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«Vengo puro dal puro». Iniziati e non iniziati tra culti misterici, orfismo e rituali per l’aldilà

Otium, 2017
Mystery cults and Orphism represent two important aspects of ancient Greek religion. The connection with concepts like mortality and salvation of the soul is a key point to understand some changes in ancient cults in the transition from Classic to ...
Emiliano Cruccas
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Let's work together! Economic cooperation, social capital, and chances of social mobility in classical Athens [PDF]

, 2014
In the early fourth centurybc, a slave of possibly Phoenician origin, called Pasion, was owned by the Athenian bankers Antisthenes and Archestratos (Dem. 36.43).
Deene, Marloes
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Not Every Woman is an Island: Some Notes about Isles of Women and Colonisation in the Odyssey

Rhesis, 2019
Comparing some characteristics of Archaic Greek colonisation and modern colonialism, the paper reads the Odyssean motif  of the isle of women, the woman/island pair, and the related erotic imagery as the results of an interaction between historical ...
Morena Deriu
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GRK 26: Herodotus and Thucydides [PDF]

, 2017
Syllabus and bibliography for an advanced Greek seminar taught at Dartmouth in Winter ...
Michael Lurie
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Orge e orgiasmo rituale nel mondo antico. Alcune note

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2007
This paper deals with the issue of the etymology and semantic developments of the word orgia in Greek and Roman language and ritual practice, with particular reference to Dionysiac religion.
Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini
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Economy as a religious problem: A political approach [PDF]

, 2017
This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and the recent research, from ...
Ludueña, Fabian Javier
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Infirmités et prêtrise en Méditerranée antique

Pallas, 2018
This study continues a research on the expected wholeness of the priesthood in ancient Greece, focusing on similar norms observed in the ancient Jewish religion. In both cases, physical infirmities, without being regarded as defilements, discriminate and
Jérôme Wilgaux
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Prospective Views on the Legacy of the Ancient Greek Culture with Implications in the Evolution of the Olympic Games

ACROSS, 2022
The globally recognized cultural importance of the Ancient Greek Olympic Games was the reason for the perpetual interest, in this respect, proved by important thinkers of world culture who were active in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and who ...
Gheorghe BRANIȘTE, Dr
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