Results 31 to 40 of about 106,395 (196)

The Educational Bridge Project Fifth Annual Russian Festival: Pushkin's Poetry in Russian Music, October 22, 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is the concert program of the Mariinsky Theater Academy of Young Singers performance on Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 7:00 p.m., at The Castle, 225 Bay State Road.
School of Music, Boston University
core  

You’ve got mail : epistolography, mapping, and authenticity in early literature of Alexander the Great [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Alexander Romance is a conglomerate of many different stories and traditions mingling the historical life of Alexander the Great with fantastic legends.
Anderson, Marleigh
core  

Masculine crusaders, effeminate Greeks, and the female historian: relations of power in Sir Walter Scott's Count Robert of Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Gender employed as a methodological lens in the analysis of historical fiction can help to reveal implicit or explicit evaluative statements. It is deployed here to examine hierarchies in the military, political and cultural context of the encounter ...
Kolovou, Ioulia
core  

Prog imperfective drift in ancient Greek? Reconsidering eimi 'be' with present participle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper, I reconsider the diachrony of the Ancient Greek periphrastic construction of eimi 'be' with present participle by means of Bertinetto’s recently proposed model for the development of progressive grams (a process called ‘PROG imperfective ...
Adrados   +105 more
core   +2 more sources

The Hellenistic Far East in Historical Fiction. Ancient History, Modern Ideologies [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Hercynia, 2021
It has become a truism that it is impossible to reconstruct a narrative history of Central Asia in the period after Alexander. Scant literary or epigraphic sources, and the pitfalls of reconstructing dynastic histories from coins, make scholars wary of ...
Rachel Mairs
doaj  

The language of the Story of the Sage Ahiqar from Serbian Manuscript No. 53 of the National Library of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesJužnoslovenski Filolog, 2016
In terms of homogeneous diglossia, the basic characteristic of the Serbian mediaeval language situation, the usage of two language systems, Serbian Church Slavonic and Old Serbian, were clearly functionally demarcated.
Kurešević Marina F.
doaj   +1 more source

Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
core  

The erotic charisma of Alexander Hamilton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
As an outsider with a mysterious childhood, Alexander Hamilton is, as psychologists say, a good "hook" for a projective identification. For his admirers Hamilton is a source of political capital. His ideas and proposals about the debt, protectionism, and
Hamilton, CV
core   +2 more sources

Les autres merveilles du monde dans la tradition arabe médiévale [PDF]

open access: yesTalia dixit, 2016
Beside the classic list of four wonders of the World in Medieval Arabic tradition, the existence, in sources, of an “alternative” list of four wonders is been proven.
Omayra Herrero Soto
doaj   +1 more source

Alexander Oldys’s Comic Displacement of Romance in The Fair Extravagant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
[Abstract] In Alexander Oldys’s The Fair Extravagant (1682), the male protagonist is anxious about his authority as a husband due to the heroine’s superior social rank and wealth, her strong personality, and her free agency.
Figueroa Dorrego, Jorge
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy