The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855

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Russian Disinformation Targets the European Union
Russia continues to conduct misinformation campaigns against Europe. As its war in Ukraine continues and Europeans become tired of the prolonged conflict, fewer people will be engaged and thus more susceptible to disinformation coming from Russia.
Forced displacement in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, international law and transitional justice
Sixty five years after the forced exodus of the majority of the Palestinian population that inhabited the territory on which Israel was established (known as Nakba, translated to catastrophe), forced displacement is still an important feature of the
Gärten der Welt im Erholungspark Marzahn – Berlin.de
In den Gärten der Welt im Erholungspark Marzahn erleben Besucher in neun Themengärten Gartenkultur aus der ganzen Welt.
Aurelian and the Third Century
Abortive Dynasties : attempts at dynastic politics during the Third Century Crisis. MA Thesis
Pliny's Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta
Apollo as a Precedent to the Coinage of Sol Invictus
Summary The purpose of this paper is to produce an approach to Sol through Numismatics. I intend to point out the possible correspondences existing between the god Sol, referred to as Sol Invictus in historiography,1 and Apollo. While the solar facet
Faces of Power: Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins
The Third-Century “Crisis”, in: The Encyclopedia of Ancient Battles, Bd. 3, hrsg. v. Michael Whitby u. Harry Sidebottom, Chichester 2017, 1047–1067
"'In Search of Good Emperors'. Emperors, Caesars, Usurpers in the Mirror of Antimonarchic Discourses in the Historia Augusta", in: H. Börm (ed.), Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity (= Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Stuttgart 2015, 269-303.
Yet another view on Aurelians monetary reform
A theory on how the denarius disappeared and the debasement of the antoninianus
Expressions of Cult in the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period
This article explores the nature of the cult of Sol Invictus within its third century context. My work I upports the views of scholars who have argued that it was Aurelian who made 25 December the Natalis Invicti in honour of Sol Invictus and in......
M. Claudius Tacitus: Senator or Soldier?
THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR PROBUS
Crees J.H.E. Year: 1965 Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER Series: Studia Historica, 13 ISBN: 88-7062-218-5
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Felicior Augusto, Melior Traiano. On the propagation of traditional models of “good emperorship” under Constantine the Great between 306 and 324 AD.
The central question of this research is: to what extend does Constantine present himself as a traditional Roman emperor? Chapter one will look at Constantine’s representation through buildings and iconography. The subject of the first paragraph is
Aurelian's currency improvement and public image program
Numismatists and historians generally agree that emperor Aurelian (A.D. 270-275) reformed the Roman currency in A.D. 274. The pivotal radiate coin, the antoninianus, is henceforth heavier, contains more silver and is produced with more care. The
Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284
Violence on Roman Imperial Coinage
ROME AND PALMYRA IN THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY CE
This article has been published under the title ‘Rome en Palmyra in de crisis van de derde eeuw n.Chr.’, in Phoenix 53.1 (2007) 5-22; it has been translated (lightly revised, but not updated) into English to accompany the talk 'Palmyra on the
“Propagator imperii”: The Scale of Empire in Late Antiquity"
This paper will investigate the thorny question of the conflicting perceptions of the scale of the Roman Empire. How did the Roman philosophy of world rule and ideology of constant expansion harmonize with the realities of Roman defeats and losses of
Milestones from Capidava and territorium Capidavense. Possibly also, on emperor Aurelian’s war against the Carpi, inter Carsium et Sucidavam
The article is focused on the 2nd to 4th century milestones recorded by archaeological excavations at Capidava and within a range not exceeding 15 miles, as the crow flies. Our inquiry pinpointed several finds from Dorobanțu, Seimenii Mari, Capidava
Antonine Rome: Security in the Homeland
Alles bare Münze? Fremdendarstellungen auf römischem Geld, BJb 206, 2006, 159-230
Rome, city of: 7. Severan and third century
The Later Third Century
Severus Pius Augustus. Studien zur sakralen Repräsentation und Rezeption der Herrschaft des Septimius Severus und seiner Familie (193-211 n. Chr.) [open access]
Aurelian Traditions & Innovations