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Trzecia polska Psyche. "Miłość i Psyche" Anny Olimpii Mostowskiej na tle siedemnastowiecznych wersji baśni Apulejusza (rekonesans)

Meluzyna: dawna literatura i kultura
The third Psyche of Polish literature. Anna Olimpia Mostowska’s “Miłość i Psyche”in comparison with seventeenth-century Polish translations of Apuleius’ tale (a preliminary study) Summary The main subject of the article is a short story written by ...
Zuzanna Pasikowska
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A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries [PDF]

, 1993
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Brenk, Frederick E.
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The Last Word: The Prattling, Tattling Parrots of Popular Lore

The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 290-299, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Garrulous parrots appear in a wide array of pop culture forms—from urban legends, television sitcoms, and advertising, to comics, pulp detective fiction, and jokes (naming a few). The birds can be helpful, clever agents; but more often they are mischief makers challenging social norms. Among the pandemonium of parrots in expressive culture, we
Greg Kelley
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Apuleius’ Apology. Colonial Subversion in the Provincial Courthouse and the Reader on Trial

Dictynna
In the Apology, Apuleius draws openly on canonical Greek and Latin authors, from Plato to Cicero and beyond, to defend himself against charges of witchcraft laid against him by fellow Libyans in a Roman court of law.
Francesca Martelli
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Epoché as the Erotic Conversion of One into Two [PDF]

, 2017
This essay interprets the epoché of ancient scepticism as the perpetual conversion of the love of one into the love of two. The process of one becoming two is represented in Plato’s Symposium by Diotima’s description of the second rung of ‘the ladder ...
Aumiller, Rachel
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Warsztat retoryczny św. Cypriana na podstawie pisma "De lapsis"

Vox Patrum, 2002
Durch die stilistische Mittel, wie Alliterationen, Paronomasien, Synonimen und metrische Klauseln, bringt er in seine Rede eine Stilistik des rhetorischen Asianismus herein.
Mariusz Zagórski
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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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La metamorfosi del ‘vertere’ in Apuleio. Osservazioni sull’‘incipit’ del «De mundo»

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Translatological analysis of Apul. mund. pr. 1, 1-3 (285-286).
Elisa Dal Chiele
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