The Oxford History Of The Classical World

elementary instructions, designed to ensure that even students at law-school had a guidebook sealed with imperial authority. Bot ...

Interior Of The Cathedral Of St Sophia, Istanbul (A.D. 532-7), the crowning architectural achievement of Justinian's reign. The ...

chose to sit among the senators and spoke of himself as the enforcer of laws by which he felt himself bound, this was a critici ...

Before Diocletian introduced elaborate court ceremonial on the Persian model, Emperors were already being addressed as abstracti ...

from Horace's Ars Poetica or the Aeneid, was to be elevated above the common herd and to have access to positions of considerabl ...

it became a tendency to say nothing as elaborately as possible. Literary allusions could provide a kind of esoteric code in lett ...

normal means of communication in government administration and trade, but it was not used everywhere in the same way. The langua ...

The twentieth-century tensions between demotic and katharevousa are in part a distant legacy of the divergence between the self- ...

The dialogues of Plato that fascinated the Neoplatonists were Timaeus, Parmenides and Republic. The Timaeus set out Plato's cosm ...

the source of value. Augustine was especially fascinated by the fact that circumstances and motives are primary in evaluating th ...

being wholly harmful. Slaves were not a very large proportion of the ancient labour force, since the cost of a slave to his owne ...

Among bishops the level of education varied by extremes. They were elected by their congregations subject to the veto of the con ...

evidence for military chaplains attached to units of the Roman army. Augustine observed that Christ did not ask the centurion in ...

opposite end of the theological spectrum the Monophysites, unable to accept the decisions of the fourth General Council at Chalc ...

Tables Of Events Before about 600 B.C. most dates are approximate ...

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