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ABORDĂRI FILOZOFICE A CONCEPTELOR DE DREPTURI ALE OMULUI ŞI DE DEMOCRAŢIE ÎN PERIOADA ANTICĂ

open access: yesEIRP 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

open access: yesImages 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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Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
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Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of ...
Hodos, T
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnicity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As developed in the fields of anthropology and sociology, the concept of ethnicity offers one possible approach to analyzing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt.
Baines, John, Riggs, Christina
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The beast initiate: the lycanthropy of Heracles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The obscurantist Hellenistic poet Lycophron referenced the initiation of Heracles as a beast suckling the breast of the goddess Hera. This was the event that was the mythological origin of the Galaxy and of the lily flower that incarnated the same ...
Ruck, Carl
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Paranada: Beyond Beyond [PDF]

open access: yesIntegral Review, 2009
“Paranada: Beyond Beyond” represents the culmination of the author'sresearch findings of geometric evidence in the Pythagorean design of the temple andtheatre complex of the ancient Greek Temple of Delphi.
Hector Currie, Juan Pacheco
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The Handmaid of the Lord Redux: Constructing the New Orthodox Womanhood between Cradle and Convert

open access: yes, 2020
In an era when questions of sexuality and gender dominate much of the debate in theological circles, regardless of religious or confessional affiliation, the meaning of Orthodox Christian womanhood remains a simultaneously over-discussed and under ...
Kelaidis, Katherine
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