The systematic assignment and use of official street names and house numbers is a modern phenomenon, which was only developed since the eighteenth century. Before the creation of street addresses people had to rely on other ...

Historical films and if they represent the truth or not. This thesis looks at how Livia is portrayed on screen throughout the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century and the ancient sources and if they have ...

De rol van vrouwen aan het hof van Keizer Nero en de beeldvorming hierbij wordt onderzocht door te richten op antieke geschiedschrijvers als Suetonius en Tacitus, en hierbij 3 vrouwen in het bijzonder, Agrippina Minor, de ...

Jerry B. Pierce verdedigt in zijn stuk ‘To do or die manfully: performing heteronormativity in recent epic films’ de stelling dat antagonisten in films over de oudheid vaak homoseksueel zijn en protagonisten vaak heteroseksueel. ...

To summarise: the emperor considered the gods to be representative of the highest moral standard. They were to be the role models for a pious life, and were responsible for everything the natural world had afforded humanity. ...