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Ch. 5. Aristophanes' Cleon and Post-Peloponnesian War Athenians: Denunciations in Thucydides
Histos, 2017 This paper explores some important ways in which the assembly scenes in Book 4 of Thucydides (21–2 and 27.3–29) reactivate the themes and strategies of characterisation from Aristophanes’ Knights.
Edith Foster
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Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 27, Issue 10, October 2024.Abstract Introduction Due to the increased effectiveness of and access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), people with HIV (PWH) are living longer. As a result, the population of older PWH has increased. Mental and substance use disorders (MSDs) are common and frequently co‐occurring among PWH and are associated with poor HIV care outcomes.
Angela M. Parcesepe +16 more
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Ectogenesis and the value of gestational ties
Bioethics, Volume 38, Issue 7, Page 643-649, September 2024.Abstract Ectogenesis technology would make it possible to support the complete gestational development of a human being outside the female body. Proponents argue that this technology offers a welcome opportunity to expand reproductive options for those unable or unwilling to gestate.
Susan Kennedy
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Melōsa and her prize: The victory of a woman in ancient Greece
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 334-352, July 2024.Abstract The earliest example of the Ancient Greek word for a victor's prize, nikatērion, comes in a verse inscription from the sixth century bce on an Attic kylix (wine cup) from Taras. It records the victory of Melōsa in a competition with other young women. This article draws out the significance of her victory and redefines our understanding of who
Ian Plant
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Aristophanes and the Cult of the Saviour [PDF]
Mythos, 2020 Aristophanes’ Knights, Peace, and Birds are deeply interested in the figure of the civic “saviour”, who is depicted as a Gottmensch: a man become god or, at least, a man deserving of religious treatment such as the gods receive. While the Aristophanic treatment of the theme contains many parodic, paratragic, and metatheatrical elements, it arguably ...
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Creativity in the Ancient Greek Philosophy: The Politics of Demiourgein
The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 227-244, June 2024.ABSTRACT Where does creativity come from and what is its purpose? The paper revisits these ever‐turning questions to correct the prevalent but, arguably, inaccurate historical interpretation of creativity as a concept that emerged in modernity. First, I substantiate that a close study of the ancient Greek texts suggests that although creativity seems ...
Brokalaki Zafeirenia
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A Euripides quote in the prologue to The Knights (Eq. 14–20)
ШагиThis article deals with the distribution of dialogue lines between two slaves in the prologue of Aristophanes’ The Knights. There is no agreement among editors which slave utters the quote from Euripides’ Hippolytus (Eur. Hipp.
G. S. Belikov
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 108, Issue 3, Page 811-832, May 2024.Abstract Leading philosophical models of curiosity represent it as a desiderative attitude whose content is a question, and which is satisfied by knowledge of the answer to that question. I argue that these models do not capture the distinctive character of a form of curiosity that I call 'erotic curiosity'.
Daniela Dover
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Aristofane, poeta comico per antonomasia nei testi di Luciano?
Annali Online dell'Università di Ferrara. Sezione Lettere, 2016 As a satirist, Lucian looks up to Aristophanes as one of his main literary models and mentions him thrice across his corpus in programmatic passages. Moreover, he quotes a few whole verses (seven, overall) to be attributed to a κωμικός. Such an ambiguous
Martina Tosello
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Old Comedy, Public Intellectuals and the Origins of Dissent Communication: The Case of Aristophanes
Gerión, 2019 The purpose of this article is to explore the emergence of a strategic communication management of dissent (the so called dissent public relations) and to set its beginnings in the context of ancient Greek comedy represented by Aristophanes. Indeed, Old
Jordi Xifra
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