Open Access Journal: Ancient Greek & Roman History eJournal

Ancient Greek & Roman History eJournal

This eJournal distributes working and accepted paper abstracts having a primary focus on the political history of Greece and Rome. Social History has its own category and purely historiographical papers appear in the History subdivision of the Genre subcategory in Classical Abstracts - Literature. The subcategory for Greek History has four subdivisions: Aegean Bronze Age, Greek Dark Ages, Classical Greece, Hellenistic Greece; and the subcategory for Roman History has six subdivisions: Etruscan & Early Italian, Early Republic, Middle & Late Republic, Early Empire, Middle & Late Empire, Late Antiquity. Papers covering more than one period will appear in as many as are appropriate. Additional subcategories and/or subdivisions of them will be added as appropriate. 
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Andrew L. Ford

Carin M. Green

Judith Evans Grubbs

Dirk Obbink

Josiah Ober

Andrew M. Riggsby

Ruth S. Scodel

Astronomy and Tidal Analysis Applied to the Study of Julius Caesar's Commentarii
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: August 04, 2016
Working Paper Series
5 downloads

The Illiberal Democracy of Ancient Athens
Aristides N. Hatzis
University of Athens - Department of Philosophy & History of Science
Date Posted: July 15, 2016
Working Paper Series
149 downloads

Il Cesare Di Arles (Caesar at Arles)
ARCHAEOGATE (2013)
Giovanni Corazzi and Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Liceo Mariano Buratti and Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: July 13, 2016
Last Revised: July 16, 2016
Accepted Paper Series
6 downloads

Intermodalism in the Transportation Network of the Roman Empire
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna and Mauro Maria Baldi
Polytechnic University of Turin and Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: July 06, 2016
Working Paper Series
7 downloads

The Decumani of Naples and the Minor Lunar Standstill
PHILICA, Article number 608.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: June 01, 2016
Accepted Paper Series
13 downloads

Saint Ambrose and His Four Basilicas Guarding the Faith of Mediolanum
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: June 01, 2016
Working Paper Series
12 downloads

Some Notes on the Urban Planning of Mediolanum and on the Orientation of Its Decumanus
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: May 13, 2016
Last Revised: May 22, 2016
Working Paper Series
14 downloads

Roman Towns Oriented to Sunrise and Sunset on Solstices
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: May 10, 2016
Working Paper Series
25 downloads

Catherine the Great of Russia. The 'Cultural Translation' and Its Role for the Moldavian 'Mirror of Princes' at the End of the 18th Century
Alexandra Chiriac
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Date Posted: May 07, 2016
Working Paper Series
17 downloads

The Appearance of Roman Emperors Rendered by a Face Detection Software
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: May 02, 2016
Working Paper Series
32 downloads

The Biblical Story of the Announcement of Isaac's Birth: A Structural Analysis
Naama A Weiss
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Humanities
Date Posted: April 08, 2016
Working Paper Series
8 downloads

From Rome to the Antipodes: The Medieval Form of the World
International Journal of Literature and Arts, 2013, 1(2), 16-25
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: April 03, 2016
Accepted Paper Series
7 downloads

Outlining the Garamantian Kingdom, from Herodotus to the Google Maps
ARCHAEOGATE, ISSN 1973-2953 (2013)
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: March 23, 2016
Accepted Paper Series
7 downloads

Solstices at the Hardknott Roman Fort
PHILICA Article number 442
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Polytechnic University of Turin
Date Posted: March 10, 2016
Accepted Paper Series
13 downloads

How Rome Enabled Impersonal Markets
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Economics and Business Working Paper Series 1509
Benito Arruñada
Pompeu Fabra University
Date Posted: February 29, 2016
Working Paper Series
74 downloads

Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth: A Syntagmatic Reading
Bernard Jackson
University of Manchester
Date Posted: December 24, 2015
Working Paper Series
39 downloads

The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of Bar Kokhba's Rebellion
29 Isr. L. Rev. 176 (1995)
Alfredo Mordechai Rabello
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
Date Posted: October 26, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
17 downloads

A Historical Outline of Byzantine Philosophy and Its Basic Subjects
Res Cogitans.Journal of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark, Miscellaneous, Nr. 3 – Vol. 1, 73-105.,
Katelis Viglas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Date Posted: October 06, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
20 downloads

