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    Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Росто́вцев; November 10 [O.S. October 29] 1870 – October 20, 1952), was a Russian...
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    thus ‘indirectly’ the result of the barbarian invasion. Historian Michael Rostovtzeff and economist Ludwig von Mises both argued that unsound economic...
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    sanctuary was at Hierapolis, modern Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, Syria. Michael Rostovtzeff called her "the great mistress of the North Syrian lands". Her consort...
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    term is believed to have been coined by the scholar of antiquity, Michael Rostovtzeff, for his work O Blijnem Vostoke, published in English as Caravan...
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    Istanbul: Kayık Yayıncılık. Rostovtzeff, M. (1938). Dura-europos And Its Art. Retrieved 23 December 2021. Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch (1977). The Excavations...
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    similarities to Homer's account of the Pygmaioi warring with cranes. Michael Rostovtzeff found a rendering of the subject in the Vault of Pygmies near Kerch...
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    of the Later Roman Empire. CE 284–641, 2nd ed., Blackwell, 2015. Michael Rostovtzeff (rev. P. Fraser), The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire...
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    "primitivist" camps. On one hand, the modernist view—largely associated with Michael Rostovtzeff and Eduard Meyer—argues that the Hellenistic economies operated along...
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    discoveries. The classical archaeologist and director of the excavations, Michael Rostovtzeff, realized that the art of the first centuries AD from Palmyra, Dura...
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    frequented the bay and established the colony of Bata on the shore. Michael Rostovtzeff explained this by the lack of any other decent harbours along the...
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