The plague under Commodus as an unintended consequence of Roman grain market regulation [0.03%]
康茂德时期瘟疫作为罗马粮食市场监管的意外后果
Morris Silver
Morris Silver
This paper begins with a review of Roman grain market policies. It is argued that policies such as forced sales and maximum prices made urban consumers hesitant to rely on the market for secure access to grain. Consequently, consumers hoard...
Christian Laes
Christian Laes
This article highlights all known instances of individual deaf-mutes in antiquity, with special attention as to how their symptoms were described, which effects were emphasized, and in what context the cases were reported. Next, the Greek a...
Sabine Grebe
Sabine Grebe
When Ovid was banished to Tomis by the Black Sea he considered his exile a living death. He understood his exile as an expulsion from the known world (Rome) to an unknown world (Tomis) on the other side of the boundary of what was familiar ...
Anise K Strong
Anise K Strong
In his Histories, Herodotus uses the mule as a symbol of both potential advantages and risks of intermarriage and reproduction between different ethnic groups. Both literal mules and the children of mixed marriages are symbols of revolution...
Cleopatra's cocktail [0.03%]
克利奥帕特拉的鸡尾酒
Prudence J Jones
Prudence J Jones
Pliny the Elder's account of Cleopatra consuming a cocktail of vinegar and a pearl in order to win a bet with Antony was considered credible in the ancient world, but many modern scholars have relegated the anecdote to the realm of fantasy....
Barbara Sidwell
Barbara Sidwell
The strange behavior of emperor Gaius has been the subject of debate for many historians. Some charge him with madness and attribute it to his illness in A.D. 37, whereas others believe it occurred later, or else had nothing to do with his ...
Caligula's illness again [0.03%]
卡利古拉的病又来了
R S Katz
R S Katz
The illness of Caligula: [0.03%]
卡里古拉的疾病
R S Katz
R S Katz