Of all the myths of Hellenic antiquity, the myth of Ulysses is the one that has been most widely disseminated and, above all, the one that has maintained its presence uninterruptedly up to the present day.
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Although infant mortality was part of everyday life in ancient Greece, the disappearance of children was no less traumatic. If, in everyday life, the white-backed lécites echo the death of the ateloi and serve to construct the philia of the members of the oikos, the funerary stelae are useful for constructing a social image that unites the polis in the face of the drama. Myth, for its part, contains an extraordinary number of stories of infanticide such as that of Itis, the children of Medea or Astyanax where children become instruments of vengeance, all of which serve to warn of what is not to be.
The identification of this portrait, sometimes with the emperor Titus and sometimes with Domitian, to whom it has finally been attributed, is of more than merely iconographic historical importance.
Landscape degradation and the development of environmental movements in the history of Europe. Mining. The hydraulic pump was a mechanical device invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC, which had one of its practical applications in the systematic exploitation of Roman mines. The conceptual complexity of its form and use demonstrates the progress of human beings in complex reasoning and, with it, their better disposition to exploit the environment.
With the abandonment of the cities in the Late Roman period, the rural villa became a self-sufficient centre of production and consumption thanks to a wide variety of economic activities. Its owner, the dominus, exercised economic, social, military and religious power over the people who lived there and reflected his ideology and intellectual activity in the decorative motifs of the various rooms, as can be seen in this mosaic, which probably belonged to a dominus involved in the arts.
Origin and development of inequality and social stratification. The Villafranca de los Barros tegula is one of the most unique epigraphic testimonies of late Roman times. It is the only known example of an epistle written in Latin that was reproduced in the clay, still fresh, of a roof tile. The text informs us about the organisation of the agricultural holdings of the Late Roman Empire, the so-called Roman villas, as well as the living conditions of those who managed and ran them.
Origin and development of inequality and social stratification. The Villafranca de los Barros tegula is one of the most unique epigraphic testimonies of late Roman times. It is the only known example of an epistle written in Latin that was reproduced in the still-fresh clay of a roof tile. The text informs us about the organisation of the agricultural holdings of the Late Roman Empire, the so-called Roman villas, as well as the living conditions of those who managed and ran them.
Mining. Degradation of the landscape. Work organisation. Social inequalities. Slavery.
The study of this set of iron tools provides fundamental information for understanding the complexity of economic activity in a Late Roman villa. The villas of the Republican and High Imperial periods formed the basis of agricultural exploitation and were an essential part of supplying the cities.
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