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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Eclipse prediction on the ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine known as the Antikythera Mechanism. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2014 Freeth T.
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The Pan‐Orthodox Celebration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 1925
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the attempts to organize a Pan‐Orthodox Council in the years following the First World War that could gather in 1925 on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. While some of these efforts were remarkably ambitious, and although they were not always feasible or fully realized, they
Natallia Vasilevich
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Following Pausanias: The Quest for Greek Antiquity by Maria Georgopoulou, Céline Guilmet, Yanis Pikoulas, Konstantinos Staikos, and George Tolias edd. Deborah Kazazi trans. [PDF]
Aestimatio, 2008 William E. Hutton
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Traditional Mediterranean Lifestyle: From a Heritage to a Legacy as an Inspirational Roadmap to a New Era. [PDF]
Adv NutrKosti RI, Kalafati IP, Kouvari M.
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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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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Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics by Jean Christianidis ed. [PDF]
Aestimatio, 2006 Fabio Acerbi
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Omphacinon (unripe olive oil) as a traditional Mediterranean medicinal carrier: an ethnopharmacological appraisal. [PDF]
Front PharmacolZabatani E, Amar Z, Tietel Z, Dag A.
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