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The depiction of acromegaly in ancient Greek and Hellenistic art [PDF]
Hormones, 2016 Laios, K. +4 more
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The Scopic drive and its destinies. The psychic functions of mask
Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2019 The notion of scopic drive is essential in psychoanalysis. However, the powers of the gaze are an ancient theme already present in Greek mythology. The article makes connections between ancient mythology, psychoanalytic concepts and clinical issues. What
Gilles Bourlot
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Le parcours scientifique d’Aleksandr Gabričevskij et son Esthétique du vase
Revue des études slaves, 2016 The work of Alexander Gabrichevsky (1891-1968) at the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts in 1918‑1922 appears to have been a brief episode, almost an interlude, in the scholarly career of an intellectual who was primarily known for his studies of Italian ...
Nadia Podzemskaia
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Virtue epistemology has long struggled with the “Creditability Dilemma”: how can knowledge gained through deference be creditable to the knower if it primarily depends on others’ cognitive work? We propose a novel solution by developing a telic account of doxastic deference as a distinctive kind of social‐epistemic performance.
J. Adam Carter, Jesper Kallestrup
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The myth of Gorgo/Medusa in ancient written sources
Proceedings (European Academy of Sciences and Arts)The present article reports all ancient writers and poets who dealt with the Gorgoneian head and the Gorgon-Medusa related myth presented in a chronological order basically during the 1st millennium B.C.
Anna Lazarou
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Towards a “Polychrome History” of Greek and Roman Sculpture [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2016 In the early twenty-first century, the polychromy of ancient sculpture has been presented at many exhibitions and discussed in a large number of specialized publications.
Bente Kiilerich
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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A State-of-the-Art Morphosyntactic Parser and Lemmatizer for Ancient Greek
Proceedings of The FirstWorkshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital HumanitiesThis paper presents an experiment consisting in the comparison of six models to identify a state-of-the-art morphosyntactic parser and lemmatizer for Ancient Greek capable of annotating according to the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank annotation scheme.
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