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Nietzsche on the good of cultural change
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 927-949, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper attributes to Nietzsche a theory of cultural development according to which pyramid societies—steeply hierarchical societies following a unified morality—systematically alternate with motley societies, which emerge when pyramid societies encounter other cultures or allow their strict mores to relax. Motley societies contain multiple
Rachel Cristy
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If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 285-310, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Many of Heidegger’s statements about language should sound familiar to linguistic anthropologists, starting with the pragmatic‐indexical functions of speaking (in Sein und Zeit) and continuing, in later years, with something resembling linguistic relativity.
Alessandro Duranti
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Technai e prerogative divine sulla scena del teatro di Eschilo*
Mythos, 2017 The paper investigates so-called technai in Aeschylus’ works, particularly with regard to the role attributed to the Gods as primary, if not unique actors and discoverers of technical knowledge.
Franco Giorgianni
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Sommerstein. Aeschylus, Suppliants
Lexis, 2020 Review of Aeschylus (2019). Suppliants. Edited by Alan H. Sommerstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 404 pp.
Garvie, Alex F.
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Ambiguità e doppiezza del Prometeo eschileo
Il castello di Elsinore, 2020 This essay, an examination of Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound”, is an attempt to move away from the traditional approach to the play, which has tended to exalt the character of Prometheus as a benefactor of humanity, against the tyrannical power of Zeus ...
Roberto Alonge
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On the correct way to supplicate the gods in Seven against Thebes
Ágora, 2023 The Chorus in Seven against Thebes is made up of maidens who have the important task of supplicating the gods in the crucial moment before battle, and they must do so correctly for their plea to be effective.
Marta González González
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Aitia, 2022 This article offers a reading of the description of the Battle of Actium that closes the ekphrasis of the Shield (Aeneid, 8.671–728) in light of the description of the defeat of Salamis in Aeschylus’ Persians.
Florence Klein
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Il castello di Elsinore, 2020 The experience of the University Theatre of Padua, directed by Gianfranco de Bosio, began in 1946 and ended in 1953. The shows that mark, respectively, beginning and end are: Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers and A Man is a Man by Bertolt Brecht.
Maria Rita Simone
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Critical Stages, 2021 In 2003, Theodoros Terzopoulos, the internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director, staged a performance which was based on fragments of ancient Greek dramas written by Aeschylus; the play he created was called Epigonoi.
Menelaos Karantzas
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Ancient Greek theater as a school for the city: why Socrates was not a theatergoer [PDF]
HypothekaiThe article explores the phenomenon of ancient Greek theater, portraying it as a unique space where an entire cityscape unfolded before the eyes of thousands of spectators.
Victoria
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