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My field of expertise is Ancient Greek and Roman History.

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Over 25 years teaching experience.

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I received my Ph.D.from Genova University (Italy).

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2009-11-19 Ancient Greek authors:

Hello, First of all the correct English adjective is “Sotadic”, not “Sodatic” where there is a metathesis, i.e. a transposition of two phonemes in a word, since in "Sodatic" we have a -d- instead

2009-11-15 History: Rome:

Hello, For the Romans the concept of “freedom” (“libertas” in Latin) was closely connected with the concept of citizenship, i.e. the status of a citizen with its attendant duties and full political

2009-10-25 Ancient Rome:

Hello, since your real question is whether there is a gap between theory and practice of the power of the paterfamilias, I have to tell you that such a gap did not exist during the Roman monarchy

2009-10-23 Ancient Greek Theatre - Actors:

Hello, in ancient Greek theatre the actors were always men and women were not allowed to play a part in a tragedy or comedy as they had very few rights. Therefore the only one reason why women were

2009-10-02 How 'Rome' can be perceived:

Hello, Actually Rome and its great civilization has been a real fact, of course, not only an idea, since first the Roman Kingdom (753 BC-509 BC) within central Italy only, later the Roman Republic

 

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