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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 Different species belonging to the genus Triticum, and, to a lesser extent, Hordeum, can be processed yielding a product that the ancient Greeks called χόνδρος.
Antonino Pollio, Gianluca Del Mastro
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Ancient Greek Theatre and Agonistic Culture
Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, 2022 This article explores Ancient Greek theatre through the agons, which played an essential role in the culture of Greek society. The history of Greek theatrical performances goes back much further than the emergence of tragedy and comedy as a genre ...
Özge Acar
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
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Revista de Filosofia Antiga. This article aims to illustrate some intersections between Greek philosophical satire and ancient Greek philosophy by discussing the Pyrrhonian satire of Timon of Phlius against the philosophy of Socrates and his followers.
Giovanni Taglialatela
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Methodos, 2004 Socrates’ encounter with the Athenian jury is like the polytheistic poet Baal’s encounter with the Prophet in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses : one religion’s piety is another’s impiety.
Myles F. Burnyeat
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Animals in Human Situations in Ancient Egyptian Ostraca and Papyri
Arts, 2021 It has been said that the ancient Egyptians were raised to tolerate all kinds of toil and hardship; they nevertheless also liked to amuse themselves with comic relief in their everyday life. For example, ancient Egyptian drawing can be quite accurate and
Azza Ezzat
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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How to be impolite in ancient Greek: silencers and dismissals in Greek comedy
Veleia, 2022 This paper examines impoliteness in ancient Greek, taking into account the linguistic structure of silencers and dismissals, their communicative functions and their gender distribution in three comedies by Aristophanes. Silencers and dismissals serve a number of different communicative goals: reinforcing disagreement, creating comic effect, and ...
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The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
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