been preserved show an enormous
empire, divided into "cells", each with a city at its centre. But
the written sources are few, and focus mainly on the cities of
Italy; they do not tell what life was like in the Roman provinces.
Through systematic studies of the ancient landscape in Northern
Tunisia, archaeologists have reconstructed the day-to-day history
and economic activity of the rural population around the city of
Segermes. Over 100 persons have been involved in this joint
Danish-Tunisian project. The findings presented in these two
volumes indicate that in Roman times, the valley was given over to
intensive cultivation of wheat and olives, maintained at a high
output level by means of extensive irrigation works. The population
was dense and, surprisingly, reached its peak between 350 and 550
AD, a period of economic decline elsewhere in the Roman Empire.
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