Herodotus' Homer: Troy, Thermopylae, and the Dorians
Matthew, Christopher; Trundle, Matthew (eds.). Beyond the Gates of Fire: New Perspectives on the Battle of Thermopylae. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. 117-137 and 202-208, 2013
Peter Gainsford
Victoria University of Wellington
Date Posted: September 28, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
33 downloads

Odyssey 20.356-57 and the Eclipse of 1178 B.C.E.: A Response to Baikouzis and Magnasco
Transactions of the American Philological Association 142: 1-22, 2012
Peter Gainsford
Victoria University of Wellington
Date Posted: September 27, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
17 downloads

Diocletian, Hadrian, and Octavian Augustus - Disenchanting Roman Emperors
Magdalena Laskowska
Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas
Date Posted: August 29, 2015
Working Paper Series
31 downloads

The 'Night Battle' of Singara: Whose Victory?
The “Night Battle” of Singara: Whose Victory?/Historia i Świat. 2015. Vol. 4. P. 65–70 (2015),
Vladimir Dmitriev
Pskov State University (Russia)
Date Posted: August 23, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
15 downloads

Destruction of the Second Temple: Lessons for Today's Leaders
Hershey H. Friedman
City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Business Management
Date Posted: August 13, 2015
Working Paper Series
55 downloads

The Much-Maligned Panegyric: Toward a Political Poetics of Premodern Literary Form
“The Much-Maligned Panegyric: Toward a Political Poetics of Premodern Literary Form,” Comparative Literature Studies 52.2 (2015): 254-288. ,
Rebecca Gould
University of Bristol
Date Posted: August 08, 2015
Last Revised: December 05, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
14 downloads

Some Remarks on the Moon Cult of Teutonic Tribes
C.N. Ruggles (ed): Archaeoastronomy in the 1990. Loughborough: Group D Publications Ltd. 98-107.
Emilia Pasztor
Independent
Date Posted: July 15, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
12 downloads

Концепт BELLUM в 'Деяниях' Аммиана Марцеллина (The Concept of BELLUM in the 'Res Gestae' by Ammianus Marcellinus)
Диалог со временем. 2015. Вып. 51. С. 94-109 (Dialogue with Time. 2015. Issue 51. P. 94-109),
Vladimir Dmitriev
Pskov State University (Russia)
Date Posted: July 04, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
4 downloads

Building for the State: A World-Historical Perspective
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics Paper
Walter Scheidel
Stanford University
Date Posted: May 24, 2015
Working Paper Series
36 downloads

Аммиан Марцеллин о тактике персидской элефантерии (Ammianus Marcellinus on the Tactics of the Persian Elephantry)
Исследования и эссе в честь 60-летнего юбилея В.П. Никонорова от друзей и коллег. СПб., 2014. С. 131-139 (Studies and Essays in Honour of V.P. Nikonorov on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday Presented by Friends and Colleagues. St. Petersburg, 2014. P. 131-139),
Vladimir Dmitriev
Pskov State University (Russia)
Date Posted: April 14, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
7 downloads

Звездовидные надчеканки на меди Асандра как исторический источник (Star-Shaped Countermarks on a Copper Coins of Asander as a Historical Source)
Mikhail M. Choref
Nizhnevartovsk State University, Students
Date Posted: April 10, 2015
Working Paper Series
3 downloads

К прочтению ивритского граффити на штукатурке из Херсонеса Таврического (To Reading of Graffiti in Hebrew on Plaster from Tauric Chersonesos)
Mikhail M. Choref
Nizhnevartovsk State University, Students
Date Posted: March 24, 2015
Last Revised: November 19, 2015
Working Paper Series
12 downloads

Osmanli Yönetiminin Oryantalist İnşasi (The Orientalist Construction of the Ottoman Governance)
Studies of Ottoman Domain, Cilt:4 Sayı:7 Ağustos 2014,
Gülay Yilmaz
Independent
Date Posted: March 10, 2015
Working Paper Series
25 downloads

Gemellus' Evil Eyes (P.Mich. Vi 423-424)
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 49 (2009) 535–555,
Ari Z Bryen and Andrzej Wypustek
West Virginia University and University of Wroclaw
Date Posted: February 13, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
29 downloads

Visibility and Violence in Petitions from Roman Egypt
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 48, (2008) 181–200,
Ari Z Bryen
West Virginia University
Date Posted: February 13, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
38 downloads

Judging Empire: Courts and Culture in Rome's Eastern Provinces
Law and History Review, Volume 30, Issue 3, August 2012, pp 771 811
Ari Z Bryen
West Virginia University
Date Posted: February 13, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
38 downloads

