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Publius Clodius Pulcher, the patrician at the center of this scandal, became a means to control Caesar’s interests and enemies in the senate enabled Caesar to continue his path to dictatorship, mostly unrestrained. Clodius became a willing ‘puppet’ to Caesar because of the Bone Dea affair.

It is to that urbanization of empire and its curious offshoot of Romanization – with all of its positive and negative connotations – that this paper will be addressed and, specifically, the role of the Roman army in its transmission.

Beginning around the middle of the second century BC, the La T

When the German warrior, whether horseman or foot, went into battle in the first century A.D., his main weapon was a long lance with one end sharpened and hardened by fire, or else fitted with a short narrow iron point, which could be hurled or used for thrusting.

The other conflict that exhausted the Jewish ability to wage a successful revolution against the Romans was their internal conflicts. Much of the resentment that flourished in this period of violence had its origin in the Greek rule of the Jews under the Greco- Macedonian dynasty of Antiochus of Syria.

Has 300 so successfully appealed to audiences globally because of, or despite, its extremely violent, racist, homophobic, and sexist subtext?…This paper approaches 300 as a media product produced and consumed in spatially specific ways. I present a geographical reading of 300

Anyone familiar with NT scholarship will think that the title of this paper has it wrong: current scholarship is fairly unanimous that Jesus could read and write but that he probably did not walk on the water. Although some scholars are skeptical about the texts, there is multiple independent attestation from John and Luke that he could actually write and/or read.