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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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IJCoLTransformer-based Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for Ancient Greek are rapidly advancing in both number and performance. Among the opportunities enabled by these models is semantic statement retrieval, but significant efforts to refine the technique ...
Federico Iezzi, Elia Scapini
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Greek Bodies Shaping the Modern Cosmetics Industry
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to DateThis article examines the use of ancient Greek imagery in contemporary beauty marketing, focusing on the 2023 collaboration between Lancôme and the Louvre which drew inspiration from classical sculptures – primarily Greek but also Roman, whose role in ...
Vilma Losyte
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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THE SINGLE AND ETERNAL GREECE OF RALLOU MANOU: A SURVEY OF HER WORK FROM A SLAV STANDPOINT
Accelerando: BJMD, 2016 In 2015, the Greeks were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of their talented and in many ways incomparable artist Rallou Manou (1915-1988). Year 2013 marked the 25th anniversary of her death.
Nadežda Mosusova
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More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
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Act as Attribute: The Attacking Body in Ancient Greek Art
, 2019 An image of the body in the act of attack might be taken as an inherently episodic or narrative motif, due to the apparently transitive nature of the movement involved. Such a categorization is challenged, however, by an array of ancient Greek images that distance the attacking figure from a temporal context, as by the elision of an explicit victim ...
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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A unique representation of hypospadias in ancient Greek art. [PDF]
Can Urol Assoc J, 2012 Laios K, Karamanou M, Androutsos G.
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