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Contextualisation of Selected Israelite Sacred Cultic Elements and Practices in Cherubim and Seraphim Churches, in Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Determining when and where flood strikes can be a daunting task. Apart from heavy and prolonged rainfalls and river overflows, there are anthropogenic causal factors of flooding. These anthropogenic factors are significantly variable and exacerbate floods, but may be difficult to measure. This study aims to unravel some of the anthropogenic factors, particularly with respect to their contributions to the flood in Ibadan City on 26 August 2011. Data were collected through structured questionnaire and key informant interviews. The August 2011 Ibadan flood was perhaps the worst in the history of this ancient city. Twelve anthropogenic factors are broadly identified as having contributed to the flood and the flood had five major consequences. Some policy implications that can help prevent future flood occurrence are outlined. 2 results 2
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- The ancient Roman society was not duplicitous about its socioeconomic dependence upon slaves. This paper, while presenting the developments that brought about slavery or slave conditions during the late Republic and at the beginning of the Roman Empire, dwells on the role of the Roman upper classes in making slaves constant features of Roman agriculture, industry, domestic life, entertainment and virtually all other facets of Roman life. The paper illustrates the upper classes' taste for slavery and their principal part as the promoters of the institution with Plutarch's reference to the Roman statesman, Cato, in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. With the active and preponderant role of the wealthy and influential Romans' use of slaves to function and maintain their political, social, and economic life at this time, the paper notes that Rome's historical pre-eminence would be non- existent without slaves. Therefore, it is concluded that the record of the Roman upper classes in creating slavery conditions and in entrenching slavery suggests that a successful fight against slavery in any form could only mean a deliberate fight against the rich and the powerful or breaking free from the yoke of the oppressors whose desire for slaves is unending. A study on Roman stories of manumission would be a good follow up to this work. 2 results 2
- The axiom, ‘it takes two to tango’ may fittingly describe how corruption thrives. While demonstrably endemic in and seemingly generic to Africa, the ancient history of corruption depicts active participation of Western accomplices; collaborators, who perpetrated and advanced their political interests with the proceeds of sleaze. This article, using the Roman historian Sallust’s Bellum Iugurthinum (The War with Jugurtha), employs interpretive approach to highlight how an African monarch was spurred on by corrupt leading Roman senator, who treated public assets as personal property, to recklessly pursue his political ambition. The article highlighted how Roman soldiers introduced the use of money in seeking power to Jugurtha and the stages of the former’s duplicity in the prolonged African conflicts. With evidence to support Jugurtha’s description of Rome in her corrupt state as ‘urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit’ (a city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser- Sallust, Jugurthine War 35.10), the conclusion is: the African ruler got in the Roman senate a viral school of bribery. Interestingly, the episode of corruption ended when the will of the corrupt Roman senators was thwarted. Therefore, mitigating corruption could begin from the West that hosts its influential accomplices. 2 results 2
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- Ancient Rome and her peoples have been portrayed in written texts back, then and in modem times, as having a culture of institutionalized violence. They have been portrayed as brutal, belligerent and unforgiving people who enjoy violence with an obsession for causing pain and suffering on their victims. Marcus Anneus Lucanus, in his De Bello Civili, chronicles the role of the Roman leadership and the violent nature of Roman society as depicted in the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey that eventually led to the collapse of the Republic. Earlier works by scholars such as Fanthant, Johnson, Joyce and others, have focused basically on historical account of the horrors of the fratricidal war in ancient Rome and the role of these protagonists (Pompey, Caesar). Yet others, like Widows were concerned with the misdating or misreading of the textual data. This paper however, aims at examining the role played by the leadership and the violent nature of the Romans, through a philological analysis of the poetics of Lucan’s delineation of this culture of conflicts and violence in his De Bello Civili, to show possible convergences and divergences of this culture in the ancient and modem world. The paper contends that the culture of violence as shown in the activities of the leadership and the Roman people, was responsible for the devastating fratricidal civil war that led to the collapse of ancient Roman Empire. The article concludes that the culture of violence is not a peculiarity of the ancient Romans, but that given such parameters that arc consistent with the theories of criminology, modem societies could suffer similar fate. 1 results 1
- Ancient and modern authors such as Eusebius of Caeserea, Flavius Josephus, Lanctatius, Cutaru, Nicholson, Torres and several others have variously discussed Emperor Constantine's conversion to the Christian religion. While some have argued about the sincerity of his conversion consequent on his tolerance and participation in some non-Christian rites, others contend that his conversion to the Christian faith was not in doubt. This paper intends to examine Emperor Constantine and his cross, with a view to interrogating his strategy of adopting the cross as a means to achieve victory. The study argued that Constantine's desire to defeat Maxentius, motivated him to accept and adopl a strategy, albeit unpopular, in order to deal a decisive blow on the enemy. This study further argued that the cross of Emperor Constantine consequently had a great impact on the Roman political, cultural and religious spaces. The study adopts a historical methodology as it considered this question of the cross in antiquity. Further studies may critically examine the roles of succeeding emperors to the fate of Christianity in the Roman Empire. 1 results 1