The Athenian Trierarchy: Mechanism Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods
The Journal of Economic History, 67(2), 445-480.
Brooks A Kaiser
Gettysburg College - Department of Economics
Date Posted: February 04, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
24 downloads

Antiquarianism as Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's Method
History and Theory 53.2 (2014): 212-233.
Rebecca Gould
University of Bristol
Date Posted: January 12, 2015
Last Revised: February 24, 2015
Accepted Paper Series
31 downloads

Benford's Law and Numerical Stylization of Monetary Valuations in Ancient Literature
Walter Scheidel
Stanford University
Date Posted: December 23, 2014
Working Paper Series
38 downloads

The Historical Development of the Public Administration Concerning the Geto-Dacian Village and the Roman Province of Dacia
The 2nd Global Conference on RO-RUS-NIPONNICA, December 17-18, 2011, Moscova
Mihaela Agata Popescu
Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University
Date Posted: May 05, 2014
Accepted Paper Series
318 downloads

Hieroglyphs of the Phaistos Disc: History and Full Text Translation. Of the Cycle – 'The Book of the Egyptian: The Beginning of the Basic Egyptology or a Key to the Understanding of History, Philosophy and World Religion'. Volume I
Vitaly Surnin
Independent
Date Posted: February 03, 2014
Working Paper Series
93 downloads

Thucydides and Hegemony: Athens and the United States
Review of International Studies 27/4 2001: 593-609
Richard Ned Lebow and Robert E. Kelly
Independent and Pusan National University
Date Posted: January 26, 2014
Accepted Paper Series
121 downloads

К вопросу о варваризации римской армии в IV в. н.э. (по данным Аммиана Марцеллина) (About Barbarization of the Roman Army in IV Century AD (According to Ammianus Marcellinus))
Научные ведомости Белгородского государственного университета / Belgorod State University Scientific Bulletin. “History, Political Science, Economics, Information Technologies” Series. 2011. № 7 (102). Issue 18. P. 44–56.,
Vladimir Dmitriev
Pskov State University (Russia)
Date Posted: December 06, 2013
Accepted Paper Series
25 downloads

'Персы получают их из Индии', или Почему парфяне не использовали боевых слонов? ('The Persians Obtain Them from India,' or Why the Parthians Did Not Use Battle Elephants?)
Метаморфозы истории/Metamorphoses of History, 2013, Issue 4, pp. 153-172,
Vladimir Dmitriev
Pskov State University (Russia)
Date Posted: October 13, 2013
Last Revised: December 10, 2013
Accepted Paper Series
33 downloads

To Survive, Decentralize! The Barbarian Threat and State Decentralization
Orbis, Fall 2011
Jakub Grygiel
Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Date Posted: September 28, 2013
Accepted Paper Series
33 downloads

Alan Soble's Review of 'The Reasons of Love' by Harry Frankfurt: 'Love and Value, Yet Again'
Essays in Philosophy 6:1 (January 2005)
Alan G. Soble
Drexel University
Date Posted: September 13, 2013
Accepted Paper Series
141 downloads

Ancient Roman Munificence: The Development of the Practice and Law of Charity
Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, p. 1043, 2005, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 2314731
William Byrnes
Date Posted: August 24, 2013
Last Revised: June 26, 2014
Accepted Paper Series
210 downloads

Cicero and the Education of the Republic's Last Generation
APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Joseph DiLuzio
Baylor University - Department of Classics
Date Posted: August 13, 2013
Working Paper Series

Integrating Texts and Images in the Study of the Ancient Greek Aulos-Myths
3d Annual Meeting of MOISA: International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage. Moisa Epichorios: Regional Music and Musical Regions. Theory and Practice in Text and Image in Ancient Greece. Ravenna, 1-3 October 2009
Ellen Van Keer
Centrum Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA)
Date Posted: May 12, 2013
Accepted Paper Series
42 downloads

Comparing Ancient Worlds: Comparative History as Comparative Advantage
Walter Scheidel
Stanford University
Date Posted: April 02, 2013
Working Paper Series
58 downloads

Comparing Comparisons: Ancient East and West
Walter Scheidel
Stanford University
Date Posted: April 01, 2013
Working Paper Series
96 downloads

Explaining the Maritime Freight Charges in Diocletian's Price Edict
Walter Scheidel
Stanford University
Date Posted: April 01, 2013
Working Paper Series
62 downloads

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