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Description:: War-mongering politicians. Dispatched weapons inspectors. Faulty intelligence dossiers exaggerating threats. Domestic deliberations surrounding the necessity for war. Previous and complicated histories of combat. If one …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Del Terzo, David (creator); Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor); Reed, Joseph (reader); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Punic wars; Ancient Rome; Carthage; Masinissa, King of Numidia, approximately 240 B.C.-148 B.C.; Cato the Elder; Treaty of 201; Polybius; Livy; Appian; Plutarch; War on Terrorism (2001-2009); Iraq War (2003-2011); Weapons of mass destruction; Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021; Cheney, Richard B.; Paul Wolfowitz; Powell, Colin L.; Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-; Manufacturing war; Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
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Description:: While modern associations of chaste female behavior may raise ideas of prudish maidens and celibacy, Roman models of women’s chastity centered around marriage; woman was …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Quesada, Kristen P. (creator); Bodel, John (thesis advisor); Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Church history--Primitive and early church; Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.; Women in the Catholic Church; Ancient Rome; Chastity--Law and legislation; St. Paul; Women in Christianity--Early church; Christianity and culture--Early church
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