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Building a God: The Cult of Antinous and Identity in the Eastern Roman Empire

Jamshidi, Niayesh (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

This thesis attempts to understand the distribution of Antinous worship in the Roman Empire and why he was worshipped. By examining the written sources and material culture available on Antinous, primary sources both pagan ...
Sallust and the Greek Historical Tradition

Nicols, John (Regina Books, Claremont, California, 1999)

The Roman historian Sallust was very familiar with Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. The argument of this article is that Saullust revealed his erudition by demonstrating his knowledge of rather obscure episodes ...
The Palace-City Interface: Representing the Family in Baroque Rome

McKinnon, Matthew Glen (University of Oregon, 2019)

This essay considers four seventeenth-century Roman palaces in the contexts of topographical setting and city circulation, with particular attention to the façade as a definer of place. It draws on seventeenth-century ...
When Worlds Collide: Manichaeism and Christianity in Late Antiquity

McClain, Sierra Dawn (University of Oregon, 2019)

Trade and travel played a tremendous role in connecting Sasanian and Roman empires in late antiquity. Yet this exchange between Persia and Rome was not confined to the movement of peoples and objects; it encompassed the ...