Central Europe

This category is meant for anything outside the Roman world, except for the German tribes.

There are 60 items in Central Europe:

Sarmatians

Sarmatians: coalition of Iranian nomadic tribes, which moved gradually from the Caspian plains to eastern Europe and threatened the Roman empire. …

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Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum

Stuttgart, the pleasant, modern capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, is built around an old castle, which is one of the locations of the Württembergisches Landesmuseum. There are several departments, and among these is a comparatively small…

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Synesius, Letter 067

Synesius of Cyrene (c.370-c.413) was a Neo-Platonic philosopher who became bishop of Ptolemais in the Cyrenaica. He left behind a small corpus of texts that offer much information about daily life in Late Antiquity, and about the christianization of the…

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Synesius, Letter 080

Synesius of Cyrene (c.370-c.413) was a Neo-Platonic philosopher who became bishop of Ptolemais in the Cyrenaica. He left behind a small corpus of texts that offer much information about daily life in Late Antiquity, and about the christianization of the…

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