Late Roman Intelligence · 250–500 AD
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Wilson and McCarty publish the Močići sanctuary above ancient Epidaurum (modern Cavtat, Croatia), where Mithras worship from the second through the mid-fourth century turned on a natural limestone cave and spring rather than on a constructed bench-lined room.
Dunbabin — the foremost living authority on Roman dining iconography — reviews Hudson's 2024 monograph on the material culture of late antique dining (4th–7th centuries) in the eastern Mediterranean.
Whelan (Liverpool) asks how Christian officials — courtiers, bureaucrats, governors — across the later Roman Empire and its post-Roman successor kingdoms (Ostrogothic, Vandal, Burgundian, Merovingian, Visigothic) understood the compatibility of public service with Christian…
Bonura (Berkeley) reads the Book of Daniel's four-kingdoms scheme as the operative political theology of the Christian Roman Empire from Eusebius onward — Rome as the fourth and final kingdom, its endurance underwritten by scriptural prophecy.
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