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Refracted Truth and Multivalent Meaning in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

open access: yesReligions
As the characters of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon grapple with the violence drowning the house of Atreus, the audience and reader encounter a tangle of contradictory interpretations. The playwright supplies no map for navigating these tortured paths.
Doug Clapp
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Text and Transmission [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The modern reader may encounter the Greek text of Euripides' surviving plays in many forms: in print either in complete editions or in separate editions of single plays published with translations or commentaries or both, and in digital form at well ...
Bousquet   +33 more
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Creativity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy: The Politics of Demiourgein

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 227-244, June 2024.
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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Die Tragödie des Entscheidens / The Tragedy of Making Decisions [PDF]

open access: yesAncilla Iuris, 2007
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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The Right and the Good in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Yael Farber’s Molora:<br>Transitional Justice between Deontology and Teleology

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2015
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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The Language of the cybersouls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Debates about technology are mostly staged in a grand setting: presented as the sinister toolkit of authoritarian organisations, or as the progressive fabric of the future.
Monk, John
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Pelopidarum secunda: a ‘site of memory’ in the history of Elizabethan revenge tragedy

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 394-415, June 2024.
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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?????? ???? ?????? ????` ??????????: An Homeric Device in Greek Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
published or submitted for ...
Wilson, John R.
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Information shaping

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 469-482, April 2024.
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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Faber/Vates. Historische en mythologische modellen voor de kunstenaarsrol in de oudheid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
What do we mean when we call someone an ‘artist’? There’s something about the word that eludes definition. For besides the skills of a craftsman (faber, in Latin), the artist is supposed to possess a certain indefinable, privileged insight or inspiration
Sels, Nadia
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