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Truth Contests and Talking Corpses [PDF]

, 1999
In diverse fictions from the second century Roman Empire, two parties with competing claims to truth hold a formal contest in a public place where, after a series of abrupt reversals, the issue is finally decided by the evidence of a dead, mutilated, or
Gleason, Maud
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What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.
Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Parental Gifts: Father-Son Dedications and Dialogues in Roman Didactic Literature [PDF]

, 1991
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Lemoine, Fannie J.
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Hair today, gone tomorrow: the use of real, false and artificial hair as votive offerings [PDF]

, 2017
No abstract ...
Draycott, Jane
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Agrestis cum erudito: scenografie del discorso nell’Apologia di Apuleio [PDF]

, 2017
In Apologia Apuleius’s speech shows a rich ‘geography’: private homes, shops, villas and inns are the ingredients of a rhetorical strategy aimed at emphasizing the cultural and ethical distance between accusation and defense.
Bianco Maurizio Massimo
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
wiley   +1 more source

Two Squares of Opposition: for Analytic and Synthetic Propositions [PDF]

, 2011
In the paper I prove that there are two squares of opposition. The unconventional one is built up for synthetic propositions. There a, i are contrary, a, o (resp. e, i) are contradictory, e, o are subcontrary, a, e (resp.
Schumann, Andrew
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Conflictividad social y control religioso en el campesinado del mundo del Asno de Oro [PDF]

, 1999
Este trabajo intenta desvelar las causas reales por las que el culto de la diosa Siria aparece denostado y descalificado en la novela apuleyana. ¿Qué realidad histórica intenta ocultar su tendenciosa narración y de qué manera se consigue domesticar dicho
Hidalgo de la Vega, María José
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“Methamorphoses or The Golden Ass” by Apuleius as the Starting Point for Performance “The Methamorphoses” by Opt “Gardzienice” [PDF]

, 2015
“Metamorphoses or The Golden As”s by Apuleius as a text involved with the theme of initiation and acquainting with mystery, in itself is a complex and multi-plotted research material.
Kołdrzak, Elżbieta
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Questions and Answers about Oppositions [PDF]

, 2011
A general characterization of logical opposition is given in the present paper, where oppositions are defined by specific answers in an algebraic question-answer game. It is shown that opposition is essentially a semantic relation of truth values between
Schang, Fabien
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