This paper is giving some notes on the town-planning of Mediolanum, that is, of the Roman Milano. In particular, we will discuss the orientation of the main street of the Roman town, the Decumanus. It is possible that the Decumanus of Mediolanum had been oriented along the major southern azimuth of moonrise.

An Anglican theologian contends that the claim to absolute protection for the human embryo from the moment of conception is a recent one in the Roman Catholic moral tradition. Citing pre-classical, classical, biblical, and post-biblical Roman Catholic sources, Dunstan argues that these traditions attempted to grade the protection provided to the nascent human being according to the stages of i...

The region of Campania exerted a powerful influence over the Roman cultural imagination. the volcanic landscape around the Bay of naples was blessed with immense natural beauty and abundance but also harbored some of nature’s most violent forces. in this suitably monumental setting, mythological heroes such as Heracles and aeneas were said to have performed famous deeds. campania was, moreover,...

We analyze the graph-theoretic formalization of Roman domination, dating back to the military strategy of Emperor Constantine, from a parameterized perspective. More specifically, we prove that this problem is W[2]-complete for general graphs. However, parameterized algorithms are presented for graphs of bounded treewidth and for planar graphs. Moreover, it is shown that a parametric dual of Ro...