Hadrian

Birley, Anthony R.

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“…In a futile search for causes of the alleged Parthian threat of war and the doubtful Hadrian ' s summit in 123, Birley 77 was able to find but two possible reasons:…”

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Did Hadrian Ever Meet a Parthian King?

Doležal¹

2017

Auc Philologica

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There has been an assumption in the scholarly literature about Emperor Hadrian ' s meeting with a Parthian king in about 123 CE. This assumption, based on a single passage in a source whose veracity and reliability has repeatedly been questioned, cannot be proved and appears to be false. However, Hadrian ' s summit has been accepted without question as a fact in many scholarly books, although some authors chose to ignore this doubtful event. In this article, the whole history of Romano-Parthian relations is briefly summed up and the author tries to point out that, in reality, no summit of heads of these two states ever occurred.

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“…In a futile search for causes of the alleged Parthian threat of war and the doubtful Hadrian ' s summit in 123, Birley 77 was able to find but two possible reasons:…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Did Hadrian Ever Meet a Parthian King?

Doležal¹

2017

Auc Philologica

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“…91 As Birley suggests, the author may even be punning by referring to Trebellius' Fides in passages where he purports to champion the truthfulness of biographies, before embarking on wild inventions. 92 The name Trebellius Pollio thus conveys a particular meaning within the body of the text. He acts as a foil, invented for the author's convenience.…”

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THE HISTORIA AVGVSTA BEFORE MS PAL. LAT. 899: LOST MANUSCRIPTS AND SCRIBAL MEDIATION

Shedd

2021

The Class. Q.

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This article re-evaluates the role of the manuscript tradition of the Historia Augusta in debates over the original contents and authorship of the text. Evidence for physical disruptions to the text before our oldest surviving manuscripts points to an earlier manuscript distributed across multiple codices. A multi-volume archetype eliminates critical arguments against the author's claims about lives missing before the Life of Hadrian as well as in the lacuna for the years a.d. 244–260. Other multi-volume codices of the eighth and ninth centuries show that loss of an initial volume would have disrupted the textual tradition for the index, titles and authorial attributions. Comparison of our most complete early witness, Pal. lat. 899, to the independent branches of the textual tradition shows discrepancies between these paratextual elements as expected in a disrupted tradition. Ultimately, this article concludes that the current debates on authorship and the original scope of the Historia Augusta rest on paratextual elements from a single branch of the manuscript tradition, raising doubts about the centrality of these controversies to understanding the work.

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“…In this paper, we draw upon the role of social capital in personal and business networks to examine their impact on the emergence and growth of the NESCo. 14 A network is a potent asset that provides a firm with access to information, knowledge, capital, power and other networks. 15 There is, however, less agreement on how networks impact on the development and growth of an enterprise.…”

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The genesis of the electricity supply industry in Britain: A case study of NESCo from 1889 to 1914

McGovern

McLean

2016

Business History

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Hadrian

Cited by 39 publications

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Did Hadrian Ever Meet a Parthian King?

Did Hadrian Ever Meet a Parthian King?

THE HISTORIA AVGVSTA BEFORE MS PAL. LAT. 899: LOST MANUSCRIPTS AND SCRIBAL MEDIATION

The genesis of the electricity supply industry in Britain: A case study of NESCo from 1889 to 1914

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