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The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth
Abstract The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it.
Reginald Ajuonuma
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Three thousand years of river channel engineering in the Nile Valley
Abstract Across a 1000‐km stretch of the River Nile, from the 1st Cataract in southern Egypt to the 4th Cataract in Sudan, many hundreds of drystone walls are located within active channels, on seasonally inundated floodplains or in now‐dry Holocene palaeochannel belts.
Matthew Dalton +4 more
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Abstract Although a theological exchange of ideas between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians flourished at the end of the twentieth century, the ecumenical achievements of these discussions have been met with notable objections and critiques by theologians.
Sebastian Mateiescu
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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Summary The rituals performed in the Phoenician cult places have traditionally been reconstructed primarily on the basis of architectural remains and sculptural finds. However, even if the exact role ceramics or other objects played in the rituals is unknown, it was certainly not secondary.
Ida Oggiano
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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Summary While early maps are known from all over the world, the key questions always involve: what exactly do they show? And what spatial extent do they cover? In this context, we recently used 3D‐modelling to re‐examine a carved stone slab datable to the Early Bronze Age (c.2150–1600 BC) that was found at Saint‐Bélec in Brittany.
Clément Nicolas +7 more
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Reading versus Seeing? Winckelmann's Excerpting Practice and the Genealogy of Art History
Abstract From his arrival in Italy in 1755, Winckelmann's work is infused throughout by a fundamental antinomy: reading versus seeing. This antinomy possesses for him a decidedly epistemological significance: it allows him to present himself as the father of a discipline deserving of its name, i.e., the history of art.
Elisabeth Décultot
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Abstract Aim Domestic animals first appeared in the archaeological record in northern Africa c. 9000 years before present and subsequently spread southwards throughout the continent. This geographic expansion is well studied and can broadly be explained in terms of the movement of pastoralist populations due to climate change.
Leanne N. Phelps +10 more
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G. Călinescu şi literatura latină [PDF]
Sans être un spécialiste dans le domaine de l’antiquité, G. Călinescu a été attentif aux échos classiques dans la littérature moderne. Intéressé surtout par la poésie latine, il a écrit deux amples études sur Horace et Ovide.
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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