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Warm Soil, Westerly Wind, and Wet Feet: Feeling and Measuring Ecological Time in the Roman World. [PDF]
Geohealth, 2023 Abstract Although climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation are contemporary problems, these are also challenges with deep historic roots in antiquity. 2,000 years ago, during the Roman Climate Optimum, a period of unusually warm, wet, and stable temperatures in the Mediterranean from roughly 200 BCE to 150 CE, the Romans altered the ...
Tally-Schumacher KJ.
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Before Mnemosyne: Wilhelmine Cultural History Exhibitions and the Genesis of Warburg's Picture Atlas. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, left unfinished in 1929, has attracted significant interest in recent decades. This essay offers a new interpretation of Warburg's “picture atlas,” not in relation to modernist collage and photomontage, but as an heir to scientific pedagogical exhibitions of the late Wilhelmine period.
Vollgraff M.
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Syllabic quantity patterns as rhythmic features for Latin authorship attribution
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 128-141, January 2023., 2023 Abstract It is well known that, within the Latin production of written text, peculiar metric schemes were followed not only in poetic compositions, but also in many prose works. Such metric patterns were based on so‐called syllabic quantity, that is, on the length of the involved syllables, and there is substantial evidence suggesting that certain ...
Silvia Corbara +2 more
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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth‐century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject‐areas: non‐elite readers of classical ...
Ian Calvert
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The Medicinal Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murrill: Review of Literature and Pharmaco-Toxicological Problems. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2008 Agaricus blazei Murrill (ABM) popularly known as ‘Cogumelo do Sol’ in Brazil, or ‘Himematsutake’ in Japan, is a mushroom native to Brazil, and widely cultivated in Japan for its medicinal uses, so it is now considered as one of the most important edible and culinary‐medicinal biotechnological species.
Firenzuoli F, Gori L, Lombardo G.
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The Scandal of M. Alphonse Legros
Art History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 78-107, February 2021., 2021 This essay asks why the art of Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) remained inconspicuous in the art history of the past generation, when the study of the nineteenth century played such a prominent role in the discipline. Legros's realist and politically committed practice is eminently suited to the art‐historical methods that dominated that period.
Elizabeth Prettejohn
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Per l’edizione dell’Asino d’oro boiardesco. Escussione completa dei testimoni
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2022 The present article aims to provide the full collation between the surviving witnesses of Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Asino d’oro, on which the recent critical edition is based. A detailed description of the witnesses containing this vernacular translation of
Matteo Favaretto
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Hindu and Classical Ancient virtues in a comparative perspective [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2023 The author claims that Graeco-Roman, Hindu and Chinese catalogues of virtues have much more common with each other than what is permitted by contemporary agnosticism in cultural studies which has only the appearance of wisdom. As to the differences, they
Vladimir Shokhin
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Plato’s Timaeus and the Latin Tradition by Christina Hoenig
Aestimatio, 2021 : This books contains five chapters: the first is on the Timaeus and its interpretation,while the others are on Cicero, Apuleius, Calcidius, and Augustine.
Luc Brisson
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A crowd of Gods: atheism and superstition in Juvenal Satire 13 [PDF]
, 2019 Accepted ...
Uden, James
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