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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 ...
Federica De Molli +2 more
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Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract This auto‐ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as ...
Yael Assor
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How L2 Learners Negotiate Meaning in GenAI‐Supported Creative Writing
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This qualitative study explores how second language (L2) learners negotiate meaning and co‐construct knowledge with generative AI (GenAI) in a 12‐week multimodal creative writing project. Chinese middle school students (N = 75) created English picture books using a conversational GenAI agent supporting textual and text‐to‐image generation.
Zhihui Zhang +3 more
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Biography of Socrates in the Context of Ancient Drama
Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2014 Biography of Socrates is regarded as a kind of artistic text, deliberately turned philosopher to all citizens of the Athenian Polis, built in ethical and aesthetic coordinates that are relevant in the development plan of the ancient drama, its two ...
Natalia Astrachan
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Silva Fennica, 1987 In world literature, there are many forests of significance, e.g. oak forest of Mamre and in Danteâs Divine Comedy. Finnish literature has abounded with forest topics since ancient folkore. We have a literature of floaters, loggers and paper workers of
Suhonen, Pekka
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Making Violence Speak: The Voice of the Aggressor in Ancient Greek Literature
Erga-LogoiThis paper addresses an oversight in classical scholarship: moving beyond metaphorical interpretations of voice, it draws on ancient physiognomics, modern paralinguistics, and acoustics theories to establish a vocalics framework and analyse the material ...
Andreas Serafim
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The IMPOSTERS study analysed 150 recurring ‘human’ Simpsons characters and found that periodontitis or tooth loss was associated with a 23‐fold higher hazard of all‐cause mortality. This was reported in the Simpsons universe, with the death of ‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy, 3 years before the first such reports in our universe.
Praveen Sharma, Thomas Dietrich
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