Empowering beginning EL teachers in literacy pedagogical practices

Ieromonah GHELASIE GHEORGHE - Memoriile unui isihast Vol 1

Ieromonah GHELASIE GHEORGHE - Memoriile unui isihast Vol 1

Neo-Lithics, 2024

J. Francis, M. J. Curtis (eds.), Contextualizing Imperial Disruption and Upheavals and their Associated Research Challenges, Oxford-Philadelphia 2024, 7-15 (Cretan Studies: New Approaches and Perspectives in the Study of Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete 1), 2024

This paper will start with two manumission inscriptions found in the 1950s during excavations of the Asklepieion at Lissos and recently published by Martha W. Baldwin Bowsky (Lissos. Inscriptions Found in Excavations of the Asklepieion, Athens 2021, 80–86, no 21 and 22 [AURA Suppl. 7]). Paleographically supported dating of them, broadly fixed by the editor princeps at the second century AD, may be refined to the reign of Hadrian thanks to comparison with regional, west-Cretan epigraphic evidence. At first glance, they seem to reflect no more than certain features of Cretan slavery specifically related to a new socio-economic framework in Imperial times, when the island was entirely integrated into an enormous pacified commercial area in the Roman Empire. But if we attempt to consider them in connection with minor epigraphic testimony uncovered towards the end of the 19th century in Anopolis (ICret II ii 1), a small city located some thirty kilometres eastward from Lissos, a completely different insight becomes possible. The latter, paleographically dated to the first century BC, is quite a puzzling epitaph: although its onomastics, including patronymic filiation, is purely Greek, it simultaneously reveals Roman lexical and conceptual influence by use of the Latin word patronus, transliterated into the Greek πάτρων. Such a common term belonging to the Roman social register would betray a client-patron relationship, largely corresponding to the paramone relationship established in the Greek world between a freedman/freedwoman and his/her former master/mistress in the wake of manumission, and as a kind of useful prolongation of his/her previous servile status. If so, one should probably approach the epitaph against the background of the disruption of Cretan slavery patterns at the end of the second century BC, when communal slavery (i.e. serfdom) definitively disappears all over the island, due to a profound and relatively rapid modification of its socio-economic conditions. Seen in this light, both the epitaph from Anopolis and the two manumission inscriptions from Lissos would demonstrate a local adaptation to disturbances which occurred just before the island fell under the power of the Romans. Are you interested in reading the whole paper? Please do not hesitate to let me know – I will send you a complete offprint by email.

Telangana Today 5 Dec 2023

Nongqai, Vol 15; No 8, 2024

FAPLA intended to recapture Xangongo and advance on Ongiva in 1982. Operation Meebos was launched by the SADF to destroy PLAN capacity to mobilize, with the main thrust towards Cuvelai north of Ongiva. Simultaneously a small armoured unit from 10 Armoured Car Squadron was deployed to Xangongo to recover a Russian T34/85 tank shot out during Operation Protea. This was part of a deception strategy to discourage FAPLA to advance. Parts of the recovered tank were used to create the Southern Africa Medal, based on the history of the Victoria Cross that uses metal from the cascabel of captured guns in the Crimean War. The tank recovery took place on the same day that a SAAF Puma was shot down killing all crew and paratroopers on board.

Mohr Siebeck eBooks, 2019

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2013