the roman empire in egypt

... assist at the spectacles of the morning. Honorius supplied, during the rest of the day, the place of his father; and the great Theodosius expired in the ensuing night. Notwithstanding the recent ... erecting the standard of the cross, the emulation of his successor assumed the merit of subduing the Arian heresy, and of abolishing the worship of idols in the Roman world. Theodosius was the ... palace to the camp; and the increasing symptoms of a dropsy announced the speedy dissolution of the emperor. The opinion, and perhaps the interest, of the public had confirmed the division of the Eastern...

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... much of the complicated intrigues of the Byzantine court with the two Theodorics. The weak emperor attempted to play them one against the other, and was himself in turn insulted, and the empire ravaged, ... the superintendence of the supply and manufacture of arms; the uncontrolled charge of the public posts; the levying of the troops; the command of the army in war when the emperors ceased nominally ... nature in the four seasons of the year; the red dogstar of summer, the snows of winter, the deep shades of autumn, and the cheerful verdure of the spring. ^42 Another interpretation preferred the...

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... Ravenna, who fill their place in the chronology of princes, extended their jurisdiction over the Roman city. Since the revolt of Italy and the loss of the Exarchate, the distress of the Romans had exacted ... 77.)] While the popes established in Italy their freedom and dominion, the images, the first cause of their revolt, were restored in the Eastern empire. ^77 Under the reign of Constantine the Fifth, the ... consuls had been annihilated: in the decline and fall of the empire, the god Terminus, the sacred boundary, had insensibly receded from the ocean, the Rhine, the Danube, and the Euphrates; and Rome...

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... from Constantinople. ^7 Instead of trembling for their capital, the Comnenian princes waged an offensive war against the Turks, and the first crusade prevented the fall of the declining empire. [Footnote ... shelter in the chain of islands that line the extremity of the Adriatic Gulf. In the midst of the waters, free, indigent, laborious, and inaccessible, they gradually coalesced into a republic: the ... demolishing the walls and buildings of Ascalon, that the sultan could prevent them from occupying an important fortress on the confines of Egypt. During a severe winter, the armies slept; but in the...

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... found there, and the interests that drove each group. In so doing, he undermined the notion that parliament was Introduction 3 INTRODUCTION The Shape of Roman History: The Fate of the Governing ... with the diverse peoples that had come under its rule? 1 Ronald Syme and the Study of the Elite Interest in the Roman Empire as a model for other empires goes a long way towards explaining traditional ... much fading away as changing to allow us to visualize broader forms of social and intellectual relationships within the empire. Introduction 19 Map 1 Provinces of the Roman Empire at the death...

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... international community in hopes of in uencing policies and improving the lives of people living in the MENA region. MENA pro- gram activities include: producing and disseminating both print and electronic ... attended the seminars. The boys answered 28 percent of questions correctly before the training and 76 percent correctly after the seminars. The girls scored 35 percent before the training and ... to improve their skills in communicating their research ndings to policymakers and the media. PRB’s MENA program was initiated in 2001 with funding from the Ford Foundation ofce in Cairo. MENA...

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