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Robbers and Soldiers: Criminality and Roman Army in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
Gerión, 2005 This paper aims at discussing the relationship between ancient robbers and Roman army in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. As Apuleius' Metamorphoses has a great deal of information about banditry, deserters and ex-soldiers that can be explored in different ways,
Renata Garraffoni
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Baśń o Erosie i Psyche Apulejusza z Madaury. Duchowe aspekty baśni
Vox Patrum, 2016 This work will discuss the eponymous tale of „Cupid and Psyche”, originally written as a part of Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis’ „Metamorphoses”. The tale’s main thread, the motif of Psyche making an effort to reclaim Cupid’s lost affection, is depicted ...
Kazimierz Pawłowski
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Voyage aux confins du monde avec le vin
Carnets, 2021 « Is the history of wine not the history of the world? » (Babrius, 2nd century). Between imagination and history, wine is one of the first products to have travelled the world.
João Domingues
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Morton, Masha. Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Treshold of German Modernism [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Wieber, Sabine
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Haunted by a Monster: Mary Shelley’s Translation of Apuleius and “Frankenstein” [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2019 Focusing on Mary Shelley’s 1817 translation of the tale of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius in his Metamorphoses, this article explores how Mary’s rendering is seemingly interspersed with echoes of her recently completed masterpiece, Frankenstein ...
Chiara Rolli
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Paideia and social ascension in Roman Africa: the life of Apuleius from Madaura (2nd Century A.D.)
Heródoto, 2019 The comeback of biographical studies in the last decades opens new possibilities of research in what concerns Ancient History. That shows how complex the action of individuals in ancient societies was.
Belchior Monteiro Lima Neto
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Mythos, Fiktion, Geschichte: Ein Beitrag zum „Realismus“ der antiken Romane [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper it is argued that the description of literary narrative in ancient rhetoric could have provided Greek and Roman novelists with a critical vocabulary, and that this vocabulary is reflected in their works.
Tilg, Stefan
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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