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Poet as poem: The intermedial staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love
Abstract Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) offers the audience a dream‐like voyage through the post‐mortem reminiscences of the central character, A. E. Housman. The attempt to resurrect Housman, as the historical figure in real life, is suspended by the intertextual incorporation of Housman's poems, the both fictive and enigmatically private
Huayu Yang, Bowen Wang
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Athény: velmoc a válka v Aischylově dramatu
Using the example of Aeschylus’ tragedies Persians, Agamemnon, and Eumenides, the author shows how a native Athenian and soldier worked with the theme of war.
Daneš, Jaroslav
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Aeschylus, in a fragmentary passage of his lost tragedy Phorkides, describes the moment in which Perseus «like a boar (aschedoros)» goes in the gorgonian cavern.
Marco Giuman
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Die Tragödie des Entscheidens / The Tragedy of Making Decisions [PDF]
Eine Anmerkung zu den “Eumeniden” des Aischylos. Die “Orestie” des Aischylos endet mit der Einsetzung des Areopags, des Gerichtshofes, der den Menschen zur Selbstverantwortung verhilft und aus den Rachegöttinnen “Wohlgesinnte”, Eumeniden, werden lässt.
Marie Theres Fögen
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Creativity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy: The Politics of Demiourgein
ABSTRACT Where does creativity come from and what is its purpose? The paper revisits these ever‐turning questions to correct the prevalent but, arguably, inaccurate historical interpretation of creativity as a concept that emerged in modernity. First, I substantiate that a close study of the ancient Greek texts suggests that although creativity seems ...
Brokalaki Zafeirenia
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Pelopidarum secunda: a ‘site of memory’ in the history of Elizabethan revenge tragedy
Abstract Pelopidarum secunda is an understudied anonymous English adaptation of Seneca's Agamemnon and Sophocles' Electra. The play is preserved only in manuscript and was probably performed at Winchester College around 1590. Through a combination of Marvin Carlson's notions of ‘ghosting’ and of the ‘site of memory’ with a neo‐historicist approach, the
Angelica Vedelago
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The antagonism between deontological and teleological conceptions of law can be felt throughout the field of law. It is particularly pressing, however, in the context of what is commonly referred to as ‘transitional justice’. Should the legal response to
Lukas van den Berge, Christiaan Caspers
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Abstract In this article, I explore the relationships between how humans have evolved to interact with the material world and how we interact with our information worlds. I argue that shaping processes, exemplified by how early humans created stone tools, are core ways to interact with the world that are appropriated to interact with information to ...
Ian Ruthven
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Au nom du père : la malédiction paternelle en Grèce ancienne
From the poems of the Epic Cycle (Oedipodia, Thebaid) and the Greek tragedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides), this article deals with the forms and the expression of the paternal curse in the Greek myths through the examples of Oedipus, Theseus and
Jean-Baptiste Bonnard
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Greco-Persian wars: View from Persia
The aim of this paper is to examine some of the evidences, both Old-Persian and Greek ones, which can reflect Persian views on the Greco-Persian wars. The paper is based on the comparative analysis of the Persian epigraphic material and Greek literary ...
E.V. Rung, E.A. Venidiktova
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