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ReligionsThe two basic conflicting forces throughout Wharton’s tragic novels have a great affinity with the cult of the Apollonian and Dionysian in ancient Greek religion and in Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
Hong Zeng
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Le nationalisme grec antique et le nationalisme d' Aristote [PDF]
, 1989 Se abordan dos puntos en el artículo, el nacionalismo de la antigua Grecia y el nacionalismo de Aristóteles a través de varias citas de autores antiguos o contemporáneos. Se describe el pueblo griego que en el siglo V a. C.
Castillo, Txomin
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Hippocrates Invented Nothing: Popular Therapies in Healing Inscriptions
Heródoto, 2017 It has long been thought that the Hippocratic medicine in the Antiquity was opposed to the divine medicine: one was rational, the other was a mixture of superstition and religion.
Clarisse Prêtre
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Human or superhuman: The concept of hero in ancient Greek religion and/in politics [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2008 The word hero appears in Greek language with a twofold meaning. On one hand it is used for denoting a divine being, who lived a mortal life, but after doing some great deed deserved to become god.
Stevanović Lada
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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ABORDĂRI FILOZOFICE A CONCEPTELOR DE DREPTURI ALE OMULUI ŞI DE DEMOCRAŢIE ÎN PERIOADA ANTICĂ
EIRP Proceedings, 2008 The human rights concept has its origins in the ancient Greek and Roman systems of ideas.All these extentions were made starting with the cultural, political and economical relationships in theancient Greeek, especially starting the year of 410 before ...
Gheorghe Popa
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Image et pensée chez les Grecs passées aux filtres des catégories modernes
Images Re-Vues, 2014 How did modern thought categorise ancient Greek civilisation? Is the academic separation of history, society, myth, religion, politics, literature and art still viable? More precisely, which of these divisions were observed in vase painting?
François Lissarrague +3 more
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