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And then there was us Et puis nous sommes apparus
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In 1987, the academic conference ‘Origins and Dispersals of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives’ was held in Cambridge, UK. Subsequently referred to as the ‘Human Revolution’ conference, this meeting brought together the most prominent academics working in the field of human origins, including archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists,
Emma E. Bird +2 more
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Mare, potere e demagogia nella commedia attica
Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016 In the face of a single attestation of thalassokratia in ancient Attic comedy, the ancient exegetes have already traced the numerous passages that lead, in mostly critical or ironic terms, to the concept of thalassokratia and especially to the compelling
Gianluca Cuniberti
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Laughter and the Comic in the Soviet Film Comedy of the 1960s-1970s [PDF]
Художественная культураThe author of the article notes the influence of the research of Russian folklorists and cultural historians on the interpretation of the 20th century art and captures the humanitarian trend towards searching for primarily archetypal situations and ...
Salnikova Ekaterina V.
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, 2013 Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears.
Witczak, Krzysztof
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Prologue as a structural element in the comedies of Aristophanes
ШагиThe article explores the concept of comic prologue in Ancient Greek comedy, examining its function and significance within the structure of the comedy as a whole. The function of the prologue can be understood by breaking it down into structural elements
E. N. Buzurnyuk
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Writing about war: Jung, Much Ado About Nothing, and the Troy novels of Lindsay Clarke [PDF]
, 2007 Arguably, in a time of war literature, and indeed all writing, is saturated with deep psychic responses to conflict. So that not only in literary genres such as epic and tragedy, but also in the novel and comedy, can writing about war be discerned.
Rowland, Susan
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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A Euripides quote in the prologue to The Knights (Eq. 14–20)
ШагиThis article deals with the distribution of dialogue lines between two slaves in the prologue of Aristophanes’ The Knights. There is no agreement among editors which slave utters the quote from Euripides’ Hippolytus (Eur. Hipp.
G. S. Belikov
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