The ‘Black’ Danube: Life and Poetry in the Forced Labour Camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal by Roxana Elena DONCU

“…Although the Danube-Black Sea Canal had been one of Ceaușescu’s pet projects, used by the communist leader to enhance his image as a visionary prophet of the Golden Era of socialism, the idea of a canal that would connect the Danube and the Black Sea may have been as old as ancient Roman history. It is certainly along one of the lines of Trajan’s Wall (Valul lui Traian), running along the Kara Su Valley, that the canal had been imagined, in the 19th century, by various adventurers and travellers. …”
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autiniai stereotipai klasikinėje ir romėniškojoje Graikijoje: Herodotas ir Diodoras apie graikus ir kitus | National stereotypes in classical and Roman Greece: Herodotus and Diodor... by Nijolė Juchnevičienė

“…Rome belongs to the third cultural category. Roman history is a history of an advance of the expansive political power, which can be compared to the history of the Persian empire at the end of the VI century B.C. …”
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Gods, heroes, saints, and friends: ethical exemplarism and practical paideia in Gregory Nazianzen and his peers by Lapsa, BM

“…Against the backdrop of recent work on exemplars in Roman history (Langlands [2018], Roller [2018]) and contemporary metaethics (Zagzebski [2017]), this last chapter provides a much-needed perspective from the late ancient Hellenic world as well as a new framework for understanding the experience of ethical exemplarism more generally. …”

L’epigrafia del Ventennio fascista a Roma tra damnatio memoriae, restauro filologico e antecedenti classici / Epigraphy of the Twenty years of Fascism in Rome: damnatio memoriae, p... by Antonino Nastasi, Silvia Orlandi

“…Aim of the paper is to reflect on the different strategies and approaches towards inscribed texts, also in comparison with similar cases drawn from ancient Roman history and epigraphy. The examples are extremely diverse and complex, since it’s often not easy just removing the texts, given their role as historical witnesses and their nature of monuments and artifacts, not to quote a still imperfect collective reflection about the fascist heritage.…”
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Peri basileias by Murray, O, Murray, Oswyn

Select commentary on Aulus Gellius Book 2 by Holford-Strevens, L, Holford-Strevens, L. A.

“…<p>The book studied consists of thirty unrelated chapters covering natural, ethical, and dialectical philosophy, Roman history, Latin phonology, lexicography, literary criticism, and various other matters. …”

Žigi na rimskih opekah iz depoja Pomorskega muzeja »Sergej Mašera« v Piranu by Elica Boltin Tome

“…For more successful results, collaboration between researchers into this material in the various countries with a common interest in Roman history would also be desirable.…”
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Dvylikos Olimpo dievų vaizdavimas Enijaus Analuose. Depiction of twelve Olympian gods in Ennius’ Annales by Tomas Veteikis

“…Annales of Ennius, partly aimed at survey of Roman history year by year, partly at memorizing Roman heroes and equating them to gods, though had a few antecedant models in Hellenistic epic, remains unrivalled in respect of vastitude and bravery of the innovatory devise. …”
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Two epigraphic-historical notes by Loma Svetlana

“…Authored by one specialist in Roman history and epigraphy and two archaeologists, the book is rather thin and does not provide much new data, apart from the identification of the equestrian officer Tiberius Claudius Gallus with Severus' senator - which was taken from my PhD thesis without citing it - and from two inscriptions, № 20 and № 21, forming the subject of the present paper. …”
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Centocinquant'anni di cultura storico-antichistica in Piemonte (dalla restaurazione agli anni sessanta) by Lellia CRACCO RUGGINI

“…He was replaced as Professor of Greek and Roman History in the University of Turin by Roberto Andreotti (1938-1965). …”
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Orestes and Pylades in Byzantine historiography: Two examples by Korać Dušan, Radić Radivoj

“…In The Alexiad it is a story about the brotherly relations between Alexios and Isaac Komnenoi, and in the Roman Histories Nikephoros Gregoras compares them to two contemporary rulers, two very close allies - the Byzantine emperor John Kantakouzenos and the Seljuk emir Umur. …”
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Persia and the Politics of Muslim Identity from Medieval to Early Modern Romance by Hafiz Abid Masood

“…This had its origin in the Greek and Roman histories translated by the Renaissance humanists into English and other vernaculars. …”
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