The Greeks and the Utopia: an overview through ancient Greek Literature
Revista Espaço Acadêmico, 2009 It is a common experience to dream of a world where everyone would live happy and in harmony with both the environment and the other people, without sufferings and injustice, under a perfect socio-political system, without wars or hunger.
Rosanna Lauriola
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The Role of Incubation in Ancient Greek Asklepieions
Athens Journal of HistoryThe sanctuaries of Asklepios served a healing function in the Greek world throughout antiquity. In modern historiography, it is believed that the sick were treated there by incubation, i.e., sleeping in the temple to obtain a divinatory dream.
Aneta =Liwerska-Garstecka
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A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology. [PDF]
Hist Psychiatry, 2023 Metzger N.
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DISCURSIVE FUNCTIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK OATH FORMULAS IN ARISTOPHANES’ COMEDIES
Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary Studies. Linguistics. Folklore StudiesBackground. This paper investigates the pragmatic and sociolinguistic features of oaths in the corpus of Aristophanes' comedies, with a particular focus on "Acharnians" and "Lysistrata." From a communicative perspective, oaths are part of a complex ritual that combines verbal and non-verbal actions to confirm the truthfulness of a declaration and ...
Anna Polishchuk, Tetiana Liashenko
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Worthy of faith?: Authors and readers in early modernity [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter will consider how the traditional (classical Roman and Europeanmedieval) definition of the “author” as “one worthy of faith” (the faith of thereader, obviously) is put increasingly to the test during the early modern period, as the notion of
Ascoli, AR
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Exploring Ancient Greek Comedy: Material Engagement Theory and Computational Tools
Material objects are of outstanding importance for theater studies and the analysis of drama, the genre in which the imaginary world is performed and embodied on stage. Material Engagement Theory (the world of things, artifacts and material signs added to the cognitive equation) proves to be an insightful tool when applied to ancient Greek comedy, a ...
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Malice and the Ridiculous as Self-ignorance: A Dialectical Argument in Philebus 47d-50e [PDF]
, 2017 : In the Philebus, Socrates constructs a dialectical argument in which he purports to explain to Protarchus why the pleasure that spectators feel when watching comedy is a mixture of pleasure and pain. To do this he brings in phthonos (malice or envy) as
Cain, Rebecca Bensen
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Laughter as medicine: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies evaluating the impact of spontaneous laughter on cortisol levels. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Kramer CK, Leitao CB.
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Molière's life and a critical study of some of his famous works [PDF]
, 1922 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Troiano, Aida Ermany
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, 2014 The term "parody" derives from the ancient Greek word parodia and has come to include a variety of meanings connected with correlative terms such as "pastiche," "quotation," "satire," and "allusion." At the present time, more than a few commentators are ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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