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The best defence against conspiracies, it would seem from both Livy and Tacitus, is fortune, an irrefutable force impervious to contradiction. Yet, it is hollow comfort to concede that the powder keg of contingency is…
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Tacitus is our only source for the persecution of Christians in 64, and therefore out only source for the earliest state persecution of Christians. Of course, he may have inserted into his narrative an ideological…
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In the story of the death of Germanicus, there are haunting parallels to one of the most notorious conspiracy theories of modern times. A young man of military experience, beloved by the populace and marked…
I. Вотъ его киклопическая совѣтская форма: блестящій, мірового значенія совѣтскій византинистъ Александръ Кажданъ вынужденъ былъ переѣхать въ США, гдѣ онъ и работалъ до конца жизни кѣмъ-то въ родѣ старшаго научнаго сотрудника въ Dumbarton Oaks и…
My second text is the Precepts and Anecdotes written by Kekaumenos to his son in the 1070s. This text plays an important part in Kazhdan’s construction of homo byzantinus and for all its peculiarities it…
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