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Aeschylus' geographic imagination
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2009 After reviewing various scholars’ accounts of geographical references in Aeschylus’ plays, some seeing exoticism, some serious geographic knowledge reflecting Ionian science, some focused exclusively on the opposition of Greek and barbarian, I argue that
Peter W. Rose
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Lexis, 2020 This paper attempts a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ satyr-play Heralds. As the myth of Erginus’ heralds and their mutilation by Heracles is shown to be unconvincing on many grounds, it explores the possibility that the satyrs turned up or out as ...
Poli Palladini, Letizia
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Pallas, 2018 This paper investigates how the Chorus of Aeschylus’ Eumenides has been revived on the stage to address modern socio-political issues. First, I focus on Sartre’s The Flies, created in Paris in 1943 during the German occupation.
Daria Francobandiera
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 8-34, February 2026.Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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Oresteia as transformative work [symposium]
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016 Robert Icke's transformative adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia updates its themes and gives it a profound emotional urgency.
Tisha Turk
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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