Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire

Jones, A. H. M.; Marrou, Henri-Irénée

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“…Since the 1920s and the work of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov [67], we have known that the staple crops that provide a majority of all human calories originated in 7-10 geographic hot spots with the most genetic diversity [68]. These hot spots are almost exclusively in the Global South.…”

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Monocropping Cultures into Ruin: The Loss of Food Varieties and Cultural Diversity

Jacques

2012

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Abstract:The loss of genetic diversity of thousands of plants and crops has been well documented at least since the 1970s, and has been understood as a result of epistemological and political economic conditions of the Green Revolution. The political economic arrangement of the Green Revolution, alongside a post-war focus on economies of scale and export-oriented growth, replace high-yield single varieties of crops for a diverse array of varieties that may not have the same yield, but may be able to resist pests, disease, and changing climatic conditions. Also, the harvest does not flow in all directions equally: Whereas small holder subsistence farming uses a large variety of crops as a food source and small-scale trade, the industrial economic system requires simplified, machine harvested ship-loads of one variety of maize, for example. Diverse varieties of different crops confound the machines, whereas one variety of wheat can be harvested with one setting on a machine. However, none of this is new. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the twin concerns of lost varietals and lost cultures are bound together in the socio-political process of standardization, and to explain some areas of resistance.

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Monocropping Cultures into Ruin: The Loss of Food Varieties and Cultural Diversity

Jacques

2012

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“…13,45 Bewaarders van die keiserlike slaapkwartiere (cubicularii) was later feitlik uitsluitlik eunugs -gewoonlik slawe of vrygemaaktes uit Armenië of Persië. 46 As gevolg van die intieme huishoudelike verhoudings met keisers en hulle vroue het hierdie eunugs dikwels hul gesagsposisies gebruik (en misbruik) om eie en landsake te manipuleer. So het hulle in groeiende onguns by regerende Romeine en die Senaat geraak.…”

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“…So het hulle in groeiende onguns by regerende Romeine en die Senaat geraak. 11,46 As kaptein van die lyfwag (spatharius) was Chrysaphius onder Theodosius II 'n belangrike en geëerde amptenaar, terwyl Eutherius as hoofamptenaar (praepositus) van Julianus, ook algemeen gerespekteer was. Eusebius, praepositus van Constantius II, was 'n berugte manipuleerder en onder Arcadius feitlik staatshoof.…”

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Eunuchs in classical mythology and society

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Cilliers

2002

Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskr Natuurwetenskap Tegnol

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UITTREKSELDie konsep, eunug, wat na 'n gekastreerde persoon (gewoonlik manlik) verwys, het sy oorsprong in die mitologie. Van Dit is waarskynlik by diere (manlik en vroulik) uitgevoer lank voordat dit by die mens (en dan gewoonlik by mans) toegepas is.2 Geskrifte uit Vediese Indië, en die Griekeland van Homeros verwys na kastrering van veral perde en beeste en Strabo vermeld dat die Skithe en Samaritane dit van oudsher toegepas het, hoofsaaklik om die diere meer hanteerbaar te maak en beesvleis meer eetbaar.2 Wanneer kastrering van die mens begin het, is onseker. Daar is goeie rede om te aanvaar dat dit reeds teen die einde van die tweede millennium v.C. in gebruik was en dat dit waarskynlik in die Midde-Ooste by veral Semitiese volke ontstaan het. 2'n Deel van die probleem is linguisties van aard omdat die oud-Hebreeuse woord saris wat as "eunug" vertaal word, ook ander betekenisse gehad het. In hierdie studie word die oorsprong van die eunugkonsep vanuit die mitologie nagevors en die toepassing daarvan tot aan die einde van die klassieke periode (ongeveer die 6de eeu n.C.) deurgevolg. MITOLOGIESE OORSPRONGDaar was verskeie skeppingsmites, veral in die Midde-Ooste onder Semitiese volke, wat die bestaan van twee kosmiese oerentiteite, naamlik die lug (uitspansel) en die aarde, gepostuleer het, wat uit 'n intieme seksuele omhelsing geskeur moes word ten einde die skepping moontlik te maak.1 Hierdie losskeurproses het gepaard gegaan met verwonding van die oerkragte, en dit word deur sommige kenners gesien as 'n moontlike aanloop tot die konsep van religieuse kastrering wat reeds vroeg mitologies gestalte gekry het. 1,3 In Griekse kosmogene mitologie soos onder andere deur Hesiodos beskryf, was Uranos die oergod van die lug en Gaia die oergodin van die aarde, en uit hul gemeenskap het oerwesens, die Titane, ontstaan. Verskeie variasies van hierdie verhaal bestaan, maar in almal word Uranos eventueel gestraf omdat hy sy prokreasie-opdrag wangebruik het, onder andere deur later die pasgebore goddelike wesens te vernietig of weer in die baarmoeder terug te druk. Na aanhitsing deur Gaia (wat deur Uranos misbruik is) het Kronos sy vader se geslagsdele afgesny. Die bloed uit die wond het op Gaia gedrup, haar bevrug en so is Afrodite, godin van liefde, gebore. As straf is Kronos op sy beurt weer deur sy kind, Zeus, ontman.

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“…Fortunatus would have automatically become a senator like his father, with the attendant financial obligations, unless granted an exemption (excusatio) by the emperors. It also appears, as Jones (1973Jones ( : 530, 1223) points out, that admission to the Senate was 12 centenaria (1200 pounds of gold) to 40 centenaria (4000 pounds), but these are mentioned as unusually high amounts. 21 All senators were clarissimi, but not all clarissimi were senators: chAstAgnol 1986: 74.…”

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The last lusitanian senator

Curchin¹

2010

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A navegação consulta e descarregamento dos títulos inseridos nas Bibliotecas Digitais UC Digitalis, UC Pombalina e UC Impactum, pressupõem a aceitação plena e sem reservas dos Termos e Condições de Uso destas Bibliotecas Digitais, disponíveis em https://digitalis.uc.pt/pt-pt/termos.Conforme exposto nos referidos Termos e Condições de Uso, o descarregamento de títulos de acesso restrito requer uma licença válida de autorização devendo o utilizador aceder ao(s) documento(s) a partir de um endereço de IP da instituição detentora da supramencionada licença.Ao utilizador é apenas permitido o descarregamento para uso pessoal, pelo que o emprego do(s) título(s) descarregado(s) para outro fim, designadamente comercial, carece de autorização do respetivo autor ou editor da obra.Na medida em que todas as obras da UC Digitalis se encontram protegidas pelo Código do Direito de Autor e Direitos Conexos e demais legislação aplicável, toda a cópia, parcial ou total, deste documento, nos casos em que é legalmente admitida, deverá conter ou fazer-se acompanhar por este aviso. The last lusitanian senator Autor(es):Curchin, Leonard A. sumArio: El último senador lusitano que conocemos es Valerius Fortunatus, mencionado en la Oración VIII de Symmaco. Se presenta aquí una traducción anotada de la misma, con una discusión de la familia y la carrera de este senador.

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Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire

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Monocropping Cultures into Ruin: The Loss of Food Varieties and Cultural Diversity

Monocropping Cultures into Ruin: The Loss of Food Varieties and Cultural Diversity

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