Sih,?Notice having been taken in several Indian newspapers of the article which appeared in the British Medical Journal of the 15th of April, questioning the validity of my statements on the above subject and more especially asserting, in my opinion, most rashly and erroneously that the advance of vaccination in the Madras Presidency was in bygone days supported by falsified Sanscrit writings, ...

CCIV112 Three Great Myths: Prometheus, Persephone, and Dionysus This course is a detailed analysis of three important myths from classical antiquity, the stories of Prometheus, Persephone, and Dionysus. We will examine both literary and visual representations from antiquity. We will also consider how these myths live on in the Western tradition. Offering: Host Grading: OPT Credits: 1.00 Gen Ed ...

Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 350 / April 2016, pp 376 392 DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.6, Published online: 06 April 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X16000065 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith, Thomas W. Gillespie, Scott Barron and Kanika Kalra (2016). Finding history: the locational geography of Ashokan inscriptions in the Indian subcontinent. Antiq...

The bee fossil record is fragmentary, making it difficult to accurately estimate the antiquity of bee-mediated pollination. Here, we describe a bee fossil [Melittosphex burmensis (new species), Melittosphecidae (new family)] from Early Cretaceous Burmese amber (approximately 100 million years before the present). The fossil provides insights into the morphology of the earliest bees and provides...

Late Antiquity, known as a transitory phase between Antiquity and the Middle Ages that encompasses 4th-6th centuries, was characterized by major historical events led not only to political administrative changes, but also social, cultural religious changes. This paper will elaborate impact of these changes in province Dardania, which central territory corresponds today’s Kosovo, with specific f...

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarize the current state of scholarship in their specialized fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Ro...