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HYPSISTOS CULTS IN THE GREEK WORLD DURING THE ROMAN IMPERIUM [PDF]
, 2014 Between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, there was a rise in inscriptions dedicated to gods given the epithet hypsistos (“most high”). This growth raises questions about the beliefs and composition of the cult or cults that set up these dedications.
Mueller, Mark
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What’s in a Divine Name? [PDF]
Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which address the multiple functions and ...
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Towards a grammar of theatrical blindness [PDF]
, 2018 Since the fifth century, the theatre has been a place for seeing. In spite of this, blind figures repeatedly appear on the stage, from Oedipus, Polymestor, Tiresias and the Cyclops to Shakespeare's Gloucester, Beckett's Hamm, Friel's Molly Sweeney and
Ward, Marchella
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Peripheral backwater or innovative upland? : patterns of Franciscan patronage in renaissance Perugia, c. 1390 - 1527 [PDF]
, 2008 In 1400, Perugia had little home-grown artistic talent and relied upon foreign painters to provide its major altarpieces. A century later, this situation had been reversed with Perugino, Pintoricchio and Raphael all active in the city.
Lyle, B
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Callimachus and Catullus in a Quest for Liberty [PDF]
, 2017 Although studies of Callimachus’s crucial influence upon Catullus abound, my thesis purports to provide new insights to an old question. I argue that Callimachus bequeaths a quest for liberty to Catullus. Each of the three chapters devotes its Greek half
SBERNA, DANIELE
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Classical studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia) have had several beginnings. As a separate academic discipline, classical philology was introduced to the university curriculum by Professor Karl Morgenstern right after the re-establishment of the ...
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Epigraphic Bulletin for Greek Religion 1997 [PDF]
, 2011 Chaniotis, Angelos +1 more
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Performing Interpersonal Violence [PDF]
This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy.
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Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual. Ancient cultures were not indifferent to this grim and painful moment and ‘the unknown beyond’.
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