Imagining a classical Caledonia: Sir Robert Sibbald’s vision of Scotland’s Roman past

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-32
Author(s):  
Alan Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Extensive Investigation ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Roman Province

The first chapter focuses on the life and work of polymath Sir Robert Sibbald, whose extensive research and numerous publications on the history and heritage of Roman Scotland would have a profound influence on the antiquarian writings of subsequent generations. It reveals how Sibbald’s own fascination with ancient Rome prompted him to propose that much of Scotland had been a virtual Roman province. In examining his sources and his methodology, which included extensive investigation of material remains as well as etymology, this chapter demonstrates how Sibbald constructed his theories, which radically departed from previous interpretations of Scotland’s Roman past. In addition, the chapter highlights Sibbald’s posthumous reputation and the enduring legacy of his antiquarian conjectures.

scholarly journals The Roman Food System in Southern Pannonia (Croatia) From the 1st–4th Century A.D.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-62
Author(s):  
Kelly Reed ◽  
Ivana Ožanić Roguljić
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Food System ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
Traded Goods ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Roman Province ◽  
Gain Access

AbstractFood is an excellent medium through which to explore trade, economies, migration and landscapes, yet little is known about food production and consumption in the Roman province of Pannonia. Here we explore the current evidence for agriculture, trade and diet in southern Pannonia (modern day eastern Croatia) and what this may say about life in the region. The influx of new ‘exotic’ foods and technologies had a profound influence on this region. The limited archaeobotanical data suggests complex trade and local agricultural systems that allowed large towns such as Mursa, Cibalae and Siscia to gain access to a wide range of food items. The large quantities of pottery found not only helps us understand traded goods but also the local tastes and fashions, as well as to infer the types of dishes that could have been cooked. More evidence is clearly needed in this region but what we can see so far is that urban centres along the Danube Limes were firmly integrated within the wider Roman food system and that diets were probably quite varied for many who lived there.

MYTHOLOGY AND REALITY OF OLYMPIC AGON OF ANCIENT GREECE IN THE ROMAN ERA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Rekutina
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Political Religion ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Components ◽  
Roman Province

The aim of the research: to identify changes in the nature of relationship between mythological, religious and social aspects in the sphere of agonistics in Ancient Greece in the Roman Era. Methods and research: Analysis of literature and written sources on the history of ancient agonistics. The result of the study is the determination of the specific traits of agonal traditions of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The article explores the sacral and secular aspects of the traditions and rules of antique agon. The Author shows a change in their ratio in Ancient Greece in the Roman Era. The paper focuses on the process of transformation of the sacral and secular content of agonistics and a variety of agon in Ancient Greece in the Roman Era, which is characterized by the clash of Hellenic and Roman agonal traditions. One of the most significant phenomena in the ideological life of that period was the cult of the Emperor, which was the official political religion of the Roman Empire. The Emperor’s cult with agon as one of the rituals became widespread in the western and eastern provinces including Greece. Greece had the status of "Achaea Roman Province" at that time. The Author describes the events that took place in Olympia and other religious centers of Ancient Greece at that time. Conclusion: Agonist features of the period were determined by changing the ratio of religious and social components of agonistics and transforming agony as a religious ritual into a spectacle that was widely used for political purposes.

957: Masters of Mictrition: The Fullers of Ancient Rome

2006 ◽  
Vol 175 (4S) ◽  
pp. 309-309
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Rome

Scots Law: Mixed from the Very Beginning? A Tale of Two Receptions

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
WDH Sellar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Common Law ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Mixed System ◽  
Annual General Meeting ◽  
Ius Commune ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Considerable Period

This article is the revised text of the lecture delivered to the Stair Society at its Annual General Meeting in November 1997. It defends the proposition that Scots law, from the time of its emergence in the Middle Ages, has been a “mixed” system, open to the influence of both the English Common Law and the Civilian tradition. It also compares and contrasts the Reception of the Anglo-Norman law with that of Roman law. The former was quite specific as regards both time and substantive legal content. The Reception of Roman law, on the other hand, took place over a considerable period of time, and its effects were complex and diffuse. Above all, the Civilian tradition and the wider ius commune provided an intellectual framework against which to measure Scots law. Both Receptions exercised a profound influence on the continuing development of Scots law.

Betrayal of betrothed in Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of rain

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. RUBY VANEESA ◽  
Dr. S. AYYAPPA RAJA
Keyword(s):  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
The University

Sunetra Gupta was born in Calcutta in 1965 and is an established translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore. She is a well known novelist, essayist and scientist. She is working as Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University in the Department of Zoology. From Princeton University she got graduation in 1987 and from the University of London she received Ph.D. in 1992. Her father, Dhruba Gupta had a profound influence on every view of her thinking

LEGAL SKETCH «THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LEGAL EXCUSES AND PROVERBS OF ANCIENT ROME AS A MEANS OF LEGAL PROPAGANDA ABOUT LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE»

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kukharev ◽  
Alexander Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Making

This article discusses adaptation of the norms and ideals of Roman law to modern legal culture, the basis of Roman legal relations, which is the basis of modern law-making. It is important to learn how the culture of the law of ancient Rome influenced the formation of modern law of the digital age. The purpose of writing the paper was to highlight the influence of the legal culture of ancient Rome on modern reality.

A Jewish Magic Device in Pannonia Superior?

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Klaus Davidowicz ◽  
Armin Lange
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
Roman Province ◽  
Oil Lamp

A comparison with Jewish magic as well as Jewish and non-Jewish amulets shows that the exclusive use of Deut 6:4 in the Halbturn amulet for apotropaic purposes points to its Jewish origin. A Jewish oil lamp found in Carnutum, the capital of the Roman province of Pannonia Superior, demonstrates that Jews lived not far away from Halbturn and poses the question of whether the amulet was produced in Carnuntum. While the magician who produced the Halbturn amulet was most probably a Jew, the archaeological evidence of the grave in which the Halbturn amulet was found is inconclusive with regard to the background of the child buried in it. The Carnuntum oil lamp, however, points to the possibility of a Jewish grave.

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