- Ancient authors such as Plutarch, Appian and Diodorus Siculus narrate the histories of the several wars that the Seleucid Empire was involved in. Modem authors draw from the works of ancient authors in discussing governance and exclusiveness of the Seleucids in their relationship with the people in their sphere of control, the personalities . of the Seleucid rulers, especially Seleucus I Nicator and Antiochus III the Great, with little attention paid to the battles of the Seleucid Empire. This paper, therefore, attempts to examine the battles fought by the Seleucid Empire, with a view to interrogating the strategies employed during the battles, the essence of some of these battles and the peace treaties drawn in the course of the battles. The paper adopts John Mearsheimer's theory of offensive realism as its aid in the discourse of the frequent battles. The paper also implements a historical methodology as it further provides a trajectory of the battles and some of the strategies deployed by the Seleucids in engaging heir enemies. Studies that may examine the tactics employed by the Seleucid rulers in the Syrian wars are recommended. 1 results 1
- Ancient physicians such as Herodicus, Hippocrates and Galen recommended exercises as panacea for healthy living in antiquity. Modern scholars such as Christos and Tipton have variously demonstrated the importance of exercises and sports in ancient and modem European societies citing exercises as treatments for some illnesses by the doctor in the Hippocratic Corpus. This paper examined the importance of exercise in antiquity and modernity, even as it serves as a catholicon for healthy living, with a view to identifying the values and relevance of exercise in dealing with illnesses and promoting good health. Sallis and Owen behavioural epidemiology was adopted as theoretical framework. The historical and comparative methodologies were adopted as the study examined the historical trajectory and cross-cultural variations of exercise in antiquity and today’s world. The discourse in this study demonstrated that exercise has been functional as medicine and for healthy living in antiquity and modernity. Medical practitioners, exercise physiologists, including laymen understand its importance and further recommend exercise suitable for people of varying ages. Further studies may be designed to examine low to medium and medium to high intensity exercise and its health implications. 1 results 1
- As long as man lives and as long as societies relate together, conflict is inevitable. Therefore, for peace to reign in various communities, traditional societies had developed a well-defined structure for resolution of conflicts. In ancient times, particularly in Rome and Yoruba land, conflict resolution was done in conjunction with the council of chiefs and elders. Existing studies on the resolution of conflicts have mainly focused on the modern methods which, over the years, have not yielded any significant result because their modes of Operation are at variant with the custom and culture of the people. This paper examines how the traditional Romans and Yoruba resolved conflicts through the use of traditional rulers, that is, the paterfamilias and Mo ga ji' (family head), Baale (compound head), Baa' le ‘(community head) and the O ba (town head). It explores how such traditional role could be brought to bear in the Contemporary society, where ethno-religious and resource control conflicts which have resulted in wanton destruction of lives and properties in many countries of the world. This study adopts a comparative approach to highlight how conflicts were settled at various levels of administration in ancient Rome and the traditional Yoruba society. The paper concludes by suggesting how the ancient methods can be re- incorporated into the modern methods of conflict resolution in various communities, especially Nigeria. 1 results 1
- As never before, sexual abuse is rife in modern human society. Tracing the beginnings of sexual perversions to ancient Greece where pederasty was institutionalised, this paper attempts a conceptual distillation between paedophilia and pederasty. Given that pederasty in ancient Greece was an institutionalised part of aristocracy, existing between an adult male, erastes, and a pre-adolescent boy, the eromenos, some scholars have argued that paedophilia is an offshoot of this Greek practice. These scholars make references to canonical philosophical writings by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes inter alia as authority to prop their arguments for indulging the modern phenomena of paedophilia as well as homosexuality by extension. The arguments presented, in this study, bifurcates pederasty from paedophilia by drawing copiously from the sociological and psychological perspectives in deconstructing those widely held views on both sexual Orientations. The study reveals that the former is a norm that left a multiplier effect as the pederast mentee developed to the extent of becoming a pederast mentor, thereby promoting sustainable development in ancient Greece. The study concludes that both concepts exist on different orientational pedestals with pederasty to be lauded for its gains and paedophilia to be condemned for its evils against the innocent child victim 1 results 1
- Athenian Greek 1 results 1
- Classical authors such as Livy, Marcus Aurelius, Dio Cassius have all, in their treatises on the ancient Roman society mentioned occurrences of plagues and their devastating effects on both humans and animals. In analyzing the plagues, some Modern commentaries on the Greaco-Roman world have postulated different theories and have drawn conclusions as to what these plagues actually were for ancient authors merely mentioned the diseases as plagues or epidemics. Modem authors on Ibadan have also mentioned the regular occurrences of the cholera epidemics in the city. The aim of this paper is to examine the plagues or epidemics that occurred in the Greaco-Roman world and the cholera epidemics in Ibadan. It attempts to examine factors responsible for the plagues and epidemics in both societies and the methods adopted in combating the epidemics. This paper concludes with the thrust that because the ancients were not fully conversant with these plagues, high mortality was recorded. For modern Ibadan, lack of safe water, proper sanitation and food safety among others, caused the preponderance and repeated occurrences of the cholera epidemics and its effects in Ibadan. Further studies can interrogate alternative medicine towards health care in the events of plagues and epidemics in both ancient Rome and modem Ibadan 1 results 1
- Climate & Atmospheric Sciences 1 results 1
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